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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And thrilled to be joined from Gay Pelly by our
next guest. He knows something about what the Olympians are
going through now. Jeremy Bloom not only an Olympic competitor
and a CU football player, played in the NFL, and
now he's building companies. I mean, Jeremy, you're a very
impressive person. I don't know if you know this, Like,
(00:21):
I mean, you got a lot of stuff you've accomplished
for a young man.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I just don't like the sleep Mandy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
So.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Like, leave some for the rest of us. Dude, Okay,
leave something out there for the rest of us. Tell
my audience about your Olympics experience. You were young when
you were in the Olympics. You were sixteen years old
freestyle skier. I mean, what was that like?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, the year after my senior year of high school,
became a first time Olympian for Team USA. And it
was just so grateful in honor to wear the red,
white and blue at opening ceremonies and represent Team USA
as a teenager. And then my second Olympic I was
twenty four or no, I'm sorry, twenty three, so it
(01:04):
was a little bit more experienced and you know, but
it was an incredible career as a freestyle skier, bumps,
jumps and flips and all the sort of fun, dangerous stuff.
And grew up in the mountains of Colorado on the
best snow in the world, skiing and learning how to ski.
And it was just a great honor to represent Team USA.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But you didn't stop with just being an Olympian. I mean,
you know, why would you just stop there. You actually
played college football at CEU, played some in the NFL
before an injury took you out, and then you've moved
right from that into two major endeavors. You created a
nonprofit we're going to talk about here in a minute
because I think it's literally the coolest thing I've ever heard.
(01:44):
And you built a tech company and sold it. So
I want to ask you. I bring those things out
not to just dazzle people with your resume, but do
you believe that there's something in your personality that makes
you into the kind of person who is going to
try and be the best at whatever you do.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, I'm the youngest of three many and so for
the first decade of my life on planet Earth, I
lost at everything to my brother and sister.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, so I think a lot of.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
My drive and hunger and grit and resiliency was really
shaped at a pretty young age, you know, growing up
in a very competitive outdoor family. We were skiing and
biking and hiking. We you know, weren't watching TV unless
it was the Denver Broncos or it was the Olympics period,
like that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And so yeah, you know, I've been very driven my
whole life. I love chasing big goals.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I like to think of it as climbing different mountains,
whether it was football or skiing, or for profit or nonprofit.
And I get a great deal of, you know, sort
of meaning out of life pursuing those dreams.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
What is your favorite Summer Olympics sport? Because I'm gonna
guess that you're really drawn to the skiing sports in
the winter. But what do you love about the Summer Olympics.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, I loved and field. I love the one
hundred meter dash. I was so lucky to see Usain
boltwyin all three of his gold medals in the one
hundred meter dash at all the past Olympics, and so.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Obviously, Simone Biles, what she has done in what was
a really incredible comeback to think of a twenty seven
year old woman doing what she is doing in a
sport where a lot of people say, you peak at
seventeen eighteen. So I really appreciated that great form of greatness,
but more so than the event, Mandy, I love the
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human spirit at the Olympics. I think it's on full display.
I think it's a great unifier. The world comes together
and no matter what the sport, whether it be a
canoeing or rowing or shooting, is getting a lot of
attention right now. It's too great personalities in those two sports.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
O can wait?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
We got to talk about the Turkish guy because I
freaking love this guy.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
He shows up like everybody else.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
They come out, they got their laser eyeball cover thing whatever,
and they've got all this dude walks up in a
T shirt with his hand in his pocket and just
goes bam ba ba ba bam and he's on the
metal stands.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, silver player.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It's like, there's so many good stories in this Olympics
like that. And I don't know if you've been following
along Snoop Dogg, if you had a chance to see
Snoop at the Olympics. That was something I did not expect,
but I am enjoying immensely because, like you, he's just
a fan.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I got some funny caption about Snoop Dogg and it
said something to ex done of amazing transformation from one
of the best rappers of all time to America's favorite
grandpas at.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The Olympics, it's just.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Just classic and him showing up with different athletes on
you know, his his T shirts and jackets every different event.
