Inspiring Minds Youngstown

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Welcome to another episode of the grind cast.

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It's a new day.

And we got the crew.

We got the crew in the house.

We got I am Youngstown, Inspire my Youngstown.

We have one of the superstars in the program in the house.

And then we have a couple boss ladies that are running it

on site daily on the grind, saving and changing lives

and impacting our youth.

So why don't we start ladies first

if you could just introduce yourself Miss Tenecia.

And how long you've been with Inspire Mons

and why what kind of brought you and kept you to I am?

Hello everyone.

My name is Tenecia Wheeler.

I've been with I am since 2017.

January of 2017.

What keeps me is the kids.

What brought me is the kids.

That's it.

I'm all about the kids.

Hey man.

Miss Stephanie.

Hey, Stephanie Gilchrist here.

I've been with Inspire Mons now for two years.

August 2017 is when I came on board.

And I'm gonna tell you where brought me to I am

was the love I saw for those children.

I tell you what, what a great program.

I'm in love, been in love every since.

Love it.

Last but not least.

I'm Keelan Dean.

Miss Stephanie.

Stephanie brought me to I am.

She forced me.

Now with her, Miss Tenecia, they love it.

They kept me there.

So talk to me about what you mean by you said

she forced you.

Now Miss, I remember somebody forced me to do some stuff.

Like this.

I'll tell you all about in a minute.

Miss Stephanie, I was speaking at this event for women

of the Mahoning Valley gyms or whatever.

And I was reading a poem that I wrote.

And you know, just speaking and Miss Stephanie.

She was, I want you.

She saw something special in you.

Yes.

Yep.

And you're a chaney right now, right?

Correct.

Yes sir.

And you're a senior.

Yes sir.

Hi.

And so, you know, I'll just ask you, Steph, you know,

can you tell a difference from when some of the kids

first came to the program to now?

God yes.

I have to say the biggest thing is the confidence level,

you know, some of them came in and just low confidence

wouldn't hardly speak or talk to the crew.

Now, you can't get them to get quiet.

They're loud.

They're cheerleading.

They are now involved in digital media.

I mean, it's just a phenomenal change.

When you see that inside growth,

and then it becomes an out work growth.

So yeah, we've definitely seen them grow.

What about you, Tanesha?

I think for me, the biggest difference

is when a kid struggles with something academically.

And you really push them.

And then eventually that one day it just kind of clicks.

I think that's probably the best difference I've seen

in any kid, especially some of the kids we have now.

Once they get it and they really lock in,

then they tap into that power we tell them they have.

No, why this gentleman right here?

Why out of everyone, this is you're like,

all right, we got to bring him.

Keelan is the bomb.

He gives that.

He's our star student outside of the fact

that he's a senior.

He's a leader.

He takes control even when we're at the building,

just with the kids, the younger kids.

He's making sure they're in line.

He's mentoring.

He's just, he's really that dude.

I love it.

What do you think about these two, Keelan?

That it goes.

Yeah, it goes.

That it goes.

What do you, what do you, so far?

And I know it's early.

You know, I know when I was your age,

I had no idea what I wanted to do.

And most of the things in my mind that I wanted to do

weren't the right things.

So what do you see yourself, you know, doing?

What's the vision right now?

Do you have any gut instinct on what you want to do?

Right now.

You know, when you're young, it always change.

But as of right now, I see myself like doing with Mr. F.

Neesha doing.

Whether it's going in education,

I mean, I think I want to start an education then.

He's my way into the nonprofit.

Awesome.

So you'd like to do something like this for this program

or another program, eventually, ultimately be able to help others

in a role of running a nonprofit.

Sure.

Well, sounds like you're already getting good experience.

You know, sounds like you're helping us out and taking control.

What field trips, you know, I know you guys have been

in the last couple of years.

We started to bounce.

You know, I went to the one in Pittsburgh,

the science center with us.

I know we've done some college tours.

We're going to be doing some stuff down south.

Can you tell us a little about just in the last couple of years

that you've been around?

What stuff have we done as a group field trip wise out of the city?

So definitely, it's been some college tours.

I think that was very impactful was when we went to Philadelphia

to tour the HBCU's there.

And then we also were able to go see the female founded School of Art

and Design in Philadelphia, which was very powerful in pack with our students.

I think that's always good because a lot of times our students feel like

they're limited to just one thing or to one location.

And when you could take them outside of their own city and their own backyard

and see other things, then they definitely, I say, expose your changes

lives and changes minds.

And that's what happens.

