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Uplift: Overseeing Athletic, Academic and Artistic after school programs for 1,400 children and teens per day. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My guest is the chief executive officer of the Boys
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  Speaker 1: and Girls Club of Pattison and Parsak, New Jersey. They
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  Speaker 1: currently serve more than fourteen hundred children and teens per
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  Speaker 1: day in both Patterson and Parsic through academic, athletic and
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  Speaker 1: artistic programs both after school and during summer camp. She
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  Speaker 1: understands the critical role she plays in supporting youth on
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  Speaker 1: their journeys through great futures. Please welcome to the Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversation Masterclass, Doctor Christina Dukes Brown. How are you doing,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Brown.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with the New York area, New Jersey era
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  Speaker 1: was up there with Steve Harvey doing w b LS
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  Speaker 1: one those seven point five for many years, So tell
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  Speaker 1: us about the new Jersey community that you're supporting.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, So New Jersey is my home. I grew up
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  Speaker 2: in Jersey City, New Jersey, and so the towns that
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  Speaker 2: I currently support, Patterson and Passaic are very similar to
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  Speaker 2: the town that I grew up in. New Jersey is
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  Speaker 2: filled with a whole lot of different types of people.
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  Speaker 2: But more than likely the towns where I'm serving, we
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  Speaker 2: are working more with LATINX and Black communities. What we
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  Speaker 2: found is that many of these families are struggling and
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  Speaker 2: finding the resources that they need to just live. There's
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  Speaker 2: a high homelessness population, there's there's a there's so many
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  Speaker 2: food deserts that are around us, and our club is
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  Speaker 2: really working to support those families who have those types
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  Speaker 2: of needs. Many of those children who are going to
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  Speaker 2: school a struggling. The numbers in Patterson are about twenty
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  Speaker 2: percent are literate and about another fifteen percent are performing
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  Speaker 2: out or above proficiency in math, and the results are
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  Speaker 2: pretty much the same and Pasake, and so the club
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  Speaker 2: works really hard to partner with schools to provide after
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  Speaker 2: school support to children to make sure that they're getting
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  Speaker 2: essential resources for homework completion and tutoring. Our club is
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  Speaker 2: open you know Monday through Saturday to support families. For
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  Speaker 2: that purpose, we also have a lot of partners who
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  Speaker 2: assist us with providing nutritious food to our club members
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  Speaker 2: and to make sure that we are a space where
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  Speaker 2: children can come and have like a really good time.
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  Speaker 2: So they're being fed here, they're getting support academically here,
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  Speaker 2: and they're having fun while they do it. And we're
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  Speaker 2: really proud of that and how we support this the
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  Speaker 2: communities that we serve.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, that was a great open speech own
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  Speaker 1: You get a big check mark there for me because
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  Speaker 1: you laid it out for me. Because I just need
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  Speaker 1: to understand that when people in your position, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you see the struggle every day. I've always wondered, how
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  Speaker 1: do you how do you get up out of bed
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  Speaker 1: or even go to sleep knowing that that struggle may
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  Speaker 1: look the same the next day. And you represent a
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  Speaker 1: very accomplished organization like the Boys and Girls Club of
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  Speaker 1: Patterson and PARSEIC.
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  Speaker 2: So I am very motivated to support my community. It's
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  Speaker 2: important that I am a part of the system that
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  Speaker 2: creates a better world for my children and my children's children.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't complain about the position of black and
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  Speaker 2: brown people in society if I'm not going to do
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  Speaker 2: the work necessary to support its elevation. And so it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to you know, get to sleep at night, for sure,
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  Speaker 2: because you're constantly thinking about what's next and what you
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  Speaker 2: must do. But I am motivated to jump out of
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  Speaker 2: bed every morning to come and support these communities. I
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  Speaker 2: know that it takes a real village. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in Jersey City. This was in the eighties,
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  Speaker 2: and you can imagine what Jersey City was and what
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  Speaker 2: it became during the crack, you know era, And so
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  Speaker 2: I understand that being this resource to these particular families
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  Speaker 2: is essential to their survival. And I do need to
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  Speaker 2: be a part of solving the problem and not complaining
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's the beauty of this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: You reside on the East Coast was just densely populated
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  Speaker 1: with African American and people of color, you know. So,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure the Boys and Girls Club except volunteers.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, that is correct.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we love volunteers.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, doctor Brown.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's first of all put out a contact number
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  Speaker 1: for volunteers. To get that number, start writing that down.
