Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the New Yorkers, a podcast by New York City Cop. I'm your host, Kelly Kopp, published photographer, New York City tour business owner, content creator, podcaster, and above all else, a New Yorker.
Ladies and gentlemen, the next Brooklyn found trained in Mount Biden. Stand clear of the closing doors, please.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: This is times square or sydney street.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: With me today, everybody. I have non profit leaders Aubrey Fuller and Sophia Teplitzki.
Did I say everything correct, my ladies?
[00:01:03] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Amazing. Awesome. So Aubrey is the director of Women Over Dinner and leads the worldwide women's movement, Women are Power. She has grown the organization to gather more than 6,300 women to the dinner table in 30 countries.
Aubrey has also edited and published the Women's Steps to Unleashing Power, a book based on the teachings of the founder of Women Over Dinner.
Sophia is the director of partnerships at Women Over Dinner. She partners with New York staples like Ore Washers and Magnolia Bakeries to bring their dinners to life event after event. And she is writing a book drawn from her own life about women's power and what becomes possible when women reclaim it. I love that, you guys. This is amazing. But above all else, Aubrey and Sophia are New Yorkers. Hey, Aubrey and Sophia, welcome to the show. How are you today?
[00:01:56] Speaker C: We are great. Yeah, it's great. Great to be here. Kelly. Thank you so much for having us.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: Yeah, thank you.
[00:02:01] Speaker A: Jay and I are so happy to have you two here.
What you have to talk about, both of you today is so interesting. So let's jump right into it. So, Aubry and Sophia, why don't you tell us a bit about your organization? How did it get started, and what's your goal?
[00:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:18] Speaker C: So Women Over Dinner. Well, so two things like you talked about in my bio. So we hold the Women Are Power women's movement, known as WAP for short.
[00:02:29] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: And pause for laughter.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:02:36] Speaker C: And then Women Over Dinner is its own thing, and then also part of that in a certain way. And so a lot of women find their way into the Women Are Power movement through Women Over Dinner.
And it's a nonprofit that's part of.
Well, it's. It's one of the initiatives of a larger nonprofit called Unconditional Freedom.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: Right.
[00:02:57] Speaker C: And so there's a number of different really amazing things that Unconditional Freedom does and everything from something called the Prison Monastery Project, where we create prisons to be like a monastic experience because they already have the structure for it.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: Like, what does that mean, a monastic experience?
[00:03:17] Speaker C: Yeah. So like, a monastery and a prison are oddly similar.
They have a routine.
[00:03:22] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:03:23] Speaker C: They have, you know, you leave behind like regular life and you enter into something that is extremely structured and has a very specific routine and that has the opportunity within it for contemplation and penitence if you were to be needing that.
And so it's really just like a mind shift from within your prison experience from this is punishment. And like maybe a. An interim mistake in my life to this has a purpose.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: That's fascinating.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: I've never thought about it like that before.
[00:03:55] Speaker C: Right.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: But it makes total sense.
[00:03:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: Now there's other people who are listening now who are like, oh, I knew that. I thought that too. But that's a really interesting perspective. Go ahead. Yeah.
[00:04:04] Speaker C: So that's one of the initiatives. Free Food is another initiative which is we. Well, you talk about free food. I like how you talk about free food.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: Oh, I love that.
[00:04:13] Speaker A: Talk about free food.
[00:04:13] Speaker C: Talk about free food.
[00:04:16] Speaker B: So Free Food, what it is, like, physically, it's a restaurant in Harlem.
It is a free, free course, sit down restaurant.
And we serve the community in Harlem. Low income, food, insecure, sometimes homeless.
And it's this incredible environment where people can be fed in all the ways, food connection and dignity.
And the thing that I love about it, the thing that I love about it is the vision is that it be like almost like a Michelin star restaurant.
So usually, you know, like soup kitchens, for instance, usually they're given leftovers.
But at Free Food, we want to give them like the best of the best. And so we take. Actually, I think it's somewhere around.
I think we rescue somewhere around 6,000 pounds of food every week.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: And turn it into really incredible, beautiful food that you would, you know, people would pay to have in a restaurant.
And yeah, it's. It's.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: Where is this?
[00:05:26] Speaker B: It's in Harlem.
[00:05:27] Speaker A: But what area?
[00:05:30] Speaker B: It's on 1 19th between Lenox and 5th.
[00:05:34] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:05:34] Speaker B: And it's in the basement of a church.
We partnered with, if you know the chef Massimo Bottura, he has a Michelin star restaurant in Italy and he has a nonprofit where he goes around and builds like commercial kitchens and restaurants. And then he finds a nonprofit to operate out of it. So we partnered with Masimos and some nonprofit.
[00:05:56] Speaker C: Fascinating.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: So wonderful.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: And how often is this?
[00:06:00] Speaker B: It's.
We just expanded. Yeah, we just expanded to four times a week. Tuesday we do a pantry and a lunch, and then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, we do a dinner.
[00:06:12] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:12] Speaker A: And it's free.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: It's totally free.
At this point. I think we're feeding Close to a thousand people a week.
No.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: How did I not know this?
[00:06:22] Speaker C: Oh, no, you're right, you're right, you're right. 900 meals.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: Yeah, you're right.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: Wow. That's. I can't believe I don't know this. I actually live close to right above Harlem.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: Oh, cool. Yeah, we were.
[00:06:32] Speaker C: Yeah, it's really such an exhibition.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: I want to definitely. I would love to, because the.
[00:06:37] Speaker C: You mentioned the dignity piece. Like, it's, it's. It's not just soup kitchens are great. Like, I'm glad they exist. And you kind of come in just literally to get the food right. But people who come to this, you know, experience this restoration of dignity that they haven't felt in a really long time. Getting to sit down and be served in like a normal way and have the whole experience of connection and everything. And so it really has a deep impact on people. And the people who get to serve too, you know, they get to empty
[00:07:08] Speaker A: out and everyone involved.