I agree.

Yeah.

I agree.

Philly, for me, Philly was our first big college trip.

And I think it's set the tone for the chapter, but then it also set the tone

for our expectation for our kids.

Because once we expose you, there's no excuse.

You know what's out there.

So just getting them to just plant their feet in Philly was big.

Some of them had never even left Youngstown.

That was major.

I remember, I've answered this to donors when we go over where we're spending the money

and the budget.

Why do you spend that much on the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh?

Why would you take them to this place, oh wow, or spend money on these types of things

at all?

And it's hard to, you got to explain that inspiring somebody's mind starts with exposure.

It starts with showing them something that exists out there that's possible that oftentimes

people don't even know exists.

You know, I didn't know the world that I'm currently living in right now existed.

I mean, how can you think about something that you haven't really seen yet?

So I think that to show is to start to help people educate themselves in creative vision.

I know my mom and I, we would, for Christmas and it's the holiday season right now, you

know, one of the favorite things we would do is we would drive to Canfield or Bourbon

and we would go see all the nice houses and we would go see all the lit up homes and

the decorations and all that stuff.

And I just remember being like, what do these people do?

You know, when I look back on it, I'm thinking like, I was excited to get that time with my

mom.

I think I would get excited to, like, I didn't know it, but I was creating a vision.

Like I want that.

I don't know what they do, but I'm going to figure it out and I'm going to get one.

You know what I mean?

And so I think that type of stuff is what sparks people.

What are your plans for the future of inspiring minds?

And I could tell you, I told Stephanie today, you know, we, I talk about we keep it 100,

right?

You know, I need to know that we got Tom Brady, you know, playing for the Patriots.

How long do I have you?

You know what I mean?

Right.

That's just a year, two years.

Like are you doing?

And she's like, no, I'm all in.

You got me for a long time.

Not one year, not three years, not four years.

But you know, I think it was huge for me to know that you're all in to the point where,

you know, I don't have to sweat you being all in for the next few years.

So what is your vision of where do you see this thing and what do you guys want to do with

it?

So on the way up, we just had a discussion about a school.

I would love to see inspiring minds become what our students want to see.

Because every day we get the privilege of picking our students up in the beautiful

bands that were purchased, thanks to a fundraiser done here in Pittsburgh with the stillers.

And I tell you what, when you get, hear your kids getting a car every day saying they hate

their school, they hate their teachers and they explain to you why.

And you investigate and you go to the school with their parents and you can feel the vibe.

And it's not a good environment for learning.

I definitely say, I wish we could have you all day.

I can't even imagine the impact and that we would have on our kids and this community

if we had you all day.

That would just be phenomenal.

So that's something I would love to explore is how could we eventually get a little

small school?

Well, maybe we got back up.

We do.

Since that's part of the vision, we might have somebody that can run that something that

size or help us run that, run that size because, you know, I know these young ladies

will be willing to mentor you and help you.

So speaking of which, what have you learned from Stephanie or Tanisha currently right now?

Like what's the skill that you've learned from them or inspire minds that you're like,

all right, I learned that here.

I'd already say the importance of like connections.

I mean, that's always something that like, you know, people say more of my uncles and family

that, but they like demonstrated or showed me how important it was.

Just like knowing people, talking to people, getting out there, the fundraising and all

that stuff.

Like, what's your favorite part about the program?

I don't think she's forcing you anymore.

So now that you're not forced and you're actually coming on your own will, what things

have brought you back?

What have you learned to like or look forward to?

I say the younger ones, especially the boys, the little homies, like they, I just, you

know, showing up at the building when they're not expecting me to come there and they're

like excited to see me, you know, jumping on me.

So you are already just like pouring back into them.

Yeah.

You like helping, you like coming there to help other people?

Yeah.

Basically already in your heart.

Yeah.

So that, I think that's probably that's the best part out of all of it.

God bless you.

We're lucky.

We're lucky to, where do you get that heart from?

You know, that's like, I don't think there's many 17 year olds or is that how old you

are right now?

Just straight 18.

18.

So there's not many 17, 18 year olds that are saying, you know what I want to do is after

school, I want to go help other people.

You know what I mean?

Most people like, I want to kick it.

You know what I mean?

I want to go do this.

I want to go do that.

But you want to come already and help others in making impact.

Where does that come from?

Where was that learned?

I'm mostly, I probably feel more for the boys being I didn't have a big brother.

You know, I had a big sister, but you, I mean, you know how, or not, how I have a big sister

is.

