Episode Transcript
[00:00:07] Missy Martinez-Stone: This is Missy Martinez Stone, and you're listening to the centered podcast, where we have unifying conversations on the divisive subject of abortion.
Hello, and welcome to the centered podcast. I'm your host, Missy Martinez Stone. And today we. We are talking to a well known and well loved member of the pro life movement because he keeps us all caffeinated. The founder of Seven Weeks Coffee, and who also happens to be a board member of the center for Client Safety. It's Anton Krecic.
[00:00:51] Anton Krecic: Hey, Missy, thanks for having me on. Appreciate it.
[00:00:53] Missy Martinez-Stone: Hey, I am so excited. I've been looking forward to this for a long time, because I know we've been talking about this podcast for a long time, and you are always, you know, on my short list of people to have as soon as we started interviewing. So let's start from the beginning. You have this amazing business that you built from the ground up. Tell me how you came up with this idea of a pro life coffee company and specifically how you chose to name seven weeks coffee.
[00:01:29] Anton Krecic: Yeah. So it all started September of 2021. I had always had a passion for the pro life movement, and I love coffee, and I wanted to start a business. So all those things came together, and it was two weeks after I got married. I called my wife, and I said, hey, I have this idea to start. To start a pro life coffee company. What do you think? And she definitely was, you know, caught off guard. Cause, you know, we just got married and, you know, getting settled into life and a new routine.
But I told her this idea that I wanted to start a pro life coffee company with the mission to support pregnancy care centers and pro life organizations.
So the name. It's funny. Cause when I told her the idea, she inspired the name, and she asked the question, when is a baby the size of a coffee bean? So I look it up. At seven weeks, a baby is the size of a coffee bean. At the same time, a heartbeat's detected under ultrasound. And that's how we got the name. Seven Weeks Coffee, and the mission and the vision all came together right at the beginning because I knew I wanted to support local pregnancy care centers. And as you know, and I'm sure people listen to this, know, pregnancy care centers provide ultrasound services to moms. So that's why the heartbeats in our logo, that's how we get the name seven weeks coffee.
[00:02:39] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah, I love that. I didn't put that together, I think, until you told me, maybe a couple months ago. But it just makes perfect sense. And I love the visual, having that really tangible visual of the tiny coffee bean. Yeah. You know, it's. It's just. It's precious. It's precious. I love it. Your wife has great ideas.
[00:03:04] Anton Krecic: Yeah. She helps part the name, so I definitely owe her a lot of credit to this, you know.
[00:03:08] Missy Martinez-Stone: Well, we also have two other things in common, which is we both, you know, started new ventures during a global pandemic. So, you know, that comes with unique hurdles, and, you know, starting a business from the ground is already hard in and of itself, and then you add on to that, doing it during a global pandemic. But the thing that we have both been able to do, ua, seven weeks coffee, and us with the center for Client Safety, is that we've grown very quickly in the last few years, despite starting at, you know, not the most opportune time. And I know you have become a pretty well known figure in the pro life movement. Like, if I ever tell people, yeah, the seven weeks coffee guys on our board, they immediately know who I'm talking about, because you are, at every conference, you are connecting with people. So what do you think contributed to your success and being able to grow seven weeks coffee, especially in the context that you started it, you know, when. When things were really hard.
[00:04:19] Anton Krecic: Yeah, it's funny. So timing can be fortuitous, and it also can, you know, be a lot of different things affect it. But for us, I think there's a few things. One, there was. There was a clear need for businesses to come alongside, especially pro life values, but even, like, christian values or maybe more conservative values, because when we got started in 2021, it was right when there was a lot of, like, huge activism at giant corporations, like the target stuff. And just like, these really big stories in the news, where millions of consumers got alienated right away.
