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Interview of the Week: Executive Director of BRUH Mentor Program, Victor Durrah Jr. explains the importance of making personal connections with those they mentor · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: guest is Victor Dura, Jr. He's the president and the
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  Speaker 1: executive director of broad Mentorship dot Org. Victor is a
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit leader, a nonprofit leader, and has been recognized on
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  Speaker 1: numerous occasions for its community development work. Victor recently received
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  Speaker 1: a twenty twenty one Community and Leadership Award from Atlanta Entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: Basketball League and Slam Magazine for his work with athletes
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  Speaker 1: and mentoring. He is currently attending Clemson University and plans
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  Speaker 1: to receive his master's in Public administration and serves on
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  Speaker 1: the board for Habitat for Humanity. Victor has been recognized
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  Speaker 1: three consecutive years as a top professional in the nonprofit
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  Speaker 1: field by the Spartanburg and South Carolina to Let Everybody
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  Speaker 1: know we're gonna talk to the South Carolina ball here
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  Speaker 1: Chamber of Conference, please welcome the President and Executive Director
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  Speaker 1: of bro as b r u H b r u
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  Speaker 1: H Mentorship dot Org. Victor Durall Jr. My brother, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing. I'm doing good, brother, and I'm glad to
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  Speaker 1: be here today here. Well, I'm doing well, man. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just get out the box. You know, we're both fraternity, man, man,
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  Speaker 1: we are both fraternity. Him in okay, then putting it
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  Speaker 1: out like that, but he just happens to be a
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  Speaker 1: member of CAP appaside. That's all right, that's all right.
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  Speaker 1: I still love it all the cues, still love him.
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  Speaker 1: I love him. I'm an old dog. I love this
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  Speaker 1: young nupe. But I just wanna get there because love
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  Speaker 1: and love. But you know the thing about the reason
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to bring that to the top, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: the basis of all Black Greek fraternity is about community,
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  Speaker 1: is about uplift, is about brotherhood, and that is why
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  Speaker 1: they're they're found and plus education and mentorship and so
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. It gets lost to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people the core basis of what the black fraternities
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  Speaker 1: all that because they hear by party, and they're here
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  Speaker 1: by stepping, they're here about all these they walk in
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  Speaker 1: live you on yard. You know, stuff like that, looking tough.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that tell us about your experience and the
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  Speaker 1: values that have been brought to you, positive values, because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of negative things you're always about the lawsuits
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  Speaker 1: or a bad played situation that didn't go right for students,
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  Speaker 1: which we don't that we don't agree upon, that we
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  Speaker 1: don't acknowledge that something that should happen in any black
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  Speaker 1: or white fraternity or sorority. But it is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of positive things that come out of joining an organization
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  Speaker 1: like the calf Alpha side As is like Omega Sci five.
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  Speaker 1: But talk about your calf Apasi experience that you had.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming it is at the Universe of South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: University of South Carolina, upstate well Man, it's that point
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  Speaker 1: you tell about your experience. So I'll tell you my
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  Speaker 1: first um deep um and enriching experience with community service
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  Speaker 1: came um from activities with calf Alpacade. I served as
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  Speaker 1: the Community Service Chairman also known as the God Right
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  Speaker 1: Chairman for three and a half years while I was
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  Speaker 1: in college. And to be honest with you, when you
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  Speaker 1: hear BRO it stands for Brothers Restoring Urban Hope Incorporated.
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  Speaker 1: And when we started Brothers Restoring Urban Hope sixteen years ago,
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  Speaker 1: it was with our fraternity brothers. So you know on
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  Speaker 1: my campus, you know what I mean, we were known
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  Speaker 1: as the Broods and uh and and we started out
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  Speaker 1: really coming together and providing mentoring opportunities for our campus
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  Speaker 1: through the fraternity. And um we did it with brods
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  Speaker 1: when you think about it, and UM and even other fraternities.
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  Speaker 1: So we do a lot of stuff with Omega sa fire.
