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a new section on cbsnews.com profiles people who are improving the world and changing the way we live and work the
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series begins with stories of women who combine their entrepreneurial spirit with a vision to make something work in
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a distinctly new way one story looks at a harlem bakery that does more than just
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put bread on the [Music] table here at Hopper kitchen we're like the United Nations of bread representing
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breads from around the world it trains lowincome minority and immigrant women to become
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Bakers we really focus on that population because there's often skill and talent that those women have that
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isn't being [Music] leverage I feel the door with my hand and at the end I can smell it I can eat
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it I can enjoy it and I can share this with everybody [Music] I was making all all my life but
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privately I was looking for an opportunity to do it also professionally it's a 9mon to a year training program
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we take women who have skill and interest and passion in the culinary arts but also the the physical strength
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and dexterity that's necessary to work in a commercial kitchen and we provide paid training majority of the time is
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spent on the floor like you would see here so people are baking breads that are then
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[Music] sold East Harlem is a perfect place for hot bread kitchen I mean East Harlem is a
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community where there's you know one of the highest unemployment rates in the city and a real need for the kind of
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training that we provide we teach you every single step in a professional weight how many grams
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in a pound it is essential for women who have limited English proficiency to know
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above basic kitchen English to get good jobs in the baking industry this is what
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I like the experience of bread and when this she is an amazing fit for the program cuz she knows she
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wants to be a baker every bread has his own unique style taste flavor and goodies for your
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body cbsnews.com digital reporter hea Cano co-h and produced this story right and I don't know but if I did the story
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I would have walked out there with like two bags of bread and a bagel in my mouth oh man it smells so good yeah I I
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bet um when I saw it what really sort of struck me was how you know here are these women making bread and there are
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women all over the world making bread for their families in the most rudimentary kitchens and these women are
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taking it to to the next level after they're finished this training program there's more to it absolutely basically
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the whole point jine Rodriguez the CEO and founder of of hot bread kitchen she started it to basically give them jobs
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in in this market in this industry so they can go on and they can work for her it's a 9mon to a year program and uh
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they can get hired through hot bread kitchen or they can go on and work at other bakeries across New York City yeah
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I love that idea they have the skills and the know how to take it to another level and and really make a lot of money
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I suppose um one of the other companies that you profile is called capture proof
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and when I saw this story I thought this is a no-brainer I can't believe that no
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one's thought of this before but tell us about this company so this is a company
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that's uh featured uh somebody else also did this story um on our uh series and it's essentially a digital platform that
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allows doctors to communicate with patients and to communicate with other doctors to triage and to keep in contact
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with their patients progress so it's a secure digital platform that essentially combines video photography with the
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medical field and um the woman who created it Megan Conroy really had this love for photography and she was a
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former pharmaceutical executive so she kind of combined the two and it came about in this very cool way that you'll
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find out in the piece yeah it's super cool I thought about how many times have I gone to the doctor and I say I swear
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to God 3 days ago it looked like this but I don't have a picture and I don't you know I don't have a recording and I
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have to describe it and this gives doctors a way to know exactly what was going on you know at the time of
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whatever you know um so Friday there'll be another installment yeah this this is
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a really cool piece rock paper robot that's the company it's it's crazy it's a it's woman who used to be an as or who
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is an astrophysicist she created this company a rock paper robot and essentially combines art Technology and
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Engineering into furn fure so she had this love for Design This Love for home decor and she wanted to create something
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that um was different that was unique so one of the pieces they make everything from shelves to tables to chandeliers
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and one of the pieces is a a float table and it's wood connected with magnets and
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it kind of just bounces and it's so cool it makes you look at you know something
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as simple or can be as simple as Furniture in a completely different way using your background and what you know
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well hea I look forward to that and the rest of the pieces to follow hea Cano digital reporter for cbsnews.com thank
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you thank you for more on those stories go to cbsnews.com and look for the changing lives section