Leigh Johnson with Next Step Ministries

Intro: [00:00:07] Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX Studios in Woodstock, Georgia. It’s time for Cherokee Business Radio. Now, here’s your host.

Stone Payton: [00:00:24] Welcome to another exciting and informative edition of Cherokee Business Radio Stone Payton here with you this morning. And today’s episode is brought to you in part by our local small business initiative, the Business RadioX Main Street Warriors. Defending capitalism, promoting small business and supporting our local community. For more information, go to Main Street warriors.org and a special note of thanks to our title sponsor for the Cherokee chapter of Main Street Warriors, Diesel David Inc. Please go check them out at diesel. David.com. You guys are in for a real treat this morning. Please join me in welcoming to the broadcast Community Engagement Manager for Next Step Ministries. Leigh Johnson. How are you?

Leigh Johnson: [00:01:13] I am very well this morning. Thank you for having me.

Stone Payton: [00:01:16] Well, it is a delight to have you in the studio. You and I have been hanging out, seeing each other at various community activities. We see each other at Young Professionals of Woodstock, and I’ve really been wanting to have this conversation on air for some time now. I got a ton of questions. I know we probably won’t get to them all, but maybe a good place to start would be if you could just share with me and our audience mission, Purpose. What are you in the next step team really out there trying to do for folks?

Leigh Johnson: [00:01:46] Our core mission in our ministry is to serve individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The old school term for that, or the most common term you would hear for that are special needs. Those with cerebral palsy, anything with severe brain injuries, traumatic brain injuries, Down syndrome, autism. We serve the basic gamut of that, but our specialty is to serve families with intellectual and developmental disabilities on the severe scale. So we have a lot of individuals in our program who are tube fed and have issues like this. They are mostly wheelchair heavy use of wheelchairs. So our basic goal is to serve families and help them go out and be able to work in the community and do their daily jobs while we care for their children or their loved ones.

Stone Payton: [00:02:45] Wow. You must really sleep well at night knowing that you’re doing that kind of work. That’s a.

Leigh Johnson: [00:02:48] Mouthful. And there’s more to.

Stone Payton: [00:02:51] So how in the world did you get into this kind of work? What’s your back story?

Leigh Johnson: [00:02:57] My back story is that I started out in radio sales in Savannah, Georgia.

Stone Payton: [00:03:07] Oh, you’ll have to stay after class and help me raise a little bit more revenue.

Leigh Johnson: [00:03:10] Maybe that’s why I’m where I am now. So I have a marketing background, but I found that being in nonprofits, working in the advertising industry and being in nonprofits now serves my heart more fully than the rat race of the marketing industry and advertising. So whenever I started in nonprofits over 25 years ago, I’ve stayed.

Stone Payton: [00:03:37] Clearly, you enjoy the work. You would have to have a real passion for this kind of work, I think. What are you finding the most rewarding? What do you enjoy the most about the work?

Leigh Johnson: [00:03:48] The thing that I mostly enjoy about the work is seeing the individuals thrive and live their best lives because they were born or experienced a trauma in their lives that has put them in this place and they didn’t ask for that. So what we’re looking to do is to absolutely help them live their best lives and also allow their loved ones to live their best lives with the services we provide. Seeing smiles on the faces of the individuals. I know that sounds simple, but a lot of the times their days are very challenging. Even though our days might seem challenging just think about the challenges that they might have mentally, physically throughout the day, and that’s what we’re there to do to help them thrive because they have talents to their artists. There are some of them are musicians, some of them are, you know, just just like you or I. So we’re helping them shine.

Stone Payton: [00:04:43] So what are some of the services? What are what are some of the things that you’re able experiences you’re able to create for these folks and opportunities you’re able to provide.

Leigh Johnson: [00:04:53] Through Cobb EMC Foundation? We are lucky enough to have a grant funding through them for music therapy. We have music therapy once a week in all three of our programs, we have three programs, not just one. We have enrichment. We have a day program and we have enrichment extension. So we serve over 65 families currently, and there is a waiting list.

Stone Payton: [00:05:19] So there’s a physical location where where these folks come, the families bring them on a regular basis. They participate in these various programs.

Leigh Johnson: [00:05:28] So this goes back to the first question that you asked me is what is our core mission in Georgia? And in most states at the age of 22, when you are diagnosed with IDD, i.e. special needs, you are graduating at 22. So after that the options are limited to care for these individuals. They can find in-home care and or they can have their grandparent take care of them or a loved one or things like that. So they’re able to come to us for for those services.

Stone Payton: [00:06:03] And so you have a place that they get together here locally in Cherokee County. Yes.

Leigh Johnson: [00:06:08] We serve three counties, actually, Cherokee Cobb and North Fulton, our basic reach. But we do serve some individuals love our program so much that they come as far as they really want to. We’re a ministry first and we’re a service provider second. So if there is a family or a loved one that has needs for our services, we’re going to serve them no matter what.

Stone Payton: [00:06:32] I have to imagine that that this is so helpful to the families, you and your team. You’re interacting with these families and providing them all kinds of, I would think, emotional support and maybe even help with identifying additional resources. Is that accurate?

Leigh Johnson: [00:06:51] Absolutely. We a lot of the times most of the time the Medicaid waiver process is an arduous one. And so we have a special caseworker on hand that is able to walk them through the process and to hold their hand in a sense in filling out this paperwork for for funding through the state of Georgia.

Stone Payton: [00:07:13] So tell us a little. Let’s do a day in the Life of Lee, because you’re out and about. You’re everywhere. If I go to some kind of community oriented event, you’re there. And so you are very ingrained here, at least in this community. And it sounds like others as well. Tell you, what does your day look like?

Leigh Johnson: [00:07:32] My day starts without an alarm clock, even though it goes off at 7 a.m. in the morning. Personally, at home, I have personally my day. I have chickens. I have dogs, I have a tortoise. I have a 22 year old cat. Let’s see. So they all need to be fed. Then I come here to visit with you and share about our our ministry and our mission. I’m at Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce events. I go down to KSU and go to forums down there. I am heavily involved in training our volunteers and that is something I’d like to speak on today because we welcome volunteers in schools. I’m currently working with the Kings Academy on a project and they’re helping us with an art show that we’re doing in September. So mark your calendars for September. That’ll be at Reinhardt University. So it’s all about growing awareness of our mission and our ministry just through anybody who is willing to listen.

Stone Payton: [00:08:39] Did you have the benefit of one or more mentors that really understood this space that helped you navigate this this new terrain?

Leigh Johnson: [00:08:49] I will give all of the accolades there to my amazing boss, Lori Baker. She is the founder and president, if you will, of Next Step Ministries. She started our organization 14 years ago on a shoestring, opened up the nonprofit, and there’s something to be said about that With her love and passion for those with special needs. She started out in the Cherokee County school system as a physical therapy. She was a physical therapist, and she found that her calling was to help those aging out of high school. So since then, we have really helped thousands and thousands of people.

Stone Payton: [00:09:32] So tell me more about the volunteers. Where do they come from and what kind of activities are they engaged in? Because it sounds like this is one of the ways that people who are hearing this and those of us in the business community can can try to be try to help.

Leigh Johnson: [00:09:46] Sure. Well, they can go to our website. It’s next step ministries.net. And there are opportunities on there. You can click on volunteer with us. And of course, in the upper right hand corner, you can click on Support Us because our mission and our ministry wouldn’t be able to continue on without the donations and corporate support from all of our amazing businesses around here. Our volunteer opportunities range from if you have a talent you like to do art, you you have a passion for art. So you would like to come in. And we have a lot of art supplies so you wouldn’t have to bring anything in like that. But if you just want to come in and spend some time with us in program and see what we’re about, I will guide you through that process. I will make sure that you feel comfortable and you know the right things to say and what not to do, because there’s a certain rhetoric that you have with people with disabilities. You have to always make sure that they feel respected, that they they are respected. They are people just like you and I are. So it’s all about creating that dialog and comfort between the quote unquote person without a disability and the person with a disability. We have a garden that can be that always needs to be maintained. Now that we’re in springtime here, we have weeds. Everybody has weeds. Right, right, right. We have leaves. So if you have a blower, bring it, things like that.

Stone Payton: [00:11:25] So the group of people that you’re serving, the folks who have these various disabilities, they have all kinds of interests. Like there’s art, there’s music. Some of them may be interested in business or so there’s a lot of different ways to try to tap into and give them a a way to express their creativity and live into their passion. Right?