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  Speaker 1: This is going This is a call the Action Interview.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: And this interview is about trying to support young people.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not about the administration that's in now, it's
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  Speaker 1: not about the administration that's left. It's about our community.
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  Speaker 1: My community got me where I am today. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get into extra dollars from the government or anything.
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  Speaker 1: My community supported me. It was the village. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: calling them the village to support what you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: do in those two communities. So what's that contact number?
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  Speaker 1: Let's get that out the way first.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, So the phone number here at the club is
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  Speaker 2: nine seven three two seven nine three zero five five,
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  Speaker 2: and you can come to our website at www dot
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  Speaker 2: BGCPPNJ dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if they come to that websode toll call you,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want them to call you about?
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  Speaker 2: So there are a couple of initiatives that we are
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  Speaker 2: in the process of delivering to our club members. The first,
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  Speaker 2: which we're super excited about, is a program called Girls
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  Speaker 2: with Goals. And essentially, what we found out was that
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  Speaker 2: many of our teenage female club members felt like they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to go to college and better themselves and all
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  Speaker 2: of that, but mostly they wanted to start their own businesses,
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  Speaker 2: and so we responded to their need and their requests
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  Speaker 2: by creating this amazing ten week program where we have
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  Speaker 2: business owners, women of color who are business owners coming
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  Speaker 2: in and mentoring and sharing their experiences with the young
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  Speaker 2: ladies and making sure that they understand that there's ebbs
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  Speaker 2: and flows to owning your own business and helping them
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  Speaker 2: to figure out how to create a business proposal and
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  Speaker 2: how to pitch it to the appropriate people to get
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  Speaker 2: the funding that they need. And so that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that we're really excited about. In this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: which is the twenty fifth of January, we're hosting our
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  Speaker 2: Empowerment tee where the young ladies who've been a part
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  Speaker 2: of the program, along with many of the mentors and
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  Speaker 2: their business coach, will come together to sort of celebrate
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  Speaker 2: the work that they've been doing throughout this time and
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  Speaker 2: to prepare them for their perfect pitch, which is the
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  Speaker 2: following weekend, where the girls will share their business proposals
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  Speaker 2: with a team of sharks, so to speak, and essentially
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  Speaker 2: decide who sort of wins the grand prize, who's in
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  Speaker 2: second and third place, and a part of you know,
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  Speaker 2: the work that we did with with this Girls with
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  Speaker 2: Goals program will ultimately be used as a catalyst to
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  Speaker 2: doing this not just with our clubhouses, but clubhouses all
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  Speaker 2: across America. So we're excited about that because.
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  Speaker 3: This is just a coast to coast organization, the Boys
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  Speaker 3: and Girls.
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  Speaker 2: Club, correct, yeah, yeah, military basis all of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So let's give us an education about it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Boys and Girls Club, because there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of organizations that do similar functions, but we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: your organization. Give us more pacifics and how you impact
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  Speaker 1: in and what age group and also gender.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, So we obviously start as the boys Club, but
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  Speaker 2: over the years figured out that the young ladies needed
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  Speaker 2: the same outlets for support as young men, and so
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  Speaker 2: obviously expanded to accept girls into the clubhouse. And a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the work that we do is about building
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  Speaker 2: character in young people, building you know, efficacious spirits and
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  Speaker 2: young people, providing them, like I said, with the academic
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  Speaker 2: supports that they need, and then giving them creative outlets.
