Kelsey Lewis, our Executive Director, was a recent guest on the Know Your Ship podcast. She spoke with host Frank Dolce, along with co-host Preston Cochrane, about the experience of building Friends - Utah.

She shares about her surprise when she first learned about our long-term mentoring model, our organization's history, and how Friends - Utah first came to be. They dig into the details of what it actually takes to run a relationship-based nonprofit at scale, from building a referral network and managing staff retention, to sustaining a model that pairs youth facing life's biggest challenges with full-time, paid professional mentors for 12+ years, no matter what.

Watch their full conversation: