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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello everyone, welcome to another edition of the Pulse.
I am Stormy with you. Thank you for joining us today.
We always keep our fingertips on the pulse of our community.
And I'm gonna tell you something. Off the way from
City Hall, from the Mayor's office, I have a special
guest in here with me today. Do you want me
to introduce you or let me let you introduce yourself.
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Tell everybody who you are and what it is that
you do.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey, my name is doctor Reginald Boys. So, first of all, Stormy,
thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I serve as Director of Community Fairs for the City
of Memphis and also special assistant to the Mayor, and
so my job is really simple. It is to connect
the voices and the hearts of the residents to the
Mayor's offices, to this administration. Okay, so just to make
sure I call ourselves the plug, which means whatever the
citizens need, whatever resource they need, they can reach out
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to our office and we're going to find a way
to connect them to the right source. Even if we
can't do it, we're going to make sure we provide
them with the right service.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well, how in the world do you do that because
it's a lot of people around here. You know what
I'm saying. It is the big job.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It is, and that's why relationships are important. Every time
I meet someone, I want to know what you do,
how can you help? What area do you serve in?
So when I meet someone like a young Reginald Boys
who says, hey, I need this done, I need help
in this area, I can say I got contacts for
that and I'll send it to them. So I just
really believe.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You are the plug that come do there you go, okay, well,
thank you again for coming and being on the show,
because you're not just working in the director of that office,
but you're also a house Absolutely. Do you hope.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
My voice does something at the end of the I
do celebrate at the end. So that is that a yes? Yes,
I can do it. All do it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's a gift.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's a gift. Everybody can do it. Everybody can do it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm trying to tell you, but thank you for what
you do you and and for the office that you hold.
I'm sure you are really connecting. Are you the person
that puts together the meetings? When mayor Young goes to
speak in certain communities in neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Absolutely. So we have what we call it started out
as the Mayor's town Hall, the Memphis town Hall. Well,
now we've rebranded it to our era of Yes and
so what that is, you know, the mayors starting to
get everybody to say yes to Memphis, yes to business,
yes to growth, yes to change. And so we re
rebranded the town Hall to our era of Yes. And
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so now we do them not only just in the communities,
but in our colleges and our universities. And so we
have a college addition, how do we get our students
and those who are visiting Memphis for school, how do
we get to how can we retain them and recruit them?
And so even if they do leave Memphis for three
four years for a master program for something else, how
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do we get them back and whatever experience and exposure
they received in a different state, in a different city,
they can bring that back here and make Memphis better.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What are we doing to do that? Because we all
know a young person that's gone to college or gone
off and they're like, I ain't coming back. How do
we get them to come back? How are you all
getting those young our young people? You know, we want
them back home.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We do, we do well. First thing we're doing is
we're being honest. There's a songwriter by the name of
David Ruffin the late David Ruffins who had a song
guy said they ain't too proud to be. So we
are in this begging season and we let every young
person know that all of these amazing cities like Atlanda,
like Houston, like Charlotte, they don't need our young people,
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right they want them, but they don't need them Mephis.
We're in a need aspect right now. We need every
young and gifted and talented person that's out there. And
you know, I know people don't want to be a
part of the building process. They just want to move
and enjoy what's available. But I think this is a
special time that our young people can come back and
help build MEPHIS to what it can become and the
potential that it has. And so that's one of the
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ways we're doing it. And we're also talking to business
owners out here and entrepreneurs and leaders and saying, hey,
how can you partner with us and give some our
young people internships and opportunities and intro level work. And
so we got some real relationship building that we're trying
to do now. So that way hei young people say okay,
I want to come back here. And so there's a
lot of other conversations we do have to have to
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make them want to come back, especially when you're talking
about in terms of housing and residential because but the
cost of living here, I mean, you know it's great, yeah,
you know, it's amazing, but they want to make some
real money and we want them to make some real
money too.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So yeah, now your program that you have started, and
I know you had a big event at Golden Gate
Cathedrals a little while ago. Lead like a dad, Yes,
whose idea was that?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
All right? So it was a conversation the Mayor and
I had. He was like, you know, I really want
to start doing something for families, right, And you know,
with with my role in Director of Community Fairs, I'm
always thinking in terms of community, how can we make
a community better? And I think about certain neighborhoods in
Whitehaven and Walker Homes where you have families who've lived
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in there for generations and it's typically because you have
you had a household that had everybody had the dad,
that had the mom. Even if the dad had transitioned,
you know, mom was there raising those kids, and then
it became the family home. And then those type of
neighborhoods always thrive because when you had a strong household,
the neighborhood would become stronger. Yes, right, And so then
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investors and all those others don't usually move in, you know,
so quickly into those spaces, and you know, it's much
safer because everybody knows somebody. And so we started this
thing called first Legacy house. It's called Legacy House nine
oh one. So what does it look like to have
a house, right, a family system that leaves a legacy.