Leigh Johnson: [00:11:45] Absolutely. Absolutely. I have a new idea. I can roll this out here, I suppose, because I really want it to take flight. There is it’s called polymer clay. And you people with that can’t like tactile tactilely hold and grip things. They can still do things with their hands like rolling, like smashing and smashing and things like that. So if you’re if you have that ability and you can see color or colors together, you can make a piece of jewelry, you know, it’s pretty easy to do that. Or you can make like a little clay pot that you can give to your loved one or, you know, we can use that as a source of revenue for our ministry of donors or those in the community appreciate the art that we’re creating. It’s very easy to do that. So I’m in the beginning stages of educating myself on that.

Stone Payton: [00:12:43] Well, speaking of education, I suspect that when you’re out in the community, a big part of your role is just to inform lay people like me on all the things that we’re starting to to touch on. You know, what is ID, what is special needs, what are some of the best ways to interact with people, and what are some of the best ways to interact with their families and try to help their help their families? A lot of your work is is education, too, isn’t it?

Leigh Johnson: [00:13:11] Absolutely. Absolutely. It’s always listening, listening to people’s stories, not talking so much, not doing what we’re doing right now. But when a person comes to me, you have to look for cues, social cues, and their stories are very important. And then we can from there deduce what exactly needs to be helped first, because there’s a lot of help that people in guidance and calming down that people need. When they have needs like this, service needs for services like we provide. We very much enjoy going out about in the community. That’s another thing that we do. We just received an amazing new bus from through the ARPA grant. Some congratulations, leftover COVID funding money. That was from the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners. Thank you very much, Commissioner Johnston, very much. We are very excited about that. We’re in the process of having the art designed and the bus wrapped, so we’re going to be a moving billboard around. Sweet Because we cannot afford billboards, so we might as well make it look good. So we go bowling. We have an amazing volunteer. His name is Al Cato. He is amazing. He’s been taking our individuals bowling for over ten years. He is a selfless, wonderful man. And he goes with his daughter, Kelly, and they bowl with us three times a week. It’s just like it takes my breath away with regards to the commitment of some of these individuals, our volunteers and parents, one of our amazing other volunteers, her name is Judy. She will be unhappy with me saying this on the radio. But Judy is amazing. She has been volunteering with us for 13 years in our day program, and she is just the most humble, loving woman that I’ve ever, ever met. So I’m just so touched by by everybody in our organization and the community.

Stone Payton: [00:15:15] You know, now I can tell it. I can tell it every time I have a conversation with you. In any of these environments where we get a chance to connect, I can tell it here in the studio. The passion comes through and I know it’s got to be incredibly rewarding. I have a question that I’ve been asking recently, and I stole it from one of the groups that you and I get together at Young Professionals of Woodstock. The guy who has been running that recently is Jared Rodenhizer, and he asked the question. It was one of the most revealing in terms of learning about people. He he asked the question, what do you have a tendency to nerd out about? So he’s kind of getting it like, what do you have a tendency? So I’ve been my version of that is when when you’re not consumed with this work, which I’ve got to believe is is all consuming. But outside the scope of this work, what do you have a tendency to nerd out about or do You mentioned early at the top of the conversation, you’ve got chickens, so you you must enjoy animals and that kind of thing. But I mean, you wouldn’t believe some of the answers. I mean, you’ve got people who, you know, they like to skydive or someone you would never know it in a million years, but they’re like a world champion. What do you call it? The shotgun stuff. The clay shooting. Yeah. Okay. And you just don’t know. So anyway, outside the scope of this work, what do you have a tendency to dive into.

Leigh Johnson: [00:16:33] Outside of this? I, like you said, I just absolutely love my my animals, my dogs. I recently lost. I’m going to give you a shout out. Con my dog con bullmastiffs are amazing. But anyway, I have just recently picked back up again. Geeky cross stitch.

Speaker4: [00:16:56] Geeky cross stitch.

Leigh Johnson: [00:16:57] Yeah. I love cross stitch. I love anything like with angles and architecture. I’m very into all of that kind of stuff. So Mondrian art is me. I also make my own candles.

Speaker4: [00:17:12] Do you really? Yeah.

Stone Payton: [00:17:13] So, like the cross stitching thing, I have sister in laws who are very much into that. And to me it looks incredibly tedious. But like Aunt Sandy, I call her Aunt Sandy. She’s my sister in law. I mean, when she comes and stays with us, I mean, she is glued to that couch, She watches football and she does the cross stitching and it brings her so much joy. And it you know, it just it does for her, I suppose, what hunting and fishing does for me. Right? So it’s always interesting.

