Feb. 9, 2026
From Toy Drives To Scholarships: How Ella’s Angels Mobilizes Youth To Serve The Community!
Shoot me a message! A 16-year-old founder walks us through the rise of Ella’s Angels, from beach cleanups to feeding 237 families and launching scholarships. We explore youth leadership, time management, and a new veterans initiative shaped by her family’s service. • origin of Ella’s Angels and youth-led mission • early projects from cleanups to toy drives • the Thanksgiving pivot to 237 families served • building partnerships with local churches and donors • scholarships for trade school an...
A 16-year-old founder walks us through the rise of Ella’s Angels, from beach cleanups to feeding 237 families and launching scholarships. We explore youth leadership, time management, and a new veterans initiative shaped by her family’s service.
• origin of Ella’s Angels and youth-led mission
• early projects from cleanups to toy drives
• the Thanksgiving pivot to 237 families served
• building partnerships with local churches and donors
• scholarships for trade school and college pathways
• recruiting and empowering teen volunteers
• overcoming age bias and learning to ask for help
• balancing school, sports, and nonprofit work
• veterans support and family service legacy
• published books on teen finance and rights
• goals for 1,000 Thanksgiving meals
• ways to volunteer and get involved
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01:53 - Welcome And Guest Introduction
03:17 - Why Start Ella’s Angels
04:07 - Youth-Led Mission And Early Projects
08:24 - Recruiting And Empowering Young Leaders
13:35 - Inside The Thanksgiving Drive
18:09 - Scholarships And Impact
22:52 - Challenges And Growth As A Leader
28:12 - Balancing School, Sports, And Service
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Warriors fall in.
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It's time for formation.
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So today I have a great guest.
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Her name is Ella Shabazian.
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She's the founder of Ella's Angels.
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I ran across her Instagram post recently because she is supporting veterans on an upcoming event here in the Los Angeles area.
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Reached out via direct message, and I really think that this is a really important episode because it speaks to a lot of the next generation youth.
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Ella is currently in high school, but she's taking college credits through a local community college.
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And uh at first, when I saw this, I thought this was being ran by a adult.
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Like I didn't, I thought maybe this was a college student, but Ella turns out to be in high school.
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And it is an honor for me and my podcast, The Morning Formation, to be a part of Ella's journey.
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Because I know in the next five to 10 years, you're gonna be doing much greater things, Ella.
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And I just want to welcome you to the podcast today.
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Thank you.
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So, Ella, let's get started and talking about how you came about to doing this because a lot of kids your age how old are you now?
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I'm 16.
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Wow.
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So a lot of kids your age are busy playing video games, sports, and things like that.
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What you're doing right now is incredibly much larger than just what's going on in front of you in your neighborhood.
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How did you get started with the idea of Ella's Angels?
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So originally, like ever since I was a kid, ever since I was younger, I've always liked helping people.
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And I just wanted like a way to help more people and different kinds of people.
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So me and my stepdaddy helped me with like the whole thing, and we made up Ella's Angels.
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And that was like my way of like saying that like young people don't need to like wait to help.
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They can always just start now.
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Yeah.
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So you have quite a bit of support from your parents, right?
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Yes.
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I think that's absolutely awesome.
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Now, the movement that you started, was there one specific thing that you wanted to focus on and it just kind of fanned out to everything else?
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Because from my understanding, you do everything from toy drives for children's hospitals uh to providing care packages for veterans, right?
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Is there one specific thing that you wanted to focus on, or was it just general humanitarian work?
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It was just general humanitarian work.
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It started off small.
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It started off with like doing like local beach trash pickups in Long Beach, and then we did the toy drive, which was very successful.
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And then I thought of the Thanksgiving meal drive, and then it came to this Valentine's for Veterans, and then we're doing the scholarships for the students and like that are trying to go to trade school or college,$500 scholarships.
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So yeah, it just like in general, it is like was not focused on one main thing.
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Does nonprofit work run in your family?
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No.
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Okay.
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So this is kind of unfamiliar territory.
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What how did you get started to begin with?