And so there was clearly a need to have businesses that align with people's shared values, especially pro life values. So that was a huge part of it. Secondly, it's our mission, I believe. I think good businesses and good missions should be transparent, they should be open, and they should present what they're doing just clearly to the consumer. That's what we try to do, which is, for us, is donate 10% of every sale to pregnancy care centers across the nation. So when we got started, that was the offer. We were like, we're going to provide and source the best coffee that is much better than your average cup of Starbucks or Dunkin donuts. And we're going to have this amazing impact with it. So consumers really adapted to us quickly. In that first month, we sold $8,000 worth of coffee and dropped off our check for dollar 800. We took a picture of it. We posted it. We said here's the impact you had because you drank our coffee. And it just grew from there contagiously. Now we've been able to raise over $350,000 support over 850 centers. All that is just because we have the same exact mission. Staying true to what we started with. Presenting consumers with like, hey, we're going to be an alternative for you. If you're pro life and love coffee you know, consider giving us the try. And that really sparked a lot of initial growth and support.
[00:06:05] Missy Martinez-Stone: You look attention to you that grow which that comes down to the business acumen of being able to identify what those needs are.
Because you know when we started I said I'm not interested in just starting another pro life organization for the sake of starting a pro life organization. I was very, very adamant that we were only going to do this if we were actually solving a problem.
You know, I didn't want to be redundant.
If someone was already doing it and doing it well then more power to you go do it. But then when we did kind of an audit of the movement and what services were being offered, we saw that gap. And I feel like you had a similar approach of, you know, you looked at the movie, didn't you, like Google Pro life coffee?
[00:07:00] Anton Krecic: Yeah, I did. So when I had the idea, I literally googled pro life coffee thinking there'd be like something there or someone marketing in this way. And nothing came up. I was literally shocked. And it's like, how is there no one doing this? And really what I had the idea was like, how is there no one using, you know, coffee as a tool to help support the pro life movement, which is what we've really turned into. Like we are on a mission to fund the pro life movement one cup of coffee at a time. Like that's what our mission has turned into. And so we're not asking for like, for donations. We're saying if you just drink our coffee we'll make this impact. Right. And yeah.
[00:07:34] Missy Martinez-Stone: You're drinking coffee anyway. Exactly.
[00:07:36] Anton Krecic: You're drinking coffee anyway. So why not, you know, drink Seven Weeks?
[00:07:39] Missy Martinez-Stone: Why not do coffee that's making. Yeah, yeah, I love it.
[00:07:43] Anton Krecic: Exactly.
[00:07:43] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah.
[00:07:44] Anton Krecic: And that's so important. And that's why I love being a part of Center for Client Safety too, is like, yeah, it's important to find needs. Like be specific of what those are. But once you fill those gaps, it's amazing how much people realize that gap is there. And they come and support and come alongside and press into it. So, yeah, I can definitely relate with that.
[00:08:03] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. So that leads me right into my next question. I'm glad you said that, because we met at the sidewalk advocates for life conference last year. We love working with Sidewalk advocates. We sponsored that conference, and I believe you did as well. You know, you're at every conference, right. And our mutual friend Alison Howard Centofante, who is our board chair, knew we were both there and texted us separately and said, you guys need to connect. And we had a great conversation. And then, you know, three months later, I roped you into being a board member.
But tell me, you know, in those initial conversations and then in your decision to join as a board, like, what was it about the center for client safety that resonated with you, that made you want to. I mean, you're busy. You've got a lot going on. You're running this big company. What made you want to invest your time and expertise in our work?
[00:08:55] Anton Krecic: Yeah, well, it's funny because it goes back to what we talked about. It's like, just relating to that startup feel. I love the idea of innovation and new ideas, especially within the pro life space. And I'd say both of our organizations are kind of innovative in the pro life space. And so when we got to meet and hear your story, and for me, it was like, I've been around pro life stuff for a couple years now. I've pretty much heard a lot about a lot of, I love all the organizations out there, but I haven't heard someone doing what you guys were doing. So that's what was so intriguing, is like, okay, this is a unique way to help defend life in investigating, reporting and what you guys are doing, et cetera, for client safety. So I just was drawn into that aspect of it's new, it's innovative, and, yeah, I'm happy, you know, I'm really excited to be a part of it because I think there's a huge future and there's even larger of a need that we're discovering, obviously, as we have learned more and more, that there's a lot more need of enforcement and help right. In the, you know, abortion realm. So, yeah, I love the innovation, for sure.
