Drew Ann Long: How One Mom Made Shopping Accessible for All
In this episode of Mom to MORE®, Sharon Macey welcomes Drew Ann Long, a mom whose love for her daughter sparked a world-changing idea. What began as a stay-at-home mom’s frustration inside a grocery store became a patented innovation now found in major retailers across the country, proving that motherhood can be a powerful engine for impact and reinvention.
Drew Ann shares her journey into the special needs community after her daughter Caroline was diagnosed with Rett syndrome, and how navigating daily life challenges led her to imagine a more inclusive way for families to shop together. With no engineering background and countless rejections from corporate America, she relied on grit, intuition, and classic mom skills to bring Caroline’s Cart to life.
Tune in for an inspiring conversation about motherhood, advocacy, and reinvention rooted in love, necessity, and courage.
[00:00] Introduction
[02:36] Motherhood, career shifts, and becoming a stay-at-home mom
[04:55] Entering the world of special needs and receiving Caroline’s diagnosis
[07:23] What most people do not realize about the special needs community
[08:19] The moment Caroline’s Cart was born
[10:46] Facing rejection and being dismissed by corporate America
[13:25] The financial risks, sacrifices, and early setbacks of entrepreneurship
[16:03] Mom skills, fearlessness, and building something from nothing
[18:05] Creating demand through social media
[23:14] Mom guilt, sacrifice, and redefining what “having it all” really means
[25:40] Giving back to the special needs community
[29:15] Finding purpose through service and advocacy
Meet my guest, Drew Ann Long:
Website: drewannspeaks.com
Instagram: @carolinescart @drewannlong
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-ann-long-3a22a875/
Drew Ann's nonprofit, Caroline's Cause, reduces the financial burden of a college education for students who have siblings with special-needs: www.carolinescause.com
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Sharon Macey (01:05)
welcome back to a new episode of Mom to More. Hey, if you hadn't noticed, for those of you watching on YouTube, I am in a studio. Let me know what you think. And before we jump in, I've had so many of you ask about one-on-one mentorship calls. If you're at a crossroads and want guidance for your next chapter, I would love to help. Just head to momtomore.com for all the details. Okay, strap in because today you are in for a real treat that proves what happens when a mom refuses to take no for an answer
when it comes to her child. And I can feel everyone's head nodding in agreement. Drew Ann Long was a stay-at-home mom with zero background in engineering when love for her daughter and basic necessity sparked an idea that would change shopping for families everywhere. Inspired by Caroline, her special needs daughter who could not use a traditional shopping cart, Drew Ann sketched her vision on a napkin like where else? And through pure grit and mom power determination,
turned frustration into innovation when she designed Caroline's Cart, the first patented grocery cart for individuals with special needs. Her invention didn't just change retail, it changed lives. Today, this patented special needs shopping cart is in stores across all 50 states and around the world, bringing dignity and accessibility to families and caregivers. Drew Ann has been celebrated by major retailers,
featured on national media like Today, CNN, Inside Edition, and CBS News, and has earned recognition from Walmart, Target, and even former first lady Michelle Obama. But at the heart of it all, she's still a mom who simply refused to accept limits when it came to her baby. Drew Ann, welcome to the show. I am so thrilled to talk to you today.
Drew Ann Long (02:52)
Thank you. I'm excited to do this today.
Sharon Macey (02:55)
Well, we have a lot to talk about, so let's just jump in. Okay, I'd to start all of my conversations
what I call my essential mom question, and that is how many kids do you have and where are you raising them?
Drew Ann Long (03:06)
three kids, kids, they're adults now. Adult kids, right. And we are in Alabama.
Sharon Macey (03:12)
nice.
southern girl. Southern girl. So did you plan on being a stay at home mom? Like what did that look like for you?
Drew Ann Long (03:21)
mean, yes and no. So I went to college. I graduated with a degree in business and I was single. So I was just, you know, corporate America and what can I do? And ⁓ I was all in, got married. And of course I wanted to have kids, but ⁓ at the time my income was needed. So I had to balance ⁓ being a mom and working as well. I enjoyed it.
My husband was working on his masters and were, you know, it was just, it was crazy life. I'm sure everybody can identify that. Deep down, yes, I think I did want to be a stay-at-home mom, but it just wasn't available to me at, you know, early on in our marriage.