[00:07:09] Speaker C: Yeah, it's really incredible.
[00:07:10] Speaker B: It's such a fun experience too. And there have been amazing stories of people. Like I remember talking to somebody and they were like, I haven't sat in a restaurant and been served in like 30 years.
And then. Yeah, it's just become an amazing community too.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: And can anybody, like, participate?
[00:07:27] Speaker B: Anybody can come.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: Just go in and, you know, be a server per se.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Yeah, anyone can come, you can serve, you can eat. Yeah.
[00:07:34] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:07:35] Speaker C: Like, you can easy little volunteer process to go through to become a volunteer.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: I would love to do that. That's fascinating. And I had no. That's. That is such important New York City information.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: Yeah, we thought you might like it.
[00:07:48] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. But I mean, I'm just blown away how just it's beautiful what you two are doing for human beings in general, you know, and for the city of New York.
[00:08:01] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that's the mission. Like Aubrey was saying, the mission of unconditional freedom is to bring dignity to outcast populations. So that's kind of the through line between all of the initiatives from the incarcerated to the unhoused or low income food insecure to women.
And that brings us to women over dinner.
[00:08:26] Speaker C: So, yeah, I always feel like I can't quite talk about women over dinner without talking about everything that unconditional freedom is doing, because it is. There's this underlying theme of restoration of dignity in these places that have been cast out.
And in some ways, women are marginalized.
In many ways, women are marginalized, but it's also like parts of women are marginalized, you know, like, women's connection to their expression and their power and just, like, knowing that they're knowing their value.
I've worked with women in, like, a coaching capacity and teaching capacity. Worked with women primarily on their relationship to their power, their desire, you know, their sexuality, their relationships. All of the main things that we all are wanting to have go really well in our lives.
And women tend to cast out whole parts of themselves.
And so their experience at women over dinner is oddly similar to the experience in prison, monastery, or at Free food, which is a restoration of wholeness, dignity, and a feeling like, oh, right, that's who I am.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: So just for me, you know, being, you know, just learning about the Harlem dinners, I'll say, is it women only or is it men and women?
[00:09:47] Speaker C: The free food.
[00:09:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: Oh, men and women.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: Yeah. That's what I thought. I just wanted to be clear.
[00:09:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: And Thursday night for myself.
[00:09:52] Speaker C: Yeah, Thursday night's actually family night also. Oh, really?
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Family?
[00:09:55] Speaker A: You have a family night?
[00:09:56] Speaker C: There's a family night. And it's so cute. The kids, do they sing and do, like, performances. Little, like, they.
[00:10:03] Speaker B: It's turned into, like, karaoke night, actually. It just totally naturally happens and arts
[00:10:07] Speaker C: and crafts and all kinds of things.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: I need to make a video and post it on Instagram.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: This is the coolest thing ever.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:12] Speaker A: This makes me proud to know you two and be New Yorkers, you know, you have to.
[00:10:16] Speaker C: Yeah. You have to come experience it, make a video. For sure. It's amazing.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: I love it so much.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: We were telling our friends who run Free Food that they should be on the show with you too.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that. We'd love that. Yeah, wouldn't we?
Wow. I just. I'm just. I just love hearing all of this. This is for Sophia. Real quick.
You worked in fine dining, correct?
[00:10:39] Speaker B: I sure did.
[00:10:39] Speaker A: So you worked in restaurants for a while? Yeah, I have two. I've ran restaurants. I worked in restaurants.
So how long? Where'd you work?
Tell us a little bit about that real quick.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: Okay. So I actually grew up in the restaurant business.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: Yeah, my dad is a chef and he.
I grew up in Monterey, California, and he had a catering company, and I pretty much did everything in his catering company, from cooking to serving to answering his office phones.
And so I grew up in the restaurant business. I love it.
And then I worked in many restaurants, but I worked in one Michelin star restaurant in Palo Alto, California, and that was an amazing experience.
[00:11:31] Speaker A: I bet.
[00:11:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: Do you have any fun stories or anything crazy? That's Happened to you or, you know, while you're working, I should say.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: Well, actually, I mean, I guess fun stories.
[00:11:48] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: So I. When I started working at this Michelin star restaurant, I always heard that Michelin star restaurants were very intense.
[00:11:54] Speaker A: Right.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: This one was a little bit mild. So the owners came from the French Laundry, which is, you know, has his reputation.
[00:12:04] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: But they were a little bit more like, they were more casual.
But what I really loved about it was I love the intensity of restaurants and I love. But then I love the precision of Michelin star dining.
[00:12:19] Speaker A: Right.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: And I remember. So I started as a hostess and I remember standing at the host stand and you're kind of like. You're kind of like the director when you're a hostess because you get to like, direct when people sit. And the timing of everything.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: The whole restaurant is under your control.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Yes. And it's so funny because it's like the bottom position, but you're like actually running the whole.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: You are. Yeah.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: Which it turns out, you know, that happens in life. Anyway, so.
So. So I'm standing there and I'm realizing, like, wow, like, this is like, everyone was moving like dancers, like, on a dance floor. Like, they were so aware of each other, and they were so aware of the timing. And when they dropped the food and the moment that somebody finished their glass, they picked it up not too soon, but didn't wait too long. And it was this really cool precision of awareness and flow, which is a big passion of ours. Flow, like the flow state where you really can let go into whatever it is that you're doing, which to me is like, what it means to be an artist.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: Right.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: And in restaurants I found, like, I always thought art was like, you had to create something at the end of it that somebody could, like, buy or take home. But it's like you can create art in an experience, which is what women over dinner is. It's, you know, it's an experience.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:13:45] Speaker B: And said.