Leigh Johnson: [00:17:43] I do very much enjoy being in the great outdoors as well. So I’m on that hunting and fishing thing with you, but I’m just pick that back up again, the cross stitch, because I have ADHD. I’m not medicated, so I medicate myself through trying to sit still and keeping my hands busy because people don’t like to watch movies with me at all.

Speaker4: [00:18:05] Ryan But, but it’s.

Stone Payton: [00:18:07] Important, I think, to have something like that. Like for me, it’s the hunting and the fishing and the outdoors. For you, it’s that and these other things. But don’t you feel like that’s really important for for people to have that? I don’t even know if escape is the right word. It’s just another dimension to your to to your being. Sure.

Leigh Johnson: [00:18:26] Absolutely.

Stone Payton: [00:18:27] Yeah. You got to make time for that.

Leigh Johnson: [00:18:28] Absolutely. I’ll give another little shout out to my son, Gray. He’s a definite not hobby. He is one of the light of my life. And I’m very excited to share everything that I do at next step with him because young children also need to. I feel it very important for them to be comfortable around all types of people.

Stone Payton: [00:18:51] Amen.

Leigh Johnson: [00:18:51] So he comes and visits and reads stories.

Stone Payton: [00:18:54] Yeah. And let’s be candid or I will be candid about this as a layperson, less so maybe since I moved here, because when I do go to Young professionals of Woodstock, Circle of Friends is there and you and you have people with ID and they’re serving you coffee. So I’ve gotten more comfortable interacting with people, with all of those kinds of things going on. But I got to say, I’m still a little uncomfortable if I haven’t met them before and a person is in a wheelchair or something else. And I, I don’t sometimes I don’t know what to say. But I think what I’m having reinforced for me in this conversation is some of what we would try to teach in our world. You know, listen, you know, give them a chance to talk and give them a chance to share their story. That’s that’s a thing to do, right?

Leigh Johnson: [00:19:52] Absolutely. Even if the person is nonverbal, they have a means of communication, which might be a some kind of tablet that they have an eye gaze that they can look at to read. And then that tablet will talk back and say, I would like some water, you know, or, hi, how are you? That is their way of communicating. With us. And even a simple thing as a smile and a thumbs up, you know. Really they don’t like to be. This is a trite term, but baby talk to they don’t really that’s not a thing. They’re adults as well. Right? So you know, hi, how are you today? And even if they can’t answer, they know that they’re in a conversation and that somebody’s actually out there is asking really and wondering how they are.

Speaker4: [00:20:44] And.

Stone Payton: [00:20:44] Really wanting to know, are you.

Leigh Johnson: [00:20:46] Having a good week? Did you sleep well last night? You know, everything. Everybody sleeps unless you’re, you know, a vampire. Well, they sleep during the day, but whatever. Um.

Stone Payton: [00:21:00] So we started to touch on it briefly, but I want to circle back to it and dive in a little deeper on what the business community can do, either as a community, like a group, like young professionals of Woodstock or Woodstock Business Club to the two that I’m involved with, but also like a Business RadioX or like some of these folks who sponsor, you know, the Main Street Warriors program or clients of ours who also have if they’re part of of what we’ve got going, they have a heart for community. They have a heart of service. What are what are some things that come to mind that businesses can do? What are some good ways for them to get involved? And and I recognize they can write a check, but but say more about how how the business community can get behind what you guys are doing.

Leigh Johnson: [00:21:47] Well, our our business community can get involved through. We have volunteer opportunities. I can give you an example. Lgb Community Foundation comes to us once a year for a day of service. So we design a program with the individuals and the LGB employees. Last year it was a luau. This year it might be, I think it might be an ice cream party or something. You know, it’s a four hour block of time that employees and our individuals can get together and spend time together and then go out into the community and share. That would be a great way to even understand what we do and then get the other conversations going, you know, with the higher ups and things like that. It’s all how you go about the moves.

Speaker4: [00:22:44] Well, it sounds to me.

Stone Payton: [00:22:45] Like just for me, what I’m taking away from that is just go learn, participate, drop by the birthday party thing or the next event that you got going and just hang out, have conversations with everyone involved. So some of the people you know that are ID, but also the families and and the staff and the volunteers and just throw your hat over the fence. Get to know folks. And the answers to how you can help will probably present themselves, right?