Sharon Macey (04:02)
Right, gotcha. so I wanna now set up your journey because the story blew me away when you first told me about it. Take us back to when you suddenly entered the world of special
Drew Ann Long (04:15)
Okay, Caroline is my second daughter. She was born October 9th in 2000. And I knew nothing. The doctors knew nothing. I brought home, because that's what they told me, a perfectly healthy baby. She was my second. I knew nothing. Life is great. I'm a mom of two precious girls. But that soon changed. When Caroline was around nine months,
I just, know, in the depths of my soul, I thought something was wrong. ⁓ I refused to talk about it because when you talk about it, it becomes real.
just didn't want to accept what I was seeing and what I knew to be true. It was undeniable by the time she was 12 months old. She just was not hitting milestones. ⁓
So from there, the doctors did know something was wrong. We did not know what was wrong. We chased so many avenues of disability and diagnoses. And finally, around three and a half to four, she was diagnosed with Rett syndrome, which is genetic. I'm not a carrier. My husband's not a carrier. It just happens. It's just completely random. any time, the doctor's like, it's like winning the lottery.
Sharon Macey (05:19)
interesting.
Drew Ann Long (05:25)
so I found myself completely thrown into the world of disability, a world I didn't want to be in, a world I knew nothing about, a world that would test me, challenge me, but also inspire me to try to make a difference in her life. Right.
Sharon Macey (05:40)
can appreciate that. And so,
it took several years for the diagnosis and then you have three kids so you had another child.
Drew Ann Long (05:46)
Right. So during that time, I got pregnant again. And, you know, there was a lot of horror when I got pregnant again. A lot of people were like, my gosh, what do you do? You know, I had a severely disabled child. But selfishly, you know, I wanted more children and I was not going to allow that to stop me from having more children. You know, when you have a child with a disability, you love them no less.
But when she was right around diagnosis time, I gave birth to a son. So I two typical children and one special needs child.
Sharon Macey (06:17)
Gotcha. know, what's interesting about that, Drew, is that People I know who have special needs kids say they get such extraordinary joy and love from having that child, even though they were petrified and just so unsure when they received the diagnosis.
Drew Ann Long (06:34)
Nobody wants a child with a disability. think that's fair to say. That's not what I prayed for. That's not No one gets pregnant and says, I hope I have a severely disabled child. You get what you get. And it's up to you how you respond,
and how you move on and find the happiness with this new normal.
Sharon Macey (06:51)
So how did you manage that?
I think you said to me when we first spoke that you were sort of forced into being a stay at home mom, I was like, boom, here we are.
Drew Ann Long (06:57)
I realized Caroline was going to be so severely disabled, I was forced to quit. It wasn't a good time. I was actually enjoying my job. I was director of finance at a boarding school. I loved it. But your family comes first. Your children come first. So yeah, found myself a stay at home mom. Boom, here comes a baby boy. And I have three littles and one severely disabled. So.
it was trying, it was exciting. I don't remember a lot of those early years because I think you get in this zone and you just get done what has to get done.
Sharon Macey (07:29)
Right, it's sort of like daily survival. But I think that whether your kids have special needs or not, when you're in the mom zone with three young kids, because we had three kids too, yeah, you've got your head down and you're moving forward.
Drew Ann Long (07:41)
Just got to get it done. I mean, it's a joy, but I mean, special needs are not special needs. You're right. It's a lot.
Sharon Macey (07:47)
So when we first spoke, you said that special
is the world's largest minority group. Explain that.
Drew Ann Long (07:54)
Absolutely. Right. I did not know that at the time. really did not even know that till I started my business. But the special needs community is in fact the world's largest minority group. ⁓ Yeah. And most people don't know that. How would you know that? would you know I didn't. Right. I didn't know that when she was born. I did not know that when she was diagnosed. I did not know that till I started my business.
Sharon Macey (08:08)
We know that.
Got it. Okay, so let's fast forward a few years. Shopping with Caroline is getting increasingly difficult
as she was starting to grow. And so you sketched the first idea for this cart because
you couldn't go into the stores anymore because of her size. Of course you sketch it on a napkin, which is like so mom and so classic. And I love that. So give us an idea of how you went after this, even when all the so-called experts.
We're telling you, no effing way.
Drew Ann Long (08:42)
When I was at the grocery store all the time, my husband traveled for work and I was bringing my three kids with me. I used what the store has provided as long as she fit. You've all seen the fun carts, the traditional carts.
