>> THE NEXT TIME YOU GO THROUGH YOUR CLOSET AND THINK ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR OLD, UNWANTED SHOES, THINK ABOUT MAUREEN
LEISURE. SHE'S A HOOSIER WITH TIES TO GREENFIELD AND RUSHVILLE WHO, AFTER WATCHING A NEWS STORY
ABOUT CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN SUFFERING BECAUSE THEY HAD NO SHOES, DECIDED THAT WAS GOING TO CHANGE.
MAUREEN CREATED THE NONPROFIT CHANGING FOOTPRINTS. THE MISSION? TO COLLECT QUALITY USED SHOES
AND REDISTRIBUTE THEM TO THOSE SO FAR SHE AND ALSO OUR NEXT GUEST HAVE DISTRIBUTED MORE THAN 400,000 PAIRS OF SHOES.
FOR MORE ON CHANGING FOOTPRINTS, I'M PLEASED TO BE JOINED BY THE NON-PROFITS, BOARD PRESIDENT BOB BROUGHTON AND ALSO VICE
PRESIDENT FOR SOUTH SIDE INDY, THAT UNIT, SCOTT SPLICHAL. GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO THE PROGRAM.
>> THANK YOU, GERRY. >> HEY, BOB, I WANT TO START WITH YOU. MENTIONED MAUREEN LEISURE.
17 YEARS AGO, THE TWO OF YOU DID HE SIDED¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ DECIDED TO CREATE CHANGING FOOTPRINTS AFTER WATCHING -- I
GUESS IT WAS A NEWS STORY ABOUT SOME CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN. TALK ABOUT THAT AND WHAT REALLY MOTIVATED THE TWO OF YOU TO
START THIS. >> WE WERE AT WORK ONE DAY TALKING ABOUT WANTING TO GIVE BACK AND SHE MENTIONED THE
PROGRAM AND HOW 40% OF FOOT WOUNDS IN AFGHANISTAN TURNED IN TO AMPUTATIONS, AND TOGETHER WE SAID WHY DON'T WE TRY AND DO
SOMETHING, AND IT JUST SPUN OFF FROM THERE. WE CAN COLLECT SHOES, WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THEM OVER
THERE. IT WAS A CHANCE TO GIVE OF OURSELVES WITHOUT JUST GIVING MONEY.
>> IT'S AN AMAZING STORY. AGAIN, 17 YEARS, AND IN THAT TIME PERIOD, YOU HAVE DISTRIBUTED MORE THAN 400,000
PAIRS OF SHOES. SCOTT, TALK ABOUT THE SETUP AND DISTRIBUTION. I KNOW YOU WORK WITH A LOT OF
CHURCHES AND GROUPS AND VARIOUS THINGS, BUT HOW DOES IT ALL WORK? 400,000 PAIRS OF SHOES, THAT'S A
LOT OF SHOES. >> YOU'RE RIGHT, GERRY, IT IS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE FIVE DIFFERENT SITES THAT WE COLLECT SHOES FROM
IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. EACH SITE MORE OR LESS OPERATES INDEPENDENTLY TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD OR THEIR
TOWN. RUSHVILLE AND GREENFIELD HAVE STOREFRONTS SINCE THEY'RE IN SMALL TOWNS, AND THEY ACTUALLY
HAVE STOREFRONTS SO PEOPLE CAN GO IN A COUPLE DAYS AND PICK OUT SHOES. SINCE WE'RE ALL VOLUNTEER, ONE
OF OUR VOLUNTEERS MOVED TO FORT WAYNE, AND THEY STARTED A CHANGING FOOTPRINTS THERE. AND WE HAVE TWO SITES IN
INDIANAPOLIS, NORTH INDY AND SOUTH INDY, WHERE I'M AT. AND BECAUSE OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS, WE ACTUALLY CAN'T HAVE
STOREFRONTS, SO WE WORK WITH GROUPS LIKE SALVATION ARMY, WHEELER MISSION, A LOT OF CHURCHES WHO HAVE MISSIONS,
PANTRIES, AND THAT TYPE OF STUFF HERE IN THE CITY, AND PEOPLE JUST FIND OUT ABOUT US AS WE GROW, OUR WORD GETS OUT THERE
AND THE NEED IS SO GREAT THAT PEOPLE FIND US. >> TRULY, THIS IS A 100% VOLUNTEER BASED 501(C)3, A
NON-PROFIT, BUT IN TERMS OF DISTRIBUTION, IT'S NOT ONLY ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. THIS IS AN ORGANIZATION WITH
GLOBAL REACH. >> ABSOLUTELY. YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN TO OVER 20 COUNTRIES.
WE HAVE ESPECIALLY CHURCHES, WE HAVE A LOT OF MISSIONS IN HAITI, AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICA, EUROPE, PARTICULARLY IN MY SITE, WE WORK
WITH LUTHERAN MINISTRIES, AND THEY SEND A LOT OF DISASTER RELIEF AND WE GET SHOES FROM NORTH INDY BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE
SHOES TO GO TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES IN THE QUANTITIES OF 3 AND 5,000 PAIRS AT A TIME. >> WOW.
BOB, AS WE ARE¶¶¶¶ WE WRAP UP, O IMAGINE 17 YEARS AGO YOU WERE COMMITTED TO THIS, BUT MAYBE HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WOULD GROW INTO.
AS YOU LOOK GOING FORWARD, WHERE CAN THIS GO? WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR 400,000 SHOES, WHERE WOULD YOU
LIKE TO SEE THIS GO? >> WELL, IN OUR PERFECT WORLD, THERE'S A CHAMPION IN EVERY TOWN THAT CAN FIND A WAY TO COLLECT
100 PAIRS OF SHOES AND AN ORGANIZATION IN THEIR TOWN THAT NEEDS THEM. EVERY COUPLE YEARS, WE OPEN UP A
NEW BRANCH. IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE PEOPLE FROM NEIGHBORING STATES CONTACT US AND SAY HOW DO WE DO THE SAME
THING? >> CHANGING FOOTPRINTS.ORG IS THE WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN CONNECT TO THIS VERY WORTHY
CAUSE. BOB BROUHTON, ALSO SCOTT SPLICHAL. THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING ON,
CONGRAT LAYINGS FOR THE IMPACT YOU'RE MAKING NOT ONLY IN INDIANA BUT ALL OVER THE WORLD. THANK YOU.
>> GREAT.