Two hundred dollars feels small. A hundred women giving two hundred dollars at once turns into something else entirely.

That's the idea behind Ripple of Kindness Orillia, the women's giving circle Ashley Lehmann and Amber McGarvey-Moreland co-direct. In this conversation they talk about how a simple act of kindness, pooled together and repeated, has sent more than $300,000 to local charities. We get into what kindness actually means to them, why Amber brought a chapter home to Orillia, and the moments that have stayed with them. The very first donation funded a palliative care bed at Mariposa House Hospice. The Salvation Army gift brought one of them full circle, back to the Christmas hampers her own family once relied on.

It's a conversation about how giving can reshape a community, and how the small things really do add up.

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