So when she was about eight years old, I asked my manager, said, look, I'm just small town Alabama. Would you please get me a specialty shopping cart? And through lots of research, she was like, I don't think that is a thing. And it wasn't, it just never existed. So at this very table that I'm sitting at, I drew it on a piece of paper and I thought, wow, if I need this, of course I'm not alone. If I need this other moms need it. And thus began my journey to bring this cart to life.
you're right. It wasn't acting drawing because I'd gone out to eat with my husband Let me say that we had gone out to eat and I actually still have it and he was like, what are you talking about? Cuz I mean, I'm good So he's like just show it to me. So I drew it what about I'm like that and then I came home and he's like, okay So let's let's do a better job of that So got home we sat at this table and we we got a little more serious about the the napkin So went from a napkin to a piece of paper
Sharon Macey (09:48)
There
you go. Now I assume you have this framed, right? Somewhere in your house this has got to be framed.
Drew Ann Long (09:52)
Absolutely. Yes. It's like, ⁓ there it is.
Sharon Macey (09:56)
Yeah, that's incredible. So give us a really brief rundown of when you first started to talk to people about creating this cart. Talk to me about the pushback that you were getting.
Drew Ann Long (10:08)
Okay, so I knew what I needed and this is it if people haven't seen it. It's a very simple.
Sharon Macey (10:15)
For those of you on YouTube.
Drew Ann Long (10:18)
Right. Yeah. For those of you that can see it. So I knew that I didn't have the time, the resources to do this. So I took my drawing to corporate America.
there's four major shopping cart manufacturers in the United States. And I reached out to all of them and I talked to them and I'm like, look, I don't want money. just, this is what you need to do. This is a huge unmet need in the retail world of shopping.
At that time, through my research, I knew that the special needs community was the world's largest minority group. I said that to them, all four of them turned me down. So I was at a crossroads. was like, wow. I just thought they were very close-minded. Let me say this. When you finally get an audience and you are just a stay-at-home mom with a piece of paper drawing, you get nowhere fast.
no one took me seriously.
Sharon Macey (11:10)
you were simply a mom, you had no engineering degree as we said earlier, ⁓ it's amazing that the role of mom does not have the gravitas that it really deserves.
Drew Ann Long (11:24)
100%. And I think that I was just so easily dismissed because number one, they don't live in my world. But number two, they were not willing to listen. And it was a huge missed opportunity for these companies
I didn't know that at the time that Carol Ann's Court would be so successful, but I did know that this is something that you can no longer ignore.
How can you provide a variety of carts for the able body, but you're missing the world's largest minority group in every single retailer? And that's what they refused to listen to.
If this was gonna happen, I was gonna have to make it happen.
Sharon Macey (12:04)
Right. Spoken like a true mom. Hey, Drew, we are going to take a quick break. And when we return, we are going to dive in to what happened to your family finances throughout everything that happened, creating Caroline's Cart. And really what happens when you break new ground. So don't go away. We'll be right back.
Okay, Drew, clearly a major financial outlay had to happen. I think when we first talked the first time, you're like, nobody who's an entrepreneur, you know, actually makes money at the beginning. And if anything, we're all in debt. I can appreciate that. So talk to me about like, what did you invest? And,
did it take a toll on your family from a financial
Drew Ann Long (13:49)
When I finally decided I was going to do this, I mean, I had no idea. I mean, how do you get something off a piece of paper into millions of stores? I have no idea.
the reason I say that is the financial outlay was a burden. And I did not know that. And had I known that, I would never have started. I was very naive. I thought, OK, this is a simple design. This is not
Electrical, is not, you know, this is not an app. This is simple. This is simple thing. And I drained our savings just with my first prototype. The first prototype was $28,000 and ⁓ you couldn't even sit in it. It was just something for me to take pictures of. So savings was gone after that and I was like, what is happening?
Then you need lawyers, need patents, you need international patents.
the list goes on and on of, of the income going out, out. You know, was a one way income stream for seven years. I never made a dime.
soon my husband and I were at another crossroads and we're like, if this is going to make it, the only other money that we have is our 401k. Now,
I know, as does my husband, you are never supposed to touch that. And we never would have, but it was the only way. And it was such a risk, you know? And I'm glad that I was in such a zone, because I think had I been thinking rationally, I probably never would have touched it. Because here I've got corporate America telling me this is not a need, and I'm going to, I'm like, watch this, I'm going to do it.