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  Speaker 1: But we were founded on that principle achievement in every
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  Speaker 1: field of human endeavor. And you're right that does get lost,
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  Speaker 1: um when you think about fraternities. But that's where I
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  Speaker 1: found my passion. UM, So hats offt to cap out
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  Speaker 1: facade and UM all the brothers um that that are
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  Speaker 1: out there servant. Yeah, you know, like I tell, I
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  Speaker 1: tell all my friends, you know, telling that when I
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  Speaker 1: pleasure to make as fire, it directed me, It gave
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  Speaker 1: me vision, it really, Uh. You know, we always have
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  Speaker 1: a fire inside of us, Victor, a fire to just
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  Speaker 1: first of all, find ourselves and when you're around other bros,
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  Speaker 1: which I really relate to because you know, you know
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  Speaker 1: that stuff this level have been out of a long
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  Speaker 1: time and the fact that you guys have turned it
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  Speaker 1: into b r u age BRO is guided by the
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  Speaker 1: principle that all students, regardless of socio economic status, family dynamics, nationality,
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  Speaker 1: or past failures, deserve a chance at a bright future
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  Speaker 1: that represents and you guys have built it out into
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  Speaker 1: an organization that's powerful. And like when I pledge, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was getting with government chiefs, I would getting doing parties,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to give money to local, local community organizations
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  Speaker 1: and because that's what I was supposed to do now.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that people see it that way.
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  Speaker 1: See they see it as a challenge. But I look
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  Speaker 1: at your resume, Victor, I don't see giving back as
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  Speaker 1: a challenge to you. Talk about your personality, my man,
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  Speaker 1: man Um, I've always UM have been a fortunate situation. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up UM in a parent home. UM. I
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  Speaker 1: have two brothers, one older, one younger, UM, all who
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  Speaker 1: pledged cap alfasa UM. I actually pledged my younger brother
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  Speaker 1: And I've always just had that about me. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: I when I looked at the mission, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: there's so much, it continued. One thing I liked about
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  Speaker 1: everything I read. It was like a continual thought. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You know I broke. You didn't break mission and the
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  Speaker 1: word the mission is restoring the urban community through group membership,
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  Speaker 1: which goes back to our fraternity talk leadership trail, which
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  Speaker 1: we all knew. Hey man, you learned leadership in the fraternity.
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  Speaker 1: You learn it. You know, Like I said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: turning this into a pro fraternity, but I gotta go
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  Speaker 1: our life who are strangers, and I said they did
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  Speaker 1: all the right things. I was, get me wrong. Someone
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  Speaker 1: was stupid. Okay, you know what I'm talking about, Victor.
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  Speaker 1: Someone was stupid. But in the end, when you crossed
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  Speaker 1: and you became, when you was able to define yourself
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  Speaker 1: as a man victor and defining yourself and your other
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  Speaker 1: brothers listen to you and say, hey, man, we have
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  Speaker 1: a bigger calling, a bigger cause. And that's where you
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  Speaker 1: Also in your mission statement you talk about spiritual guidance,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the last thing you say in your mission statement.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that so important? Man um? Even though it's
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  Speaker 1: mentioned last, it's the most important piece um of brothers
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  Speaker 1: restoring urban hope. When you think about hope, you think
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  Speaker 1: about the spirit of the man, and you gotta have
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  Speaker 1: a strong spirit. You gotta have a fighting spirit, You
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  Speaker 1: have to have a positive spirit. Um. You have to
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  Speaker 1: have a uh in my case, a spirit of God
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  Speaker 1: Um in order to have hope in this world that
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  Speaker 1: we live in. UM. So as we talk about building
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  Speaker 1: the man um or or the female because we serve
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  Speaker 1: females too. When you when you talk about building them
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  Speaker 1: up to teach them leadership skills, UM, to to teach
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  Speaker 1: them um or try and mentor them. You you, you,
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  Speaker 1: you have to deal with the spirit of that person too.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's their health, UM, that's their mental spirit,
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  Speaker 1: that's their um. You know that spirituality, UM is everything
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  Speaker 1: that makes up that person. So we have to deal
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  Speaker 1: with that also, especially our young black African American brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters. We really have to deal with the spirit