And.
Yeah, so that was. That was kind of how my passion with food. Well, my passion with food started when I was young because I like eating.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Right.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: Okay. To be completely honest, I just like eating like I was, you know, very, very young, eating, like sushi. Like, I would order, like, oysters and escargot eating. The waiters are, like, looking at my parents like, are you shit? Really? And they're like, just bring it. Just bring it.
[00:14:13] Speaker A: Yeah. So funny you just said that, because working in restaurants, you know, myself, different types of restaurants when I lived in Florida and here actually in Upper Upper east side and Upper west side, seeing young kids order sushi.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: You know, they. They. They say it perfectly and how they want it.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: It's like, who is this kid? How does he know this?
[00:14:30] Speaker B: That was me.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: I thought it was the coolest thing, you know, because kids usually get, like, pasta with red sauce or.
[00:14:36] Speaker B: Totally.
[00:14:36] Speaker A: You know, they're ordering, like, edamame and, like, a smoked salmon avocado roll. You know what?
[00:14:43] Speaker B: I would have friends come over and.
And I would be like, do you want some meze? Because I'm Mediterranean, which is, like, appetizers. And they're like, what?
And I'd, like, learned that not everybody. And they'd be like, do you have bagels? And I'm like, bagels?
We have lobster. Like, what are you talking about? You know, so.
So I love food, and I love.
The thing that I've come to learn about my dad in particular is he really sees food as passion and love. Like, that's how he loves people, is through food.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: I love that.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: And that's a big part of actually unconditional freedom with free food is food has become a vehicle for love. So everybody that comes in, free food.
It's so cool, because some people might not be able to tell you their story, but they can eat the food that you serve them, and they can feel the love that we pour into it in that way.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: I need a date. A chef going online tonight.
So how about you, Aubrey? Tell us a little about you before you two met. You know, I love the synergy you two have. I can feel your connection and how you're both on the same page, which is beautiful. You know, you both. I can feel the passion for what you do now, you know? But tell us a little about you too.
[00:16:00] Speaker C: Yeah, she's like my purpose, mission, partner.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: Yeah, that's important. I love it.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:08] Speaker C: Well, I grew up in California, in Northern California. And she's like. I always tease her that she's like, central coast California royalty.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: You need her sushi. At three years old, my lobster.
[00:16:21] Speaker C: I was Northern California, not royalty.
And I started living in New York in 2014 and have been kind of lived back and forth for a while, but I've been steadily here for quite a while now. And I had lived actually in a number of different places at that point. I had lived in San Francisco for five years, Los Angeles, London.
And I considered myself a really adaptable, quick to adapt kind of person. Like, you could drop me wherever, and I would figure it out quickly and fall in love with it and find the things about it that I loved, you know.
And then December 2014 came around, and I moved to New York without ever having to having visited the city.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:17:08] Speaker C: And it was the. They said later it was the worst winter in 50 years.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:17:12] Speaker C: And I'm, you know, California.
[00:17:14] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:17:14] Speaker C: Northern California has a winter. Like, it even snows once in a while, but it's not like east coast winter. And it was so intense. And it took me about nine months to acclimate and fall in love with New York.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:25] Speaker C: And I remember the moment that it happened. I was walking through Central park by myself in September, and I was like, I love it here so much. And then now it's my favorite city. And I like other places a lot, but I like it here the best.
[00:17:44] Speaker A: You know, this is. Did you hear what she just said? Like, Central Park.
The moment I, you know, I moved here 13 years ago or so, and I was walking through Central park and it was snowing, and that's the first time I felt joy in my life. I was aware of this feeling of joy, and I was in Central Park. I'm like, I love it here. It's so funny that you, too, Central park did it to you, so to speak.
[00:18:07] Speaker C: Yeah. I like a romantic moment with myself.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:18:10] Speaker C: I was like, I'm in love.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: Yeah, same with me.
That's amazing. I love it. And now you're. You love New York and obviously. And.
And then when did you move here, too? Did you mention that? I'm so sorry. Did you?
[00:18:23] Speaker B: Well, I have been, let's see, since 2018, I have been part time here. Part time. California.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:34] Speaker A: But you both feel like New Yorkers.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I actually, even in California, people will ask me. It happened all the time at the restaurant. People were like, you must be from New York.
[00:18:43] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like a badge of honor, isn't it?
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Yeah, all the time. I think, you know, I have like the dark hair, but then like kind of Italian vibe. But then I also am. I was like, I. I think it's because I'm honest.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: True.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: I'm direct.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: Correct. You don't have time to dilly dally.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: No.
[00:19:01] Speaker A: We're like, just say it like it is.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: Yeah. California. We're like, we have time, we have space.
[00:19:05] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. And here it's like, I'm getting to the subway. Just spit it out. We got things to do.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:11] Speaker A: How did you two meet then?
[00:19:14] Speaker C: We met through our other work. So we do nonprofit. We do nonprofit work. And then we do, you know, our other work as well, and actually, all of it is.
Is based on the philosophy that the founder of Women Over Dinner created. There's just a lot of different visionary. And so there's a lot of different things that she kind of created in the world that became these really beautiful expressions of love in the world. And so there's other things that we do, too. We teach classes.
Also.
My mission in life is just women. It's just like women and their power. No matter where I go or what I do or, like, if I even tried to go in another direction, somehow I'm going to be steered back in my life to that. Like, that is just the thing that I am supposed to be doing.
[00:20:03] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: And so I always end up, you know, I just taught a women's retreat, you know, recently, and. And it's. It's just always conversations with women about their power.
[00:20:13] Speaker A: That's amazing.
[00:20:14] Speaker C: And her too. Like, your life always steers you back.