But it's like, when you got a big brother, that's something.

So I could feel for him.

Yeah.

So you know, that was one of my inspirations is growing up without my father and my life,

knowing that kids needed somewhere like this and some male mentors and and female mentors,

just a place to go after school.

You know, I would think of what I was doing and when was that happening, a lot of it was

because I just was bored or nobody could really quite watch me because they were still

working, you know, all day to try to get out of that situation.

So now I'm home alone and I'm bored, you know, it's in no dad to hold me accountable

as game time.

You know what I mean?

So I knew I knew that was, you know, that was something sounds like just you, you not

having that.

Did you, I don't know what your situation is.

Did you have mom, dad, what does that look like?

Yeah, mom's around, always been around.

She gonna stay around.

Um, pops, you know, incarcerated.

So, but I do have a stepfather, you know, he stepped up to the plate.

Big time.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

So, you know, I'm grateful.

Shout out to all the men that that step up and do that.

There's not many out there that want to take on the, the, the, it's an amazing thing,

but I don't know.

There's not a lot of people volunteering to want to take on the burden of somebody that's

not their own child.

I lived it.

You know what I mean?

I was that, you know what it means?

So, shout out to all the people out there doing stuff like that.

And, and what area do you guys think, or matter of fact, why don't we start with this?

Why don't we keep it real about, you know, I, all the time I get people that approach

me.

And now that we have this, you know, program up and running and, and we got, we're going

on, five years to celebrate.

It's people that want to start nonprofits, or they want to do stuff like this, always

coming up to me, talking to me about, all right, what do I got to do to start one of these?

You know, how would I want to, and I mean, I think if people really knew what it required

in the statistics on the programs that actually make it and, and how low they are, it, it,

just, it's not easy.

It's not easy to build, it's not easy to do, it's not easy to start, and it's not easy

to keep doing on a consistent basis.

So, why don't, why don't you guys, from your perspective, talk about what kind of effort

that it takes to make something like this happen?

It's not a clock in, clock out type thing.

No, not at all.

We worked 14 hours yesterday and still had to go home and be moms.

So, some days you just really are locked in and nothing else, nothing else gets your attention.

So you have to be ready to literally commit all the time that it requires.

Parents call after hours, weekends, holidays, if they need you, you have to pick up.

So it's something that it has to really be purpose driven, like I call it purpose driven

life.

It's, this is our purpose driven life.

Because if it's not your purpose, it'll, it'll drain you.

So we were talking about it.

Absolutely.

It drains you.

It will, it will drain you.

Because I mean, my phone is wrong in 11 o'clock at night.

My son's throwing dishes at me.

What do I do?

So it's, you gotta love it.

It'll test, it'll test your, you're not only test your love, but it'll test your

heart.

It'll test your heart.

It'll, it'll test your mental toughness.

It'll, it'll put you in a position to doubt yourself and, and, and, and you think, you

know, I think about all the times where I thought about quitting.

I think about myself.

You know what I mean?

I did enough.

I could turn this sucker over to somebody now.

We got this thing rolling a little bit.

Somebody got to have a heart for this thing.

I got three kids and a wife.

I'm like, no, no, no.

We don't quit.

We don't give up.

We're doing the right thing for so many people.

We have to continue to do what we're doing.

Thank God.

Thank God that I would win those conversations with myself.

I know there's just people would love to do what you do, but they don't want to do really

what you do.

They want to say that they're helping.

They really do want to help until you realize how much work that it actually requires.

That's what it's all about.

That's what I say to some people when they say I want to start a nonprofit.

But my first question is always how much do you love what you do?

Because you have to love it because it sacrifices that you have to make.

Other people say you're crazy for making them.

You can be making so much more money.

That's another thing in nonprofit.

The money is not, you don't make a ton of money working in a nonprofit.

You may give sometimes more than you may when you're in a nonprofit.

That's why sometimes you have to know that your reward is the result.

That is the result of, now, we have a key and that's what I want to do with they're doing.

That's amazing.

Because that means we have some impact.

You can't go into a nonprofit world thinking that it's easy.

You won't make sacrifices.

Also, you have to understand it takes a lot of resources, human and financial resources

to make a nonprofit work and be successful and have that.

I'll never look at it.

I know that when I started the Youngstown chapter, since then, I've become more charitable

and other things.

The reason why it's number one is seeing people like you and the product that gets kicked

out in the people's lives that you're actually impacting.

You could talk to them and you could touch them.

Keelens right here.

It makes it more personal to you.