Leigh Johnson: [00:23:14] Absolutely. And I’m you know, there are all kinds of different personalities in this world. There are introverts, there are extroverts. There are whatever new ones they just came up with. But you will find your place within the walls of Next Step ministries in whatever capacity we can. We can place you. You can be anonymous, you can be on the front lines. But there will always be a place for anybody in our ministry because we don’t just serve people with ID, we serve our employees. We serve those in the community. We have community, we have community service workers that come to us that have obligations and their eyes are opened. So it’s a it’s a whole handholding opportunity there. And we always welcome people back. So we have A5K also on October 7th, our 10th annual. We’re a decade old five K come running now. See I.

Speaker4: [00:24:12] Think I can do.

Stone Payton: [00:24:13] That. I think I can do five K. I don’t think I can run it. You don’t have to but I can walk it.

Speaker4: [00:24:17] Yeah.

Leigh Johnson: [00:24:19] That’ll be at First Baptist Woodstock, October 7th. And then there are other just like stewardship opportunities, events coming up. You know, we have our birthday party this coming Saturday. We’ll have a chili cook off after the five K next year.

Stone Payton: [00:24:34] And then color me there, I will definitely eat the chili.

Leigh Johnson: [00:24:38] And you can compete too.

Speaker4: [00:24:39] Yeah.

Stone Payton: [00:24:40] So we cook chili. The Main Street warriors, when we unveiled that program, just we’re getting to unveil it. I competed in the chili cook off that Ken Crossen does for the first responders and I had the best time. I did not win, but I thought it turned out pretty good. And I got to tell you, Ken Crossen does know how to cook chili, too. It was really good. So color me there on the five K and the chili cook off.

Leigh Johnson: [00:25:04] Very good. And also it’s not I don’t have a date for the art opening at Rhinehart yet, but it’s going to be all next step. Ministries created art. Oh wow. In conjunction with schools and things like that. So that’ll be at the Fellini in September. So I’m pretty. Cited about all that.

Speaker4: [00:25:22] Well, you should be. Yeah.

Stone Payton: [00:25:26] So I think I know the answer to this because of my personal experience, having now been in Woodstock right at two years and running a small business. But I’m going to ask anyway, how have you found the community at large and the business community here in Cherokee County and the surrounding counties? Have you found them really supportive? I certainly have. And just but I’m interested to know what’s what’s your perspective on that?

Leigh Johnson: [00:25:53] I absolutely find that when you represent a business or organization with a very meaningful mission or vision that has shown any kind of measurable marks in the community, then people start to grab on to that. And I understand that when you’re new in any community, you’ve got to sort of dig in and have faith in yourself, get through those hard days. But, you know, don’t be afraid to come to those people things. Ask questions, and then you’ll gravitate towards those individuals or companies that will help you grow and blossom. I think I think it’s wonderful, especially like the firstrillionesponders in this in this community. I have never I don’t I’ve just never seen such a close, tight knit group of people before.

Stone Payton: [00:26:48] That’s a great that has certainly been my experience. I got to tell a story on myself when we moved here, and then I decided to rent this space to to have the studio for for Cherokee Business Radio. You know, we’re very close to the to the fire department, right? I mean, it’s just a quick little walk. And so and one of the businesses that I love and I love so many around here is Pi Bar. And so, you know, I’m a regular there. Everybody knows me at Pi Bar. And so I went and bought a the one of the what is it. The pecan pie. The is it the bourbon chocolate pecan pie. So I bought a whole pie. Usually I’m buying slices but I bought it for, for the firemen. And so it comes in this white box. And then I wrote on a Sharpie on the top of it. I said, Fire insurance booster policy for 998 Market Street. But it was fun to be able to, you know, to take the pie down there. But yeah, the first responders, the business organizations in Woodstock, you know, just it’s fantastic. I just I love it. It sounds like you.

Leigh Johnson: [00:27:48] Do, too. I just think it’s wonderful. I just thought of one other thing. Yeah. Other ways individual or companies can help. We have needs every day needs that help us to keep our operations open. Things like I’m such things as paper towels, toilet paper, things like that. We have an Amazon wish list. That kind of stuff helps to keep our bottom line low so we can, you know, improve our programs and grow our programs. Because if you’re just worrying about buying toilet paper and things like that, you’re not going to be able to go out there and do other things. So that that would be extremely helpful. So that’s.