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  Speaker 1: before we even start talking about restoring hope. You know, Victor,
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  Speaker 1: when I when I look at you, you know, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, I'm proud of you, okay, proud of because
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  Speaker 1: you're younger than me. I always tell people my path
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  Speaker 1: is to make your path easier. And just what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing for people in your mentorship campaigns male and female,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, being recognized for your community developing work.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're on the board of habitaty man It
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  Speaker 1: for Humanity. How does that? Um? You know, do you
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  Speaker 1: have time for anything? Bro? That's what I'm saying. You
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  Speaker 1: do you have time? You know? Because I'm to tell
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  Speaker 1: you I left out a lot of stuff. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: just went through and say, Okay, this is recognized. You
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  Speaker 1: are a busy man, and your service, Victor is to
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  Speaker 1: the community. And then I go back to that because
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  Speaker 1: that gets lost because when I grew up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there were people who I grew up in the hood
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  Speaker 1: with a filth war Texas and we moved to a betterhood,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you know, it was just so much
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  Speaker 1: money didn't get you out of the original hood. But
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  Speaker 1: along the way, there were teachers who kept me right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, told me, hey, you you you unique, you
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  Speaker 1: have unique skills. Who are the people who kept you
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  Speaker 1: focused early on you know, like because I know, I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you for I can tell you my sixth
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  Speaker 1: grade teacher stopped me in the hallway. I can remember
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  Speaker 1: that very clearly. I can remember my eighth grade teacher
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  Speaker 1: always used to just pour into me knowledge. I can
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  Speaker 1: remember my band is Structor, you know, Mr King. I
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  Speaker 1: can remember Ms. Trailer who was my biology teacher. Ris
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  Speaker 1: Nelson who was my math teaching. I hated math and
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  Speaker 1: my degree in college math. Okay, and so so these
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  Speaker 1: people poured into me, and now you're pouring into the
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  Speaker 1: community who poured into you, Victor h Um I had
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  Speaker 1: three phases in life where I can point back to
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  Speaker 1: that were very impactful. Um. It was my basketball career.
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  Speaker 1: When I was in high school. UM, getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: go to college and get my first scholarship playing basketball. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I had a coach that that really really showed tough love. UM.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't let me off the hook for anything. His
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  Speaker 1: name is Coach how McManus, UM, and I still remember
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  Speaker 1: vividly the first camp UM that he put me out
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  Speaker 1: of because I had some disciplinary issues and but but one,
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  Speaker 1: but what but what he did was put his foot down.
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  Speaker 1: And now I looked back on it, he was teaching
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  Speaker 1: me a lesson of discipline. And when I was at
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  Speaker 1: home waiting for everybody else to come back from Kemp,
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  Speaker 1: all I kept wanting back in my mind was, Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm missing out on an opportunity. And he didn't give
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  Speaker 1: up on me. You know what I mean that they
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  Speaker 1: came back, They checked up on me once everybody got back.
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  Speaker 1: But I learned my lesson early. UM. I had another mentor.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Jermaine Grave. He's actually a brove George. UM,
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  Speaker 1: He's a he's an omega and he was one of
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  Speaker 1: the guys in the neighborhood that actually Um graduated with
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  Speaker 1: honors and went off to college. So that was somebody
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  Speaker 1: that we were able to look at and see like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: he did it. And he took me under his wing,
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  Speaker 1: and he told me a long time ago, he told me,
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  Speaker 1: and we still had his conversation to this day. He said,
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  Speaker 1: you always had that leadership quality. And he said, it's
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  Speaker 1: up to you, you know how far you go. And
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  Speaker 1: I just remember taking us to church and you know,
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  Speaker 1: really showing us what college life was like on his campus.
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  Speaker 1: And then third and then that third phase was in
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  Speaker 1: my work field, which is one of the most important
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  Speaker 1: phases that I went through. I worked in corporate UM
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit about eight and a half years.
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  Speaker 1: But I met two young I met two brothers UM.
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  Speaker 1: One of them is your fraternity brother and and another
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  Speaker 1: one UM is in management, still with the same company.
