about the th show i think that we've done and it's been a lot of fun we've had some we've had some very very interesting guests and one of the reasons we're doing it is to try to encourage the viewers to donate to the friends of an a lumni bellman high school scholarship fund we have close to four hundred thousand dollars i think in the end now we're trying to get it up over a one million dollars we have some of the early classes a author of the women's tackle football league in boston worked i'm anxious to hear a little bit about that as well so and she's the chief operating officer of an impact investment fund right correct which is and miles to go before i sleep but you put in miles to go miles to run before i sleep i remember that with my yearbook yes exactly yeah and i just went by it yeah it was prophetic i mean you that's what you've done yeah it's pretty really i think i got like most likely to be m i a which didn't make my parents in my yearbook also but i was i was doing i mean i felt like i was always working out or running or not just you know just giving you a terrific  through sports i think you know obviously back and i were really close friends in high school and at the time i love to run i don't love it anymore it also gets harder yeah at least i believe when you get older but  like we had a lot of great sports teams met a lot of people and a lot of people that have done kind of pretty amazing things in life so i think a lot of the coaches that taught us about work ethic and kind of all those different things that have kind of bred really great kind of success for people in life so i go you kind of came out of a pretty intense best ball season and that you know because we tended to go pretty long into the playoffs that rolled right into a softball kind of year over year so you played you played best soccer basketball soccer and softball well and you play worked at an investment company and at the time i was working at belmont center making minimum wage like every other kind of nineteen year old kid over the summer and they said oh any chance you want to come in on wednesdays you know we get a temp everyone's day that answers the phone over the summer but if you want to come in and do it over and i remember them calling my mother and making sure that i was going to dress appropriately for an office and that was kind of my st four went into finance but i think through sports i was used to interacting with adults and people's parents and kind of coordinating all my own stuff so when i got there i just kind of embraced it and ask questions of other people and volunteer to help and i was used to being busy so i you know i think it really the sports st got me in the door but then also it helped me to be prepared when i walked in the door to kind of capitalize on it and i still work hand in hand with a gentleman that i met you know in my st job there and i'll work with him until he retires  market so we incorporate environmental social and governance factors into our research process when we're assessing public companies we also do have a private investment portfolio but that's much smaller we're managing kind of holistically people's full asset allocation into the impact issue areas but it was great i actually reconnected with mark through finance and so he had st met mike you know we were kind of close in high school through basketball he had kind of reconnected with some colleagues and realized that there might be kind of a salem state so i decided after my st year in summer out working in finance that i had found kind of my place where i was comfortable and transitioned to one year passable at salem state and then move to night school so that i could kind of continue to pursue my career in finance and what was your major you're crazy i would be the person that i read about the world marathon challenge which is seven marathons and seven continents in seven days and i asked my daughter what do you think about this and i have a shot at making history and she said yeah mom i believe in you and i'll do it and so i worked really hard over the course of the year and was running seventy two thousand one hundred miles a week cross fit personal training yoga everything that i could do was not finishing was not an option for me if i was going to lay my dreams out there for everybody and you know i think the hard we went to canada to train for the negative twenty degrees but you're only averaging about seven hours to twelve hours per continent so your and your you get off the plane and article which was like in the russian illusion military plane it was absolutely beautiful and i thought i cannot believe i was going to have a flight just like this was the russian illusion which is and then from that point on this was about the military style plan article is always the most intimidating he'll say if i can just get through be ok and then you're in africa and it's ninety degrees but you're like i'm in africa this is so cool but dubai some always my favorite in australia reminds me of home y make an apartment on wheels and have a couches and everything was really nice so you said you know you're still training right now i'm running my i run over eighty marathons seventeen boston marathon so i'll always run the boston marathon i'm finishing the fifty states and then i just worked up the courage to started telling people that i'm going to be running across us well when it's only so yeah that is a lot of cross country and i'm going to so yeah and that's a lot of you know is that we should go and to go to the finish line the thing can happen you know and but the strength within your mind it in some ways this is mind over matter isn't it yeah and your mind is the thing you have to keep much in life you know might the motto that i've lived there was get comfortable thing i'm comfortable and you know make it you know once you can take on that and you're going to be ok you know and and i was lucky enough the nd time that i did this to team up with tom brady's company t v twelve and i thought well if it works at a very it's going to work for me so lonely and they documented the whole journey and the finish line and cheer me on and that support you know you just i feel so lucky to have the training and everything about it and i'd like to do it one more time and then it just struck me when i read the poem in you the component of that is having different kinds of teachers as well that can make relationships with a broad spectrum of you know you're not just in the marines or need and you know and that's why my daughter's here and we love it you know that's the best part of school i think that i always like to think that it's got to be a teacher for every kid that special i agree and i you can ask the question and i've always been able to get any answer is what teacher really influenced you and some people will give you the answer you're absolutely right yeah yeah yeah the united states will watch so it's a kind of pretty broad ranging it's you know a large sport and pretty active and growing so girls and football is growing at multiples of young boys in football so i think it's you know just really great to see that you change and see it as an opportunity for kind of young girls to be able to play our team is better or there's been a team in massachusetts for twenty years we have players on our team that have played fifteen or twenty years to people that are just coming out and finding out about it for the st time some of which are coming out of what is the name of the team boston renegades the boston really gets it with a play we plan to revere as our home stadium and then prior