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American Fever Dream

Jillian Olmsted On Serving The Homeless Population, NIMBYism, And Running The Inn Between

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this interview, V sits down with Jillian Olmsted, the Executive Director of The Inn Between, an organization that serves unsheltered individuals by giving them a place to stay, providing necessary medical attention, as well as hospice care. They deep dive into the intersection of end-of-life care, NIMBY-ism, stopping the cycle of homelessness, and how you can help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:28.6

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0:33.8

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0:45.7

Rise and shine fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends. I'm V. Spear. And this is American

0:50.7

Fever Dream, presented by Betches News. And today, we're going to take a sort of break from politics and that the thing we talk about will eventually always end up being political in some form. But we're starting off with good intentions to talk about just this really cool person that I got to meet a couple years ago who does really incredible work and will help us

1:12.2

raise our vibe and get in touch with our humanity, I hope. Her name is Jillian Olmsted,

1:17.9

and she's the executive director of this place called the In Between, which is in Salt Lake City,

1:22.7

Utah. And their mission is to end the tragedy of vulnerable people dying in the streets of Utah by providing

1:28.9

medical respite and end-of-life care to those experiencing homelessness.

1:33.7

Jillian, welcome to the show, my friend. It's so good to see you again. So good to see you, too.

1:37.8

So today we are on a new show. Jillian was a guest on my first podcast, which was called The

1:43.1

Interesting. And your story just stuck with me so much that when I came over here, I was like, we have to have her back and introduce her to this audience. Because the work you do is so uniquely incredible. And on a show like American Fever Dream, talking to somebody who is the executive director of a hospice care facility for unhoused people seems like exactly a fever dream and

2:04.6

something that we should not have to have and seems like you shouldn't be the only one in the

2:08.9

whole country that's doing this work. But here we are. Can you tell me a little bit about the

2:13.0

in-between? Yes. Yeah. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to share what we're doing here at the in

2:17.6

between. So we're about to celebrate our 10th anniversary. So we've been around for a little bit,

2:23.1

but even before we opened our doors, this was an idea created or dreamed up by a nurse at a local

2:29.0

hospital who was finding it really difficult to treat people. maybe they qualified for hospice care or

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