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  Speaker 1: But they always would tell me, don't ever ever ever
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  Speaker 1: put your hope in man, Don't you ever do it,
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  Speaker 1: especially in this arena. And and they taught me how
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  Speaker 1: to play the game. They taught me how to speak
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  Speaker 1: the language, they taught me how to not be so
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  Speaker 1: uh caught up in my feelings per se with certain
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  Speaker 1: things that were going on in the work place. But
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  Speaker 1: to always outthink, um, you're a present, and those kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things right there help me maneuver in the space
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  Speaker 1: that I'm in now as far as relationship building, working
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  Speaker 1: in on the professional setting, and also giving that knowledge
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  Speaker 1: back to some of our youth UM that are headed
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  Speaker 1: into college and or graduating UM college. So as I
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  Speaker 1: think about those three phases, those are far people that
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  Speaker 1: I can say we'll be on a shadow of a doubt,
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  Speaker 1: I still stay in touch with to this data add
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  Speaker 1: a major impact on my life. Look at your children's
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  Speaker 1: You know he's the president executive director of broad Mentorship
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: dot org. Now I'm kind of confused now, brought to
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I gotta be really honest about this. He justn't mentioned
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to Omega men that they were valuable in his life
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: that pointed him in the right direction. But obviously he
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: came here. Obviously he was directed by his older brother
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: who told him new new part that he became a
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: new I'm trying to figure out out. I just had
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to bring that out. He's gonna mention to another mega man.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Gotta give you credit. That to a mega man kept
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: me on the right track. But man, that's important. That's why,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: that's why it's so beautiful you to say that, because
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of our interview, I was just talking
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: about the role that fraternal men played in the community
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that we don't get credit for. Not that we're looking
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: for credit, don't get me wrong, But there's so many
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: like HBCUs get that don't get respect for the education
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: that they provide and the people that they have working
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: in this country and just changing the conference of the country. Now,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: education still is important to you. Now you went to
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the universe of South Carolina? Is that the game Cocks?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: That's the Game car Okay, cool, I'm trying to figure out.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I gotta listen you, Brick. Now you're over at Clemson.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: How are you doing all this? Man? How you getting
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: help from the brothers of Megasi fire? You go to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: your versus South Carolina. Now you're over Clemson University. You
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: all over the place. Victor talked to me, man, what's
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: going on with you? Ben? Um? So so so at
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: USC Upstate, which is uh an extenching of USC, but
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: it's here in my hometown and spart Berth was that.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: That's where I got my Nonprofit Administration and Management degree. UM.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: That's how I got into the field UM that I'm
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: am in today. And with Clemson UM, they have an
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: excellent UM UM Master MP a program that focuses on
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: nonprofit UM work, and so it was just a good
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: match UM for for the skill set that I'm looking
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: for UM as far as nonprofit work goes and the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: administrative space. Now, now, why do you have to go
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: further with the academic training one? We say, hey, man,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you got all you get at awards. What you're accomplishing?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: You know? You you know, you your fluent, you articulate,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: you have a you know are you going with your life?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Why does want you to continue education in this platform? Right? UM?
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: So when you think about nonprofit work UM. I know
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of people think about the services UM. A
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: lot of people think about UM. You know, the the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: volunteers UM. A lot of people think about UM the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: ways that different nonprofits affect people's life. UM. But UM,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: when you talk to a lot of nonprofit professionals in
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the administration UM space, UM, you'll hear UM lingos such
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: as grant writing, capacity, abuilding, UM. You will hear lingos
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: such as UM you know, fundraising, endowments UM. A lot
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: of backhouse administrative work UM that that comes with the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: different I R s UM, UM stipulations and things on
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: raising money. And that's those are our our specialties UM
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and our skill set UM that a lot of our
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: African American UM nonprofit professionals UM, and it's you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: it's it's across the board UM. From an equity standpoint,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: we don't have a lot of those skills UM. And
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: we have a lot of good works. We have a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: lot of great programs, and we run a lot of
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: good programs UM. But when you look at the fundraising
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and the amount of money that is out there, you
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: really have to know your stuff. UM. You really have
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: to understand what you're getting into UM when you're trying
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to raise you know, to three million dollars a year,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: which is ultimately, uh my goal for our nonprofits. So
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I just want to be ahead of the game, especially
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: UM in the movement that we're in right now, the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: post COVID UM slash Black Lives Matter movement where they're
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: looking for African American all run organizations that have their
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: stuff together, And we just want to make sure that
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: we're in a in a place and in a space
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: where we're comfortable. When you say, hey, Vick, I got
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: a million dollars I want to give to you, can
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you do you have the capacity? Do you have the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: knowledge base? Do you have the skill set to even
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: manage that? UM? So That's what I've dedicated my education
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: towards um really understanding the space and and being a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: master of my faith and the captain of my soul.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Hey man, come on now, you have me on land
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: in a minute for him being limp. I love it, man.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you joined in ifew man, because I appreciate
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: your youth, your spirit. We talked about the mission of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: broad Membership dot org. Now the vision, you know, the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: vision is through UH your mentory program us desire to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: make personal connections that inspired those in the urban communities
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: to discover who they are. That's important because sometimes I know,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you know all I can see, man, what I saw
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: on TV or what happened down the street. And sometimes
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: what happened down street wasn't always what I wanted to be.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: But I didn't have an option to see what I
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: could be. And so that means developing their strengths and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: overcome their challenges. Like you said, like I'm like I'm
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: talking about and I'm not telling anybody. Look, man, I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: didn't come from the I didn't I went in the gang.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't have to deal with drugs on the corner.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, but I have to deal. I deal.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I dealt with the situation that led to a lot
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: of unsafe situations. And that's what we're talking about. We're
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: talking about where you know, we had to be on
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the porch before the light went out. Okay, that was demand.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: And when I look at what you're doing with deals
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: with young girls and ball boys, elementary to middle school, now,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that's what that has always been considered a very important
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: era to capture young minds elementary to middle school because
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: they've always said that once they get in high school
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: sometimes that spirit can be lost and the direction of
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: failure has been so defined that it cannot be turned around.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Not saying is it possible, but if you can catch
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: them early, you can catch a larger number to keep
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: them straight. Am I writing my definition of that tour right?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And I do want to um to say that our
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: main focus is on the seventeen through four year olds. However, however,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: to your point, we do have a lot of partnerships
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: within the community. A lot of our programmatic partnerships and
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: community partnerships are with the age range that you talked about,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and you are absolutely right, um. They say that if
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you want to teach a person a different language. Um,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: you can't do it when they turn fifteen, sixteen and up,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and you're definitely not gonna do it when they get older.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: If you want to teach a person a different language,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you teach them when they're a baby all the way up.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Because it's easier to retain, it's easier to mold the mind. Um,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: it's easier, uh to to as they say, it's it's easier,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: um to to to build up a kid than break
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: a man. You know what I'm saying, And and and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and yes, you have to capture them at that early age. Um.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: But for Brothers restoring Urban Hope, what we saw because
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: we work in an area where there are thousands I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: mean when I say thousands, there are. There are thousands
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of youth that are being served by the Boys and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Girls Clubs, the Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and the Boy
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Scouts of America, and all of them fit that age
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: range that we just talked about, that younger age range
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: where Brothers were Storing Urban Hope found an opportunity and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: we said we wanted to fill the space of is
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: what happens when those kids age out of that program
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: at seventeen years old? I'm gonna tell you what happens.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: We start to treat them like adults. We start to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: put them in an adult system. We we we expect
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: them to make adult decisions. Those cute little babies that
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you were training up when they were sixteen, and you
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: love them when they were sixteen. Now society hates them
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: now that they got a little beard and a little mustache,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: you know, a little spot you know that they stay in,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: or you know, got their license or whatever the case
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: may be. But that's one of the most pivotal times
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: for my area because what happens is they fall into
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: that economic that racial equity, economic mobility UM cycle. Right.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is that that's where
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the those numbers stop popping up homelessness, under underpaid, um
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: uh uh, not being able to get a job or
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: get into school. Those are our seventeen through twenty four
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: year olds that you're seeing popping up in that racial
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: equity report, And those are the folks that we are
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: really trying to capture and sitting in the gap for them. Um.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure you'll get to me talking about
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the different services we offer them, but that's that's the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: main focus. Of brothers restoring up their hope, because that's
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: where a lot of hope is lost. I wanted to
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: seventeen thros. I want to talk because I know we
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: getting close to the end. I want to say two things,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and then I want you to talk about your services.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Uh if you don't when you get to that seventeen
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you've been rejected, you've been told I got you, You've
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: been said, hey man, I'll be right back, don't come back.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: You've been just in Fried Chap franchise. As a as
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: a young man, you've been discouraged. You've been emotionally and
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: maybe physically kicked to the curve. And I know this
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: for a fact. You have to make a commitment to
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: these boys or young men because they're boys, they're really
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: boys because they didn't they didn't get to live a
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: normal life where they could cry, where they could hug,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: where they can see failure and somebody picked their spirit
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: back up and give them hope to make it. It's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: all right to make a mistake. And so when I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: when I and so what I know the journey that
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: you're dealing with, man is emotionally so challenging, because you
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: can't have a day off, Victor, Not for these boys.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: You can't because that day you have off is the
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: day could be the worst day of life for the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: kid that you had awful. And I remember, man, that
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: uh I remember when I first went into a program
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: like that in Houston, Texas and came in, I spoke.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: The boys didn't say nothing. They looked at me, go, okay,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: thank you. I said, what's what's out? Well? You know,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I know you. You feel good about yourself? I hope.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: So because they come in here all the time, do
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: these little speeches like you do, and don't come back
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: then not realize right there when that little kid said,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and he was looking like six three to four, right,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: these ain't a little little kids. But like you said,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: they've they've they've transcended into manhood and people start treating
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: them like man. But they have the development of a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: child life scales how to communicate what's my next decision?