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Did you do research on Google or did you have someone like a mentor sort of help you out with the 501c registration and all that all that stuff?
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Yeah, I had a mentor, my dad.
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Your dad?
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Oh, that's really cool.
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So you have a lot of support from your from your family to get you started on this, but when you came up with El L as Angels, what does the mission of your nonprofit mean to you personally?
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So the mission is awareness, action, respect, and like especially from my generation.
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It's about turning compassion into like something real.
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Yeah.
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That's huge.
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Have you been a part of other projects as well that you've kind of got off the ground from pen and paper to action?
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It's like the first big thing that I've done.
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Yeah.
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Well, I mean, you're only 16 years old, but man, this hell is angels.
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Uh, how many people do you have working with a nonprofit right now?
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I have quite a bit.
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Like, I have Pastor Johnson, I had my dad's friend, his name is Terrell, and then I have my friends that are like a part of my board.
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Like two friends.
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That's my dad.
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That's cool.
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That's cool.
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So you got your friend circle involved in that.
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When you first began, did you ever imagine that it would grow into the multifaceted organization that it is now?
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Yes, that was that was like my plan from the start.
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I've always like wanted to do it, and I still want to make it bigger.
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This is just the beginning.
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I think that's great.
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Especially it's that you got your friend circle involved in that as well.
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And I think today's youth needs a lot more positive turn uh to really make a difference.
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Um, I think a lot of people don't know how to do that.
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So it's great that you have a platform to do that.
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The organization, from what I read, is known as youth-led.
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What's unique about giving young people the opportunity to lead these type of charitable, charitable initiatives?
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Young people, like my organization is to help, let's say, like a young person doesn't know how to get out in the community to help.
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They can always reach out to me.
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I can help them do that.
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And I don't think that young people need to wait to show action and help out in the community.
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They can always start, just they need to take the step and just do it.
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Like I mentioned before, the things that you're doing is years beyond how old you really are.
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I mean, I know people in their 20s that talk about doing a nonprofit, but they never take action or they never pivot and execute.
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So, how do you recruit and empower other young leaders to take initiative and stay engaged?
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Honestly, just do it.
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Just if you talk about it, talking about it is not enough.
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You need to take the step and do it.
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Even if it's a lot of work.
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Even and I always say, even if you feel like you're not ready, right?
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Yes.
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So, what advice would you give other young folks out there who want to start a nonprofit or lead service projects but they don't have any idea where to begin?
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So don't like don't wait to be older or more established.
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You could just always start.
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You need like you need to like just like you need to show that you care and that's like enough to start.
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And and if anyone needs help, they can always just reach out to me.
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Yeah.
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And at the end of the show, we'll talk about where you're located because I know that you're on a LinkedIn and we have you on Instagram.
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We'll talk about any other social media platforms that you're on as well.
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I read that your Thanksgiving meal drive helped hundreds of families out there.
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Can you walk us through what that actually looked like and what you learned from organizing that whole project?
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So originally we were only supposed to be feeding 100 families, but 237 families ended up signing up.
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And like I was like, How am I gonna find another like 137 more turkeys in two days?
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Because it was like two days before.
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And it was at a long beach in Greeder Harvest Church.
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We found how to get the turkeys, and it was like very like like impactful.
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Me and my my club members, my friends, and like volunteers were passing out the meals.
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It was very like seeing like how excited people would get and thinking that people wouldn't like have been able to have like a meal without us was the best part of it.
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That's so cool.
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You started out just thinking it would be a few families and it turned out to be over 200.
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That's that's huge.
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And the fact that you were able to adapt and overcome the inventory and make it happen is super impactful.
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Uh, can you tell us about the scholars program and why supporting students through scholarships matters to the uh the mission of the nonprofit?
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So the scholarship program is so it's for students that are like in on like underprivileged areas that are trying to go to trade school or college,$500 scholarships.
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It just like me and my dad thought of that idea, and we thought it would be like a big help for people.
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So we just yeah, came up with that idea.
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You've actually kind of reached out and impacted so many different efforts out there.
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The initiatives that you've done is anywhere from like veterans to children's hospitals and community cleanups, like you mentioned earlier.
