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- We are back with Harry Hamlin and Rose Byrne.
Y'all, give it up.
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- So it can be tough the first time you live away from home,
especially if your mama is far away.
That's why I absolutely love what one Florida woman is doing
for students at the University of Tampa.
She's stepping up to be their local second mama,
which makes her a rad human.
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All right, let's welcome the founder of Daisy Bug Delivery.
Rachelle, give it up y'all.
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- Hi Kelly.
- [Kelly] Hello. Meet Rose. Meet Harry.
- Hi Rose. Hi Harry. - Hi.
- Hi.
- All right, so explain more about, like, what you do.
- Kelly. I help kids that are coming
from primarily northern states to college.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- I help them navigate
and live their best life through college.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- I help them with grocery shopping delivery,
doctor appointments.
We take them to the airport, help them check in.
- Yeah.
- Get on their flight and just be an ear
for them, and a parent that's not really a parent.
- [Kelly] Yeah. That's awesome.
So do y'all remember what it was
like the first time you, like, left home
and went off on your own?
- I do. I mean, I'm from Australia,
so I'm from really far away and it definitely
took me a few years to not be homesick for sure.
I, you know, it took a while.
I don't know about you, Harry.
- I went to boarding school.
- Oh, wow.
- In the 10th grade from California to Pennsylvania
and I had to wear a coat and tie every day
and a little beanie on my head.
Until we won the football game, I could take it off.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- The big game.
- But, anyway, I, yeah, it was, I hated it.
- Yeah. - [Kelly] Yeah.
- I hated it in boarding school.
I wish I had had you.
- Oh, thank you, Harry. - Oh, yeah.
- To help me through it.
- Yeah, what an extraordinary person.
- Yeah, I remember I get,
I, like, drove across the United States.
I went from Texas to California.
That was my first, and I drove, and I was so excited.
I think you get so excited and you're like freedom.
And then you get there and you're like, I know no one here.
(laughing)
And it can be kind of scary, like,
in a city that you don't know. - Absolutely.
And you're having all your,
like, adult kind of first moments.
- Absolutely.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- That's what we helped navigate through that.
- Yeah. That's awesome.
So how did you get into this?
- How did I get into it?
Well, I was a secretary,
and I also had a part-time job working,
delivering groceries.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
And I found, Kelly,
that I love that part.
And I was delivering to somebody on campus
and it just said a birthday cake.
No, no, you don't just do birthday cakes
with me, 'cause I'm a little extra.
- [Kelly] You want it to be special.
- Yes, yes.
So I called the mama up and said,
"Okay, what's your student's name?
What is her favorite colors?
What's her favorite flower?"
So I found out and I went with the, to the baker
and had them put her name on it.
I went to the florist and I picked out
the most gorgeous sunflower, Kelly.
- Oh.
- And put it on the top of the cake.
So it's not, you don't want just a cake
when you're away.
You want a cake that is personalized in you.
- [Kelly] You want something meaningful.
- Yes. Yes.
- Her mom was blown away.
- Yeah. Oh, you have a song like that, too.
- [Kelly] Yeah. - Her mom was blown away.
(Kelly laughing)
- I love that.
- Yes. So the mom posted on the parents' Facebook page
and other moms reached out:
"How can I do this? How can I do that?"
- [Kelly] Yeah. - So, yeah.
- That's so cool.
So Daisy Bug has really grown.
You have helpers now. You call Doodlebugs.
- I do.
- Because there's too many people to get to?
- [Rachelle] I do, Kelly.
We have so many, so many, probably over 500
kids that we've helped so far.
- Wow.
- Yes. Yes. It started with just me.
- [Kelly] That's so cool. (audience applauding)
- Oh, thank y'all. Thank y'all.
It started with just me.
So now I have, I call them my doodlebugs,
and I have a head beekeeper and scheduler.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- His name is Dave, couldn't do it without him.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- And then I have grasshoppers who are my interns
and three of 'em are right there.
- Oh, I love this. What's up, y'all?
(audience clapping)
- Yes. That's Julia, Cynthia, and Jordan.
Yes. And they came all the way with me to support me.
- [Kelly] That's so cool.
And, also, it's cool, even the people that are volunteering,
that's kind of, like, networking
and finding friends, too, in a different kinda way.
- Yes, yes.
- [Kelly] I love that.
Well, you don't just bring the kids joy.
You also help them in tough situations.
I heard that an emergency room was one time.
- Yes. I've picked up six kids, six girls who were roofied
at a local bar different times.
Picked them up off the sidewalk
and got them back home to safety.
- Wow. That's such an incredible thing.