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  Speaker 2: So we offer dance and you know, we have a
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  Speaker 2: musicle that where will be performing next spring, and then
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  Speaker 2: you know, our sports programs and our swim program. I
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  Speaker 2: just have to tell you that our aquatics program is
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  Speaker 2: out of this world. I was at a swim meeat
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, and these kids are fish in water like there.
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  Speaker 1: Was no competitioneotype destroying, the stereotype.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely completely des obliterated. They are amazing swimmers and our
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  Speaker 2: aquatics director is amazing at what he does and what
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  Speaker 2: we are. You know, most excited about our brand is
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  Speaker 2: that you know we are it's important that children learn
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  Speaker 2: how to swim. Anything can happen at any point in time,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes, you know, programs like ours forget that basic
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  Speaker 2: skills must be taught to and so the work that
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  Speaker 2: we're doing in our aquatics program is is bar It's
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  Speaker 2: like tip top tier. They're they're absolutely amazing. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we want to make sure that we're doing to support.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Brown because you're dealing with a lot of stereotypes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people see black youth on television with music
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  Speaker 1: and clothes, and you know, music stereotypes our youth. What
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  Speaker 1: are the some of the biggest stereotypes that you have
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  Speaker 1: to change.
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  Speaker 3: In order for these kids to win moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question. I think the stereotypes are that
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  Speaker 2: So there's a concept called deficit ideology and Essentially, what
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  Speaker 2: it means is that if you are poor, lower class,
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  Speaker 2: if you are you know, minority, then you do not
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  Speaker 2: have the capacity to even be successful inside of like
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  Speaker 2: a professional setting. And I think that is the greatest
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  Speaker 2: challenge that we're up Against's helping our kids understand that
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  Speaker 2: no matter where you come from, and no matter what
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  Speaker 2: you look like, no matter what skin you show up
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  Speaker 2: and you have the capacity to become great. And I
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  Speaker 2: think too, that we have to figure out ways to
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  Speaker 2: affirm our young people who come to us with their
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  Speaker 2: own brand of skills that we don't often talk about.
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  Speaker 2: So we want them to be great mathematicians and scientists
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  Speaker 2: and all of that, but there are some children who
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  Speaker 2: come to us who are amazing at just having the
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  Speaker 2: soft skills that are necessary to connect with people. Some
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  Speaker 2: people come to us and you know, they have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to articulate a point in a way that other
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  Speaker 2: people can understand. And I think we have to help
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  Speaker 2: affirm those skills just like the others, so that young
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  Speaker 2: people can be confident in who they are and again
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  Speaker 2: continue to build the effication spirit that we all need
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  Speaker 2: to be successful.
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  Speaker 3: Cool, I'm talking to doctor Brown. Okay, you know she's
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  Speaker 3: the CEO of.
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  Speaker 1: The Boys and Girls Club of Patterson and parsek New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: And we're making it happen because now.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about community calling you.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're going to talk about these corporations offering an
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  Speaker 1: internship program. So this called the action right now East Coast.
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  Speaker 1: East Coast is part of the call. So give out
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  Speaker 1: that number right now again, doctor Brown. Now we call
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  Speaker 1: them the corporations to call you and go to your
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  Speaker 1: website to help these youths.
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  Speaker 3: But tell them the age of these youths right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we are working with children from ages five to
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  Speaker 2: twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. Give it this. Give up their phone
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  Speaker 3: number and their website right now. We will continue after
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  Speaker 3: give it out absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Phone number is nine seven three two seven nine three
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  Speaker 2: zero five five and our website is www dot BGCPPNJ
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  Speaker 2: dot org.
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  Speaker 3: You know We talked about it a little bit, doctor Brown,
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  Speaker 3: of this role.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I come from a inner city, six sisters,
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  Speaker 1: two brothers. Father was a truck driver, third grade education.
