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Rescue, Rehome, Repeat: The Lifesaving Efforts of Baypath Humane Society with Liz Jefferis (Ep. 20)

• Abbey Henderson, CFP®

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Behind every animal rescue is a story of passion, perseverance, and purpose. This one’s no different.

In this heartfelt episode, host Abbey Henderson, CFP®, CEO Wealth Advisor & Coach, sits down with Liz Jefferis, the Executive Director of Baypath Humane Society, about the incredible work they’re doing to rescue, rehome, and rehabilitate animals in need. Liz shares her journey from a career in financial services to leading one of Massachusetts’ most impactful animal shelters, driven by her love for animals and a desire to make a difference.

Together, they explore the growing challenges facing animal welfare, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how Baypath has adapted to increased pet surrenders and limited veterinary services. Liz also addresses common misconceptions about funding for local shelters, highlighting how community donations and partnerships are vital for their survival.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone passionate about animal welfare and community-driven philanthropy. Learn about Baypath’s long-term vision, including its ambitious capital campaign to build a state-of-the-art facility, and discover how you can make an impact.

Key Highlights:

  • Liz Jefferis’s inspiring career shift from finance to nonprofit animal rescue
  • Baypath Humane Society’s expanding mission, from local shelter to national rescue efforts
  • How COVID-19 affected pet care and surrender rates, and Baypath’s resilient response
  • The truth behind local humane society funding and the need for grassroots support
  • Baypath’s ongoing capital campaign to build a new facility for better medical care
  • Simple ways you can get involved: fostering, adopting, or volunteering to save animals
  • And much more!


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About Liz Jefferis:

Liz oversees the shelter’s operations and collaborates with the board and committee members on development initiatives and strategic planning. She holds a degree in economics from Smith College and has extensive experience in animal welfare, having volunteered at shelters in Colorado and Florida before joining Baypath Humane Society. She started volunteering at Baypath in 2010. After a year of volunteering, Liz left her career in financial services to join Baypath as a full-time assistant manager in 2011 and was promoted to Executive Director in 2014.

In her role, Liz works closely with the board on strategic planning, fundraising, financial oversight, governance, and program development to ensure the organization’s long-term success and sustainability. In terms of the operation, she has led the expansion of Baypath’s community, behavior, and medical programs, including the Baypath Educates program for children, a pilot surgical program with VCA Animal Hospitals, and a pet pantry partnership with Project Just Because. Additionally, Liz has improved standard operating procedures, including implementing several software upgrades and integrations.

She has two cats and three dogs, including a senior deaf pitbull and a senior blind poodle!

Wendy (00:01)

Hello and welcome to the Wealth Beyond Riches podcast with your host Abbey Henderson, where we talk about enriching your life in every way. I'm Wendy McConnell. Hey there, Abbey, how you doing? I'm good, I'm good. It's fall, it's football season, we're ready to go. Yes, do you have a team?


Abbey Henderson (00:12)

I'm well, how are you?


Love it.


Well, I live outside of Austin, so I guess I have to say the Patriots. I'm not a big football fan.


Wendy (00:28)

Not acceptable. Not acceptable. Okay. All right. Well, I'm just saying that my Eagles beat you guys in the Super Bowl one year. Just so you know. All right.


Liz (00:30)

Thank


Abbey Henderson (00:38)

So my brother -in -law and my nephews are Big Eagles fans and I would never be able to forget that little moment.


Wendy (00:47)

That was on my birthday, by the way, if I may just say. Yes! Okay, so we do have a guest today.


Abbey Henderson (00:52)

So it's your fault is what you're saying.


We do, and I'm so excited that we're continuing our spotlight series on nonprofits. And as we've talked about on many occasions, philanthropy and service is so important to us at Aberyst, both as a company and personally. And we have been really lucky to be able to support Bay Path Humane Society in Hopkington, Massachusetts for many years now.


And we're spoiled to have Liz Jeffress, the executive director at Bay Path with us today. Welcome. We're excited to have you.


Liz (01:37)

thank you so much. I'm just like very excited to be here.


Abbey Henderson (01:41)

Well, we're gonna have fun for 30 minutes. I know that you oversee the shelters operations, you collaborate with the board and the committee members on development initiatives and strategic planning. And that's really all I wanna say about your bio, because I want you to tell us, because I think you are like the poster child for following your passion. I want you to tell us how you ended up where you are.


