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^B00:00:03 >> Hello.
>> Hi, Patty. Tell me about RESULTS, your conference.
>> So I went to a RESULTS, another RESULTS conference. This
is my second one. About 500 people came in from all over
the world to talk about poverty to try and figure out how to
solve some issues related to poverty. >> And the main speaker this year was?
>> The main speaker was Muhammad Yunus who won a Nobel --
he's a board member of RESULTS, but he also got a Nobel
Prize for starting the Grameen Bank and the micro finance
program. >> Peace Prize?
>> Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize. And he's pretty amazing.
He's kind of like a rock star so people -- >> I've heard stories on him, interviews of
him. He's pretty remarkable.
>> Pretty amazing guy. And if you think one person can do a
lot you always say, you know, it just takes one person.
Well, he's doing a lot for a lot of people. Pretty amazing
man. >> Yeah. So tell me what -- you mentioned
a girl named Vanessa that was someone you interviewed.
>> Yeah. You know I bring my camera because I can't sit
still very well. Particularly any conference but a five day
conference I don't do very well. And so the staff asked me
to -- I get asked to interview different people, use the
camera to interview different people, and I interviewed
Vanessa. And we'll show you here in a minute the interview.
But pretty amazing. She came to the RESULTS conference
through Maryann Williamson who is a spiritual guru. She's
also a board member of RESULTS. And she brings a lot of
people, a lot of volunteers to RESULTS from her
organization. >> Her name sounds familiar.
>> Yeah, she's been on Oprah a bunch of times. I don't know
how many New York Times best sellers that she has, but she's
a pretty well known author. And so Vanessa was at one of
her conferences and invited everyone to go to the RESULTS
conference and Vanessa went. Vanessa came from poverty.
She grew up in a very poor situation, and she wants to fix
poverty. And who better than to work -- >> Somebody who's lived it.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah, good, good. I'm anxious to hear what
she says. I know you were impressed with her.
>> She's pretty amazing. So let's see what she has to say
here. Alright? >> Good, good, great.
>> Video: My upbringing is we grew up, we immigrated from
Mexico here to the United States. And we came and we were
living in a garage with no air conditioning, and it didn't
connect to the house. So if we had to go potty we just kind
of had to wait until, we didn't have a key. When my dad
lost his job we had to go through the garbage cans and find
cans and recycle. And if we found cans of food that were
unopened we would keep those, and that's what we would eat
for the day. We probably made I think at the most was $30 a
day. We would always do it before school. So we would go
to school smelling like trash. And because food was more
important than clothes I had to wear my mom's clothes to
school for a very long time, I think from third grade to
about sixth grade. Then even with my parents getting a job
we could never afford to live in our own apartment. We
always had to live in a room, renting a room with somebody
and still struggle. If someone in our neighborhood got a
scooter it was like everybody's scooter. If somebody got a
bike it was everybody's bike. So I think we -- in that
sense I didn't know we were poor because we would see it on
TV other people had stuff, we didn't have stuff. But even
in the schools that we grew up with everybody was just
struggling. I think we tend to go into those neighborhoods
where we just feel kind of welcomed and understood. And so
but my parents always did make it clear that we didn't have
money for this and we didn't have money for that. I came to
one of the RESULTS through Maryann Williamson, the Big
Sister giant event that she did in LA in November. And I
heard about RESULTS and I thought this was a great
opportunity for me to get in something and end poverty just
because I've experienced poverty. I know what it is. I
know people who still live in poverty. My mother still
lives in poverty. And so I knew that this was a calling for
me to try and make a difference. And RESULTS just seemed
like the perfect place. I found her through Oprah in an
interview that she had done. And I remember her saying
those of us on a spiritual path should be the last ones
setting out the great political conversation. And when I
went to Sister [inaudible] what she meant by that especially
with results that we tend to think that the people in
Congress and Senate are making those decisions and they take
care of us. And you realize they try but at the same time
they need to hear from the people. And hearing Maryann
constantly saying you have the power, they work for you, you
need to take charge and wanting to take our democracy back,
wanting to take action. It's not just on them. We also
need to take responsibility for our own part in it. And I
think at that moment I realized that is true. We can sit
and complain or we can do something about it. And RESULTS
was the place that I found that I could do something about
it. And when I dug more into it and I realized, wow,
RESULTS is changing lives. They really are. And I could
see that the people that were getting help were doing it
because someone took action. Someone went to Congress or
Senate and spoke for them not even knowing them. And I
wanted to be that person that now spoke for them even if I
didn't know them. ^E00:06:24