Sharon Macey (15:33)
It's major financial risk.
Drew Ann Long (15:34)
⁓ my gosh, it was it was crazy.
Sharon Macey (15:38)
But you know what, there's something beautiful about the naivete that you had because you knew you needed this for your daughter. You knew you were not the only person in the world who could use a cart like this for their child
So that's incredible. And you had the vision and you had the naivete, which in this way,
was actually really helpful to you because you didn't know what you didn't know. And you're like, well, of course we can do this. Exactly. So talk to me about the mom skills you used to create Caroline's cart and just how you use those skills to persevere into really this vast unknown, the legal world, the engineering world, the production world for something.
Drew Ann Long (16:04)
you don't know.
Sharon Macey (16:25)
like what you were trying to create in Caroline's cart.
Drew Ann Long (16:27)
Mom skills, we all have them. We all just uniquely find ways to make anything work. whether it's Whether you're an entrepreneur, whether you have a cart, whether you're trying to French braid your daughter's hair. Like I've never done that before. Let me figure that out. I'm
Sharon Macey (16:44)
You can find a YouTube video for that now.
Drew Ann Long (16:47)
now on first base at the t ball game. I mean, You just have to be fearless. And I think so many moms, I think that that is a God given instinct that we have. ⁓ I think you have to have to be fearless to be a mom to you just never know what's going to happen and what's going to be thrown at you. and and school and and their friendships and their activities. And we want to make it seamless and effortless for them. So We're willing to do whatever that takes.
So, you know, again, I had no idea what I was doing and I, you just have to figure it out. had to figure out every single step of this journey.
I was on an island, you know, I couldn't go to corporate America. They had told me no. They actually told me no twice. Cause after I got my nice prototype,
I chose one of them. like, I'm still here. I'm doing this. And they told me no again.
I'm like, okay, you've told me no twice now now I was mad before now I'm really mad right and now watch this
I don't know how I'm gonna figure
Sharon Macey (17:46)
But do not, Do not cross a mom on a mission. That is for sure. True. Yeah, so true. But you know what, Drew, and you said something about being fearless. And I think
Drew Ann Long (17:50)
Well.
Sharon Macey (17:55)
we all have that within us. And I think that's such a great lesson for moms as they start starting to think about their next chapter of life. And sometimes we're afraid to tread into the unknown. But you know what? We've had kids. We've been treading into the unknown since the day our first child was born. And we all.
have that in us. You've just really personified it in an extraordinary way.
Okay, so
After countless rejections, right? Now you've gone back twice and the same people are telling you no, you had a breakthrough.
which allowed you to start to strategically place carts across the country.
Drew Ann Long (18:29)
after, you know, corporate America rejected me twice, I had to have a manufacturer. I couldn't have a shopping cart manufacturer because they all told me no. Well, you can't have a successful product if you don't have a product. So I had to do a lot of research and I found a manufacturer in Georgia. He made lumber carts, never made a shopping cart, but he said he could do it. So for $100,000, more money out.
He made me 100 carts. I only got 88. That's a long story. But so I had 88 carts and Walmart wouldn't buy from me. Kroger wouldn't buy from me. Target wouldn't buy from me. They only bought from this major shopping cart manufacturer that told me no twice. So great. have 88 carts. Now what do I do? So social media was huge for me because I had to turn to this world's largest minority group.
And I needed to create the demand. I needed a movement. So I started my Facebook page, Instagram, all the things, and I said, hey, here it is. What do you think? And it was instant, all only shop there. Where do I get it? Where do I get it? So because all the big stores told me no, I'm like, OK, I'm going to have to go small stores.
I'm going to have to go to the mom and pop stores.
literally strategically placed 88 carts in the small, no one's ever heard of locally owned mom and pop stores. The first one was in Chicago called Sunset.
Sharon Macey (20:00)
Which I know, yes, I know Sunset
Drew Ann Long (20:03)
So they bought one, that was my very first sale. I instantly went to social media and I said, if you live in the Chicagoland area, here it is. Here's the address. People went, posted, loved it. And then that just, the wheels started turning. So it took me about a year to find 88 mom and pop stores that would take a chance.
on a stay-at-home mom from small town Alabama trying to change the culture of shopping. When all 88 replaced, again, social media, every time one was sold, we'd go, we'd say, you know, picture, let's go. And I couldn't have done this without social media and without these families that created the demand. About a year later, 88 carts, I had no more money, I had no money, haven't made a dime. Yes, I sold 88, but guess what? That didn't put a dent.
into my expenses, into shipping, into insurance, into patents, into the $100,000. mean, all the things. So it took a while, it was about a year. My phone rings and it was a shopping cart manufacturer that told me no twice who said, we are now getting phone calls from Walmart, from Target, from Kroger saying, we have rogue moms, their word, not mine. We have rogue moms coming to us saying.
