Judy Atwell – Patriotic Moment- Having trouble with the Zoom connection

Warren Wimer takes over for Pledge of Allegiance

Bob Muschek - Prayer

Pray for the people suffering from virus, people who are without homes, people who have lost their jobs, families with children at home due to school closures. We pray for our scientists to continue their work on cures and vaccines and our leaders to lead with wisdom to solve the problems facing our nations.

Visitors:

Zoot has some feline visitors – Princess Peppercorn and Honey Biscuits (new kittens)

Marty Burbank – Finemaster

Bob Jahncke – Susan’s birthday is mismatched on the website. Bob does not accept responsibility for member's mis-information.

Dan Ouweleen – skydiving from 14k feet for his bday; gets out of his fine by recognizing Jim Williams and gives brief commercial for Williams Insurance. Jim recognizes Travis McShane for his financial planning work at Eclectic Associates and Jim Ripley for his work at RAI Wealth. Travis gets out of his fine by recognizing Joe Lins and the great work he does in the community over at Century 21.

Zoot Velasco introduces our speaker Meymuna Hussein-Cattan

Came here as a refugee from Ethiopia.

Her socially conscious business is: Flavors from Afar

- event catering service serving LA and Orange County providing cultural foods.

- hires refugee chefs from across the globe (Afghanistan, Belize, Guatemala…and many more)

- opened first restaurant in March in Little Ethiopia near LA.

- provides on the job training to chefs so they can go out and launch their own catering services

- Provides full service catering (outdoor only during Covid) as well as drop-off catering.

- Lots of programming around youth programs and job placement.

- Won $50k from OCCF last year to get going.

- Culture of fear towards asylum seekers get broken down through medium of food.

- Zoot putting Meymuna in touch with Carut

- Jim Williams questions – One of Meymuna’s biggest mentors Freddie Maker – Business Professor at USC. Helped her think through how to find customers aligned with her values.

To contact: meymuna@tiyya.org

Keep prices below $40 per person.

Meymuna’s Story-

Born Ethiopia/Kenya/Somalia area. In 1970s, a violent coup took place and families fled the area.

Her parents emigrated to the US through San Diego.

Grew up in Orange County. OCC to UCI to Antioch for education.

Prior to 2010, it wasn’t a bipartisan issue to work with refugees, but there is still a lot of support on the ground for our cause which she is very passionate about.

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