And so when we started thinking through that, I said, well,
I think we need to start with dads. Right, if
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the family and the household is going to be strong,
that we need to make sure we're pouring into our
fathers and that we're giving them the resources to be successful.
Absolutely right. We're removing barriers for them so that way
a dad can be present and even if he's not,
you know, feel married to the to the mother of
the child. Uh, if they're separated, they never got married,
how can we ensure that the father is still a
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part of this child's life. Oh, that's going family system.
And so we started thinking through barriers for the dads
that's gonna you know, that's that we can remove. And
here's the beauty of it. We didn't assume what barriers existed.
We talked to some fathers, We put some surveys out
there and your father, Yeah, absolutely, and so I know
exactly what exists. Uh, in my own personal life, there
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were barriers. But we started talking to these dads like,
tell us, you know what's keep Do you even feel
comfortable as a dad? You feel successful? And you'll be
surprised by some of those numbers where there are men
out here that are operating as a dad. But a
lot of times they're doing it with questions, right and
they're they're they're like, man, I don't even think I'm
doing this right now.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I'm not surprised. I'm a mother and I've done that
tons of times. But yeah, I guess I kind of
would with men, because you know, you guys don't show
your emotions and and and we can't always tell what's
happening with y'all. We can't read your faces. Y'all got
poka faces.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We do, we do, But then a lot of stuff.
We take the heart and we go to sleep with it,
and we stress out and we start aging early. And
so you know, we look at some of the women
like yourself that exists like, oh man, you're forty. You
don't look forty six, you don't look sixty. But here
we are twenty five and we look eighty five because
of the things we carry in our hearts. Yeah, because
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we don't want to stress in public, right, And that's
so one of the classes that we taught was the
pressure to perform. And so when our instructors facilitators just
kind of talk through that, like do you feel like
you have to perform all the time as a dad,
perform all the time, as a husband, perform all the time,
you know, as an employee in the space that you're in.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
What was the answer that you got?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh there, Yes, there are people that feel like they
have to perform. But now we want them to know
that you don't have to operate. And that's what we share.
You don't have to operate from a place of performance
but for a purpose and realize that you exist for
a re and so you don't have to put on
a show as a dad. You don't have to hit
it at the ball every after park, every time that
there are times where you make a mistake as a
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dad and you got to own it. You got to
share that with your child and say, look, look I
got this wrong my dad. You know, it wasn't until
I was an adult. I'm blessed. I come from a
blended family, so I have two dads and so so
you know, I always wondered about, you know, the divorce
my parents, and it wasn't until I became an adult
where he kind of shared with me, Hey, yeah, this
is where some areas went wrong and this and that.
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But you know, it would be great if kids start
hearing that early in their life, right, you know, and
not just for dad. So we got someone them call
like a mom too, so where our parents are just
honest with their kids period in an appropriate way. Right.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So when you say two dads, your mother she remarried, me, okay,
she remarried and then your father.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Who's yeah, thanks for the clarification. So to clarify, I
really appreciate that. So, yeah, at the age of four,
my parents divorced, and then my mom remarried when I
was seven, and so you know, we don't call you know,
our bonus parents stepparents. So I still call I call
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my biological dad dad. I call my stepdad dad.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, see, that's got to be a pretty serious relationship
for you to call your stepdad dad. Is your dad okay?
With you calling your stepdad dad?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Not only is he okay? I watched them when they
talk they I mean, you know, because so my my
biological dad is a deacon and my stepdad is a pastor.
So they're believers. They're Christians right out of the same church,
by the way, not the same church. And so so
you know, so they don't mind me calling you know,
both of them dad. But also when when they see
each other, how they engage and how they have a conversation.