Speaker4: [00:28:28] One thing. Well, no.

Stone Payton: [00:28:28] I’m glad you mentioned it. Now, do you have that that official kind of thing where, like if I’m on Amazon buying something this afternoon, I can also go check out what’s something you want? And I can just add some paper towels or whatever.

Leigh Johnson: [00:28:40] Absolutely. We have an Amazon wish list. I can.

Stone Payton: [00:28:44] Yeah, absolutely. No, we’ll make sure we include it when we publish this. We’ll make it happen. And I mean, Holly and I and I’m sure so many couples around town are this way. I mean, Amazon’s on my stoop, like, three times a week, you know? And it’s a lot of times it’s like a little $5 thing here or a $20 thing here. It doesn’t matter. But how easy would it be to just go because they make it really pretty darn easy? Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker4: [00:29:06] Just pop that in.

Leigh Johnson: [00:29:06] It’s so easy. Yeah. And that will be really helpful.

Speaker4: [00:29:09] Yeah.

Stone Payton: [00:29:09] And you know, that brings up a point, something that I’ve learned, but I have to remind myself, you don’t necessarily need to do the big, heroic gesture, you know, with the big Styrofoam check, you know, from the main street warriors or from stone or from, you know, gazillion, you know, thousands of dollars, you know, buying just the little things, man, That means a lot. It adds up, doesn’t it?

Speaker4: [00:29:32] So.

Leigh Johnson: [00:29:33] Absolutely it does. You don’t have to you know, you can make the difference in any way you see fit. But one thing I do ask is that when you do that Amazon thing, shoot me an email or write on the gift thing what your name is because I like to give you that tax credit.

Speaker4: [00:29:53] Oh, I didn’t think.

Leigh Johnson: [00:29:54] About that part if you want, if you so desire it. It also helps with auditing.

Speaker4: [00:30:02] Okay. Okay.

Leigh Johnson: [00:30:03] Seriously, It does, you know. All right.

Speaker4: [00:30:05] Yeah.

Stone Payton: [00:30:05] All right. So there’s a tip. Make sure that you. That you somehow make sure that they’re aware of it and put your name on there. But that Amazon Amazon wishlist, that’s a fantastic that’s a way any of us can help a little bit and help a lot of different causes. But yeah, well, that’s good to know. All right. What’s the best way for our listeners to learn more, connect with you, tap into the work you guys are doing, whatever you feel like is appropriate, you know, website, email, phone number. I just want to make it as easy as possible for our listeners to to connect with you.

Leigh Johnson: [00:30:37] Well, absolutely. We have a Facebook page that would be great. Next Step Ministries, Inc. I believe it is on Facebook. That would that’s where a lot of our things are. We have an Instagram tied to that as well. Nsm I’ll have to get you that.

Stone Payton: [00:30:53] No worries. When we publish this, it will have all all of it listed there. So yeah, don’t worry about that.

Leigh Johnson: [00:30:58] So I’ll make sure that everything is on there.

Stone Payton: [00:31:01] All right. Okay. And is there an email address that you want them to have?

Leigh Johnson: [00:31:05] My email address is li l e i g h at Nextstep ministries.net, and our main phone number is (770) 592-1227. Our address is main address is 7709 Turner Road. Woodstock.

Stone Payton: [00:31:26] Well, that’s not far from here.

Speaker4: [00:31:29] That’s just down the street. Close. Perfect.

Stone Payton: [00:31:32] Well, it has been an absolute delight. I knew it would be having you in the studio. You’re doing such important work. Keep up the good work. Don’t be a stranger. Come back from time to time. If you will update us on on your activities. And it might be interesting to have staff or volunteers come in or maybe, you know, sponsors, anything we can do here locally with Business RadioX to help you continue to get the word out and thank the people who are helping you live into your mission. We’re going to make it happen.

Speaker4: [00:32:04] Okay. Thank you so.

Leigh Johnson: [00:32:05] Much, Joan. And thank you, Business RadioX. And thank you, Woodstock and everybody out there. We appreciate you very much. More than you.

Speaker4: [00:32:12] Know.

Stone Payton: [00:32:13] All right. Until next time. This is Stone Payton. For our guest today, community engagement manager Lee Johnson with Next Step Ministries. And everyone here at the Business RadioX family saying we’ll see you again on Cherokee Business Radio.