I think all of us, maybe you could have used
at some point when you were younger.
- Are you kidding me?
- Yeah.
- I mean, and this should be a huge nationwide business.
Every school should have this.
- [Rose] It should be. Have this initiative.
What an amazing thing. I think you should expand.
- You know anybody?
(audience laughing)
- No, but it is crazy because there are situations,
though, that people get in trouble
and people are afraid to call their parents.
- [Rose] Yeah, exactly.
- Yes, yes.
- And it, 'cause it's, like, well, wait, you don't
know the whole situation,
or maybe they just made a poor decision.
They don't, you know, maybe it's not safe to
call their parent, and they think
that they won't, you know,
that won't be a good turnout for them.
- [Rachelle] To trust you.
- To trust you with that and then that's incredible.
- My kids do. And that is the,
that's the best recognition right there.
- [Kelly] Oh, man.
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- Well, so many parents are grateful
for how Rachelle cares for their kids.
That includes Sean and her son, Adam,
who are in the audience right now.
What's up y'all?
(audience clapping)
- Hi, Kelly.
- [Kelly] So, Sean, tell us how Rachelle helped you.
- [Sean] So I live in Syracuse, New York.
I have three sons.
Two chose to go to SU and graduate from SU.
So they needed anything, it's three miles from my house.
- Yeah.
- The youngest, Adam, decided, nope,
he needed to go to the University of Tampa.
And it was very hard for me to let him go.
And he went. I wanted to buy him some groceries some time.
And I saw somebody on Facebook,
the one the parent group said,
"Hey there's this lady named Rachelle.
She does shopping like that."
So it's all started with that.
Then it started with rides to the airport,
birthday surprises where she's amazing
about what does your child like, picks out stuff,
and then I would send her stuff.
- Yeah.
- She's held stuff that I've mailed,
important stuff that I couldn't have going
to the dorm at the time.
But for me,
the most important thing has been, Adam had passed out
outside of an urgent care place.
And I get a call from the urgent care place,
telling me they're taking him by ambulance to the hospital.
And I'm freaking out because I'm in New York,
saying to myself, "Why'd you ever let him go to Florida?"
And I called Rachelle to see if she could get him,
go buy him a phone charger for me.
And she said absolutely.
She calls me a little while later and she goes, no, I got,
I went to my house, grabbed some chargers, blankets, snacks
soda or Gatorade, something like that.
And she goes: "I'm gonna stay with him."
She stayed with him the whole time.
I got updates, she could talk to the doctor.
Being that far away from home,
it's huge to have somebody who can help you
out that you trust so, so much.
And her business has grown and exploded.
Just, I could go on and on
about the services that she's done
for us and continues to do for us.
But the emergency room visits, those are,
those are very hard on a parent.
You can imagine you're away from your kids.
- [Kelly] I, oh, my gosh, yeah.
- [Sean] Very, very hard.
And he's a junior and I still have a hard time, so.
- Oh, so this doesn't get easier.
Thank you for that knowledge.
(audience laughing)
- [Kelly] Cool.
(Kelly chuckles)
Oh, my gosh. Well, y'all, I know
that you have something that you'd like to say
to Rachelle, right?
- Yes. So, Rachelle, you know I love you.
You are love, like family to me now.
All the things you've done
for me and Adam and continue to do for him,
especially those doctor visits when I can't be there.
And I know he can call you at any time.
And I trust you so much with him and I love you.
And thank you now for being my friend
and doing what you do for these kids.
It's so, so important.
- [Kelly] So cool.
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- Adam, you wanna say anything?
- I would also like to say thank you, Rachelle,
from the bottom of my heart
for everything you've done for me,
for helping me strive for greatness.
And, honestly,
there's no one else that could help me with that.
And mainly you're the reason why I can do what
I can do in college.
And I'm very thankful for you.
- [Kelly] Oh, my gosh.
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- Love you, Adam.
- [Kelly] Ah. You do so much for others,
and we want to do something for you.
So we're sending you on a five-night trip
to Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa in Hawaii.
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- [Kelly] You help so many people,
so you're gonna stay in an oceanfront suite,
experience world-class dining and unique bars,
attend the award-winning-
- [Rachelle] No, way.
- [Kelly] Yes, way. Award-winning drums of the Pacific luau.
Those are fun. You're gonna have so much fun.
Enjoy multiple pools, endless amenities, and more.
We are doing that for you because this is incredible.
(audience cheering and applauding)
- It's really cool.
- Thank you.
- From every mama everywhere, and daddy.
Yeah, I hope you have so much fun.
Hawaii is fun.
You're gonna have a good time.