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And so that's one of the things too. We even
talk about, you know, when the child does have a
bonus father in their life. Yeah, when the when the spouse,
the ex spouse, whether it's the girlfriend or the wife
moves on, Like how do you have a relationship with
that male figure that's in there, Like what conversations do
you need to have? You know, we don't have to
get angry with the next guy because of you know,
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the relationship with you and the other person in word,
you know, you don't have to do it, you guys
collaborate and says, hey, wow, I may not be this
child's father. I am invested as well ensuring that little
Junior or little Sarah grows up and give another name
little let's what say, little Emily name? Well, you're not
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even want to be too cultural grows up okay, okay, okay,
that grows up and knows that she's loved and God
loves her enough to give her bonus love. And that's
where one starts saying that as a bonus.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Reginald boys pastor doctors?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Which one got me? Either one everything and child.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Because because with a culture that we're in right now,
and what's happening in Memphis with with you know, all
the attention that's on memph right now, and not just
that attention, but the attention that we're seeing from our
young men all across the country, so much so that
people have coined them by another name. They're a why
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And so hearing that and seeing what is happening with
our young men right now, how does that especially our
young men that I'm talking about, the ones who are
kind of into things that are not, you know, they
that they shouldn't be. How does that make you feel?
As a father, a pastor, and being in this community,
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how does that make you feel?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So one of the other many you know, have many jobs,
many assignments. So I'm also a chaplain for our juvenile
justice system, right, And so I go out and I
mentor and I speak to the young boys and the
young girls that's incarcerated in our juvenile system. And there
was one young man in particular in this story hunts me.
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So this is why I feel like I do fail
and I have failed as a pastor, as a leader
in the community. He was in a situation where he
and his brother were together. His brother ends up getting
killed while they're in the car, and so he shoots
back as well, you know, because his brother just got shot.
So he shoots back and because the other person is
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killed as well, and he gets arrested. He's a young guy.
He's seventeen years old, you know, he's almost at that
age where you can be charged as an adult, right.
And so the individual went through all of this. And
so when I was there just talking and I just
noticed this guy, he just kept staring and I said,
you know, what's wrong? He says, I'm just listening. I'm
just listening. I said, okay, cool, So I'm still talking everybody.
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I'm teaching. And then at the end of the session,
this is what he said to me in front of everybody.
Why do you all wait till we get here for
us to hear this kind of information? My god, I said,
I said, you know, surely you know, I'm sure there
are people in your community. He says, no. Man, he says,
I don't hear none of this, Oh my god, until
I got here, right, which, let me know, no one
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was in the house boring into him. He probably didn't
go to church, so no one was leading him to church, right,
even if he was in school, he was probably I mean,
and he was so minerable. I mean, if you watch
him and you look at him, the way he carried himself,
that just messed me up. Oh yeah, I'm still getting
chills every time I talk about it. And it broke
my heart because he was right. There are times where
we're expecting them to come to us, and for he's like, nah, man,
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why do you all wait till we are in a
situation like this? And so since then, that's why I've
been very intentional that when I see someone, whether it's
at the gas station, you know, Spody walk up and
they got a sweatshirt on and his ninety five degrees outside.
Hey brother, how you doing may Man?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You look good?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
How are you staying safe out here? You know, I'm
finding some kind of way to least break the ice
to have a conversation, so that way, before you know
I leave, it's always hey, O gi, I got a question.
I got a question for you.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Man.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I like your suit. You know this man who make
your suit for you? And all this kind of stuff.
They start asking questions because really, what they're saying in
so many words, man, I need some help. I need
a voice in my life. I need someone who sees
me beyond what I got on, beyond the label that
people attached to me. I need someone that recognizes that
I exist. And we start breaking through that ice, you
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start seeing that these are kids for real, they're still kids.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
What would you tell us to do, because all of
us could do that. We all see a young person
in some sort of situation at gas stations or something.
What would you encourage all of the people in Memphis
that have the wherewithal to say something to somebody because
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they don't know. A lot of people don't know where
do I start, What do I say? What would you
encourage us all to do?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah? Well, so, first of all, Memphis, we're a very
hospitable town city, you know. I mean we go places
and speak in different cities. You know, we'll go all
the way to the West coast and say hey to
people and they looking at us crazy, why talking to me?
Because that's what we do in Memphis. But also we
shut down when we're in a situation where there's fear,
we're scared, and we're suspicious of the next person. I
want us to put that suspicion to the to the
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side a little bit. I mean, you can, you can
have some discernment and all that good stuff. But it
doesn't hurt to say, hey, young man, how you doing,
Hey young lady, you're doing all right? You know, just
wave or do something to show a sense of friendliness,
not a sense of being green and vulnerable, but just
letting someone know for that moment, I see you and
I'm here just just speaking, just being encouraging to them.
