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

Digital reporter Heba Kanso tells us about a new feature section on CBSNews.com that showcases the stories of women who combined their entrepreneurial spirit with a vision to make something work in a distinctly new way.

Brief Summary

Women entrepreneurs transform lives through baking, medical tech, and innovative furniture design.

Key points

Hopper Kitchen: A Global Bread Initiative. Hopper Kitchen trains low-income women to become bakers, representing diverse breads worldwide.
Capture Proof: Revolutionizing Patient Communication. A digital platform that allows doctors to communicate with patients using photos and videos.
Rock Paper Robot: Innovative Furniture Design. An astrophysicist creates unique furniture that combines art, technology, and engineering.

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We’re like the United Nations of bread!

Describing the diversity of breads at Hopper Kitchen.

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