Lily James Olds

I'm excited to talk to you today.

So I'm going to jump right in and ask.

You talk about the traditional food pantry model as being unchanged for decades and, you know, really not prioritizing the experience of the person using it.

What is missing or outdated in those traditional pantry models that made you do things differently?

No, I think that's so smart.

And I think this also makes me think about when you say, who am I to fight capitalism?

And I feel like you're working in such strategic ways within this system and economic model that we all exist in.

I'm curious to hear you go a little bit deeper and hear how you think about how you do think about

working within that system strategically as a social entrepreneur?

Well, I think, I mean, it's so funny you say that because I think one of the things in the conversations we've had that's really stood out to me is also the bureaucracy of it.

Like you're understanding the game board and where to put the next move.

And so I'd love to hear you talk a little bit deeper too about those different revenue streams that you've talked about.

Of course.

And kind of how you've looked at that game board and said, hey, here's how we're going to utilize this towards the end result that we want.

for our users and clients?

I don't know if any of those people exist, actually.

Yeah.

I want to get a little bit in the weeds because I feel like this has been so fascinating to me from our conversations about that bureaucracy and specifically some of those revenue streams as it relates to food as medicine programs, how that relates to hospitals.

I'd love to kind of hear just the like in the nitty gritty, in the weeds of it so that those of us who aren't familiar with these models can start to see that strategic thinking that you've worked your way towards for so long now.

So when you say it's that, you said $26 billion industry, right?