[00:09:57] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. So we, you know, our annual report came out two or three months ago, and the title of it was pro life innovation in a post real world. Because, you know, now more than ever, with a completely different landscape that we've had for 50 years, we have to innovate, we have to change our strategy. You know, what worked in a world where Roe versus Wade was the law of the land, just simply a lot of these strategies just don't work anymore, because overturning Roe versus Wade just changed so many factors. And I think the pro life movement as a whole is really having to grapple with that change and adjust. And it's hard. We're having a lot of hard conversations. But really, our big push this year is even having a webinar tonight with our other board member, John Gibson, about being innovative, being bold, brave and innovative, and why you need those innovative strategies now more than ever. And I think that's something that I love about what we do. I love that about what you do, is that it's creative thinking. It's looking at, okay, where are we? What are we doing?
How do we creatively solve these problems?
Innovative is the word for 2023.
[00:11:18] Anton Krecic: You know, I realize, Missy, I think good businesses or good startups, like, they make roles or tasks easier, they simplify a solution, or they're a painkiller, essentially. So for you guys, it's, you know, for center for client safety, you are helping solve a pain point in the movie. And that, you know, everyone flocks to that. For us, it's, you know, there's a pain point in fundraising and financial support. So we donate to hundreds of centers. So it's a no brainer for organizations for life, organizations to partner with us because we're solving a pain point. But I think that's a great thing. I mean, if anyone's listening and thinking of starting an organization, find something that solves a pain point. And usually you're sitting on a winning idea.
[00:11:56] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. Honestly, I thought you were going to say we are solving the pain point of, like, caffeine headaches of, like, that's you waking up tired and your coffee is just showing up at your door. You don't have to think about it. But your answer was yes. Was much better.
Everybody. Yes. The pain point is funding is, you know, all of these amazing missions. We are always looking for supporters. We need those partners, and you provide that, and that's great.
I want to specifically kind of move more into the overarching theme of this podcast, and that is connecting. It's unifying, it's building bridges. And after getting to know you over the last couple months, I can confidently say that you are a connector. You are constantly networking and building relationships. You have a very engaging and welcoming aspect. And, I mean, you don't grow a company like you did without connecting with people and if I'm not mistaken, your background is in, like, marketing and communication, which is all about engaging people and bringing people in. So give us some ideas of how you make sure that you are connecting with the people that you're meeting and selling your coffee to.
[00:13:18] Anton Krecic: Yeah, I think, first of all, it starts with a personal conviction and personal viewpoint I call the worldview.
You can start a business for a lot of different reasons, for money, for fame, for independence, but the most important thing is to do something you personally believe in. And once you have that conviction, you're really going to be able to genuinely build relationships. And so for us, I mean, we go to seven, eight conferences a year. You know, we travel a lot. We're always meeting with people because it's our joy, it's our pleasure to meet and connect with people in the pro life space. It's something I enjoy doing is talking with people, getting to know people personally. And that's really where it starts. But you have that personal conviction worldview. For me, it's wanting to help defend life and be a resource for that and connect people within the pro life space.
I think that's something I'm just naturally gifted at, just connecting people and just building relationships. But it just starts with a personal, you know, conviction. And once you have that, it's just. It's kind of easy in the sense, because you genuinely want to get to know people. You genuinely want to hear their story. And that's what we definitely am more of in the pro life space. We need.
We need unity in that.
[00:14:31] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. Yeah. Because I was having a kind of a funny conversation with some other pro life leaders and we were all kind of joking about, like, being a little more introverted, you know, not. We were all leaders of our prospective organizations, but it wasn't, it's not exactly like, where we thrive. Like, we thrive in the more behind the scenes and that everybody was always so surprised to find out that we are more introverted and don't like being in the spotlight. And it's harder to be a little more social and connecting because when you get us talking about the thing that we are passionate about, oh, you know, we can talk all day, you know. And so I see that in our own work is like, when people see the passion of our team, the passion of our board, it's infectious, you know, and people like being a part of something that is meaningful and making a difference, you know? And when you can clearly lay out, like, this is the problem and this is how we are solving it, you know, people, people like that.
[00:15:38] Anton Krecic: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:15:39] Missy Martinez-Stone: You know, you're mostly talking about coffee, right? Which pretty much everyone likes, unless you are a unicorn. Like my husband, who does not drink coffee. He drinks tea, which is fine. We do not judge him, but he does not like the taste of coffee.
