We're Out of Time
The POWER of Helping One Homeless Person at a Time! The Story Of Rema Mays
Tue, 24 Dec 2024
In this inspiring and touching episode of the We're Out Of Time podcast @RichardTaiteOfficial welcomes Rema Mays. This is the most personal episode yet, as Rema and Richard share their chance meeting and how Richard helped Rema go from homeless to housed. and how they've remained friends ever since. For all things Richard Taite, the We're Out Of Time podcast, and Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa: https://linktr.ee/richardtaite Key moments from this conversation with Rema Mays & Richard Taite. Intro 00:00 How can we all help a person in need? 00:01 Where did Rema grow up and when did she become homeless in Los Angeles? 01:11 What are some of the locations Rema was sleeping in while homeless and why does he have gratitude for those times? 05:22 How did an inner voice that Rema heard lead to her and Richard's connection? 9:28 Why did seeing a photo of Rema change Richard's life and he knew he needed to help her? 13:06 Why does Rema live by the rule "treat others as you want to be treated"? 15:40 How are lower-income individuals being taken advantage of by having to pay housing application fees? 18:24
Chapter 1: What is the power of helping one homeless person?
This was very hard for me to make public. But the woman that you're going to meet, Rima Mays, is the blessing of my life. And the reason I'm introducing her to everyone is because I have a hard time believing that we allow people to live like this. I don't think anybody should have to live like this. We can all sponsor a homeless person. It's not hard and it's not that expensive.
Chapter 2: Where did Rema grow up and when did she become homeless?
Okay.
So, Rima, how long, sweetheart, were you homeless? Well, before we get there, okay, what I want to talk about is you were born in Alabama.
Yes.
Chapter 3: What challenges did Rema face while being homeless?
And you lived in Alabama all your life.
Basically, yes.
How long were you in Alabama for?
Well, most of my, I want to say teenage and adult life.
Chapter 4: How did Rema and Richard meet and what was the turning point?
Okay. And then when you left there, when you left Alabama, where, Mobile? Mobile, Alabama? Where were you? What part of Alabama?
Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
You lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama?
I'm from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Chapter 5: What lessons does Rema share about kindness and gratitude?
Hold on a second. Krista, go grab me my Alabama crescent tide. Roll tide. Roll tide. Now, in 2019, when you get here, what do you do? Where are you living?
I found a seasonal shelter. It was the old, I learned it was the old Armory building over on Federal and Wilshire.
I'm sorry, you stayed on Federal and Wilshire?
I found a seasonal shelter there.
What does that mean, a seasonal shelter?
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Chapter 6: How does the system take advantage of low-income individuals?
You can only stay there for a limited time. It's seasonal, like...
I don't know. They'll give you one season there. You get three months there.
Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. I didn't stay there very long at all because what I didn't like about that shelter was two reasons, three reasons. The first reason was they had us sleeping on carts, little bitty hard carts and they give you a blanket. Carts.
Carts. So it's like, it's like this big, wide, and it's got this little thing like this, like a,
Something really thin.
Yeah.
Honey, when I would get on that car at night, oh my goodness, the next morning I'd be stiff. I could not move. That car was killing me. And then the second reason why I didn't like it was... The food, oh, my goodness. I didn't really need to eat there anyway, you know, but I just took the food to show appreciation and, you know, just kind of sipped out of it.
But the food was like, who cooked it and why? You know what I mean? Who made this and why? So that wasn't good. And so the third real reason why I left that shelter, okay, when morning came, And we wanted to take our shower. I can't remember whether you had to take your shower in the morning or at night. But either way, you get a shower a day. But this is what I did not like.
It was out in the open. They have one big open shower.
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