[00:20:17] Speaker B: That definitely. And I actually. I remember I met Aubrey in la, actually. She was.
She was.
[00:20:26] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, you didn't.
[00:20:26] Speaker B: Leading an event, give me the time of day.
I didn't. Well, I didn't. And I'm. I will just completely own up to that. I was too cool for anybody. For anybody.
[00:20:36] Speaker A: I put on my glasses for this story.
[00:20:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: So cool.
[00:20:40] Speaker C: I was like, wow, I really like that. That woman, she seems, like, kind of badass. And I think I try to make friends with you, which I was still fairly shy back then, you know, somewhat. And so me trying to make friends with someone was still a little bit of an edge for me. And you totally brushed me off. Okay.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: But here's the reason why. Okay, so she was leading an event and, well, this isn't the reason why, but now I can say. Now I can say it's the reason why.
She was leading an event and she was talking about women's power, and there was something that she said.
She said this thing that was like, to women, like, do you want to know how to get your value?
You have to go into all the places that you don't think you're valuable.
And it was like this bomb went off in me. Like, I was like, oh, this is bad news. Yeah, I was hoping you would tell me, like, the things that I could. Like, I could dress a certain way, I could say a certain thing to have confidence and value. And she was like, no, you have to go into all the places you don't think you're valuable, you're insecure, you know, all of these things. And it was a Relief. You know, a relief in a certain way, because as women, this is very related to Women Over Dinner that we think that we have to, like, add all these things on top of who we are, our essence, you know, roles, titles, jobs, like climb the career ladder. And that's.
That was my path at one point, but it was not fulfilling. And so I kind of went into this other direction. That's where I met Aubrey when I was, you know, and, yeah, she said this thing that really landed, and so I probably.
She says I gave her no time of day, but I'm like, I don't think I was just mind blown. So that's my take. That's my take.
[00:22:20] Speaker C: I don't think you've ever admitted that to me.
So.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: Thank you for having us on this session, too.
[00:22:26] Speaker C: Yeah, I was gonna say thank you
[00:22:27] Speaker B: for having us on the show so that we could heal our relationship.
[00:22:31] Speaker C: Revelation.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: Psychiatrist at my door now.
This is amazing. I'm getting chills. I feel like we have a breakthrough,
[00:22:42] Speaker B: you know, like, we work together a lot on so many projects. Like Audrey was saying, we're like purpose partners. And so we're doing things constantly. We're constantly creating. We're constantly talking about Women over dinner. How do we get it out into the world? How do we share it? And let's talk about it then. Yeah.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
I don't know why I just yelled like that.
[00:23:03] Speaker B: I love it. Passion.
[00:23:08] Speaker A: Okay, so start from the beginning. How did Women Over Dinner. Is that. That's correct. What it's called. Just want to make sure how to get started. Let's. Let's talk about this.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:18] Speaker C: So our founder created it from. So there's a woman who. Her name is Angel Grant, and she does something called Death Over Dinner. I don't know if you've heard of it.
[00:23:27] Speaker A: No.
[00:23:27] Speaker C: It's really cool. So I'll say a little bit about that. But she's good friends with our founder, and she actually suggested, you know, they were having a conversation about women's power.
And our founder, Nicole, shared like a.
[00:23:42] Speaker B: Was it a manifesto?
[00:23:43] Speaker C: Manifesto. Like a women's manifesto, you know, with her. And she was really moved by it, and she said, you should use the same format, and I'll give you, you know, like, I'll give you the. You can have the access to intellectual property rights or whatever, and you should use the same format, but for Women over dinner instead of Death Over Dinner. And Death Over Dinner had become, like, a pretty huge sensation in the world. You know, it's a. It's a really Cool thing where you gather and you kind of talk about different subjects related to death and dying that you normally would never probably talk to anyone about. And you get to go into these places, you know, like, how would you. How do you want to be cremated? Do you want to be buried? You know, like, things like that all the way into different. Like, what would you want your last day to look like? And just things that. Types of conversations that we never really end up having with each other that are really intimate.
And so she basically lent her concept to our founder to create this thing, Women over Dinner. And then we were lucky enough to be tapped to help. Do you guys want to help with this? And we're like, since we're.
Can't stop talking about this topic.
[00:24:53] Speaker B: I wasn't tapped. I'm pretty sure I was like, hey, let me in on that.
[00:24:58] Speaker C: That sounds about right. That actually sounds about right.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:25:00] Speaker C: So somebody asked me.
Somebody was like, we think you'd be good for this. And she was probably just like, knock,
[00:25:06] Speaker A: knock, knock, over here.
[00:25:11] Speaker C: Sophia's appetite in that way for life is actually a really inspiring good thing for me to have in my life.
[00:25:17] Speaker A: I love your dynamic. It's so amazing, but go ahead.
[00:25:22] Speaker C: And so there's us, and then there's our amazing other two members of our main crew, or the three members. So there's Maya and there's Rachel, and there's Kara Joy, and Kara Joy runs the Los Angeles chapter, and also just, like, a lot of outreach and partnerships and things worldwide as well. She's amazing.
Rachel runs our. Well, we don't really have, like, an Ireland department exactly. But she lives in Ireland, and she's kind of our, like, ground control, you know, like, she's like our. She, like, runs everything grounded for the organization, finance, and all of the things that we're like, whoa. Glad somebody knows how to do that. Thank God for Rachel.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: I really understand. Yep.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: She's our booking agent.
[00:26:03] Speaker C: Our booking agent. Yeah.
[00:26:04] Speaker B: She got us on this podcast.