If you don't get Carol Anne's cart, we're going to call the
We have to have this is the only way we can shop with our child
Sharon Macey (21:29)
I love that. Rogue moms who are making a difference. are walking the walk, talking the talk. They're going to the local retailers and saying, if you don't have this card because our kids need it, we're not shopping with you. And they're going to make sure nobody else shops there too. Yay them.
Drew Ann Long (21:44)
100%, rogue mom, that's what I was told. So third trip is when, ah, it been years, I finally got a manufacturing contract and that's when we really got big because as successful as the 88 carts were, and they were, did it make me any money? Zip. Did it even touch the debt? Nada.
But it proved to corporate America that this was a product that indeed was needed in every retailer. And that's what changed the game for me, is proving and creating the demand.
Sharon Macey (22:28)
That is such a great story. And now, as you said, you are in Target and Walmart, all the major retailers all over the country, smaller stores like Kroger and, you know, we talked about.
Drew Ann Long (22:41)
Costco won't have us.
Sharon Macey (22:43)
Costco's missing out.
Are the rogue moms not shopping at Costco?
Drew Ann Long (22:47)
they are. We have been fighting Costco and they just they really don't care and Home Depot. Home Depot doesn't is not interested but Lowe's Home Improvement we're in every Lowe's. So if you have a you know if you're out on a Saturday and you need to go get a garden hose every Lowe's in the United States has it as well.
corporate Walmart did a rollout last year into every Walmart in the country and that's really put a spotlight on this again. It's really
drummed up more demand and has helped the cart overall succeed even more. So we're not giving up on Costco,
they've been difficult, unfortunately.
Sharon Macey (23:20)
Well, that's their loss.
So I want to just roll back a little. And how did you manage the impact on your other kids, like making sure that they didn't feel overlooked during this time when you were pouring so much time and effort and money into creating the cart
for Caroline, obviously some really demanding years.
Drew Ann Long (23:38)
Well, it was
did I miss out on stuff? Absolutely, I did.
I've heard all the women out there, can we do it all? Can we have it all? I'm going to answer that probably. And I might get some pushback from that. I don't think so. think something has to give. You know, when I was out traveling and putting everything, years of work into this, I missed things at home. I missed
things at school,
my kids were young, they knew Caroline was special needs, they love her, they know her no different.
and I would tell them, I'm not only doing this for Caroline, I'm doing this for the Carolines all over the country, all over the world. Mommy's trying to help the special needs families like us, that they have a Caroline in their life.
I did have guilt, but also I knew, you know, we always talk about the greater good. I knew that my husband was at home and this was something that we decided was worth the risk and was worth me giving it all I had. You know, I don't want to say my kids missed a lot. I mean, there was a lot of vacations we couldn't go on because we didn't have any money,
So for years,
my kids are like, we're going to the beach. I'm like, go play with that prototype over there. You know, go put your logo, go put. Right. Go play. Go play in the shopping cart. So it was it was sacrifice.
Sharon Macey (24:53)
Go put your legos in that.
Drew Ann Long (25:00)
It wasn't easy at all. Looking back, was it worth it? Yes. But but but did I miss a lot? Sure, I did.
But
now that my kids are older and you know, my daughter lives in Dallas, my son's in college and they travel and they see it and they're proud of it and they know looking back, gosh, that was rough. But wow, look at the impact that it's had, at the legacy that this will leave for Caroline.
Sharon Macey (25:23)
That's true. think that's fabulous. you know what you said before about not having it all,
my perspective on that is you can have it all, just not all at once.
yeah, I mean, it'll come to you in various ages and stages of your life, but no, can it all happen altogether all at once? No, you're going to make yourself crazy.
Drew Ann Long (25:32)
that's right.
There was a lot of mom guilt, on that. know, give yourself grace.
when you're out there doing whatever you give yourself grace.
Sharon Macey (25:48)
good advice, thank you for that. So I wanna talk quickly about how you took the spotlight of Caroline's Cart and you turned it into yet another groundbreaking innovative idea of yours and it is your nonprofit. Tell my listeners about that, because it's fabulous.