Liz (01:43)

Absolutely.


my god, well thank you and thank you again for this opportunity. Yeah, I, you know, real quick, I was very shy growing up and so I went to, you know, small school, studied economics, I enjoyed the study of that, you know, got out of school and went into, you know, financial services more in the operations end, but I always, always loved animals, always nagged my mom, I got my guinea pig, then my rabbit, then the cat.


and the dog, you know, you you go up the spectrum of size. I was angling for a pony, but I had to go away to college by then. I was, well, it was so funny. I was living in Florida. I'm from up here, but I was living in Florida in early 20s. And I remember I wanted to volunteer to shelter and I was still so shy that I was afraid to volunteer. I was afraid to give my time for free because I didn't think I'd.


Abbey Henderson (02:37)

She was a good mom, huh?


Liz (03:04)

I'd be good at it or something. Anyway, I started down at the Naples Humane Society, which is a good one to jump into because very well run organization. I ended up living in Denver for a little bit and volunteering at a shelter there. Then I ended up back here and I was looking to volunteer again. But like for me, when I volunteer, I like waited because I knew once I volunteer, it's like in my veins. I'm like, what is happening at the shelter? I should be there.


Abbey Henderson (03:05)

-huh.


you


Liz (03:32)

And I have a day job, right? So anyway, I finally did. I finally signed up and I would go both weekend days. And yeah, I was, you know, obsessed. You know, I thinking about like, what about Skippy's doing now? What, you know, gotta be there. Anyway, I, story short, I was living in Hopkinson and I had the opportunity to take a job there. I was fortunate enough to be in a position to leave. You know, I wasn't, you know.


Abbey Henderson (03:40)

wow, that is a commitment.


Liz (04:02)

you were going to earn less, right, to move into nonprofit. And I was able to do that because I was in a position to do so. So I wanted to do it and it was an assistant manager position. And I just wanted to work with, what's that? This was 2011, the fall of 2011. So it was coming up on my 13th anniversary. 13 sounds appropriate. But it was...


Abbey Henderson (04:18)

What year is this? What year is this?


Yeah.


Liz (04:30)

I thought I was like, I'm to work with animals. jumping ahead to today, I'm lucky if I, like animals, I don't work with animals. You end up finding that it's a business, someone has to be run such that you can continue to do more and more. So I got involved there.


I've never looked back, but the role has definitely changed from what I thought I was going to be doing. Certainly.


Abbey Henderson (05:01)

Just tell us a little bit about Bay Path's history and what the mission is.


Liz (05:06)

Yeah, thank you. It was started in 1977 by a group of town in Hopkinson by a group of citizens in Hopkinson. And at that time, if a dog or cat was picked up and they weren't claimed, I think it was like two days. And remember, like no internet, no Facebook or nowhere to post sold to Harvard labs. So your pet could end up being in laboratory experiments. And I have old articles about that.


Horrifying. Anyway, they got together and they did like a foster base kind of thing. And it was really catering to Hopkinson 1987, 10 years later, they got the building that we're in today. They built it, volunteers built it. But over time, it grew to serving the larger community. And then in the early 2000s, think, most animal lovers know a lot of the transport process from some other parts of the country started up.


And so we began taking from animals from out of the other parts of the country, you know, as well as local. We've always done local as well, but it's kind of the mission's kind of grown in that way. And just, you know, real quick, we partner with a local food pantry to get people trying to keep their pets access to pet food. We'd never want that to be a barrier. And we do some offsite, like educational programming for kids and a lot of work around behavior and


Abbey Henderson (06:10)

Mm


Liz (06:32)

surrender prevention, helping support people keep their animals in their homes, in addition to of course, adoption.


Abbey Henderson (06:38)

Right, so I'm curious, I guess I've never really thought about it, because there's a national humane society. What are the local humane societies relationship to the national organization? Or is there one?


Liz (06:52)

Yeah, that's a great question. Right. And that's a great question. there is no real affiliation. Like the Humane Society of the United States is its own thing. And I always find it really interesting because there's the ASPCA, HSUS, best friends. They're huge. And sometimes I hear people criticizing overhead, blah, blah. I think they do a fabulous job. They do things that


Abbey Henderson (07:00)

interesting.


Liz (07:18)

Smaller shelters can't. We can't go lobby in DC, right? We can't go bust up a giant, I'm just think of one that I remember, like a giant dog fighting ring in Kalamazoo, Michigan, like they can, or Katrina, know, stuff like that. They do a lot of stuff for, they do a lot of education for smaller organizations. We do a lot of webinars. They provide a lot of educational material for other shelters. So they definitely have their place. And then you have,


Abbey Henderson (07:32)

Mm -hmm.