It's it's been a lot of fun. Paris has done
an amazing job. I've been to every sort of Olympics
since Salt Lake City and Torino, and I tell you,
everything is really well organized over here and from a
(05:03):
fans perspective, which I get now, it's just really been
in incredible games.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Well, I wanted to ask you specifically about the Olympic.
Is there kind of an Olympic fraternity, Like, once you've
been in the Olympics, do you maintain those relationships throughout?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Is is it? You know, because I know guys in the.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
NFL they have that, like you have the NFL fraternity
where once you're in, you're in kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Are the Olympics the.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Same, without question. It's a brotherhood, it's a sisterhood. You know,
for the few of us who are so lucky enough
to become an Olympian, we know what everybody went through,
no matter what the sport is. You know the level
of sacrifice both physically, emotionally mentally that it takes to
just make an Olympic team.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And it's the great it's a great unifier.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And so when I meet people from other sports and
different walks of life, different generations, whether older or younger,
there's a sense of family family, you know, there's a
sense of familiarity that you don't find in everyday normal life.
So yeah, we stay in touch. We have a great
amount of respect for one another, and it is like
a fraternity or a sorority.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I have one friend from high school that participated in
the ninety two Games in Barcelona, and he married a
Hungarian gymnast from those games. So I was like, boy,
the Olympics really worked out for you, didn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
It'll be the first to say, yeah, it was the
best thing. Ever.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
When you watch something, are you watching an event and
you see an athlete, you know, get the yips or
stumble or falter.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Does it? Do you feel it?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Because you know what goes into all of these performances.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I was at swimming the other night and I saw
an athlete violate the fifteen meter rule, which I didn't
even know what it was, but basically, he stayed underwater
over fifteen meters when he dove in, and I guess
that's illegal. And it was so close they showed it
on the replay and it must have been a centimeter. Yeah,
And I saw the look on his face and I
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was devastated for him.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I don't know him.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I couldn't even tell you what country was at, but
sure you know, there is two very different sides of
the coin, so to say, at the Olympics, those that
reach the pinnacle and win the Olympic gold medal and
we love celebrating them or on the podium. And there's
those who train their entire life for this one moment
and make one little mistake and maybe they get a
(07:20):
second chance, but most likely they don't. And I think
that's the beauty of the Olympics, because it really is. Yes,
it's once every four years, but it's once every lifetime
for most of these as.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So the pressure is just all time high.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, it's I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I love the Olympics, and I realized there's been some
controversy about the opening ceremonies or some controversy about women's boxing,
and you know, there's a lot of people who are like,
boycott the games. No, I am all in because none
of that has anything to do with the athletes that
we're talking about right now, and I want to see
them compete.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
And how often do I get to watch humans do
steeple chase and horses do steeple chase.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
In the three day period. I mean, it's just this
is a glorious time. I love the Olympics. But I
want to talk with you, Jeremy bloom is my guest
about your nonprofit that has now been purchased by AARP,
Wishes of a Lifetime.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
What in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
First of all, I think this is amazing and I'm
going to tell people what it is in a second.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But what inspired this for you?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
What was the thing that made you say I want
to grant wishes for older people who have always wanted
to do this that or the other.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I grew up with two really incredible grandparents, and my
grandfather was actually the first person to ever teach me
how to ski at the age of three, and he
used to pack his pockets full of miniature sized candy
bars and throw them down the mountain, and if I
was good enough to ski and find them, I could
eat them. And so needless to say, I just I
loved skiing at a very young age thanks.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
To the genius and ingenuity of.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
My grandfather, who, by the way, through seventeen missions on
a B seventeen bomber of a World War two.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Just incredible, incredible human being.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And he worked four jobs from the ages of ten
to fifteen to just support his family because his father,
you know, took off on the family. So you know,
I loved my grandfather. His name was Jerry Bloom. I'm
actually named after him. And then my grandmother on my
mom's side lived with us in the first nineteen years
of my life and downstairs in my household. So I
loved my grandparents. I don't think that generation gets enough credit.