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But if you see somebody sagging their pants, you don't
don't come off automaticaly pull them pans up, right, I know,
because once you, once you pour into people, you start
you start watching them start self correcting. I tell my
members all the time, I said, let the young girl
come into church with pink care and the short skirt
on and all of that kind of So I said,
let her come. I said, because as she shows up
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and she's she's receiving the word and encouragement from our
elder mothers. I said, you'll notice the hair start turning
black and the skirt becomes a dress, right like, because
people have to grow into it, you know, and they
got to see themselves in a different light. And sometimes
people do things just out of the feeling of rejection.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, and so yeah, yeah, and I think too that
sometimes you have to meet them where they are to
all the.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Time, all the time. You know, let's be honest. Stormy's
not stormy by accident. Someone met you right where you
were and then they showed you and they poured in some.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
One, someone, Thank God for all the someone that poured
into me. And that's why, you know, I think we
all could, we all can do it. That's why I
wanted to ask you that because I feel like if
we all take the time to reach somebody, because see,
and a lot of us to be thinking we got to,
you know, go to the grocery store. No, you got
kids around your house.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's around you. I'm telling you don't have to go far.
This work is right in our face. Yeah, it is
in our face. And especially those that's that's in our
house already, our nieces, our nephews, our children. Yes, stop
branding them. Stop first, don't call them bad, because when
you start calling them bad, they'll take that label on
right or tell you stop, tell them to shut up.
And you know you talk too much because you don't
know you could be raising a little stormy who can
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make you millions of dollars with that voice. But because
you told them to shut up, now they're afraid to
use it right, right, And so I think we got
to start tapping and not think. I know, we got
to start tapping into the potential and start speaking life
to our kids, whether they're malefic, whether you're they're your
kids or not, speak life into that that child inside
of them. There are so many adults like you and
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I that have yet to try to pursue something because
somebody told the kid of them they couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Right right now with this program lead like a dad.
Is it something that's become a program since the event?
Is this something that you're you're you and the mayor
are deciding to do or make bigger?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Sure? Sure? So what we're doing is actually I wanted
to see this more as the great convener. So we
are we the sum It was designed and it is
designed that we're bringing on all these other organizations that's
doing great work, right like a firm and uh great fathers.
It's it's so many different organizations out there that exist,
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so we want to strengthen the work that they're doing. Right.
So the city is not trying to own this. We're
just trying to pour partner and partner there you go,
and empower the organizations that are already doing it and
let folks know, hey, these groups exist, right and they
exist for you, and so what other support can we give? Them?
And so uh so yeah, that's that's the plan that
as we continue, uh these sessions of and these intensives,
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we'll make sure that we're letting all of our residents
know that if you live in this area, hey, this
organization does their work here. If you live in this area,
this is an organization you need to partner with right
that can make sure that your your needs are being met.
And so so lead like a Dad was amazing. I
can't wait for now to do Lead like a mom. Ah.
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And then the other one is lead Next Generational Leaders.
That's where we're talking about school age kids and we're
going to pour into them in real time as well.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I love that. I love all of that. Yeah, I'm stormy.
It is the pulse. And doctor Reginald Boyce on the
show today, if you're just joining us, thank you again
for coming. Lead like a dad, like a mom, like
a Next Generational Leaders. So will you take that into
the schools?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Hey, that's the plan. So we do have some schools
and some schools that have been working with us, and
some schools that's talking about working with us as well,
and so we hope that that can be something that
will become, you know standard.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And what about churches that are already doing the work,
because there are a lot of churches around here that's
doing a lot of work. Churches get a bad rep sometimes,
you know, people think this or that or whatever and
don't realize that there are a lot of people in
a lot of these churches that really are doing some work.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yep. And so we are definitely working with churches. One
of the other roles that I do have with the
City of Memphis, that's my job, is to work with
faith leaders again, how can we strengthen the work that
they're doing, How can we add capacity, help build capacity?