[00:15:55] Anton Krecic: I'll judge him a little bit.
[00:15:56] Missy Martinez-Stone: I know you judge him a little bit. So you're talking mostly about coffee again, which everyone likes. However, the subject of abortion is notoriously divisive. And I said in our first episode, it brings out our strongest feelings, our deepest grief, our hottest anger of truly our worst selves. So how do we, as a movement, as individuals in this movement, overcome, like, this huge emotional barrier and still connect with people?
[00:16:34] Anton Krecic: Yeah. So there's a few things to that. One, there is always going to be some type of friction there, right? There's always those who will intentionally fight, argue, no matter what. So I think it's acknowledging that that'll always be a part of it. But there's a huge chunk in the middle that are just undecided or unsure or haven't really thought it through. And so that's where I think it's incredibly important find the way to approach. So, like, you could think of middle ground as example, but I'd say it's more of a way to approach a conversation, how to ask certain questions, how to get people thinking about it. I don't think necessarily those who haven't really formed an opinion, it's right to just berate them or to yell at them or to try to basically show any graphic image that you can to scare them into it. You want people to come to a rational belief and a personal conviction on it. And so, yeah, I like starting from a human rights perspective. Like, when do you believe life begins?
Do you believe it's intentionally wrong to take the life of an innocent human being? Walk that back? When do you believe that your life began? Or do you have kids? I think that's a great question, asking if they have children. If someone has children, just bringing people to the humanity of, obviously the child is in the womb is where I'd like to phrase the conversation. And then just advocate from, like, that human rights perspective, or just like, I believe that, like, you are special, you're divinely created, like, you have worth. And I don't believe that your life should be optional. I believe you have a right to your own life. And that's where we a really good middle ground to start from. So I think anyone in the pro life space, I think one of the most important things is just finding your way to approach the conversation with people who, you know, haven't, you know, come to the same pro life worldview as ours. And obviously, it's hard, but I think that's the way we win people over.
[00:18:30] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah, I, you know, I was at student traffic America for about six years, and part of that, part of my job, you know, is going on these campuses. And I was. The whole point was to get people in conversations about abortion.
[00:18:45] Anton Krecic: Yeah.
[00:18:45] Missy Martinez-Stone: And I was in countless situations where I was talking to somebody who did not agree with me on abortion. Sometimes it was hostile, but sometimes it was more like, you know, the genuinely inquisitive.
But I found, like, always trying to take the position of, I'm not trying to defend myself or my views, but I was more of, like, offering them and especially focusing on things that we agree on. Agree on. Like, I think what you were saying is, like, the human rights, the humanity. I would be like, this is hard.
Like, this is a complicated subject. Like, it is devastating when women feel powerless because it's affirming what they feel and, and what's driving them to take these more, you know, pro abortion views. They're just going the opposite direction. Right. Whereas we go this way, they go that way. But, like, we both agree, like, this is hard and complicated, and it's devastating for women to feel powerless. So it's affirming what they feel. But then also, like, makes me human to them, you know, like, when they go, like, oh, this isn't like a cold, heartless pro lifer who doesn't care.
And, and I'm sincere in what I'm sharing. I'm not sharing it because I know, like, it's a good apologetics tool.
You know, I think people can sense my sincerity, and, like, that goes a really long way. But it really was like, where can we. How can we bring our position to them? Like, bring your worldview, bring this humanity. Ask these questions in a way that, that sparks genuine conversation and an inquisitive nature as opposed to just defend, defend, defend, defend. You know what I mean?
[00:20:39] Anton Krecic: Yeah, I totally agree. It's really about sparking the inner conscious of someone to think about it, to stop. And again, when you're trying to convince someone, you're not going to get there by convincing them, you're going to get there by having them come to an understanding, a viewpoint personally. And there's a tactfulness to it, for sure, but, yeah, there's. And then the other side of that that are vehemently opposed to life, that they will defend abortion 24/7 on demand. And that's just a part of cultures, you know, I think it's part of a fallen world. It's a broken heart. And I think that's just like where personal resilience is important as well. You're not going to convince everyone that's, that's also part of it.