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I don't think we do enough for them. I don't
think we recognize their dreams nearly enough, or sometimes even
their existence in our country. And so wish of a
lifetime was really created to put them on top of
the podium, so to say, and give them a gold
medal by saying, hey, you're important to our society, you're
important to us, and we're an organization that's going to
grant your lifelong wish.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So what is it?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And let's roll, let's go make it happen. You know,
time isn't on any of our sides, especially that generation,
and so we aspired a grant as many wishes as
we possibly can across the country.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I was reminded I used to be a flight attendant
in my early twenties for Delta Airlines, and I was
reminded it was like nineteen ninety three and I had
a couple in old couple come on the plane and
they were dressed to the nines. Now this was already
the nineties, so people were wearing pajama pants on the plane.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
We had already gone.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Beyond where you got dressed up to fly, but they
were just absolutely decked out. They sat and coach we
moved them to first class. This was pre nine to eleven,
so we could do that. And they had been married
fifty seven years and when they got married, he promised
her that he would take her on an airplane flight
and something happened and they couldn't and that was her
(10:27):
first time on an airplane and they I mean they'd
been married for fifty seven years, and I was it
was such a joyful thing to be a part of,
and it was just I will never forget that for
the rest of my life.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
And that's what I thought of.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
What are some of the wishes that you guys have granted,
and what are some of the ones that you just
thought that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Well, I love that story, Thanks for sharing. We grant
a lot of first time experiences. We granted an incredible
wish to a very humble woman in Alabama who had
never seen the ocean and wished to go to the ocean.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
For the first time.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You think of this implicity of that wish, and we
took her to the ocean and her story went viral.
I think it was shared in one hundred and twenty countries. Wow,
because it was just she's such an incredible person. We
do a lot of first time skydiving wishes.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You might've been.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Jumping out of planes at nineties in their nineties, which
which we love to facilitate. But it's a lot of
reconnections in life. So hey, you know, we'll get a
wish that says, hey, I haven't seen my brother or
sister in fifteen twenty years, or you know I served
at this person in the army or the military.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You think we could reconnect after sixty years? Could you
help us find them?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And one of my favorite reconnection wishes was for three
sisters that all grew up in Kansas and they hadn't
seen each other over fifteen years. And the youngest who
wrote to us was one hundred and three years old
and the oldest was one hundred and nine.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
She connected these three centurion sisters all together in Connecticut
and they got to have two days together.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was just a really awesome wish.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I love this so much.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You sold the nonprofit to AARP and they're continuing to
do this. I put a link to that on the
blog today. I just think it's absolutely extraordinary. I mean, Jeremy,
you somebody just pointed out on the blog Molly Bloom
is your sister.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, so, Molly Bloom, the Poker Princesses is my sister.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
When are your parents going to write a parenting book
on how to start not know how to create, like,
go get our.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Children that are super smart.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I mean, does your brother, your other brother, feel like
he's left out because he hasn't you know, I don't
know what he's done.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Irony.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
The irony is my brother is the middle and he
is arguably the most successful out of all three of us.
He he's a cardiothoracic surgeon at Mass General and he
went to Harvard and he's just one of the sharpest
people you've ever met. And he's actually literally saving lives
as a cardiothoracic surgeon.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So it's funny you should ask that.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's probably the most one of the more calmon questions
we all get at this point. And so I asked
my dad to sort of put together his framework for parenting,
and I actually put it on my website Jeremy bloom
dot com. There's a tab that says parenting and you
can sort of read for you know, his framework and
my mom's framework of how they thought about raising us.
But yeah, really proud of both of my siblings. I
was honored, you know, to watch them be successful in
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different areas in their own right, and certainly proud of
all the great.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Work they're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Jeremy Bloom, You're just a super fascinating guy. And next
time you're back from the Olympics or world trotting and
want to come in and hang out, please do.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
This is a great conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And I put a link to Jeremy's website where you
can find those parenting tips. I also put a link
to Wish of a Lifetime if you have someone with
a wish. Isn't it interesting that the wishes I look
through some of the wishes earlier. They're never really about
about things to you know, they are about like having
an experience.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
It's very simple stuff too, It's.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Very it's often very simple stuff, but you're right, it's
not Hey, I've always wished for a Lamborghini or a Mercedes.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, material thing.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's always an experience, learning something new that they've always
wanted to do, or seeing somebody that's been meaningful to
their life that they haven't been able to reconnect with.