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  Speaker 1: Mom graduated from high school, did not go to college,
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  Speaker 1: and we lived in the community. When I walked out
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  Speaker 1: the door, everybody looked like me, so I felt comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Moved to another community was an upgrade. We got one
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  Speaker 1: more extra bedroom, so we're from one bedroom to do bedroom. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but I walked out that door they still looked like me,
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  Speaker 1: so there was no challenge for change. Now I'm a person,
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  Speaker 1: I'm successful. Do you bring people like me in to
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  Speaker 1: talk to the students? And what role can people like
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  Speaker 1: me play in what you're trying to do for these students?
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  Speaker 1: And Patterson and pass sak new jersey for the Boys
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  Speaker 1: and Girls Club.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we need people like you to come in and
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  Speaker 2: mentor some of our young people. We run programming, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, like Girls with Goals, were you know about
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  Speaker 2: to institute a program called Real Talk for young men,
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  Speaker 2: And we need people like you to come in and
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  Speaker 2: share your experiences and share your story. I think one
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  Speaker 2: of the best motivating factors for most young people is
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  Speaker 2: being able to look into the eyes of a person
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  Speaker 2: who looks like them, who have a similar background and
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  Speaker 2: make up as them, and then for them to learn that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I made it, even though I showed up in this
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  Speaker 2: package and be able to share the stories I'm like
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  Speaker 2: the one you just shared about, you know, growing up
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  Speaker 2: with you know, not all the things that you might want,
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  Speaker 2: but having the things that you need and using those
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  Speaker 2: things to drive your success. Showing them the game plan
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  Speaker 2: to how they can sort of escape some generational poverty
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. That's that's exactly what we want.
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  Speaker 2: We want people who will come in and provide that
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  Speaker 2: type of support to our young people.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, y'all hear that. You hear the community. You hear
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  Speaker 1: the community. She needs you. You hear corporations or small companies, entrepreneurs,
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  Speaker 1: she needs you. We're trying to change these kids. We're
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  Speaker 1: trying to buckle up within the community, buckle up with
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  Speaker 1: the surrounding area. We're not trying to go to the
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  Speaker 1: government on this call, because the government did not change
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  Speaker 1: Rashwan McDonald life. People in the community change Rashan McDonald's life.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we're doing this interview. Because I asked her earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Why did she come on the show. She's rushan, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to get the word out. Yes, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: to the right person here now.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you currently serve more than fourteen hundred children and
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  Speaker 1: teens per day.
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  Speaker 3: It is a huge number. Ye talk about that, talk
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  Speaker 3: about the program. We got to break this down.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you're not just doing fifteen people a day, fourteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred yep.
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  Speaker 2: So we have a clubhouse here in Patterson, we have
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  Speaker 2: another clubhouse and Passaic, and we have eleven other alternate sites.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll partner with schools so that the children are
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  Speaker 2: just coming out of school and coming directly into our
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  Speaker 2: programming in the afternoons, so we start with Power Hour,
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  Speaker 2: which is homework help and support. The children go into
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  Speaker 2: some of the activities that we do that are connected
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  Speaker 2: to the Boys and Girls Club curriculum, and then there's
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  Speaker 2: always something fun. They're always creating something, learning a new skill,
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  Speaker 2: playing a game, or doing something that has some joy.
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  Speaker 2: We'll say that. So that's one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we're serving so many every day. On the weekends, we're
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  Speaker 2: you know, open for Saturday tutoring, so we're open from
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  Speaker 2: nine until three, providing the supports that some of our
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  Speaker 2: struggling learners need, and then using our resources to support
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  Speaker 2: our teenagers who might need an extra push as they're
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  Speaker 2: preparing to go to the next grade or go off
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  Speaker 2: to college or whatever they're choosing to do after that.
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  Speaker 2: So we are running these types of programs six days
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  Speaker 2: a week, and I am at this point interested in
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  Speaker 2: opening them seven days a week.