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Out of all those projects, which project has impacted you the most personally and and why why it Definitely my Thanksgiving drive.
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It was just seeing how many people I helped was crazy.
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Like I was not expecting like 237 families to sign up.
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Like I thought, like, cause I want to do it every year, and I'm like, let me just start off small by 100 because it's my first time doing it.
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I didn't know how it would go.
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And seeing that I helped that many people was crazy, and just thinking that like in the future years I can help so many more people with the same thing.
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Yeah, it's huge.
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What are some of the biggest challenges you faced in running this whole nonprofit so far?
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And how how have you overcame those obstacles?
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So at first, like I was worried people wouldn't take me seriously because how of like how young I am.
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And organizing and asking for help was like a learning curve for me.
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And challenges help me become more like focused and confident.
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And I feel like growth comes from being uncomfortable.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, you're speaking way beyond your years.
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Are you sure you're only 16?
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I honestly I I've struggled over the years talking to young adults and teaching them just simply how to look another person in the eye, shake their hand, like sound confident, speak up, and just have normal conversations with peep with folks out there.
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So I think that nonprofits like yours is not just soul-fulfilling, but a lot of your friends that are getting involved in this whole nonprofit circle is also learning themselves on how to be future leaders, how to become business owners, how to become great employees someday of big companies.
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And I think that's huge.
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I I don't know if you realize how big of an impact you're making in people's lives, not just the people that you're serving, but the people that are serving next to you as well, the young adults that are serving next to you.
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How do you overall balance leadership, school, and all the responsibilities that come with running Ella's Angels?
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So at first it was like very like difficult, challenging because I have school, sports, homework, all of this, but I'd learned how to take these time management over like the course of like a year and a half, and I'm going a lot better at it.
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How do you think this is gonna help you in the future?
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Like what are your future goals?
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Like in like when I'm in college.
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Professionally.
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Yeah, like professionally in college, because I want to be a lawyer, so I feel like I feel like this can also like even when I'm let's say I become a lawyer, I can always still have this.
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Like I always want to keep all things angels.
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Yeah.
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That's huge.
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Having a nonprofit, running a nonprofit, you're learning so much more.
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I think this nonprofit has more to teach you about life than so many other things that you could be doing as a young adult, whether it's playing games or just watching TV or goofing off.
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I'm the father of four daughters.
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So for me, like Ella, you're you're an inspiration.
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And I want to get my girls to actually listen to you talk and listen to this episode as well, uh, so that maybe they can be inspired to think bigger.
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I'm constantly trying to get them to think uh much bigger than the tip of their nose.
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And what you've got here is is, in my opinion, very impactful.
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Looking ahead, what are your goals for Ella's angels in the next five years?
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Just keep growing, more projects, help more people, figure out more ideas, like on what I could do to help out in the community.
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That's pretty much it.
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I want to talk about too, real quick.
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Uh you have an upcoming event uh that is uh in part of helping the veteran community.
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Can you talk about that a little bit?
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So I'm doing Valentine's for Veterans.
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We're gonna be going out in Glendale, California.
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We're gonna be handing out bags with like a mug, chocolate, beer, and a handwritten note to all the veterans out there.
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Here this is what the bag looks like.
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Wow.
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That's cool.
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That looks really nice.
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That's worth the drive to Glendale for sure.
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Where specifically in Glendale are you gonna be at?
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Are you gonna be at a veterans place or um it's Veterans Help Veterans Village.
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Veterans Village.
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It's 311 uh Salem Street, yeah.
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311 Salem Street.
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I'll make sure I put that in the show notes as well, and I I share that because I want to try to get as much, I guess, awareness out there as possible for people in the Los Angeles area to take part in that as well.
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What inspired you to specifically help veterans?
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So, what originally inspired me is like my family history.
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My grandfather was a Marine in the Vietnam War, and my great-grandfather was a um three-star rear admiral in World War II.
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And he also commanded the USS Steelhead and earned a silver star, and he also did two submarine divisions after that.
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So that's what inspired me to do this.
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The fact that you know all that information about your own family.