And I love it and it's been it's been a
wonderful journey.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And now we're affiliated with AARP.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I'm still the board chair and obviously really really involved
working with Joanne Jenkins and Scott Fish and the whole
team at AARP to roll our mission across the country
so we can grant more and more wishes. They've been
a wonderful partner.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Jeremy Bloom true joy. Do you have a book? You
need a book. You got to write a book. Everybody
writes a book.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Jeremy Well linked to it. It's called recalibrate the six
months ago or so.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You got to lead with the book. You lead with
what you're selling. You lead with that. You should know
that you got this. It's all fine, Jeremy. I appreciate
your time today.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Man, great to see you.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
All right, have fun.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Is there anybody have you got any like word on
the street about any like Olympians that we should be
watching for specifically that we haven't heard about.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
You probably heard about them, but Noel car Richardson. Yeah,
going for gold.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
They got a chance to both win, and we haven't
had a woman on the top of the hundred meter
podium for some time, so that that could be some
history of the making.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It seems like these games are going really well for
the women.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You got Katie Ledecki, you got the women's gymnastics team
that were just.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So so good, and so this is a good game
for the women.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
The men are doing so bad either, but the women
are really having some good games so far.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Women rugby team.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I don't think they've ever won a medal or it's
been a hundred years.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I mean, they were incredible to watch.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
They made me look up how to play rugby, like
not because I want to play it, but I was like,
what the heck are the rules of this game? So
my husband and I are looking at the rules of
rugby as we're watching the women's rugby team.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It was great, absolutely great, Jeremy, we'll.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Talk again sometime. I appreciate it, all right, thank you.
That is Jeremy Bloom
And thrilled to be joined from Gay Pelly by our
next guest. He knows something about what the Olympians are
going through now. Jeremy Bloom not only an Olympic competitor
and a CU football player, played in the NFL, and
now he's building companies. I mean, Jeremy, you're a very
impressive person. I don't know if you know this, Like,
(00:21):
I mean, you got a lot of stuff you've accomplished
for a young man.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I just don't like the sleep Mandy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
So.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Like, leave some for the rest of us. Dude, Okay,
leave something out there for the rest of us. Tell
my audience about your Olympics experience. You were young when
you were in the Olympics. You were sixteen years old
freestyle skier. I mean, what was that like?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, the year after my senior year of high school,
became a first time Olympian for Team USA. And it
was just so grateful in honor to wear the red,
white and blue at opening ceremonies and represent Team USA
as a teenager. And then my second Olympic I was
twenty four or no, I'm sorry, twenty three, so it
(01:04):
was a little bit more experienced and you know, but
it was an incredible career as a freestyle skier, bumps,
jumps and flips and all the sort of fun, dangerous stuff.
And grew up in the mountains of Colorado on the
best snow in the world, skiing and learning how to ski.
And it was just a great honor to represent Team USA.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But you didn't stop with just being an Olympian. I mean,
you know, why would you just stop there. You actually
played college football at CEU, played some in the NFL
before an injury took you out, and then you've moved
right from that into two major endeavors. You created a
nonprofit we're going to talk about here in a minute
because I think it's literally the coolest thing I've ever heard.
(01:44):
And you built a tech company and sold it. So
I want to ask you. I bring those things out
not to just dazzle people with your resume, but do
you believe that there's something in your personality that makes
you into the kind of person who is going to
try and be the best at whatever you do.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, I'm the youngest of three many and so for
the first decade of my life on planet Earth, I
lost at everything to my brother and sister.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You know, so I think a lot of.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
My drive and hunger and grit and resiliency was really
shaped at a pretty young age, you know, growing up
in a very competitive outdoor family. We were skiing and
biking and hiking. We you know, weren't watching TV unless
it was the Denver Broncos or it was the Olympics period,
like that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And so yeah, you know, I've been very driven my
whole life. I love chasing big goals.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I like to think of it as climbing different mountains,
whether it was football or skiing, or for profit or nonprofit.