And so there are grants that exists as well. So
you are one of those churches and nonprofit neighborhoods, that's
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that's that's saying, hey, we have this organization to exist
that's helping with building children and public safety. We got
a public safety grant that should be released soon in
the next few weeks, and so, hey, we want to
help these churches and other organizations, you know, build capacity work.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now, when you guys were doing the clean Up Memphis
campaign with a lot of the non nonprofit organizations, is
that what you know that grants that you were giving
to people to help clean up our city.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So we got so there is a grant that does
help with that's the Community Enhancement. They have one that
partners will kind of give a contracts to those that
help clean the city. But what you're probably talking about
is what we just recently did with on your block. Yes,
so yeah, so we didn't give them grants. What what we
did do is give them the supplies. All the churches
that partner with us, we provide the supplies, and we
just asked them, hey, if you can just clean in
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a specific area, an area where it's by your church,
is an area by your school, your employment, and we'll
provide the resources. All we need for you is to
provide the hands and defeat. And so we had over
fifty five churches and organizations that partner with us on
that day September twenty was today.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, and you're gonna do that again, absolutely, because y'all
need to partner with us. Come on and we let
us get in on some of this. You know what
I'm saying, because we can really get the word out
because there's more churches around here than fifty five.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, it's over three thousand, and there.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Are a lot of people that really care about the
community that would have probably been a part of it
but didn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yep. So we're finding it out that a lot of
people say, I didn't know nothing about this, So you'll know,
we want to keep getting the word out. And so
the goal is right now, we've been talking about quarterly,
but what does this look like where people once a week,
you know or monthly just saying hey, we're going to
do we're going to clean it up and they're gonna
do mainten and work right. We're ensuring that it stays
clean for the month, for the then for the quarter
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and the course of the year. And so because one
of the things that happens, well, you know, a group
of go out there and they have remove those tires
on that spot, but then one tire shows up, No
one moves it. Two tires next, you know, is one
hundred tires. So I think we have to start make
sure we're doing real maintenance work and we're teaching this
is gonna be good for our churches too, that we
teach behavior change, you know, because folks are not I mean,
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we got to teach about littering, Like what does it
what does it look like when we start teaching our
churches that when you start throwing trash on the ground,
how this does not benefit your community? How doesn't benefit
the property value?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Because you remember when we were kids, we had the
Native American on the TV crying. So it was in us,
and I'm telling you because it's in me, and I
saw those commercials over and over and over again. Yes,
and it's not something you gonna see me do. If
you see me do it, it's because I don't know.
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I did it, because it's in me to go and
get it and pick it up, and.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You know something to me. Yeah, I mean if I
see it at my church, there's nothing for me to
walk by and I see a mad dog. I think
that's the name of the drink on the ground. There's
there's this here. I mean, it's just weird stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I don't know why you asked me about.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I don't drink. Somebody, listen, it's a mad but you
see all those cans and packets and stuff all there.
But I get it up because again, you know, I
take you know, pride in my church and in my city.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Do you know I did that? One time? I bought
these the clicker things where you can you don't have
to touch it and you pick it up. And somebody
laughed at me. They said, I cannot believe you cleaning up.
And I thought to myself, why because it's my neighborhood too.
If I'm in the neighborhood. If I'm walking in the
neighborho hood and I see trash, how come I can't
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pick it up. I didn't put it down there, but
I don't mind taking.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Out one in my car. I kid, you got the
little yep.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Mine is in my car too.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Look everybody, see we all do. When you get your license,
you get one of these two.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah. I tell you what if y'all start a program
like that, remember when the police department was giving away
the wheel locks. If y'all give away one of those,
I'm coming to get one. Yeah. Can you imagine how
many people would really start to do that when we
do little things to kind of put it back into them.
And I think that's it seems like we lost that,
(24:38):
but but we got to pick it up. We got
to pick that back up. Our generation is on.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Us now, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. I promise.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah. So y'all are doing it.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
We're trying the best.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah. Well that's that's about all they say. You can
do your best. Yeah, and then you know, hey, get
some people to come along with you, and then we
all start doing our best, and then it'll get greater
and greater.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's amazing. I'm excited about it. All the works. So
shout out to Mayor Paul Young. He's do an amazing
work and I'm just so grateful to have it as
our leader.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, So if people want to get in contact with
your office, you guys are talking to doctor Reginald Boys.
People want to get in contact with your office at
the City of Memphis, how do they do that? Because
sometimes for just you know, the regular person, it seems
like the people in your position and beyond are untouchable,
(25:30):
you know what I'm saying, So how do we get
in touch with you?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
All right? So I'm so grateful to know and to
tell everybody this and glad to tell them our administration
is not untouchable. In fact, we have an open door policy.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
So I can just walk down and talk to the game.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Well you won't to talk to somebody from Mayor's office,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay, So somebody will meet me where I am.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Absolutely absolutely, And so number one, you can follow us
on social media. So O c A Memphis that's our
that's my office page, but also just City of Memphis
at City Memphis, that's our webs you know. For the
City Memphis tag candle. But then also if you want
to personally reach out to me, you can email me
at reginal dot boye reginald dot boys b O y
(26:14):
c E b as in ball at Memphis t n
T as in tom in as in Nancy at what
is it Memphis ten dot gov. There it is original
dot voice at Memphis ten dot gov. Email t dot
go dot gov. So email me, send me some information
and I'll make sure to connect you. Last time I
gave my cell phone number out on the Yeah, it definitely,
(26:37):
which I don't mind. I still don't mind. You can
do it. But if you email me, we can we
can make sure we can get your schedule. Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And if we see you on the street and say.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Hey, hey doctor boys, I heard you on the radio.