Because I know how hard it is and what a grind it is, I'm more charitable to others

that I see doing stuff like this.

If I know it's right.

Because I know what they're going through.

I know the grind, I know the struggle, I know what it requires and the amount of work that

it takes.

I really appreciate that about you guys.

Especially not everybody's going to run this and be single.

It's just like I don't get to run a business with all single people with no kids.

Life is real life is like a lot of people have kids.

You got your own kids and you're running this program and your priority is also, these

are my kids, but I also have my own kids and I got my own family to maintain.

It would be hard to understand unless you can think about, imagine having your own children

that you got to take care of and your own family.

You also got this thing and it's run until 6, 7 o'clock and we're care about the people.

Really, you just ended up with more family.

You ended up with like, okay, we had three kids and now we got 40 kids.

We got 25 kids and I'm worried about all of them.

That's what you guys have been able to do.

What's one memory that you could think of about inspiring minds that sticks out to you?

For me yesterday, I was going to say the same thing yesterday.

Yesterday we had a real dope encounter with the kid and the Christmas party was cool.

It was nice but we have a student's name is EJ.

EJ is a force.

He hasn't tapped into that power but he's a force.

So yesterday we all kind of...

You could tell he got it.

Yeah, we all kind of tapped in.

We all kind of tapped in a couple of our male mentors and we really just dug lovingly.

We dug and we kicked down a brick wall for him.

It was an emotional barrier and we kicked it down and we really saw a change even in that

moment, a changed kid.

So it was like, it restored us.

It was like restoration.

I'm tired and weary but you know.

We kicked it in.

We kicked it in.

Yeah, just focused on him because we were all so concerned.

And what was beautiful about it is there was not one from the hardest guy in the room to

all of us.

We were in tears because we saw a breakthrough actually happen and it was the most beautiful

experience that we have yet to have at Inspiring Minds.

And I mean we love all the kids but when we see just one, have that moment of breakthrough

and all you need.

No doubt.

It's what it's all about.

That's what it's about.

And then now he can go out and impact other students in the program and outside of the

program.

Like they're doing because you're not some more leaders.

You're going to lead no matter what.

So to lead down the right path.

Now let me ask you, Keelan, why do you...

What advice would you give to somebody that was maybe in high school or coming up and

how to stay on the right path?

You know what I mean?

Like you stayed on the right path.

You didn't have your blood, your dad there and you're in Youngstown.

I mean that's not an easy thing to do and end up with this mindset at the end all

of that.

What things can you grab that you're like, all right, this helped me, this helped me,

or this would be my advice to somebody that wants to stay on the right track or has kids

that need to stay on the right track where you're like, this was a good move.

This is what I was suggesting.

This is how I was able to do it.

I probably said, I first stayed motivated and get help.

Like a lot of people are afraid to ask for help.

Exactly.

And I mean if you don't have the help, you don't have to experience.

Why do you think people don't want to ask for help?

Youngstown?

I mean, Youngstown.

Pride.

Pride is the pride to kill you.

Yeah.

You ever hear that?

Pride comes before the fall.

You know what I mean?

Ego kills dreams.

Pride is expensive and I want to win.

It'll cost you.

You know what I mean?

So what you're talking about is I put your pride to the side, ask for help.

If you ask, there'll be people that are willing to help you.

Or even have the pride to where I'm not going to let nothing fail me.

So how do I do this?

Use the pride as a positive.

Exactly.

I do have pride, but I'm not going to let.

So use the pride, don't let the pride use you.

Exactly.

You know what I mean?

Put that on the tee shirt.

Use the pride, don't let the pride use you.

And so I use the pride to say, all right, I got so much pride that I ain't going to lose.

So I got to ask the answers to this so I can get this down and master it.

That makes a lot of sense.

How do you stay out of trouble?

Stay involved.

Busy.

Yes.

Always doing something.

Stay active.

Exactly.

Stay busy.

They say what is it?

I don't mind is the devil's playground.

You know what I mean?

So you got to know that about yourself.

I think, you know, one of the tricks to being on the right meal plan.

You know I don't like to use the word diet because people think diet and they think

it automatically means that you got to try to lose weight.

But just to eat clean and eat healthy, I think the key is just not having it in your house.

Exactly.

Like I'm human.

You know, if I look at a bag of Oreos, I want to eat them.

I want to eat them.

You know what I'm saying?

Don't eat them.

If I drive by Handles Ice Cream.

I want to stop there.

You know what I mean?