And I get a great deal of, you know, sort
of meaning out of life pursuing those dreams.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
What is your favorite Summer Olympics sport? Because I'm gonna
guess that you're really drawn to the skiing sports in
the winter. But what do you love about the Summer Olympics.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, I loved and field. I love the one
hundred meter dash. I was so lucky to see Usain
boltwyin all three of his gold medals in the one
hundred meter dash at all the past Olympics, and so.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Obviously, Simone Biles, what she has done in what was
a really incredible comeback to think of a twenty seven
year old woman doing what she is doing in a
sport where a lot of people say, you peak at
seventeen eighteen. So I really appreciated that great form of greatness,
but more so than the event, Mandy, I love the
(03:38):
human spirit at the Olympics. I think it's on full display.
I think it's a great unifier. The world comes together
and no matter what the sport, whether it be a
canoeing or rowing or shooting, is getting a lot of
attention right now. It's too great personalities in those two sports.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
O can wait?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
We got to talk about the Turkish guy because I
freaking love this guy.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
He shows up like everybody else.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
They come out, they got their laser eyeball cover thing whatever,
and they've got all this dude walks up in a
T shirt with his hand in his pocket and just
goes bam ba ba ba bam and he's on the
metal stands.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, silver player.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It's like, there's so many good stories in this Olympics
like that. And I don't know if you've been following
along Snoop Dogg, if you had a chance to see
Snoop at the Olympics. That was something I did not expect,
but I am enjoying immensely because, like you, he's just
a fan.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I got some funny caption about Snoop Dogg and it
said something to ex done of amazing transformation from one
of the best rappers of all time to America's favorite
grandpas at.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The Olympics, it's just.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Just classic and him showing up with different athletes on
you know, his his T shirts and jackets every different event.
It's it's been a lot of fun. Paris has done
an amazing job. I've been to every sort of Olympics
since Salt Lake City and Torino, and I tell you,
everything is really well organized over here and from a
(05:03):
fans perspective, which I get now, it's just really been
in incredible games.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Well, I wanted to ask you specifically about the Olympic.
Is there kind of an Olympic fraternity, Like, once you've
been in the Olympics, do you maintain those relationships throughout?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Is is it? You know, because I know guys in the.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
NFL they have that, like you have the NFL fraternity
where once you're in, you're in kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Are the Olympics the.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Same, without question. It's a brotherhood, it's a sisterhood. You know,
for the few of us who are so lucky enough
to become an Olympian, we know what everybody went through,
no matter what the sport is. You know the level
of sacrifice both physically, emotionally mentally that it takes to
just make an Olympic team.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And it's the great it's a great unifier.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And so when I meet people from other sports and
different walks of life, different generations, whether older or younger,
there's a sense of family family, you know, there's a
sense of familiarity that you don't find in everyday normal life.