Let me tell you something earlier today. It's my daughter's birthday. Yeah,
and so we uh we we well, earlier this week
when I went by her school, uh, one of the
kids stopped me. He said, that's him. I didn't know
what that meant. I was on the news a few
(27:06):
days ago. He said that's him. That's him. So yeah,
people you see me and you think I'm him, I
may not be who y'all thinking about it? But yeah,
stop me and I talk to you. That was very encouraging.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I bet it was because he saw you on the news.
But you know when when they say that, what it
really means you him or they say I'm him, but
he meant you were him from the news, but you
are him to.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Come on him.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah. Okay. So the work is being done and and
sometimes people feel like, I guess they don't know where
to go. But I'm so glad that you have told
us where to go in the community when we have
so people have ideas for the community and things like that.
Are you taking those two?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Absolutely? So if you if everyone make sure they follow
the Mayor's newsletter.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
YEA thought that's what I was going to talk about too,
because I follow the newsletter.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, subscribing you can actually submit your ideas and your
concerns there really, yeah, absolutely, so I didn't know that. Yeah,
so you can. You can submit some things even if
the events. So once you read that at the bottom,
is gee some information there that you can do that.
Thank you for telling me.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Absolutely, Okay, So how do they find that to subscribe
to it? Because I don't remember how I did it.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, just go to the City of Memphis webpage, go
to the mayor about who's your mayor? And when you
do there, there's a little link that says subscribe here
for newsletter.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Okay, yeah, I've been telling people, listen, if you really
want to know what's happening. Mayor Paul Young puts the
newsletter together, and I know he I remember getting it
from Mayor Strickland when he was doing it, and now
getting it from Mayor Paul Young. It's like information in
there that I didn't even know what was going on.
I've told people a time or two, Hey, you need
to get that newsletter. You want to know what's happened
(28:55):
to get that news Yeah, so thank you for telling us. So.
City of Memphis.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yep dot com a tam dot gov.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Okay, no, I mean the website.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, it was it.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
City of Memphis dot gov, dot govt go. Okay, we
go to the website, go to the mayor.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
About who's your mayor? Say who's your mayor? You click
on that and then you'll see a link right there.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, yeah, we're going to get that information. Are you
there too? On the City of Memphis website?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I am I'm there. And then also my office is
located at five five five Bill Street, So if you
ever want to come in and you have concerns there
because we also have programs that exist in our office.
We have expungement program that exists there. We have a
program for opportunity youth ages sixteen to twenty four. We
also have our park program that is pa r C
(29:42):
Police Advisor Review Committee, so this is where it deals
with police complaints. So we have an office space there
for there for for that office as well. So if
you ever just ever want to come by and learn
more about community fairs, We're located at five five five
Bill Street.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Okay, five five five Bill Street. We got it, Reginald
Boys at.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Memphis, TN DoD go all right, I almost gave my
number out again.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You can you still have time?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We do? All right? Hit me up nine zero one
six seven four one zero one zero. Okay, you want
to give it again nine zero one six seven four
one zero one zero. You have any concerns, feel free
to reach out there. You go.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Ah, you got that information right here. I am Stormy.
It is the pulse, always keeping our fingertips on the
pulse of our community. Thank you again. To doctor Reginald Boyce,
the Director of Community the city's Office of Community Affairs. Yeah,
any parting words.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Be great and speak greatness in life to others.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I like it all right. Thank you guys for listening
to the Pulse. I am Stormy. We'll see you next week,
same time, same station. God bless you have a great week.
Well, hello everyone, welcome to another edition of the Pulse.
I am Stormy with you. Thank you for joining us today.
We always keep our fingertips on the pulse of our community.
And I'm gonna tell you something. Off the way from
City Hall, from the Mayor's office, I have a special
guest in here with me today. Do you want me
to introduce you or let me let you introduce yourself.