to the renegades in town was the boston militia which is kind of more well known that team was owned by ernie bach and so they played out a deal where stadium and some of them several so there you know but i think the renegades have been really coming along because and i think the benefit to us in the kind of ownership structure has been that we're really able to get involved in the community and get out there and get our story out there without any restrictions so for us you know it is about putting women on the field but it's really using sports as a way to change the way people look at women and to give young girls athletes to be able to look up to the to make them believe that they can be successful the future program because i mean ye it's all sorts of support you also support so it's a lot of people coming out of college sports that are looking for kind of a continued competitive nature so this isn't a beer league softball on right salary that this is kind of coming out real the real season starts in april so we open in two weeks and in tampa florida you play all around the country but all around the country so the team league is set up to try and minimize travel for cost purposes because all of our players work and pay dues we do fund raising efforts kind of selling season ticket packages getting you know we have a handful of small sponsors that help us to get through the season sort of professional football i would say probably most commonly called semi professional  prefer that nobody's getting paid there's no team that's financially viable enough they love to get paid they do because they love it yeah but i think it's also all walks of life so we're talking about bringing back everything that sports brings to people of different socioeconomic status is you have diversity you have you know tremendous many things that come back and stand together as a family and when we look at kind of the world that we live in today with so much segregation and discrimination that it's really great to come back and see that it's possible for all these different people to get along and it's not just money that drives kind of one way or another and kind of everyone sticks up for it generally when making that point was about the importance of you know the collective experience of playing sports with different of people's hands but otherwise it's the same as any other it is the same number of the equipment similar you know and it's a commitment so i would say our women on our team are putting in two nights a week of practice for a couple of hours plus either games on saturdays or captains practice on saturdays plus film work etc so they're probably doing ten to twenty hours of work per week to be prepped and ready to play in addition to their full time jobs which range from your standard hourly retail type jobs to people that are in law school you know to people that are you know electricians and in the trades all the way up to people who are in analytics for google it's interesting because i mean it's you know in terms of football certainly soccer was you know for very popular you know what do you do for promotion i mean that's something that so i think it's hard right now it's a lot of social media we definitely work to try and get press and get our name out there but them still living about while back that you know what it's all different well it's probably getting more difficult because of it to start out i think what you're going to see is sort of like what mark was saying that they get a stablished and then they come back you remember what other any this says a support how organized everything was you know and what i really love about it is people say oh you're from belmont you know it's a great education the education system is nd to none and i feel lucky to you're on that topic i will because we this appeal is kind of a special appeal and it is that we're asking you folks out there on television land to help us reach your goal and the goal is that we'd like to go over a one million dollars  and so that we can give larger scholarships and perhaps more of them in the bulk of our incoming money is actually some of the alarms and other towns have different models  and some of the different models is that they totally depend on the community members and the contributions that they get from them and so we haven't tapped that the way we would really like to in support of this effort is to i tell people that we're here and that it is really a good thing a good place to to donate money it's going to be for kids schools are very expensive today even if it offsets books and books are expensive and so we're using you guys to bring you in saying look at our products and it's really worth investing in our products right and we would like you to make donations i think it would be a really good thing and you know we have the money  obviously gets used very very well one hundred percent of it ends up going to get scholarships this year we're giving away for three thousand five hundred dollars scholarships they were the largest although i just found out the belmont lions club scholarship to four thousand dollars you know i have to do a little bit of work on that but we give away for three thousand five hundred dollars scholarships each year and you know it's just i've had a chance to go to a couple of the events where we've given away and it you know when you've got a fifty thousand dollars to wish bill and you get a scholarship for three thousand five hundred dollars it doesn't seem like that so it's about a lot of these a lot of these kids get you know other forms of it and so forth and they have to come together  the significant becomes significant and so you know that's again one of the reasons we we're talking about maybe you know it would be nice if you could give the same scholarship to the same person who is a row for yeah you know help that he throws you know there's lots of things that we can do and there are lots of kids that need it yeah there were lots of omaha used graduates and i mean you know belmont is often thought of as a very wealthy community but it also has a fair number of people on the other end of the spectrum and  they can really use it it would make a difference because any kid going to college or not going to fall in the process is really a good one there's a committee that spins a standing committee made up of teachers administrators guidance counselors and they take it very very serious and the kids actually have to apply for them and that we get there's you know this whole process so you know if you want to be sure that there's a good process in the money's going to the right place you can rest assure that that's that's what takes place  friends and alumni of belmont high school you know tell them about the where they go to my page tell me that one more time how they know what i can remember i was going to write it down before i got here what is pay pal but what's the website assess whether we're getting any donations from doing these shows so if you were if you are just make a note on there is actually you know western response to the to the to the to the to the t v show that would be very very helpful i have so it's not that they're this is a special appeals for support for school but there's a booster organization from all that almost every sport they raise a lot of money and we couldn't be doing the things without the community support that we did because  a lot of the sports aren't fully funded so you have a little rely on like a lot of times uniforms are bought in all kinds of things you know so well ok it's good to see we have been here thirty minutes