And so if I had Handles Ice Cream in my house all the time and I had Oreos in my house

all the time and Pete said all the stuff that I love that I know I shouldn't be doing

eventually even if I'm strong for a month.

You know what I mean?

Out of a month, there's going to be three or four days where I'm like, all right, I'm

eating some of this pizza.

You know what I mean?

And so you just try to not keep it.

That's one of my tricks.

It's just don't I don't even want to be around it.

I want to look at it.

You know when people come out like does anybody want dessert?

And you're like, no, thank you.

Don't bring the menu out here.

Right.

You know, and they bring out the whole tray.

You know what I mean?

Because they know you're going to see that and you're going to want it.

The key is just not putting yourself in that.

You got to get out of that environment.

Keep yourself busy to not be thinking about this stuff over here because if you're bored

and you're just sitting there and not doing nothing, but people get lazy.

You know, they want to sit there and not do nothing.

And I think it's not because they want to get in trouble.

They don't realize that sitting here and doing nothing is going to that's what gets you

in trouble.

You know what I mean?

That's that's that's my perspective.

That's true.

Who do you look up to?

Who's your idols?

Who's your mentors?

Who's people that you look up to in this world?

Myself.

Okay.

No, this is a, I mean, it's a certain way that, you know, I know I want to live by like,

I have my own morals and I mean, I got that from people who, you know, like my mom,

she don't give up my dad, like my biological father, you know, he's willing to admit that

he's wrong.

He knows so like, you know, my dad, my mom's even, you know, younger people like my little

brother, you know, like he has a lot of pride.

You can tell him is left and he knows that it's right.

So he will find any and every way to support his answer.

Yeah.

So, you know, not giving up.

You know, just stubborn, you got to use the stubborn in the right way.

Exactly.

You know, that can hurt America and help him.

He can be an attorney or he could get himself in trouble with that.

Yes.

So I feel like taking pieces of, you know, other people and making your own, you know,

vision of how you want to be.

I think that's how, you know, that's how you should live your life or that's what you

should strive to be.

Who you want to.

No doubt.

No doubt.

So, what is one thing, you know, we've all, you know, you guys, you teach and work with

young men and women all the time.

What would you say is something that the kids have taught you?

Besides patience.

That's a big one.

That's a huge one is patience.

My wife and kids taught me.

But I would definitely say something that they taught me was to not ever judge a book

by its cover when it comes to our youth.

They've taught me how to love past their pain because sometimes we're so quick to say,

oh, she's fast or he's this and put titles on them.

So they've taught me how to love them past their pain and they taught me how to be more

cautious in what I say to them.

Words are powerful.

So one day we did an exercise where everyone had to look up the meaning of their name.

We had to say act according to what your name means because a lot of times we take on

the names that people give us like adjectives that do not define us.

So that's something they've taught me as well.

Now I'm more cautious with my words.

Yeah.

For sure.

How about you, Tanisha?

Tanisha, tell everybody your nickname for me.

Do you know what your nickname is for me?

The warden?

Yes.

The warden.

She started yelling.

I'm like, oh.

She was yelling.

Take that hat off the other day.

I'm like, oh, you're not.

She's like, no, not you, not you.

I'm like, oh, talk about that.

That's how they're doing.

That's how they're feeling.

That's how they're feeling.

Stay in line.

For me, that unconditional love outside of my child, I feel like I first, I'm the warden

and I come in and they're still like, hey, the city should they're hanging on me.

They're still loving me.

So even when I have to correct them or chastise them, they still love me.

And there's nothing I can do that could stop them from loving me.

And that's a dope feeling to have a room for the kids.

You know what I think that is?

And that's leadership.

But I think what that is, Tanisha, is when you really sit back and think like, all right,

you love your mom?

Why do you love your mom?

When you really think about it, if we go through that process, it's going to come down

to because she loved you first.

You know what I'm saying?

Like she showed you love first so much love that you can't help but to love that back.

You know what I mean?

So when you give that much love, people know that it's real.

And so it's hard to not love that.

You know what I'm saying?

Back.

So people can really, especially our kids, you know, that's the positive.

That's where I start.

You know, when I start saying they say New York, you can make it here.

You can make it anywhere.

Like if you can make it in Youngstown, you can make it anywhere.

I was, that was the biggest blessing.

You know, I'm so grateful to stand in, in welfare line at McGuffy Plaza.

You know, I'm just, I'm grateful for that.

I'm grateful that I was in the juvenile justice system.

You know, I'm, I'm not grateful of some of the memories of what happened to people that

I was around.