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: So they're susceptible to making mistakes they can't recover from.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: That's what you're dealing with every day. And that's seventeen
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: twenty four age group. What gets you going, man, Victor,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: because they can be so frustrating, brother, it could be
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: so breaking, emotionally breaking for you, and then you have
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: these services closers out by talking about this. Man, I'm
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: so proud of you spending time to tell me about
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: your story. But especially they brought mentorship dot org store,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: which is available. You can go there is go to
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: that website. It's available on that website. Because I broadcast
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: on all these HBCU schools and and my whole thing
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: is to allow people to understand you as value. You know,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: you're in the heart of HBCU all this area. So
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: but man, speak your peace, man, so we can get
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: out of here. Man. Absolutely. Um. You spoke on something
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: a little earlier and you said, Um, you have to
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: you know, understand your why, and you have to know
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: your why and who you are. And it's it's one
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: of those situations where I meet with a lot of
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: youth all the time and through different partnerships, whether it
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: be d j J, DSS UM, the Alternative schools, UM,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the regular schools, the colleges, and you know, we meet
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: folks who just got out of prison all the way
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: to folks who are two kids who are about to
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: go to law school. So it's an array of kids.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: But one thing that I always not understood, and we're
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: still trying to understand. This is when you ask a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: kid why and what's your why, they put their head
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: down in and thinking about it, and a lot of
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: times eight times out of ten or eight kids out
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: of ten, they can't tell you there why they don't
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: understand their purpose and what we want to do through
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: our services. Because we don't do this just Victor and
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: my staff of six. We have volunteers that range from
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: three to four hundred volunteers throughout the community that we
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: can call on at any given time to give a
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: kid what they need at that time. And we do
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: group mentoring, so it's not one to one mentoring. So
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: when we show we show up in huge numbers. For instance,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: at our summit program with Spark Berk Methodist College, UM,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: we have a program that really caters towards those first
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: generational college students that have either about to flunk out
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the first semester of college and or on the brink
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: of dropping out of college. And we showed up with
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you know, forty or fifty of our first generational college
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: volunteers to really pour into those youths. We went over
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: study habits, we go over relationship building with your professor,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: understanding how to sit up at the front not the back,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Understanding where your resources and pockets folks are on campus
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: that can actually assist you with your tutoring needs. Or
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: if you have an issue with a computer, you don't
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: have a computer, who you need to go to to
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: get that computer? Um, you know, time management skills, how
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: to study and focus to studying in high school and
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: studying in colleges are to totally do different things. UM.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: So that that's just one type of partnership that we have.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: But what I but it takes a community and we
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: really live by that. It takes a village mindset. Um.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: We have partnerships with uh CAP ALPHASA, we have partnerships
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: with the United Way, We have spart partnerships with the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Spark Bar academic movement. Folks that really come in with
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: us and become brothers, become brothers restoring urban hope or
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: sisters restoring urban hope. And we do it as a community.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: But one of our main projects that we have going
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: on now is called Connected Scholars and that is for
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: our college students Because a lot of times when we
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: talk about mentoring a lot of people automatically assume that
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: you're talking about a kid that's about to go to jail,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: high school dropout, or X, Y and Z. We often
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: forget about those leaders, those young men and women that
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: will be leading our next generation. They need mentorship too,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and we need to pour into them even more during
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: these times. Churches, Folks aren't going back to church anymore.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Everything is on social media. The world is as racist
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: as ever. We've got to train our leaders, you know,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: we gotta be prepared for succession. So right now we're
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: in a Connecting Scholars program UM that that are really
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: training up our next leaders, UM and and really helping
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: them understand what social capital looks like, connecting them with
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: different mentors in their career fields or in their leadership fields,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and really pouring into them on a one on on
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: a group mentor or in basis and and teaching them
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: how to operate in these spaces that they're going to
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: encounter once they graduate high school, in college and be
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: comfortable in those spaces and be confident. UM. So we're
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: excited about this program, and man, I'm excited to be
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: here today. So I thank you for for having us. Well,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: all I gotta say, man, keep seeing it through. And
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean by that. Okay, Victim, than
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation. Man, you
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: come on any time. Man, I love you, periit and
• 38:30
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