Liz (07:45)

kind of the big ones in states like the MSPCA or some of the Naples, you may say that are much larger. Sometimes those guys will have like the MSPCA law enforcement division, right? And the state lobbying, there's my, sorry, my little foster dog. Yeah. And so, it takes a village, right? Whereas, Bay Path, don't have,


Abbey Henderson (08:03)

We'll talk about fostering in a minute.


Liz (08:12)

we're not large enough to do those kinds of things, but we do help. We have a neglect case right now, a multi -dog neglect case. So we help with the local food pantry. It's more about the hands -on. Again, some of those bigger shelters, the national ones aren't necessarily doing adoptions and stuff like that, more advocacy. But yeah, completely on our own, no government, state, federal funding.


Abbey Henderson (08:33)

Right?


No, that's really important because some people might just assume that if they give to the national organization, it filters down locally or that you have all this funding because you're affiliated. So it's really important, I think, for people to realize that you're a one organization show, not a multi organization.


Liz (08:52)

Yeah.


No, it's a great question. It's a great point.


Abbey Henderson (08:58)

Yeah. So you mentioned doing some of the work with neglect cases and things like that. Do you have a close working relationship with the animal control officer or the police department? How does that work?


Liz (09:17)

Yeah, yeah, we do. work with a lot. We have the contract with the town of Hockington. We also have some kind of like looser relationships with some of the neighboring animal control officers in the neighboring towns. But we'll work with Boston Animal Control, Brockton, some of the bigger cities. And there's some groups in the state, too, like the Mass Animal Coalition. That's how we got involved with this particular case.


You know, it's a small world out there. So we try to network with all the other shelters too. I mean, they're great. know, we have friends at all the local shelters, you know, and we all try to help each other out.


Abbey Henderson (09:57)

Yeah, unfortunately, there's probably no shortage of need. Yeah, yeah. wow. So why don't we maybe, I'm skipping ahead in my list of questions, but maybe that's a good segue to talk a little bit about what the challenges you're seeing might be or are.


Liz (10:01)

There is not, especially now. It's as bad as I've seen.


Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Is it okay to stop for a second? Do you want me to? Am I okay? Yeah. Okay, okay, sorry. Just let me know if you want me to go like and hold her because that usually should. Okay. The challenges right now are, I mean, certainly national, but you had COVID, so right, you couldn't get into...


Abbey Henderson (10:24)

We love the Chihuahua.


Wendy (10:27)

You're good. Keep going. You're fine.


Abbey Henderson (10:34)

You can hold her if you want.


Liz (10:47)

vets, especially the low cost clinics. Those are always kind of the first to fall by the wayside. And just with everything going on for people, some people just cannot prioritize, even if it's low cost. And so you had this period where it didn't have enough spay neuter going on. So you kind of see a resurgence in the population. mean, even here in Massachusetts, we didn't have our clinics. A lot of the


Abbey Henderson (10:48)

you


Liz (11:15)

the spay neuter clinics weren't happening. And certainly the feral cat clinics weren't happening. you see a bit of that. People ask me all the time, is it pandemic puppies, people who adopted during the pandemic coming back? That's not what we're finding. In our community, have an educated population. People who adopt from us have usually adopted before, but have a good sense.


We don't see that. see basically at a baby boom, right? Like the equivalent of a baby boom where people like front loaded their adoptions in that 2020 to 2021. Maybe they were thinking of getting a dog in a few years, but now it's COVID, let's get a dog now. So you'd like saturated the market. you're like, certainly it felt like the aggregate demand was down because everyone had their pets.


And then the population you were taking in are people that we were finding on the local surrender end where they were having to surrender because of housing, the insecurity or financial issues. So you're having this population that's coming in that's, their vet care has fallen behind because of the priorities that are, the family members just can't be the vet care. So we were dealing with that dichotomy of


you know, not as many adopters for on our what we were seeing anyway, and the population you have needs more, they're coming out of more stressful environments, their medical is needing more attention. It was a little bit of that. And so now we're seeing a healthy demand, but we're still for adoption, but the demand to come in is, it's unreal. I've never seen anything like it. 80. I did a statistic 88 % more local dog surrenders in the last


from two years ago.


Abbey Henderson (13:12)

not an insignificant number.


Liz (13:14)

Nope. Cats are a little better, like 30 % uptick or something. But you know, it's easier to have a cat in a lot of housing situations, you know, easier to keep a cat. It's often.