But I'm, I'm grateful that I lived to get through that and to use that to help other people

that go through the same type of struggle even worse than me.

You know what I mean?

And so what other things have the kids taught you, Warden?

It's in them.

Like we say, it's so cliche.

Like you can do anything.

They really do remind you.

Like if they tap into that power, if they tap into that Keeling, they can move mountains

and they, they have.

There is some victories that our kids have that are big.

You know what was crazy for me, this, this, this, I think it was the summer.

I came to visit and when, when I came in the first hour, y'all were working on reading.

And I don't know if that, that was just a summer thing or if that's something that we're

doing.

But I know I sat there and watched every kid stand up in front of all their peers and

talk about what they just read.

They, they, if you look up statistically, what is the biggest fear of people in America,

the biggest fear is public speaking.

First or second place is their biggest fear is public speaking.

I think it's like dying and then public speaking.

You know what I mean?

So you got kids that are already getting comfortable projecting their voice and speaking in front

of their, their, their peers at 12 years old, 10 years old.

You know, and I look back and I'm like, all right, this is what I'm talking about because

I could literally look back and say, I wasn't doing that.

You know what I'm saying?

I'm already out in front right now.

You just can't lose ground.

Don't go backwards.

But you are ready for.

further ahead of a lot of millionaires

that I know and I'm one of them.

You know what I'm saying?

You're already starting out doing stuff, seeing stuff,

colleges, you know, other businesses and places

that y'all take them and we had kids eating sushi.

You know what I mean?

I didn't eat sushi till I was 25 years old.

I was 40 something.

You know what I mean?

I didn't like, that was a bit,

and it took me a lot to get there to try stuff like that.

So just the experiences that,

where are we going on the field trip?

This upcoming year, 2020, you were talking about downsides.

We're going to the South.

Yeah, we're going to go to Alabama for a cultural experience.

We're going to go to EJI, the Equal Justice Institute.

We're reading the book, Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson.

So we're going to completely come full circle with that trip.

And then we're going to get to Atlanta.

We're going to take them to Morehouse, Spelman, and Clark.

And then we'll explore the city, that culture.

Most of them haven't been down South.

It means Stephanie Levin, Atlanta.

So we're excited about that.

Hot Atlanta.

Hot Atlanta.

So to close out, I think speaking of close out, the clothes are out.

Okay, we got, they're out here.

Everybody is asking, how did they get these?

How did they get these?

And you got them in January, you're going to have a link?

Or we'll put something out.

Because everybody's been asking about these specifically.

I got, it's cool.

I got people hitting me up in other states that want these shirts

right now to Rep Youngstown.

Giovanni got his back there on right now.

I got people in my agency that were,

you know, everybody.

So we got them, we got them coming.

But what other ways, when is the next fundraiser that people can contribute to?

I know I have a thing going on January 17th.

It's limited.

I think we're only going to do 20 people.

We got a bunch of former Super Bowl winners.

We have people that played at Ohio State.

We have national champ coaches in Jim Trussell.

We got Kelly Pavlik, World Champ Boxer, Mike Tomzack, who was back up for the Steelers

and End of Starter for 10-year plus veteran.

We have a bunch of superstars and up and coming superstars out, gaining support.

Ryan Shaziri, told me, committed right now for the Steelers he's in, as long as they're

not still in the playoff.

So we're rooting for him.

But I'm also, you know, either way I'm excited.

You know what I mean?

It's like, okay, you know, I'm in Pittsburgh.

I don't, you know, it's all right.

If they keep going even on my Browns fan.

But it would be great if he was able to be there again.

I think we're starting to create like this is just what we do.

Like we want to come together and people are buying into that.

So we got that, the 17th at Napa Prime up here.

We have an event here in Pittsburgh in March.

And then we have our Gala in Youngstown June 7th.

It's a Sunday.

It's a Sunday.

So we'll have some more details on that.

But that is going to be more of a, I want everyone to come out as a fundraiser that

we definitely focus on our students.

We want to celebrate the five years of impact that we've had.

And that's what we're going to do.

We're going to travel through time and just talk about the impact and show all of our

students and our seniors.

So we're excited about that one.

I love it.

I love it.

Okay.

Well, Keelan, thank you to Nisha.

Thank you as always, Warden.

Appreciate you.

No hats.

And Stephanie, thank you for everything that you do.

I appreciate that contract extension that you gave me.

Now it's public.

So thank you so much.

I love you guys.

Appreciate you.

Let's get it.

Keep grinding.