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Chris Hoyt 0:18Hello, everybody. This is Chris Hoyt with CareerXroads. And on this edition of our podcast, we're going to talk a little bit about the CXR Foundation, but I have with me one of the founding members and members of the board of directors. Celeste Luzadder. Celeste, how are you?

Celeste Luzadder, Legal Zoom 0:33Hi, how are you?

Chris Hoyt 0:35I'm doing well. Thanks for asking.

Celeste Luzadder, Legal Zoom 0:38Thanks for having me. Excited to be here.

Chris Hoyt 0:41So we've had a couple of these podcasts go out already. And as you know, this, the site has launched and we've got some sort of things in the works. But I just want to set the stage a little bit for those who maybe haven't heard yet. The CXR Foundation is a nonprofit, that that was created just recently, and after months and months and months of work, to sort of put it into place for really the benefit of the community, right, the talent community at large. And in some instances, local communities that don't have anything really to do with our industry or our talent acquisition per se. You sort of been behind the scenes on some of that, as have a number of the other board of directors and a number of the 70-80 plus members that we've we've now had joined. But for those who may not know, it kind of it kind of got kicked off with a projects, or sort of a project that we created when Gerry and myself would come in a day early to our live meetings when we back in the day of traveling.

Celeste Luzadder, Legal Zoom 1:40What's that like?

Chris Hoyt 1:41And yeah, I'm losing all my miles, I feel like I'm losing all my miles. But we would we would come in a day early Barb Ruess, also, a member of our team would come in and do a community event. We might help stock a food pantry, or a local shelter or work in, you know, any number of locations that we've really felt helped lift up and, and help the communities that we were working in for that week. And that sort of gave birth to the idea of we really needed to be focusing at large, you know, sort of hoping everybody was doing well just wasn't enough, right? Donating money just wasn't enough. And we wanted to put in a little bit of elbow grease. And then that led to a project called recruiters recruiting recruiters when the pandemic hit, an awful lot of recruiters were unfortunately without work. And so we put together and you can learn a little bit more I won't go into too much detail but folks can learn a little bit more on the website about what recruiters recruiting recruiters actually is

Celeste Luzadder, Legal Zoom 2:34Wow that was fast, recruiting recruiters recruiting, nope see fail.

Chris Hoyt 2:41You were really close, But that's a project that's been sort of propped up and pulled in underneath the CXR Foundation wings. But I want to talk a little bit with you about why the CXR Foundation and why you decided this was a nonprofit that you wanted to lean into and really get involved with.

Celeste Luzadder, Legal Zoom 2:59Yeah, well, thanks for asking. And I'm, I'm humbled to be a part of this work because being a part of a nonprofit that is near and dear to the work that you do, but also to the values that you try to live and breathe is is nice that they're combined, right? Helping people in the talent community is really powerful. And the way that we do it, I think looks and feels differently to everybody. You know, you shared a little bit about the charitable work which CXR Cares which I love. You also I think the the beauty of recruiting recruiters recruiting no wrong

Chris Hoyt 3:38Still close

Celeste Luzadder, Legal Zoom 3:39Recruiters recruiting recruiters.com There you go.