[00:21:24] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. And I honestly, like, even now I pick my battles, you know, it's like I knew when I was talking to the person who was like genuinely trying to figure out what they believe and consider versus when I was talking to the crusader who was just trying to make a point and wasn't actually interested, like, you know, who those people are. And honestly, I would kind of just like, let the crusader go and would focus my time on, like, are you, are you genuinely curious and like, let's have a conversation. And, you know, those are the ones that I found were the most productive.
You know, there are some people, you.
[00:22:11] Anton Krecic: Have to pick your battles in a sense. Yeah, there's, there's no, yeah, you can't win, win every heart and mind and nor should you. I think that's, you know, just the bigger picture of, you know, hopefully as a culture, as we start to start to win over the culture and the pro life worldview over time, it will phase out and, you know, hopefully just be a cultural norm to support life and that will be a good thing.
[00:22:36] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. Right, right. Hopefully we get to the point where abortion is obsolete. You know, that's my, my hope is that.
[00:22:46] Anton Krecic: Absolutely.
[00:22:47] Missy Martinez-Stone: Build a culture of life that is so supportive of families and pregnant and parenting mothers and, you know, that, like, no woman ever feels the need. Right. But there's a lot of stuff you gotta do to get there and then that's where again, we can find things that maybe, you know, we agree on.
[00:23:06] Anton Krecic: Absolutely.
[00:23:07] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah, I, my hope is that, you know, as we have more conversations and bring people onto this podcast, it just inspires that connection.
Instead of villainizing everybody or, you know, making the people who are genuinely trying to figure out what they believe, like the bad guys, like, let's engage in productive, helpful conversations. Absolutely.
[00:23:33] Anton Krecic: I like to see it as incrementalism. Like, I'm 100% for life. I will take any victory that marches us towards a more pro life worldview. And I think that's an important thing.
[00:23:45] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yes. Love it. I love it. I've never thought about it because I think of incrementalism in the sense of legislation, but you're totally right. This is almost like cultural incrementalism.
[00:23:56] Anton Krecic: Yeah, I mean, there's a part of it. I think it's from policy. So from legislative policy to how we win people over. Like, I want to advance the flag in the right direction here, and we take whatever victory we can and keep moving on.
[00:24:12] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah, that's awesome. All right, so before we get into the last stuff, I do want to make sure we take a chance to highlight the amazing work that seven weeks does to support pro life organizations. So you said you donated, what, $350,000?
[00:24:30] Anton Krecic: Yeah, about that.
[00:24:31] Missy Martinez-Stone: How many pregnancy centers and pro life organizations?
[00:24:34] Anton Krecic: I think there's over 850 that are signed up to receive or partner with us at this point.
[00:24:39] Missy Martinez-Stone: So tell me about the partnership program.
[00:24:42] Anton Krecic: Yeah, it's pretty simple. So any pro life organization can sign up. It's on our website under the partner with us tab at the bottom. It explains more how it works if you are a pro life organization or a pregnancy center, but essentially is it gives you a cash grant during the month of your choosing. It also gives you access to our affiliate program where you can share with friends and family, and 15% of every sale goes back to your organization. So what's really cool is a lot of local centers share this with their friends and family. They drink coffee, and they know that their local coffee order is not just, their coffee order is not just supporting life, it's supporting life at their local center. So it's pretty powerful, and it's a really good way to engage your local community. So any pro life organization can sign up and join us. We also give a lot of free coffee away for gifts, raffles.
[00:25:26] Missy Martinez-Stone: That's a great idea.
[00:25:27] Anton Krecic: Yeah, we like to give it away, too, because people love it as a gift.
[00:25:30] Missy Martinez-Stone: Everybody wants a bag of coffee. I mean, that's just like, so simple. It's so simple. So the center for Client Safety, we have our partnership link. We put our link in the show notes. So if you ever want to purchase, if you're listening and you want to purchase coffee and want 15% of the sale to go to us, you can do that. So you can look in our show notes for that. But I just think that's such an easy way for these pregnancy centers. Pro life organizations. Like I said, they're buying coffee anyway. They're drinking coffee anyway.
Why not accomplish two things at once? Absolutely. Which is, you know, get your coffee and then also donate to a local life saving organization of your choice. Absolutely.
[00:26:19] Anton Krecic: Drink coffee, save lives. That's. That's the goal.
