On this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we speak with John Stetson, CEO of Stoner’s Pizza Joint. Learn about the great work John and Stoner’s Pizza Joint is doing to help the community during the COVID pandemic. We also discuss how Stoner’s Pizza Joint is helping dogs and cats find forever homes.

Serial Entrepreneur John Stetson, the owner of Stoner’s Pizza Joint Fort Lauderdale, has always been a pet lover. As a young child, his family worked with a local animal rescue to adopt his beloved bichon mix Max who was his dog for over 19 years. With that love of animals that was instilled by early years, he decided to reach out to the Humane Society of Broward County, and a partnership was born!

Each week over 500 flyers are included on pizza boxes to promote dogs, cats, and other pets currently available for adoption. In an effort to further promote #adoptdontshop, John generously offers a free year of pizza (1 large pizza per week) to anyone who adopts a pet from the flyer and sends in a picture.

Stoner’s Pizza Joint is best known for stepping up during the COVID-19 quarantine and committing to donate 10,000 pizza slices to those in need. What started as a need to help students who didn’t have lunch during quarantine, has since expanded to include medical staff, first responders, and families that are food insecure. They supported numerous organizations including, the Salvation Army, Broward Health, Peanut Butter & Jelly Project, Covenant House Florida, Arc Broward, Memorial Regional Hospital, Hope South Florida, FLITE Center, Broward County Public Schools, Mobile Pantry of Broward, to name a few.

This past election day, Stoner’s Pizza Joint gave away complimentary pizza at the ArtServe voting location. The hope was to encourage people to come out, enjoy some delicious pizza (socially distant of course), wait their turn if needed, and most importantly - VOTE. Pizza with its tasty dough and loaded with gooey cheese can bring people together.
Stoner’s Pizza Joint Fort Lauderdale is located at 1509 E Las Olas Blvd in Fort Lauderdale. Their menu offers an assortment of specialty pizzas, calzones, strombolis, sandwiches, hickory-smoked chicken wings made daily in-house, freshly prepared salads, and freshly baked desserts. The delivery and takeout focused concept features fresh, high-quality food prepared in-house daily, including proprietary recipes for the pizza dough, sauce, and cheese blend.

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Stoner’s Pizza Joint
https://stonerspizzajoint.com/


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On this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we speak with Drew DiAlberto, Ambassador for First Tee of Broward.. Learn about the great work Drew and First Tee is doing to help youth learn and grow through the game of golf. We also discuss how First Tee is helping veterans and what its like to play 100 holes of golf in a day..

First Tee enables kids and teens to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges by seamlessly integrating the game of golf with life skills. We provide active learning experiences that develop inner strength, self-confidence and resilience that kids can carry into everything they set out to accomplish.

First Tee of Broward
Andrew DiAlberto
https://firsttee.org/
https://www.facebook.com/firstteebroward
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On this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we speak with Barber Greg Young, Founder of the Backpack Barber Foundation. Learn about the great work Greg and Backpack Barber Foundation is doing to help those in our community experiencing homelessness. We also discuss the value of a haircut, hygiene supplies and having someone to talk to.

What we provide is not just free haircuts for the homeless, it’s also support and a conversation with the purpose of bringing hope and dignity back into their lives. A lot of people on the streets want to make a change and get their life back, but they feel invisible and hopeless. We want to be the difference makers. We are starting with our community in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, but we want to inspire people to be difference-makers in their own community and all around the world.

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In this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we speak with Chad Van Horn, Board Chairperson of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Broward County. Learn about the great work Chad and Big Brothers Big Sisters is doing to mentor youth in our community. We also discuss the benefits of mentorship and how you can get involved.

For more than 100 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. As the nation’s largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 6 through 18, in communities across the country. We develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of young people.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Broward
Chad Van Horn
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In this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we speak with Nathan Earl, Chairperson and CEO of Ark of Freedom Alliance. Learn about the great work Nathan is doing to to fight human trafficking in under served populations. We also discuss the Mathew C. White Resilience Fund and the Night on the Streets Festival.

WE COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING & CHILD EXPLOITATION THROUGH ADVOCACY, COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION AND COORDINATED DELIVERY OF EDUCATION, OUTREACH, HOUSING, CASE MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.
We specialize in mobilizing communities to prevent the trafficking of historically underserved groups, such as male, LGBTQ+ and youth of color experiencing homelessness, aging out of foster-care, substance dependence and / or criminal justice involvement.

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Nathan Earl
Chairperson and CEO
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In this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we have a very special co host, Gia Tutalo Mote of Forever Family we speak with Kenisha E. Anthony foster care advocate and author of Labeled: Ward of the State. Learn about the great work Kenisha is doing to help children in the foster care system. We also discuss how growing up a child in foster care affected her and how it is still affecting children today.

KENISHA E. ANTHONY is a first-generation college graduate, award-winning foster care advocate, and author. Known for being resilient and bold, she’s an outspoken activist utilizing her experiences to empower others. As a foster care visionary, she starred in the documentary, Foster Shock and has been featured on NPR and in the Miami Herald. Her eye-opening memoir, Labeled, is her debut.