Abbey Henderson (13:25)

Is that true also about a small dog versus a big dog? Or certain breeds?


Liz (13:31)

Yeah, no, absolutely. Absolutely. I was trying to think if I had like a stat on that, but yeah, no, absolutely. Cause you know, a lot of these apartment complexes or whatever, or, know, can't have anything above seven pounds or something, know, like sometimes it's, there's a lot of, you know, restrictions that people are facing. Yeah, absolutely.


Abbey Henderson (13:50)

Yeah, Wendy and I were talking about that in the last episode about why you sometimes can't rent because if you have, you know, sometimes if you have an animal, your only option is to buy something or sadly surrender, I suppose.


Liz (14:02)

Yep. Yep.


Yeah, it's really sad. There's a lot of people that clearly love their animals and it's really heartbreaking when they come in. It's not an easy decision for most people. There's someone that dumped their animal, but these people really care and it's really heartbreaking.


Abbey Henderson (14:17)

Yeah.


Well, that's part of, I imagine, what makes bait paths special too, though, because, you know, they do have some place that they, in that terrible situation, they can, they can bring their pet and know that you are going to do an outstanding job rehoming that animal.


Liz (14:47)

Yeah, I hope so. You we always tell people, you know, we'll keep in touch. We have to, of course, you know, protect the new adopters privacy and whatever. But, you know, to share a picture or just to give an update. And, you know, so many people really, really appreciate that, you know, knowing that. And we always thank people, you know, we really try to make it like not a judgmental thing. Like, we're very grateful. Thank you for trusting us with your pet. You know, we can all empathize with how horrible that.


Abbey Henderson (15:10)

No.


Liz (15:16)

So


Abbey Henderson (15:17)

Yeah, absolutely. What else would you want to point out that's special about BPAP?


Liz (15:25)

well, thank you. I mean, the people, you know, this is the only nonprofit I've worked for, hopefully the only one I will work for. you know, I network a lot with other nonprofits and other whatever, everyone, you know, I'm talking to everyone. We have an incredible board of directors, very


very well aware of their purview, which is great. They are the governing body, are the fiduciaries, they are subject matter experts in marketing, legal, finance, accounting, development, everything. They're a rock star group and that's a big deal. don't think people know really, but what a...


There's a vast array of boards out there and they can make or break an organization and we have a phenomenal one. So that's really key. And our staff, we have a small staff, eight full -time, seven part -time, over 100 years of institutional, Bay Path institutional knowledge amongst us. And I'm the old one at 43, everyone's younger than me. So, you know.


Abbey Henderson (16:33)

Yeah.


Liz (16:35)

It's these guys are super committed in an industry where a lot of people leave after the first year or two, because it's emotionally draining. And then of course, our volunteers and fosters, 200 plus volunteers, 80 or so fosters, we couldn't do it without them. And it's really, it makes a difference. Absolutely.


Abbey Henderson (16:54)

amazing.


Speaking of fosters, do you want to show us yours since puppy dog is going to be a big part of this podcast?


Liz (17:00)

my god. Yeah.


Yes, I am so sorry. Yes. Why did I do that?


Wendy (17:08)

He or she is making an appearance whether we want it or not. So yeah, we always love to see the doggies. It's our favorite. Especially the cute cuddly ones, right?


Abbey Henderson (17:19)

Yes.


Liz (17:19)

Okay, yes, she really wants to promote herself.


Abbey Henderson (17:24)

so sweet. Tell us a little bit about this pretty girl.


Wendy (17:24)

Hahaha!


Liz (17:29)

my God. well, I she's blind and I have another blind dog and I have a deaf dog. So I, you know, I like to I love the special needs guys. And she is she can see some shadows. So she definitely can see some stuff. But she is she was a local surrender. How you know, housing situation, you can tell she's very much loved.


a little behind on some medical. So she has some lumps that we have taken biopsies on and potentially like a chronic urinary thing. she's we're waiting on a scraping there. you know, just, you know, little bit of everything. So she needed a foster. She was very, very scared coming to the shelter, which you know,


Abbey Henderson (18:16)

you


Liz (18:24)

being blind, not being able to see obviously is that much scarier. So you couldn't even touch her. Now that's the problem. Now she's like, touch me all the time or I'm going to bark. So that's where we're at now. So she'll be great. Hopefully fingers crossed her biopsies come back in good shape.


Abbey Henderson (18:33)

Yeah.


Yeah.