[00:26:05] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: I was like, just tell her thank you.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:26:09] Speaker C: In this last two weeks or so, she just was like, yeah, I'm a booking agent now. And she started, like, we have, like, a radio spot on a Harlem news station. I love it this week. And then we also a TV spot at a. On a South Carolina news station because we're doing a women over dinner in prison down there.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: You already did that, right? Or not?
[00:26:24] Speaker C: No, not yet.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: I feel like I saw one that you just.
But anyway, go ahead.
[00:26:28] Speaker C: Well, yeah, we'll talk about our cause. We're going. We're having a women over dinner at our first federal prison on October 21st that we're super excited about. We'll go into that in a minute. But yeah, so that's.
And then Maya Gilbert also, she's like our creative director. And so we have this core team that, you know, has gotten to take over, take on this mission in a way and really, like, steward this thing out into the world. And it really does feel. I mean, sure, there's the days where you're like, oh, my God, I don't know what to do next with it, you know, but most of the time I feel really connected to just the honor that it is to get to bring something that I. That I know to be really effective and like a genuine contribution into the world. Like, I just don't think that many people get to say that, you know,
[00:27:15] Speaker A: and your heart is in it, too. That is the big, powerful push as well.
[00:27:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:27:20] Speaker A: I don't know if push is the right word, but a big, powerful part of this, I should say, for both of you.
[00:27:25] Speaker C: Yeah. You know, so the core of it is like death over dinner, you know, where it's. It's the core of it is women sitting around a table going through a series of questions that bring out aspects of them that they might not otherwise get to in most situations. Like maybe even one on one with friends. You know, it's. You could. You might get very.
You might feel really like safe and intimate with friends, but you wouldn't necessarily think to ask these type of questions in your friendships that really take you into certain pockets, you know.
[00:27:59] Speaker A: That's a good point you're saying right there.
Because I've never talked about it just until these last couple years, because I'm surprised I'm not 21 anymore.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: Was that. I've got. As I've now reached an older age. It does come up once in a while with friends, but it would never be talked about before. So this is such a good point, you know, but go ahead. Yeah, yeah.
[00:28:24] Speaker B: So that's kind of the core of it.
[00:28:26] Speaker C: And then there's a bunch of different aspects to it as well. There's like a few different things we do right before that to kind of let the women, like, warm up, you know, and then we do like, reflections afterwards so they get to digest their experience. And we usually have a few speakers at our bigger events and everything.
Sometimes we'll show different inspiring videos or things like that. And it's all just really to like, have the women feel really well, nourished, filled up, seen, heard. Get to, like, sink into woman connection in a deep way and just leave with them. We really like the term love fat.
Like, leave, like, with a lot of, like, love fat, you know, and eat really well, too. Like, we always have, you know, amazing food at the dinners and everything. And that's a big part of it, too, right? Yeah.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: And so you're how many now this has grown, right. To all over the world, what you're doing. I don't want to jump ahead, though. Am I jumping ahead too far right now? That's great, you know, because I saw in. In Ireland, in Ghana. I mean, all over the world. I think it's. It's fascinating where. How. Where it's gone around the globe.
[00:29:38] Speaker C: Yeah. So we. We have our, like, what we call our core dinners, you know, like the large one that we do in Harlem, or there's some bigger ones that our colleague Kara Joy does in Los Angeles. Sometimes we'll go somewhere else special and do, you know, like, a bigger dinner or we do these dinners in prisons, which we'll talk about, but there's also something that we call satellite dinners. Do you want to.
[00:30:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:02] Speaker C: Explain satellites?
[00:30:03] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:30:04] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: So.
So as Aubrey was saying, we have our core dinners, which are our bigger dinners, which, by the way, I have to say, in Harlem, we have usually about 100 women in the room.
[00:30:15] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:30:15] Speaker B: And yeah, we've grown it over the last few years to be a really big core. Like, at this point, women come in to the Harlem dinners, and they're like, I heard about it from my therapist. I heard about it from my friend. Like, I've been. You know, it's like it's starting to become.
[00:30:32] Speaker C: My mom's been telling me to go to this a year, you know, and
[00:30:36] Speaker B: really for my daughter.
[00:30:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: Really cool story. Or like, moms and daughters will come together. And like, there was this mom and daughter who came together, and I remember them saying that they got to see each other deeper than usual because of the questions and because of the environment.
But so our satellite dinners, women get inspired by women over dinner. It could happen that they come to a core dinner and they get inspired, and then they're like, I want to bring this to my community.
And the purpose of it is so that it's really simple for women to take the format and be able to bring it to their communities. It could be as simple as somebody taking a few friends to a restaurant and reading through the script.
We have a whole script. We have the questions, and we make
[00:31:22] Speaker C: it really easy for people to host their own little.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: I was just gonna ask that.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And that's the idea, because, you know, part of the mission is that women. When women light up, their natural desire is to light other women up. Like, how do you know when a woman has really filled up and feels inspired and passionate and alive is that she wants to offer it to other women? And so we always have this image of, like, a grid of the world, like, lighting up. So it's like women in Harlem light up, and then they tell a friend, you know, in Europe or something, and they get inspired, and they, you know, they want to host a dinner. We have this woman who has hosted multiple dinners in Nigeria. She's never been in a room that we've hosted, but she found us on Instagram, and she was like, I need to bring it to the community here.
And we have a woman in India who hosts, you know, monthly dinners at this point. And so it's a really cool format where women can bring it to their communities and grow it.
Yeah.
[00:32:28] Speaker A: Now take us into another aspect of women over dinner. What else do you do, ladies?
[00:32:33] Speaker C: So our favorite thing about women over dinner that we're currently and probably forever completely obsessed with is the fact that we get to go into women's prisons and bring do women over dinners in prison.
[00:32:44] Speaker A: Wow. How does that work?