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I mean, I I have family members that don't know anything about uh the last generation, so that's amazing that you have all that knowledge about and appreciation, not only that, appreciation for the sacrifice that uh you know that that they gave to our country.
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That's says a lot about you and your character.
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Ella, if you could see your movement achieve one major milestone in the next year, what do you think that would be?
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Seeing like a thousand people for Thanksgiving.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, probably.
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Do you have do you have set goals for your next projects that you're planning on upping the Anteon the next go round?
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Like you mentioned, the Thanksgiving one.
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Yeah.
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Have you already planned out like a year ahead and kind of figured out like this is our next goal?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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How do you how do you think you're gonna get through with the throughput of getting the uh the help you need and the assistance that you need?
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Have you found a lot of local businesses that are willing to help as well?
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For the Thanksgiving, we already like in the same area.
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We do it in Long Beach at the same church, and we already know the people that like supplied the food for us, and like the same people could volunteer from the church.
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Yeah, that's amazing that you have that community support as well.
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If you could inspire other young adults out there that may not have the type of parental support that you have, what would you say to them as far as providing some motivation for them to take action and do something versus just sitting around and waiting for someone to get it started for you?
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If they don't have parental support, they can always ask people in the community around them, maybe like a mentor or anyone, like teachers, anyone, they could always ask for help or they can like reach out to me and I could guide them through that.
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I could help them with it if they Yeah.
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And Ellis Angels is always looking for motivated volunteers, right?
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Yes, always.
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And where are you guys mainly based out of?
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Uh mainly Los Angeles area.
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Yeah.
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Which which side of Los Angeles though?
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It depends.
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Like I live in Burbank, but I'm in also in Long Beach, Glendale.
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Okay, so you're a little bit everywhere.
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Yeah, you could have like virtual meetings and things like that um to kind of spearhead some of these projects, right?
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Yes.
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And if anyone's interested, they could just what's the best way to reach you?
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The best way to reach me is through like any of my social medias, Ella'sangels.org, my website or on LinkedIn.
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Very cool.
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What's the most meaningful lesson that you've learned from people you've served through your work so far, Ella?
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The most meaningful gratitude for the sacrifices like others have made.
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It's like responsibility to give back, and like once you understand where your freedom comes from, you can't ignore it.
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Where do you get that gratitude from, you think?
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I think it's like from the people I surround myself from like with, sorry.
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From like my friends, my family.
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You don't sound like a girl that has a whole lot of entitlement and you're have a lot of gratitude instead for the sacrifices your parents, even your grandparents that have made, whether it be military service or just the the help that you've gotten to get this off the ground.
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How do you think this journey has shaped your own sense of purpose and your leadership overall?
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It's made me like it's I feel like it's turned me into like a like much more of a leader than I used to be at first.
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I was always like when I was younger, I was always like nervous to ask for help and like in general just ask for anything.
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And I feel like this has made me like more confident in myself.
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So Yeah.
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Do you have any advice for parents out there that want to get their kids kind of on the same track that you're on?
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How do they encourage them to get off the gaming systems, to get off their butts from watching TV?
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How do you encourage your kids to get into these bigger, I guess, broader perspective projects that just simply help others?
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So for the parents, honestly, just keep bugging your just keep bugging your child.
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That's what my parents always used to do.
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And I it really helps.
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Just keep bugging your children into doing like from start from little things.
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Tell them to get off the game, do your homework, and just just help them.
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Like I don't know, like I don't know how to explain it.
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I guess the best way to say is like you gotta plant the seed.
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And at some point that seed hopefully will grow and lead towards taking action and towards the motivation and encouragement that it takes to do something.
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I know that myself as a father, that's kind of what I've done over the years, is just to get the buy-in, is to plant the ideas, talk positively about it, and then put yourself in position to actually witness it at the same time.
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Um, I've had my daughters involved in singing and all kinds of stuff, and a lot of times it's just a matter of you know, showing them a YouTube video of other kids that are doing the same thing as well.
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Do you have any other projects outside of like what you've already done with the Thanksgiving dinners and like the toy drives?
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