(00:22):
Tell everybody who you are and what it is that
you do.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey, my name is doctor Reginald Boys. So, first of all, Stormy,
thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I serve as Director of Community Fairs for the City
of Memphis and also special assistant to the Mayor, and
so my job is really simple. It is to connect
the voices and the hearts of the residents to the
Mayor's offices, to this administration. Okay, so just to make
sure I call ourselves the plug, which means whatever the
citizens need, whatever resource they need, they can reach out
(00:50):
to our office and we're going to find a way
to connect them to the right source. Even if we
can't do it, we're going to make sure we provide
them with the right service.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well, how in the world do you do that because
it's a lot of people around here. You know what
I'm saying. It is the big job.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It is, and that's why relationships are important. Every time
I meet someone, I want to know what you do,
how can you help? What area do you serve in?
So when I meet someone like a young Reginald Boys
who says, hey, I need this done, I need help
in this area, I can say I got contacts for
that and I'll send it to them. So I just
really believe.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You are the plug that come do there you go, okay, well,
thank you again for coming and being on the show,
because you're not just working in the director of that office,
but you're also a house Absolutely. Do you hope.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
My voice does something at the end of the I
do celebrate at the end. So that is that a yes? Yes,
I can do it. All do it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It's a gift.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's a gift. Everybody can do it. Everybody can do it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I'm trying to tell you, but thank you for what
you do you and and for the office that you hold.
I'm sure you are really connecting. Are you the person
that puts together the meetings? When mayor Young goes to
speak in certain communities in neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Absolutely. So we have what we call it started out
as the Mayor's town Hall, the Memphis town Hall. Well,
now we've rebranded it to our era of Yes and
so what that is, you know, the mayors starting to
get everybody to say yes to Memphis, yes to business,
yes to growth, yes to change. And so we re
rebranded the town Hall to our era of Yes. And
(02:27):
so now we do them not only just in the communities,
but in our colleges and our universities. And so we
have a college addition, how do we get our students
and those who are visiting Memphis for school, how do
we get to how can we retain them and recruit them?
And so even if they do leave Memphis for three
four years for a master program for something else, how
(02:48):
do we get them back and whatever experience and exposure
they received in a different state, in a different city,
they can bring that back here and make Memphis better.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What are we doing to do that? Because we all
know a young person that's gone to college or gone
off and they're like, I ain't coming back. How do
we get them to come back? How are you all
getting those young our young people? You know, we want
them back home.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
We do, we do well. First thing we're doing is
we're being honest. There's a songwriter by the name of
David Ruffin the late David Ruffins who had a song
guy said they ain't too proud to be. So we
are in this begging season and we let every young
person know that all of these amazing cities like Atlanda,
like Houston, like Charlotte, they don't need our young people,
(03:33):
right they want them, but they don't need them Mephis.
We're in a need aspect right now. We need every
young and gifted and talented person that's out there. And
you know, I know people don't want to be a
part of the building process. They just want to move
and enjoy what's available. But I think this is a
special time that our young people can come back and
help build MEPHIS to what it can become and the
potential that it has. And so that's one of the
(03:54):
ways we're doing it. And we're also talking to business
owners out here and entrepreneurs and leaders and saying, hey,
how can you partner with us and give some our
young people internships and opportunities and intro level work. And
so we got some real relationship building that we're trying
to do now. So that way hei young people say okay,
I want to come back here. And so there's a
lot of other conversations we do have to have to
(04:15):
make them want to come back, especially when you're talking
about in terms of housing and residential because but the
cost of living here, I mean, you know it's great, yeah,
you know, it's amazing, but they want to make some
real money and we want them to make some real
money too.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So yeah, now your program that you have started, and
I know you had a big event at Golden Gate
Cathedrals a little while ago. Lead like a dad, Yes,
whose idea was that?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
All right? So it was a conversation the Mayor and
I had. He was like, you know, I really want
to start doing something for families, right, And you know,
with with my role in Director of Community Fairs, I'm
always thinking in terms of community, how can we make
a community better? And I think about certain neighborhoods in
Whitehaven and Walker Homes where you have families who've lived
(05:03):
in there for generations and it's typically because you have
you had a household that had everybody had the dad,
that had the mom. Even if the dad had transitioned,
you know, mom was there raising those kids, and then
it became the family home. And then those type of
neighborhoods always thrive because when you had a strong household,
the neighborhood would become stronger. Yes, right, And so then
(05:25):
investors and all those others don't usually move in, you know,
so quickly into those spaces, and you know, it's much
safer because everybody knows somebody. And so we started this
thing called first Legacy house. It's called Legacy House nine
oh one. So what does it look like to have
a house, right, a family system that leaves a legacy.
And so when we started thinking through that, I said, well,
I think we need to start with dads. Right, if
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the family and the household is going to be strong,
that we need to make sure we're pouring into our
fathers and that we're giving them the resources to be successful.