Wendy (18:44)

have to say, just as a side, I have a little bit of a TikTok problem. one of the videos that I always watch, so I get fed a lot more of them are these rescues that are brought into shelters. And like, they literally have to like lay down next to like, you're like, you're saying like, just nothing. They're like, no, stay away from me. And like the process that they have to go through to get the animal to start to trust them is a lot, but God bless all of you.


Liz (19:12)

is. No, thank you, Wendy. I mean, it's so, it's so true. Like, you know, it's just fear. They're afraid, you know, and if you it's, it's, it's like the most rewarding thing to watch, like how they trust. And then now, like I said, now it's like, how do I trust you? I need to be surgically attached to you. So, but it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's a, it's a thing, but that's like, you know, that, you know, what Bay Path where we're


Abbey Henderson (19:30)

Yeah.


Liz (19:38)

you know, the importance of like the brick and mortar. mean, there's certainly so many wonderful groups that are, you know, there's a lot of foster based groups, but the having a brick and mortar facility for the people that are in more urgent situations like like this, this cookies owners, a you need a place to go now and then be the kind of like the triage to like let them see, you know, before you move them into.


a home with a family, even a foster situation to see check them out medically and emotionally and you get them headed in the right direction I think is so important.


Abbey Henderson (20:16)

And for our listeners who are only listening and not watching the video, this pretty girl is the cutest little brown chihuahua with like a white like chin and maybe a chest. I can't quite tell, but she looks adorable. my goodness.


Liz (20:28)

Yeah. Yeah, she's a she's a good girl. by the way, she's and I have three cats and three dogs and two pit bulls. And she's great with everything. She's just like, party.


Abbey Henderson (20:40)

Adorable.


So I know you guys have a pretty enormous project going on. Tell us about that.


Liz (20:48)

Yeah, pretty big one. Well, so, you know, right around when I started, I'm not saying it's because I started, but when I started and it was a little bit of a changing of the guard at the board, we started, this is 2012, we started really looking at like, we're, you know, trying to build the initial makings of like a strategic plan. And we're on lease property. And we've been on lease property since 1987, not bothered, but not.


cannot get a longer term lease. And so we started thinking like, jeez, as we approach like 40 years, like we don't have a game plan. So long story short, it began in 2015. So it's been a nine year process to date that began with us approaching the town of Hopkinson for a long term lease. It's naive enough to do that approach back then, thank God.


because they said, yeah, let's pursue this. So it did take the changing of bylaws at the town level, a subsequent town meeting to make an amendment for a shelter to get a lease provided that they met the terms of the bylaw. And then it took over two years to get an RFP, request for proposal from the town. We spent four months.


on that submitted a 165 page response, which included 10 year pro forma financials, all your standard operating procedures. Mind you, I started, there was nothing documented. So that was a fun Odyssey to create all those throughout the years. But we had been creating them leading up to that. So we were ready by then. And then we ran a feasibility study and we had engaged an initial engagement with architects to give them, you know, the town wants to kind of know what your plans are.


Abbey Henderson (22:21)

Yeah.


Liz (22:33)

on the property. we put that in late 2019, were chosen pending the lease negotiations in March of 2020, which was a fun time for everyone, right? It's a good time. So of course, naturally everything grinded to a halt. We were able to resume lease negotiations in early 2021. That took a year. And everyone was super supportive. The town was incredibly supportive the whole time. And then we signed the lease.


Abbey Henderson (22:43)

if


Liz (23:00)

in mid 2022. We felt we needed to sign a lease before we could begin the initial fundraising stages. you know, it felt like that was the right thing to do. And for the last two years, we've been working on, you know, getting closer to a design. You know, everyone knows this has been a kind of a wild time with supply and interest rates and costs of construction. So it's been, you know, a fun adventure of like, stop, go, look, assess, stop, go, look.


So we feel like, you we recently went public. So we have like a website about the campaign now and more details are coming more rapidly. We are hoping to, we're planning to break ground next year, 2025 and finish in 2026. And, you know, just a facility. you know, we do adoptions and surrenders. We have over 200 volunteers. We have all these people. We have all these wonderful people. We want.


We just want to do more. know we can do more. We want respectful space for the people working there, for the volunteers, for the people adopting, but also the people having to surrender. Right now they all pass through one tiny lobby, you know, when someone can be having the happiest moment of their life adopting and someone's coming in giving up the love of their life, you know, because of situ, you know, circumstances beyond their control. So, you know, just a little more respectful space.


for the humans and the animals. So we're excited. We've raised $4 million to start. To start, not bad, right? Thank you. It is not, it is not. And we're here because of supporters like you, Abbey. And so we got a little ways to go, but we're gonna do it. And we have to raise a couple more million dollars. Our goal is 6 .5.