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  Speaker 3: So Sunday, Okay, I'm a pray for you. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: pray for you. You said, Sunday, I'm will pray for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Sunday is you know, we want to make ourselves
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  Speaker 2: available to the community as often as the community has
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  Speaker 2: a need, and the needs here are high, and we
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure that we're responsive to to that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you're talking like marginalized groups, you know
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  Speaker 1: that we look at TV the have and the have nots,
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  Speaker 1: and then they tend to want to show the halves
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  Speaker 1: more than the half nots because they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to watch that on TV. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: don't get good ratings. But it's the have nots that
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  Speaker 1: don't need us that need access. Your role when you
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  Speaker 1: we talked about a little bit give us a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about your background and how did you come
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  Speaker 1: in into this position of being the CEO of the
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  Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club of Patterson and part Sakh, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so my first interaction with the Boys and Girls
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  Speaker 2: Club was in high school. I played basketball. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I can't go the whether, but you and Steven A.
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  Speaker 1: Smith, who I represent, I can I talk basketball with
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  Speaker 1: either of you guys, But I would connect y'all because
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  Speaker 1: you're up in New Jersey as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I would love that. I would love that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would go there and play with friends and you know,
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  Speaker 2: sort of sharpened my skills. And then there were parties
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  Speaker 2: and things for kids to do that our parents thought
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  Speaker 2: were safe, and so they allowed us to attend. And
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  Speaker 2: that's sort of like where I really began to understand
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  Speaker 2: the necessity and the importance of the club. But after
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  Speaker 2: graduating high school, I went to college down in Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: the Great Virginia State University, and learned that I really
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be a teacher. And so when I graduated,
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  Speaker 2: I started teaching, and from there went into the principalship
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  Speaker 2: and then from there went into you know, executive levels
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  Speaker 2: of education. Oversight and working mostly in charter schools. But
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  Speaker 2: what I learned from my educational background is that schools
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  Speaker 2: operating on their own will never provide all the things
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  Speaker 2: that children need, and so our clubhouses and our alternate
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  Speaker 2: sites are super necessity. They're super necessary in order for
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  Speaker 2: children to get the supports that they need. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: for a teacher with thirty kids in a classroom to
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  Speaker 2: be individualized in their approach. However, when they come to
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  Speaker 2: the clubhouse after school, we're one to fifteen, there's another
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  Speaker 2: person in there and they're providing supports, and it's necessary.
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  Speaker 2: Some of our kids would not know how brilliant they
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  Speaker 2: are if those supports were not there for them.
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  Speaker 3: So what is really important that you say that now?
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  Speaker 1: Because we have different support Now I'll be remissed because
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  Speaker 1: you said twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I wasn't. Okay, that ain't a boar or
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  Speaker 3: a girl no more? Okay the bars of the girls club.
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  Speaker 3: And it begins because she said twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: So, not to confuse my audience, tell us about that
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  Speaker 1: up to twenty five?
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Right? So, the Boys and Girls Club of America has
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  Speaker 2: an initiative in place where they're trying to essentially provide
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  Speaker 2: the supports that young people between eighteen and twenty four
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  Speaker 2: that those folks need. Sometimes college is not in the
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  Speaker 2: cards for some people, and we want to be able
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  Speaker 2: to help those young people figure out where their strengths
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  Speaker 2: and their gifts lie and be able to be and
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  Speaker 2: give them the skills and the power really that they
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  Speaker 2: need to be additive to society. And so there is
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  Speaker 2: a complete focus at the clubs across the country to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that those folks who haven't quite figured out
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  Speaker 2: what it is that they want to do and what
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  Speaker 2: exactly their gifts are, that we're there to support them
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  Speaker 2: in figuring that out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but helping out there because I'd like what you said,
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  Speaker 1: But how are you helping them? But is it online tutoring?
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  Speaker 1: Is it that do you have courses like you know?
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  Speaker 1: Because I know that we're in a society now that
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  Speaker 1: nobody's really jockeying for four year degrees like they used
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  Speaker 1: to certificate degrees. A lot of people want to go
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  Speaker 1: and junior college is around or two year community college,
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  Speaker 1: there's an accelerate place as well as online education is
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  Speaker 1: huge positioning and can they see.