Drew Ann Long (26:04)
Sure, so because of the success of Caroline's Cart, my husband and I wanted to give back to
the special needs community that I needed, I relied on to build that demand and we started a scholarship nonprofit for families like ours. So if a
mom or dad have a typical child and a special needs child, we want to honor that special needs child.
when it's time to go to college and we want to give a one time $5,000 scholarship
freshmen. You have to be a freshman in college. We know the sacrifices the sibling makes. I've seen it with my own kids and we want to honor them and spotlight them and say, first of all, the only way you even qualify for this is because you have a special needs sibling. We see you.
We know what you have given up. We know the sacrifices your family has made. So we say that a Carol Ann's Cost Scholarship is a win-win-win. It's a win for the family because of the financial support. It is a win for the student because it gives them a chance to kick their secondary education. But most of all, it is a win for the sibling with a disability because without them, none of this would be possible.
Sharon Macey (27:16)
Right. I think that's fantastic, Drew. Thank you for that. Okay. You also gave a Ted talk, which I listened to and it was wonderful, but
tell our listeners what was going on when you were giving the Ted talk. Cause there was something. ⁓
Drew Ann Long (27:31)
Yeah, yes.
someone had reached out to me in the Brunham area and said,
would you like to do this? I knew nothing about it. But I said, yes, gosh, anytime to get my story out, my message out, that's what helped build my business. So it was a grueling process. You have to go to all these trainings and the speech has to be memorized word for word. And it was it was a really big deal. And I was I was excited to do it.
However, my daughter was very, very sick at that time and she was in the hospital. She'd been in the hospital for a week and I am panicking thinking, my gosh, this talk is coming, this talk is coming. And she went from bad to worse. So the day of the talk, we are now two weeks in the hospital. My husband brought my clothes, my makeup, and I got ready for my talk, my TEDx at Children's Hospital. I went and gave it, missed the after party, came right back to Children's Hospital.
was a great experience that was the most stressful time of my life.
Sharon Macey (28:24)
That's incredible. So what message do want people to walk away with from your TED Talk?
Drew Ann Long (28:29)
take the risk.
a lot of things I think that women face and they wonder is it worth
your homework.
But I think anything we do is a all risk takers at some level.
you're looking at something that you think is something you want to do, I say take
take the risk. mean, had I not taken the risk, we wouldn't be having this conversation today.
Sharon Macey (28:54)
Exactly. Amen to that. Just the more you try, even though you think you might not, that's where baby steps come in and you exemplify the baby steps, the tiny little steps you had to take, how you had to backtrack, how you had to, you know, like almost two steps back, one step forward. That's what I really love about your story, Drew. So thank you so much for sharing that. We are unfortunately coming to the end of our time, but I have a question that... ⁓
I ask all of the amazing moms I have the privilege of interviewing and that is because this is the mom to more podcast drew and long. What is your more?
Drew Ann Long (29:27)
My more is giving back to the special needs community. I'm a part of it. I've been a part of it for 25 years. It is very rewarding. I often get asked, don't you get tired of doing what you do? No, because I'm living it every day. So I think giving back to the people group that supported me along my journey
something that I'll never get tired of doing. That's why I started the nonprofit.
That's why I still am on
interviews and all the media I can to promote the cart because I know it helps his family and I'm one of them. I walk the walk. I understand what they go through.
Sharon Macey (30:07)
And I think that's fantastic. Thank you for that. Okay, so please tell our listeners where they can find you online. Folks, everything is going to be in the show notes.
Drew Ann Long (30:16)
So my website is drewandspeaks.com. That's drewandspeaks.com. And you can find all my socials there.
can find videos and more information about Caroline's cart
as well as Caroline's cause and how we fund that. And my email and my contact information as well.
Sharon Macey (30:35)
Terrific,
Drew, wow, what a story. I'm so glad we got connected. Just from the moment I met you, I loved your personality, but more importantly, I loved what you have done and what you have created and just your mom journey, how you really exemplify
trying to mow down every barrier that's out there for your child because that every single mom would do that. So thank you for your time. Thank you for your wisdom. Thank you for everything you've done to create Caroline's cart and to make the world a more inclusive and better and kinder place.
Drew Ann Long (31:05)
Well, thank you. Thank you for having me. I appreciate people like you that help spread my story and my message.