[00:26:22] Missy Martinez-Stone: I love that. Wait, so your official, your official, like, mission is to fund the pro life movement. One cup of coffee at a time.
[00:26:30] Anton Krecic: Yeah, I'd say that's kind of our vision statement.
[00:26:32] Missy Martinez-Stone: Vision. Okay.
[00:26:33] Anton Krecic: Yeah.
[00:26:33] Missy Martinez-Stone: Okay. I love that. I love it. So what? I'm trying to think. So how many, how many cups of coffee do we need to sell?
[00:26:41] Anton Krecic: A lot more.
We're just getting started.
[00:26:45] Missy Martinez-Stone: Okay.
[00:26:46] Anton Krecic: But we'll get there.
[00:26:47] Missy Martinez-Stone: What's your goal for next year? So. Well, let's see. So this year, where are you trying to hit this year?
[00:26:53] Anton Krecic: I think we'd like to. So I think we'd like to get close to over five this year alone donated. So we'll be close to hopefully just in over a year closing on that million dollars donated, which would be awesome. I think that'll be. We'll have a celebration for that when we get there.
[00:27:11] Missy Martinez-Stone: So where can people find you? You've got. I know you mentioned you were just in.
[00:27:16] Anton Krecic: Yeah, we went to international.
[00:27:18] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. Yeah. I'm assuming you got lots of.
[00:27:22] Anton Krecic: Met a ton of groups. We're going to other pro life conferences. We'll be at the celebration for Life weekend. We'll be at Carenet will be at a few more, but anyone can order coffee just on our website. Seven weeks coffee.
[00:27:33] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. So you'll be there in June? We'll be there in June.
[00:27:36] Anton Krecic: Great.
[00:27:37] Missy Martinez-Stone: We're actually sponsors of this national life. What is it? I can't even say it.
[00:27:42] Anton Krecic: Celebration of life.
[00:27:43] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah, celebration life. I know I'm a sponsor and I can't even say the name of the conference, so myself and Gavin will be there. I'm actually speaking on the main stage on Friday on partnerships of all things. Are you sensing a theme? Are you sensing a theme of what? People like me to talk about something that's desperately needed in the pro life movement.
Me and Lauren and I think Jor-El are speaking on Friday afternoon on the main stage. So if you're interested in knowing more about seven weeks coffee, you're going to be there. They can come see you. What are they getting when they come see you at your.
[00:28:17] Anton Krecic: Yeah, we'll have a booth. We'll be selling coffee. We're actually, we're serving it. If you're doing coming to the dinner, the gala, we're be serving your first guest there. So we're doing that.
Yeah. Love to meet you. Talk more about, you know, if you're a pro life organization, supporting you guys with our partnership program and. Yeah, just meeting people and networking and providing some good coffee.
[00:28:40] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. So registration is open, but I know it's filling up really quickly. I think some of the hotel blocks are already starting to sell out. So I know, I'm really excited because it's becoming, it's like the weekend anniversary of Dobbs, the Dobbs decision. And so many of the national groups are really looking at making this like our big celebration, pro life weekend of the year. Right. And so I think a lot of people are going to be there. So if you're listening and you haven't registered yet and you want to go, make sure you go to celebrate life conference.com to register.
And again, I think it's filling up very quickly.
[00:29:28] Anton Krecic: Yeah. Excited to be there.
[00:29:30] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah, I'm really excited. All right. Before we close out, we are doing a segment that with all of our guests called off the clock. I answered my own question last week and talked about gardening. I want to know what you're doing when you're not building a successful coffee company or, you know, helping lead center for client safety as a board member. So what, what is your favorite hobby right now?
[00:29:54] Anton Krecic: Yeah. Well, I'll start with this. This is something that's a really good challenge for me because starting at your own company, it's very time consuming, and I work from home in our spare bedroom. So quite literally my life can be dedicated to my job, which is. I'm sure you can relate.
[00:30:11] Missy Martinez-Stone: I don't know what that's like at all. What are you talking about?
[00:30:14] Anton Krecic: Yeah, exactly. Right. It's easy to close your laptop. No, it's not. It's hard to do that. And something I'm definitely working on.