Forever Family is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping children and teens in foster care find permanent, loving homes. Together with its sponsors and media partners, the organization focuses on raising awareness throughout communities about the struggles and misconceptions surrounding kids and teens in foster care, while connecting families with their local foster care agencies.

Kenisha E. Anthony
Labeled: Ward of the State
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Gia Tutaro Mote
Founder and CEO
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In this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we have a very special co host, Gia Tutalo Mote of Forever Family we speak with Julia Baird sister of the legendary Beatle John Lennon. Learn about the great work Julia and Strawberry Field is doing to train young people with learning difficulties. We also discuss how being a child in foster care affected John Lennon and how it is still affecting children today.

Strawberry Field and the original Victorian house were gifted to The Salvation Army in 1934. In 1936 it was opened as a children’s home for girls, later accepting boys. From then on, for nearly 70 years, it gave some of Liverpool’s most vulnerable children a refuge from turmoil and unhappiness – a safe, calm and spiritual home.
Remaining true to the tradition of giving young people every best chance to succeed in life, Strawberry Field is perpetuating this legacy of care and support through a new training hub for young people with learning difficulties and other barriers to employment. With a visitor exhibition exploring the site’s history and links to John Lennon, a café as well as gardens for spiritual reflection, the Strawberry Field site weaves together educational, cultural, heritage and spiritual elements in one site to continue inspiring future generations to come.

Forever Family is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping children and teens in foster care find permanent, loving homes. Together with its sponsors and media partners, the organization focuses on raising awareness throughout communities about the struggles and misconceptions surrounding kids and teens in foster care, while connecting families with their local foster care agencies.

Strawberry Field
Julia Baird
https://www.strawberryfieldliverpool.com/
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Gia Tutaro Mote
Founder and CEO
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In this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we speak with Kellie Nowell of the Nowell Family Foundation and Bradley's House. Learn about the great work Kellie and the Nowell Family Foundation is doing to fight addiction in the music industry. We also discuss Bradley’s House and the hit record the House that Bradley Built.

Inspired by late Sublime front man Bradley Nowell, the Nowell Family Foundation provides addiction recovery services to the music community through the combined strength of the industry and those who have been touched by the power of music.
The Nowell Family Foundation is raising funds to open Bradley’s House, a six-bed recovery facility that will provide treatment for people in the music industry with opiate addiction, regardless of their financial situation. The goal is to offer a top level of clinical care, including medical detox and the ability to treat the most acute cases, through nationwide partnerships.


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Kellie Nowell
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In this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we speak with Michael Wild of the American Cancer Society Real Men Wear Pink campaign. Learn about the great work Michael and the Real Men Wear Pink campaign are doing to help those battling cancer in our community. We also discuss the famous Pink Jacket and how you can get your name on it.

Real Men Wear Pink = Men Fighting Breast Cancer
Breast cancer affects everyone women and men. This distinguished group of community leaders is determined to raise awareness and money to support the American Cancer Society's mission and save more lives than ever before from breast cancer.
Every dollar raised helps the American Cancer Society save lives from breast cancer through early detection and prevention, innovative breast cancer research, and patient support. Thanks to the passion of our Real Men Wear Pink supporters, we're able to make a huge impact on the mission to end breast cancer.

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American Cancer Society Real Men Wear Pink
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In this episode of the Join Justin Podcast, we speak with Ian Welsch the Founder of the The Motivational Edge. Learn about the great work the Motivational Edge is doing to help underserved youth in our community. We also discuss how they are incorporating culturally relevant art in the children's everyday life.


The Motivational Edge is a Solutions Focused youth development organization that leverages culturally relevant arts and other platforms to engage, educate and empower young lives.

The Motivational Edge uses culturally relevant arts as a motivational platform to inspire youth toward academic achievement, increased self confidence and to build essential life skills. ME provides youth with a creative outlet for musical expression, while at the same time integrating components of literacy into its music programs. Success in school is a vital part of ME's mission, therefore, free tutoring is available for all youth, and is mandatory for students that want to participate in music and arts classes but are receiving a “C” or below in one or more core subjects in school. Using music as a motivational and learning platform, we impel students who are underachieving toward desperately needed academic instruction. The youth currently served by The Motivational Edge are walking testaments that music is an extremely powerful learning tool when integrated into the academic setting. Our unique programs integrate reading and writing skills with music instruction in innovative ways, which motivates and benefits our students. The Art of Creative Writing and Lyrical Expression includes a cutting edge writing component, which emphasizes different writing styles, types of poetry, and various forms of lyrical developments which improve performance in the classroom and on standardized tests. This also provides a rare and safe outlet for our under-resourced youth to positively express themselves, without being judged. ME also uses music as a therapeutic tool for youth on various levels of the autism spectr


The Motivational Edge
Ian Welsch
Founder and CEO
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