Abbey Henderson (24:26)

Mm -hmm.


That's amazing. Congratulations. That's not easy to do.


Liz (24:55)

you know, we'll see how it But what's exciting now is we're because we're finally like, OK, we got a floor plan, which is on the website and and, you know, working budget that we think is doable. We can start approaching like foundations for grants now, which is, you had to kind of get to a certain point before you could do that, you know, get a little more ducks in a row. But it was kind of, you know, the process is it's a long one. Nine years in. I thought it was going to be so easy.


nine years ago, like, disaster land, then we'll just build something, it'll be great. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.


Abbey Henderson (25:24)

Yeah.


So what is your, no, I imagine you have learned more than you ever wanted to know probably. Yeah.


Liz (25:36)

A more than I ever wanted to know him.


Abbey Henderson (25:40)

If you had to pick one thing that's your favorite about the new facility, what's your most favorite?


Liz (25:48)

I am excited for just a little more of a medical space right now. It's really tight. We don't have dedicated medical space. We have to go offsite for every procedure. Some of the stuff has to be done wherever it can be done. We're not doing procedures in a hallway or anything. We don't do procedures on site.


Abbey Henderson (25:53)

Yeah.


Liz (26:16)

we will in the new space, we'll have the ability to do like diagnostics on site. fast, know, faster response and also spay neuter. Ultimately, we'll be able to do our own spay neuter. So, you know, right now our animals go to our wonderful partners, but some of some of them are an hour away. So you've got this new stressed in animal out animal. And here we got an appointment to get a spay neuter. Get in the car with someone you don't know. You may or may not enjoy the car and you're off for an hour. You know, I mean,


Abbey Henderson (26:25)

Thank


Liz (26:45)

We've made it work, but we're excited to have the on -site medical, because we have the partnerships, our shelter manager is a certified vet tech. We have a wonderful vet that comes in twice a week, Dr. Mullenbeek. we're ready to take the wellness up a notch. I'm excited about that. But I'm excited to have people in the shelter, too. We don't have space. So I'm excited to see people.


Abbey Henderson (27:11)

Yeah, that's awesome. Well, we will we will put a link to the your capital campaign information on our show notes. What would you like listeners to take away most from this episode?


Liz (27:16)

Thank you. Thank you so much.


well, I would like them to take away that, you know, Bay Path is a, you know, it's a small organization, but it's a feisty one, I think, with a big reach and a big impact and that, you know, we're doing this, we have this once in a generation opportunity to ensure that we'll be here for, you know, generations to come. And we'd love people to just learn more about us and definitely reach out and ask me anything.


Abbey Henderson (27:56)

Awesome. And people can come run with me and maybe you at the Bay Path 5K coming up. What? too busy.


Liz (28:03)

Yeah, I won't be running, thank you. And thank you for supporting that event. As always, Abbey, we super appreciate it. That's a super important event for us. And it is fun. It is fun, especially when you're not running. It's even funner.


Abbey Henderson (28:11)

It's so fun.


Yeah. Yeah, I bet. All right. So where can people find out more about you and about Bay Path?


Liz (28:27)

Yeah, thank you. Our main website is BayPathHumane .org. Right on the front, smack dab on the front is the link to the campaign website. But that is future .BayPathHumane .org. But yeah, you can get to either one from either one, BayPathHumane .org being the main


Abbey Henderson (28:50)

And I think your info is on the team page, am I right?


Liz (28:52)

Yes, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, with my my email, reach out. I love hearing from


Abbey Henderson (28:59)

Awesome. Well, thank you so much for joining us today.


Liz (29:02)

Thank you guys. I'm sorry about my little woman here.


Abbey Henderson (29:05)

no, loved her.


Wendy (29:06)

He is fine, okay. Abbey, how do people get in touch with you if they have some more questions?


Liz (29:08)

You


Abbey Henderson (29:13)

So all the usual ways you can reach out by email, which is abbeyataberisfinancialgroup .com. You can check out the website, aberisfinancialgroup .com, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, it'll all be on the show notes.


Wendy (29:29)

All right, well, thank you both of you and thank you for listening today. Please like, follow and share this podcast with your friends. Until next time, I'm Wendy McConnell.