So for me, I really try to prioritize closing my laptop around 05:00 I do a few things. I love to go on walks with my wife around our pond. We play with our dog outside. And I'm a big golfer, so I try to play golf at least once a week. Get out there.
[00:30:37] Missy Martinez-Stone: That's right.
[00:30:38] Anton Krecic: Yeah. I played competitively growing up.
It's always been a passion of mine. And it's, it's nice because I enjoyed it. Just unplugging, it's like one of the one things I can just put my phone away, unplug, get outside, get some sunshine.
Basically anything outside is what you want to do because that's my advice for everyone else. If you need some looking for some hobby, just pick something outside because that's the best for your health.
[00:31:02] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yes, that's why I pick gardening, because I'm touching the ground, I'm in the dirt. It's grounding me. It's giving me.
Absolutely.
[00:31:13] Anton Krecic: Yeah.
[00:31:13] Missy Martinez-Stone: Beautiful things, you know, so I love that my dad and my brother are big golfers, so I grew up just right. I drove the golf cart. My dad did try one time to get me into, like, a golf class when I was in junior high, because he was like, please, like, I would love for you. And I was like, no, it's not for me, man.
But I would happily drive the cart around and just sit. It's fun.
[00:31:39] Anton Krecic: Yeah, it is relaxing. Yeah, no, I totally hear you. It's definitely a great. It's always been a passion of mine, and it's a great way to just unwind, unpack and recharge. I think that's important. You gotta. I read a story a while ago. It was like, just like some. It was like some book on, like, just wisdom. And it was the story on the starving baker. So the guy was always feeding people. So he had a bake shop. He was always feeding, feeding, feeding. Everyone would get full, but he was starving behind the counter. And that's easy to do when you're. You're doing your own business or kind of on your own, so make sure you get fed.
[00:32:14] Missy Martinez-Stone: Yeah. We have kind of stumbled on a family hobby together that's a little, kind of adjacent to that is Frisbee golf. Oh, nice. So there's a Frisbee golf course, actually, right next to a regular golf course, you know, about 15 minutes. And Goldie, my daughter, she's three and a half, loves to go with us, and she just traipses around the woods. It's like, it's kind of in a wooded area. And she collects acorns and, you know, all kinds of things while Erin and I are throwing frisbees. But we always have to stop when it comes up against the golf course because she wants to see the golfers. She loves watching them, like, actually hit the ball. But that has been really fun because it gets us outside as a family.
And Aaron and I are able to do something fun, a little competitive.
And then Goldie just, you know, loves exploring in the woods and digging in the dirt. So we did that on Sunday, and it was. It was very fun.
[00:33:13] Anton Krecic: That's awesome. That's important.
[00:33:14] Missy Martinez-Stone: So maybe that's your next one. After regular golf. You can go play some golf.
[00:33:18] Anton Krecic: I'll check it out.
[00:33:21] Missy Martinez-Stone: All right. Well, that is it for today. Thank you, Anton, so much for joining me and for all you've done to get the word out about center for client safety and for having this amazing idea to start a pro life coffee company. I know so much. So many people appreciate your work and have appreciated the donations that you have allowed them to have. I mean, I know it's making a huge impact. So thank you so much for joining me today and for being on the leadership team of the center for Client Safety.
[00:33:58] Anton Krecic: Well, thank you for having me on. It's a privilege to be a part of the team and can't wait to see what happens throughout the years as we both grow.
[00:34:05] Missy Martinez-Stone: All right, coming up, we will have our very own Vice President of Investigations, Christine Smith. Our followers don't get to see her often because she's busy investigating abortion facilities, writing complaints, chasing down bureaucrats. But I get to work with her every day and can confidently say she is a force. She'll give us an inside look about what goes into an investigation, and you absolutely won't want to miss it. For more information on the amazing work of the center for Client Safety, go to centerforclientsafety.org. Or you can visit us on socials. Center for Client Safety. You can also find me on socials at Missy Martinez-Stone, Stone, Anton. Where can they find you on social assistance?
[00:34:50] Anton Krecic: Yeah. So our business page is seven weeks coffee. You can find us there for any social media. You're on. We're at seven weeks coffee.
[00:34:59] Missy Martinez-Stone That's great. All right, see you next time.