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  Speaker 3: This online at your website.
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  Speaker 2: So what we're doing is we're allowing for those young
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  Speaker 2: people to come and serve in different roles here so
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  Speaker 2: that they gain the professional skills that they need to
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  Speaker 2: go out and pursue whatever is next for them. So
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  Speaker 2: there's internship opportunities here, there's actual you know, some of
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  Speaker 2: our you know, eighteen to twenty four are providing supports
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  Speaker 2: to the younger children in the clubhouses and in our
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  Speaker 2: alternate sites. And now what we're thinking to move this
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  Speaker 2: work forward is how can we partner with local organizations
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  Speaker 2: and other you know, clubs like ours to create a
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  Speaker 2: space where kids can learn, let's say, you know, some
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  Speaker 2: of the blue collar skills that are you know, necessary
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  Speaker 2: for society to function. So whether that's automotive, whether that's
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  Speaker 2: cosmatology or that type of stuff. We want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that they are not only learning how to be
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  Speaker 2: a professional, show up on time, be dress appropriately, have
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  Speaker 2: the right types of conversations, and then that they have
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  Speaker 2: a skill that they can go back and use so
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  Speaker 2: that they can you know, provide for themselves and their families.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, another shout out you said was a
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  Speaker 1: shout out number three local businesses, local organizations like yours.
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  Speaker 3: I'll hear that. Give it out that number one more
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  Speaker 3: time and the.
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  Speaker 2: Number is nine seven three two seven nine three zero
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  Speaker 2: five five.
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  Speaker 1: That's what organizations that are similar to what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: and you want to co participate.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely website www dot bgc pp NJ dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Great, as we close out this interview, doctor Brown, thank
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you for coming on my show allowing me to be.
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  Speaker 3: Your bull horn.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you the exposure because this is the many steps.
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  Speaker 1: I'm one of one leg you know, I always tell people,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you know what the good quality marketing is that people
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  Speaker 1: constantly see your brand, People constantly hear your your claim
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  Speaker 1: to success or your needs or your call to action,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and you're called an action to call to action today
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: for the community to come for you. Call to action
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  Speaker 1: today is for corporations and small business and entrepreneurs to
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  Speaker 1: come to you. To call to action today is other
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: organizations and churches that do similar programs to you what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing to come to you. But in the end,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: what are you really trying to accomplish?
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  Speaker 3: In this interview?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And tell everybody what you need so we can get
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: them fired up? Yes, Patterson and past sake, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So I need men and women who are business
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  Speaker 2: owners who can teach our young people the skills that
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: they need to learn in order to become business owners themselves.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I need men and women to come and support us
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: as we are mentoring young people and making good choices
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: and helping them to understand that every choice that they
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: make there is an impact. It's going to be positive
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: or negative. To make the right one. We want people
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: to and donate to our causes and be able to
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: contribute to the programming that we run here at the club.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: About half of our budget for the year comes through
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: donations and so we essentially have to earn four million
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: dollars a year through fundraising, and so we would love
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: for you to share that message. We have a gala
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: coming up called the Great Futures Gala, and we would
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: love for you, know your audience.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: And what's that day just coming up? What's that date?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Yes it is May second, but yes, we would love
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: for you guys to be here. I'm happy to share
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: information with you so that you can get information out
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: to your listeners and your viewers, because we definitely are
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: using this as one of the tools to raise the
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: crucial funding that we need. So I'm super excited about
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: just being here and talking to you, just because it
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: gives just one more opportunity for folks to get to
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: know our club and the good work that we're doing here.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Well, my friend, we've done our job okay, And I
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: want to thank you for taking the time to come
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  Speaker 1: on my show to talk about the Boys and Girls
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Club and more important to talk about you. You know
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that cold jump shot, that cold jump shot that you
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: said you still got some skills tied to.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I definitely still have skill.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I love the confidence.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Again, thank you for coming on Money Making Conversations Masterclass show.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. It was a pleasure meeting you.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you.
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