So yeah, we stay in touch. We have a great
amount of respect for one another, and it is like
a fraternity or a sorority.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I have one friend from high school that participated in
the ninety two Games in Barcelona, and he married a
Hungarian gymnast from those games. So I was like, boy,
the Olympics really worked out for you, didn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
It'll be the first to say, yeah, it was the
best thing. Ever.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
When you watch something, are you watching an event and
you see an athlete, you know, get the yips or
stumble or falter.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Does it? Do you feel it?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Because you know what goes into all of these performances.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I was at swimming the other night and I saw
an athlete violate the fifteen meter rule, which I didn't
even know what it was, but basically, he stayed underwater
over fifteen meters when he dove in, and I guess
that's illegal. And it was so close they showed it
on the replay and it must have been a centimeter. Yeah,
And I saw the look on his face and I
(06:58):
was devastated for him.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I don't know him.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I couldn't even tell you what country was at, but
sure you know, there is two very different sides of
the coin, so to say, at the Olympics, those that
reach the pinnacle and win the Olympic gold medal and
we love celebrating them or on the podium. And there's
those who train their entire life for this one moment
and make one little mistake and maybe they get a
(07:20):
second chance, but most likely they don't. And I think
that's the beauty of the Olympics, because it really is. Yes,
it's once every four years, but it's once every lifetime
for most of these as.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So the pressure is just all time high.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, it's I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I love the Olympics, and I realized there's been some
controversy about the opening ceremonies or some controversy about women's boxing,
and you know, there's a lot of people who are like,
boycott the games. No, I am all in because none
of that has anything to do with the athletes that
we're talking about right now, and I want to see
them compete.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
And how often do I get to watch humans do
steeple chase and horses do steeple chase.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
In the three day period. I mean, it's just this
is a glorious time. I love the Olympics. But I
want to talk with you, Jeremy bloom is my guest
about your nonprofit that has now been purchased by AARP,
Wishes of a Lifetime.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
What in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
First of all, I think this is amazing and I'm
going to tell people what it is in a second.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But what inspired this for you?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
What was the thing that made you say I want
to grant wishes for older people who have always wanted
to do this that or the other.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I grew up with two really incredible grandparents, and my
grandfather was actually the first person to ever teach me
how to ski at the age of three, and he
used to pack his pockets full of miniature sized candy
bars and throw them down the mountain, and if I
was good enough to ski and find them, I could
eat them. And so needless to say, I just I
loved skiing at a very young age thanks.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
To the genius and ingenuity of.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
My grandfather, who, by the way, through seventeen missions on
a B seventeen bomber of a World War two.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Just incredible, incredible human being.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
And he worked four jobs from the ages of ten
to fifteen to just support his family because his father,
you know, took off on the family. So you know,
I loved my grandfather. His name was Jerry Bloom. I'm
actually named after him. And then my grandmother on my
mom's side lived with us in the first nineteen years
of my life and downstairs in my household. So I
loved my grandparents. I don't think that generation gets enough credit.
(09:21):
I don't think we do enough for them. I don't
think we recognize their dreams nearly enough, or sometimes even
their existence in our country. And so wish of a
lifetime was really created to put them on top of
the podium, so to say, and give them a gold
medal by saying, hey, you're important to our society, you're
important to us, and we're an organization that's going to
grant your lifelong wish.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So what is it?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And let's roll, let's go make it happen. You know,
time isn't on any of our sides, especially that generation,
and so we aspired a grant as many wishes as
we possibly can across the country.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I was reminded I used to be a flight attendant
in my early twenties for Delta Airlines, and I was
reminded it was like nineteen ninety three and I had
a couple in old couple come on the plane and
they were dressed to the nines. Now this was already
the nineties, so people were wearing pajama pants on the plane.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
We had already gone.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Beyond where you got dressed up to fly, but they
were just absolutely decked out. They sat and coach we
moved them to first class. This was pre nine to eleven,
so we could do that. And they had been married
fifty seven years and when they got married, he promised
her that he would take her on an airplane flight
and something happened and they couldn't and that was her
(10:27):
first time on an airplane and they I mean they'd
been married for fifty seven years, and I was it
was such a joyful thing to be a part of,
and it was just I will never forget that for
the rest of my life.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
And that's what I thought of.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
What are some of the wishes that you guys have granted,
and what are some of the ones that you just
thought that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Well, I love that story, Thanks for sharing. We grant
a lot of first time experiences. We granted an incredible
wish to a very humble woman in Alabama who had
never seen the ocean and wished to go to the ocean.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
For the first time.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You think of this implicity of that wish, and we
took her to the ocean and her story went viral.