[00:32:45] Speaker C: It is. Oh, my God. It's like, the most incredible experience. Like, you think it's gonna be amazing. You're like, oh, that seems like a great idea. I bet the women there love it. But it's like 10 times that, you know, and so we'll. We'll talk about that. But it basically, you know, different people hear about us. They hear that we've done them in prisons before, and so they connect us to different places. Somebody knows somebody in this place, you know, and so we start up a conversation. Whether it's like the event coordinator in the prison or it's like, you know, the warden or whatever, we get different connections with different people, and then we just start up a conversation, and we send them the materials, and we talk about what it's been like in other prisons. And then, you know, they either approve it or they don't.
They usually approve it, but it takes forever. It's, like, very. It's like a really long process sometimes.
But we've been in a Massachusetts women's prison three times now, and our next date with them is December 10th, and they are amazing. So that's been really cool because we get to see the same women and the staff has gotten to know us and how we do our events. And so they know that we're like, we run a tight ship.
[00:34:00] Speaker B: Like, we.
[00:34:01] Speaker C: They don't even. They were shocked. Like, we come in and we bring our volunteer team, and we're so happy to be there. And then we just unfold out all of the materials and the whole event and everything. And then we pack it all up, and we're like, thanks, guys. Love you. Bye. You know, and they're like, how did you guys even do that? You know? And so they're thrilled on a lot of levels because we just come in and bring really great energy and then clean it up and, you know, and exit. And then the.
The women who are there serving sentences get to see us again, you know, and tell the other women who missed.
[00:34:35] Speaker A: When they see you too.
[00:34:36] Speaker C: Oh, my God. This last time. Cause it was the third time. So a lot of them knew us by then, you know, like, we'd probably met at the dinner, 150 of them at this point. And so they were like, we're so glad you guys are back. Like, I had to tell my roommate about it. Cause she didn't make the last one. And so she's coming this time. And it's like, she never, like, leaves the dorm, you know? Cause she doesn't really like to interact with people, but she's coming anyway. And. And they're just. You know, they have these really beautiful experiences and they cry. And we made this. Tell. Tell them about the video.
[00:35:13] Speaker B: Oh, my God. We.
So we.
We. We like to make AI videos. Music videos.
[00:35:20] Speaker C: Okay. Our creative director.
[00:35:21] Speaker A: AI music videos.
[00:35:22] Speaker C: Yeah. Our creative director is, like, amazing at these things. And so.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And so we made the women an AI music video about them. And it's like, we can't use their real faces, but we did all these little things to represent them. Like, a lot of the women. There's a dog program where they train dogs to be, like, service. Service dogs.
And so we put the dogs in. That was like a big. They were like. So we made this music video, and there were, like, flowers blooming, and it was just this really beautiful.
We had promised them at the second dinner that we would make them a music video.
So then we showed it, and I looked around the room, and over half of the women were crying because they felt so represented. And there was this feeling of, like, hope and.
Yeah. Just inspiration, you know? And that's the thing that I love about going into prison is there's. So the first dinner we did, January of this Year.
And this is kind of an intense story, but there were supposed to be 75 women that were coming, and then only 56 showed up. And we were like, that's weird. Like, we're bringing this amazing dinner. Like, we bring incredible food. We had, like, salmon, chicken, salad, vegetables, rice. Like bread. Like bread and butter. Oh, they love the butter. They freak out about the butter and dessert. And so we're like, where are all the women? And then we found out later that to go back into the prison, they have to get strip searched, which is pretty intense.
But at the end, the women were saying, like, we're gonna tell the other women that this is worth the strip search.
[00:37:03] Speaker C: And our unofficial tagline, yeah, women over dinner worth the strip search.
[00:37:09] Speaker B: So we were like, oh, we should make that our flyer next time. But we didn't. We didn't have to because the women talked about it. You know, it was just. It's become like this natural thing where I. We hear from the administrators that the women talk about it literally all the time. Like, at least once a day, they hear somebody saying something about women over dinner.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:37:29] Speaker B: And so you could really feel the impact of it for women.
[00:37:32] Speaker A: Do you go back to the same prisons? You know, repeatedly?
[00:37:35] Speaker B: We have been.
We've kind of established this relationship with this Massachusetts correctional facility and the women inside, and it's a medium maximum security prison, and there's women of all varying sentences.
[00:37:51] Speaker A: Right.
[00:37:52] Speaker B: And this is. Yeah, as Aubrey was saying, our third time going in. So the second time that we went in, in May of this year, a hundred women came, which was like, they were saying.
[00:38:02] Speaker C: So they were like, capacity.
[00:38:03] Speaker A: The word spread.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: The word spread.
[00:38:07] Speaker A: Sophia and Aubrey are on their way.
[00:38:09] Speaker B: I think 75 women signed up again. But then they messaged us a few days before, and they were like, do you think that a few more women could come? Like, like a hundred? We were like, of course we want. We want as many women as can come, you know, and. And it was amazing. The second dinner, this feeling was like the women who had come to the first dinner were bringing their sisters. Like, you have to come. You have to get this nourishment.
Because they. They felt so seen and moved. And I always talk about this one woman because she touched me so much. But the first dinner, you could feel that she has been through a lot of life, and she had kind of slicked back hair and this bandana. And she got up at the end and shared how moved she was. You could really feel how she was emotional about it. And then the Next dinner, she came, and she was totally different. I almost didn't even recognize her. She felt more like herself, more feminine. She let her hair down, and she
[00:39:07] Speaker A: felt allowed to be that way. Yeah, that's amazing.
[00:39:10] Speaker B: And then she shared softer, softer. She shared at the second dinner that she'd been in and out of the system so many, like, her whole adult life, basically, and that the system, at some point or many points, said that she belongs in a cage. And she was like, you know, I come to women over dinner, and I feel like I belong. Like, I'm coming home.
