Dion Dawson

It has to be an option for everyone and understand that it's not personal.

Granted, do I feel like there are strong systemic issues that we have to get a hold of and fix?

Absolutely not.

but I also can't only lean to my emotion.

And so I think when we started talking about the bureaucracy in food and when we talked about nonprofit and for-profit and social entrepreneurship,

After the emotional visceral response, now I have to figure out, OK, well, what are we going to do and how can we be the best at it?

So if you're looking at that game board, first and foremost, we're in supply chain and delivery.

And so in supply chain and delivery, how can we be the best at what we're doing, continue to innovate, continue to scale and grow?

And so that more people can be motivated and inspired by it.

Before we continue to go back out and look at the thing as a whole, the bureaucracy and the politics will be there.

But I really, truly believe that anybody that is going to stop and or beat me has to work as hard as me and as often as me.

And I just don't think that's possible.

Absolutely.

So in terms of the earned revenue opportunity, it happened because we owned our assets, we buy the food, so there's a quality assurance involved, and we pay our team.

And so that's important because you can scale up or down paid operation.

You cannot scale volunteerism because you cannot count on it to be consistent.

The biggest thing there that I try to get people to understand is a lot of times when you hear about food as medicine,

you hear about it through the lens of people living longer, healthier lives.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

But I want people to understand that it's still a market and a market opportunity exists.