I think it was shared in one hundred and twenty countries. Wow,
because it was just she's such an incredible person. We
do a lot of first time skydiving wishes.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
You might've been.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Jumping out of planes at nineties in their nineties, which
which we love to facilitate. But it's a lot of
reconnections in life. So hey, you know, we'll get a
wish that says, hey, I haven't seen my brother or
sister in fifteen twenty years, or you know I served
at this person in the army or the military.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You think we could reconnect after sixty years? Could you
help us find them?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And one of my favorite reconnection wishes was for three
sisters that all grew up in Kansas and they hadn't
seen each other over fifteen years. And the youngest who
wrote to us was one hundred and three years old
and the oldest was one hundred and nine.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
She connected these three centurion sisters all together in Connecticut
and they got to have two days together.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It was just a really awesome wish.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I love this so much.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You sold the nonprofit to AARP and they're continuing to
do this. I put a link to that on the
blog today. I just think it's absolutely extraordinary. I mean, Jeremy,
you somebody just pointed out on the blog Molly Bloom
is your sister.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, so, Molly Bloom, the Poker Princesses is my sister.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
When are your parents going to write a parenting book
on how to start not know how to create, like,
go get our.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Children that are super smart.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I mean, does your brother, your other brother, feel like
he's left out because he hasn't you know, I don't
know what he's done.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Irony.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
The irony is my brother is the middle and he
is arguably the most successful out of all three of us.
He he's a cardiothoracic surgeon at Mass General and he
went to Harvard and he's just one of the sharpest
people you've ever met. And he's actually literally saving lives
as a cardiothoracic surgeon.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So it's funny you should ask that.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
That's probably the most one of the more calmon questions
we all get at this point. And so I asked
my dad to sort of put together his framework for parenting,
and I actually put it on my website Jeremy bloom
dot com. There's a tab that says parenting and you
can sort of read for you know, his framework and
my mom's framework of how they thought about raising us.
But yeah, really proud of both of my siblings. I
was honored, you know, to watch them be successful in
(13:18):
different areas in their own right, and certainly proud of
all the great.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Work they're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Jeremy Bloom, You're just a super fascinating guy. And next
time you're back from the Olympics or world trotting and
want to come in and hang out, please do.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
This is a great conversation.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And I put a link to Jeremy's website where you
can find those parenting tips. I also put a link
to Wish of a Lifetime if you have someone with
a wish. Isn't it interesting that the wishes I look
through some of the wishes earlier. They're never really about
about things to you know, they are about like having
an experience.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
It's very simple stuff too, It's.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Very it's often very simple stuff, but you're right, it's
not Hey, I've always wished for a Lamborghini or a Mercedes.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, material thing.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's always an experience, learning something new that they've always
wanted to do, or seeing somebody that's been meaningful to
their life that they haven't been able to reconnect with.
And I love it and it's been it's been a
wonderful journey.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And now we're affiliated with AARP.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I'm still the board chair and obviously really really involved
working with Joanne Jenkins and Scott Fish and the whole
team at AARP to roll our mission across the country
so we can grant more and more wishes. They've been
a wonderful partner.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Jeremy Bloom true joy. Do you have a book? You
need a book. You got to write a book. Everybody
writes a book.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Jeremy Well linked to it. It's called recalibrate the six
months ago or so.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You got to lead with the book. You lead with
what you're selling. You lead with that. You should know
that you got this. It's all fine, Jeremy. I appreciate
your time today.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Man, great to see you.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
All right, have fun.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Is there anybody have you got any like word on
the street about any like Olympians that we should be
watching for specifically that we haven't heard about.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
You probably heard about them, but Noel car Richardson. Yeah,
going for gold.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
They got a chance to both win, and we haven't
had a woman on the top of the hundred meter
podium for some time, so that that could be some
history of the making.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It seems like these games are going really well for
the women.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You got Katie Ledecki, you got the women's gymnastics team
that were just.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So so good, and so this is a good game
for the women.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
The men are doing so bad either, but the women
are really having some good games so far.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Women rugby team.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I don't think they've ever won a medal or it's
been a hundred years.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I mean, they were incredible to watch.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
They made me look up how to play rugby, like
not because I want to play it, but I was like,
what the heck are the rules of this game? So
my husband and I are looking at the rules of
rugby as we're watching the women's rugby team.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It was great, absolutely great, Jeremy, we'll.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Talk again sometime. I appreciate it, all right, thank you.
That is Jeremy Bloom
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