[00:39:32] Speaker A: And what you were doing for these women's spirits is beautiful.
I'm sorry, real quick. I watched a couple videos, too, of some of the. The women, you know, who are incarcerated and just how they felt and what. You know, you could see their spirit singing as they were talking, you know, you could feel it. And that's because of you two, you know, And I think it's. It was so moving to me, you know, and that's where I'm like, jay, we have to talk to them.
[00:39:59] Speaker B: You know, there's a. Yeah.
[00:40:01] Speaker C: Like, it's similar with the free food with the dignity, you know, like, we set up the whole room before they come in, obviously, and we print. We bring tablecloths and flowers and really nice. Like, you have to bring plastic wear.
[00:40:14] Speaker A: You can't understand. Yeah, but.
[00:40:16] Speaker C: But you. But we find the nicest versions, you know, and these cups that really look like little, like, wine goblets and stuff and everything. We make everything as nice as possible.
And there's salad and bread and real butter already on the table when they arrive.
And. Am I forgetting anything?
[00:40:31] Speaker A: I love that you guys said they love the butter, right?
[00:40:32] Speaker C: They love the. Cause they don't really get real butter in.
[00:40:35] Speaker A: Butter's good.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: Butter is needed.
[00:40:37] Speaker C: It's a big. You know, butter is important for women,
[00:40:40] Speaker A: things we take for granted. What'd you say?
[00:40:42] Speaker C: Butter is very important for women's power.
[00:40:44] Speaker B: It really is.
[00:40:45] Speaker C: Really.
[00:40:46] Speaker A: Like, that's a good tag for your business.
[00:40:49] Speaker C: Yeah, but they. So they. Where they kind of come in to register, you know, is a little bit, like, over in this area. And then they enter the.
And so as they come into the dining room and they. They realize how much effort has been put in for their experience, and someone seats them, you know, and we let them.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: Oh, I love that We.
[00:41:08] Speaker C: We put them. We tend to seat just kind of like the back to the front. But, like, if someone wants to go anywhere in particular, they can go wherever they want, you know, but we, like, bring them all the way to their table, and there's just this feeling right away of treating them with a lot of dignity. And that is the. That's the thing that we think is. Is what has, like, the deepest impact, I bet.
[00:41:26] Speaker B: Cause we.
[00:41:27] Speaker C: Even the staff was like. They attention is so steady during your events. It's crazy. They're like, that's not usually how it is.
[00:41:34] Speaker A: You know, I didn't realize it was, like, separate tables. Correct.
[00:41:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:37] Speaker A: Like, they're dining in a restaurant, per se, for some reason. I was just picturing, like, a banquet table.
That's really amazing.
[00:41:44] Speaker C: They're pretty big. They're like 12. 12 people per table. Something like that.
[00:41:48] Speaker A: They still walk to a table and they get that experience of being taken care of.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:41:54] Speaker C: And served several courses. And then the dessert. Just when they think it's over, then the dessert comes, you know, and we get them whatever they want. On this last one, there was this feeling where they. They're familiar with it now, and so they're, like, comfortable being like, can I have more of this? Hey, Aubrey. Hey, Sophia. You know.
[00:42:12] Speaker B: Hey.
[00:42:12] Speaker C: Hey, Kara. Can I get a little more butter? Do you guys have any more of those rolls?
[00:42:16] Speaker A: You guys have a cake left?
[00:42:17] Speaker C: You know, they, like, know us by name.
[00:42:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:20] Speaker C: And it was just. And it's just. Yeah. And then I've. So this last one, I.
I wasn't sitting. I was helping serve. But for the other two, I was sitting and, like, leading the table with the questions and stuff. And I can't. I don't know why it's like this or how to even. I hope that this, like, transmits to you guys. But I was. I just. It was so much love.
It was so much love. Like, just sitting with them and getting to, you know, be with them and go through these questions together and the answers that the women would give, and then the kindness they had with each other was so deep. Like, they take really good care of each other. And then they would just. I feel like a nervous outsider going into it, where I'm like, will I be accepted in your culture? You know, and then they're like, wrap around me. And they're like, wow, like, so open. So wonderful. And then this last one, we got to do a meditation class with. With them, too, in the afternoon, because the staff is like, you know, has gotten to know us and everything. And we were like, we want to do this meditation class based from this book that our founder wrote that's specifically made for incarcerated people. Meditations for incarcerated people. And content for incarcerated people. So it was this like, lesson on converting poison to medicine and then like a sitting meditation. And we got to do this whole really cool experience with a bunch of the women as well in the early afternoon and then shift over to the women over dinner. And so it was just amazing. So much love.
[00:43:53] Speaker A: I. I know you've. I'm sure you've just heard so many amazing stories from these women.
I just, it's. It's beautiful. I love what you two are doing, so.
[00:44:04] Speaker C: Oh, and then I wanted to say also, like, it's very, it's. It very includes all aspects of the justice system too. You know, like, we have an upcoming dinner for law enforcement on October 25th that's just inviting any and all law enforcement and first responder women from all around New York. That's gonna be really big.
[00:44:28] Speaker A: That is.
[00:44:29] Speaker C: And so we're really excited about that.
We have, like, we've had a couple of the dinners in Harlem, had certain themes and things that attracted all aspects of the justice system. And so it's just like. Cause it's an ecosystem. Like if you want to bring flourishing to any one part of something, it's going to have to be all parts. You know, it's not like any. Nobody's thrilled with how every single aspect of this type of thing is happening. You know, like, no one's having the time of their life from any angle. You know what I mean?
The. Anyone will tell you, like criminal justice reform people, the lawyers, the judges, the officers, the correction officers, the law enforcement, the inmates, nobody's having. Nobody's like, this system's super working.
[00:45:18] Speaker A: Right?
[00:45:19] Speaker C: Like, we love it. It's amazing, you know, and so we. So it's a lot. It's love to all parts too. And it's. And one of the cool things with women over dinner is all the different women from all of these different places get to come in and be together and sit together at these tables and have this whole intimate experience together.
[00:45:38] Speaker A: Beautiful. Absolutely love what you two are doing.
So you two are having your first gala, is that correct?
[00:45:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:45] Speaker C: So October 17th in Harlem, we're having a gala.
It's a fundraising event for these women's dinners in prison.
And so it'll be like fashion and, you know, champagne reception and speakers and, you know, like a curated dinner experience with the. Some of the questions that we use at the dinners and probably some of the questions that we use actually in the women's prisons.
[00:46:10] Speaker A: Right.
[00:46:11] Speaker C: And it'll have really. We have these different Harlem restaurants donating like, amazing food for it and sweets and things like that. And so it's just gonna be such a fun night. But then it's the kind of fun night where you get to dress up and have this amazing experience and eat really well and then also give whatever overflow you have for women in prison to be able to have a similar experience.
[00:46:34] Speaker A: Harlem has some of the best restaurants, in my opinion.
[00:46:36] Speaker C: It really does. It really does.
[00:46:38] Speaker A: Red Rooster. I mean, so many more. I mean. And when is the gala again?
[00:46:44] Speaker B: October 17th at 7pm, 6pm we're doing a VIP reception.
[00:46:50] Speaker A: Right.
[00:46:51] Speaker B: Kind of a salon. And then the main event starts at seven.
[00:46:54] Speaker A: And how do people get ahold of you to attend this?
[00:46:58] Speaker B: Yes, they can go to womenoverdinner.org you can learn about, you know, the whole organization there. And then there's a gala page. So it's womenover dinner.org gala and there's a.
[00:47:11] Speaker C: There's a link in our bio on our Instagram page. Also. WomenOver dinner is our Instagram.
[00:47:15] Speaker A: The name of your Instagram is what
[00:47:17] Speaker C: you say, Women over dinner.
[00:47:18] Speaker A: Nice. Perfect.
[00:47:20] Speaker B: The purpose of it is to have a fun night.
We gather women in Harlem almost once a month, which is amazing.
And this one kind of feels like a celebration. The women love that they get to offer to women in prison because it's almost like something that you think about or you don't think about, but once you hear about it, you're like, I kind of do think about that, but I don't know what to do. Women don't know.
Just people in general don't know how to shift, like, what Aubrey was saying, like, how do we shift this system? And this is such an incredible way to be a part of something effective and amazing. And so a big part of it is to raise funds for our upcoming dinners we're hosting at our first federal prison, like Aubrey said, On October 21st at FCI Estelle, I think, is how you say it in South Carolina.
And we have another dinner in December and a few more we're working on dates for, so.
[00:48:17] Speaker A: And then people can get all this information and see what's coming up on your Instagram page.
[00:48:21] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:48:22] Speaker A: Very nice. Very nice. Well, this was wonderful talking with you both.
I loved hearing about what you're doing for women and families in general, too, and correction facilities and in New York City in general. I mean, the love that you two are pouring out to this city is incredible to me.
So it's an honor to know you both and meet you both. So thank you for being on the New Yorkers Podcast.
[00:48:51] Speaker C: You two, thank you so much.
[00:48:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:52] Speaker C: Thanks for giving us the opportunity to talk about our favorite thing.
[00:48:57] Speaker A: Thank you. Jay and I's pleasure, truly.
[00:48:59] Speaker B: This is so wonderful.
[00:49:01] Speaker A: Before we let you go, we here at the New Yorkers Podcast want to know what it means to you, Aubrey Fuller and Sophia Teplitzki, to be New Yorkers.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: I told you, I love this question. I think for me, what I love about New York is that it includes everyone and anyone. And you can just decide that you are and you are. Although maybe, you know, people from New York might not agree with me, but. But there is that feeling of it's like melting pot, you know, it's like you can find anyone from any walk of life and connect with people. You know, that's what I love about it. And I love the direct honesty, you know, that to me, like, being a Californian, that gets mistaken as a New Yorker.
And I love the, like, the energy of New York, you know, that to me, is New Yorker.
[00:49:55] Speaker A: Beautifully said. How about you, Aubrey?
[00:49:57] Speaker C: I would say that fundamentally, New York has this kind of, like, intense electricity and life to it. Like, it fills you with life and it feels like it makes it possible to have connection with, like, anyone at any time. You could choose not to and kind of have your anonymity in the crowd if you want, or you could go really expressive and be really connectable that day and just, like, chat with anybody that you encounter anywhere. And as long as you're not, like, being a slow walker on the sidewalk, they're. They're totally open to it. You know, it's like, as long as you're, like, moving things along at the level of the electricity that the city kind of demands from everybody equally, you know, then it's like, so connectable in a certain way. So that's what it means to me.
[00:50:46] Speaker A: Love both your answers. Great. I loved it. That made me feel like a New Yorker.
[00:50:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: Thank you for joining us today for this week's episode of the New Yorkers podcast. Why don't you let everyone know where they can find women over dinner on social media?
[00:51:02] Speaker B: You can go to womenoverdinner.org oh, you said social media.
[00:51:07] Speaker A: That works too.
[00:51:07] Speaker B: You can also go to our Instagram menoverdinner.
[00:51:11] Speaker A: Once again, I'm your host, Kelly Kopp, also known as New York City Kopp, across all my social media.
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[00:51:48] Speaker C: And thank you Hobo K and Julie Jody Java and Bianca Perth for your comments on Facebook.
[00:51:54] Speaker A: Have a lovely day everyone and we will see you next time.
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