Absolutely right. We're removing barriers for them so that way
a dad can be present and even if he's not,
you know, feel married to the to the mother of
the child. Uh, if they're separated, they never got married,
how can we ensure that the father is still a
(06:07):
part of this child's life. Oh, that's going family system.
And so we started thinking through barriers for the dads
that's gonna you know, that's that we can remove. And
here's the beauty of it. We didn't assume what barriers existed.
We talked to some fathers, We put some surveys out
there and your father, Yeah, absolutely, and so I know
exactly what exists. Uh, in my own personal life, there
(06:29):
were barriers. But we started talking to these dads like,
tell us, you know what's keep Do you even feel
comfortable as a dad? You feel successful? And you'll be
surprised by some of those numbers where there are men
out here that are operating as a dad. But a
lot of times they're doing it with questions, right and
they're they're they're like, man, I don't even think I'm
doing this right now.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I'm not surprised. I'm a mother and I've done that
tons of times. But yeah, I guess I kind of
would with men, because you know, you guys don't show
your emotions and and and we can't always tell what's
happening with y'all. We can't read your faces. Y'all got
poka faces.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We do, we do, But then a lot of stuff.
We take the heart and we go to sleep with it,
and we stress out and we start aging early. And
so you know, we look at some of the women
like yourself that exists like, oh man, you're forty. You
don't look forty six, you don't look sixty. But here
we are twenty five and we look eighty five because
of the things we carry in our hearts. Yeah, because
(07:25):
we don't want to stress in public, right, And that's
so one of the classes that we taught was the
pressure to perform. And so when our instructors facilitators just
kind of talk through that, like do you feel like
you have to perform all the time as a dad,
perform all the time, as a husband, perform all the time,
you know, as an employee in the space that you're in.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
What was the answer that you got?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Oh there, Yes, there are people that feel like they
have to perform. But now we want them to know
that you don't have to operate. And that's what we share.
You don't have to operate from a place of performance
but for a purpose and realize that you exist for
a re and so you don't have to put on
a show as a dad. You don't have to hit
it at the ball every after park, every time that
there are times where you make a mistake as a
(08:08):
dad and you got to own it. You got to
share that with your child and say, look, look I
got this wrong my dad. You know, it wasn't until
I was an adult. I'm blessed. I come from a
blended family, so I have two dads and so so
you know, I always wondered about, you know, the divorce
my parents, and it wasn't until I became an adult
where he kind of shared with me, Hey, yeah, this
is where some areas went wrong and this and that.
(08:31):
But you know, it would be great if kids start
hearing that early in their life, right, you know, and
not just for dad. So we got someone them call
like a mom too, so where our parents are just
honest with their kids period in an appropriate way. Right.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So when you say two dads, your mother she remarried, me, okay,
she remarried and then your father.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Who's yeah, thanks for the clarification. So to clarify, I
really appreciate that. So, yeah, at the age of four,
my parents divorced, and then my mom remarried when I
was seven, and so you know, we don't call you know,
our bonus parents stepparents. So I still call I call
(09:13):
my biological dad dad. I call my stepdad dad.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, see, that's got to be a pretty serious relationship
for you to call your stepdad dad. Is your dad okay?
With you calling your stepdad dad?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Not only is he okay? I watched them when they
talk they I mean, you know, because so my my
biological dad is a deacon and my stepdad is a pastor.
So they're believers. They're Christians right out of the same church,
by the way, not the same church. And so so
you know, so they don't mind me calling you know,
both of them dad. But also when when they see
each other, how they engage and how they have a conversation.
(09:47):
And so that's one of the things too. We even
talk about, you know, when the child does have a
bonus father in their life. Yeah, when the when the spouse,
the ex spouse, whether it's the girlfriend or the wife
moves on, Like how do you have a relationship with
that male figure that's in there, Like what conversations do
you need to have? You know, we don't have to
get angry with the next guy because of you know,
(10:09):
the relationship with you and the other person in word,
you know, you don't have to do it, you guys
collaborate and says, hey, wow, I may not be this
child's father. I am invested as well ensuring that little
Junior or little Sarah grows up and give another name
little let's what say, little Emily name? Well, you're not
(10:30):
even want to be too cultural grows up okay, okay, okay,
that grows up and knows that she's loved and God
loves her enough to give her bonus love. And that's
where one starts saying that as a bonus.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Reginald boys pastor doctors?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Which one got me? Either one everything and child.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Because because with a culture that we're in right now,
and what's happening in Memphis with with you know, all
the attention that's on memph right now, and not just
that attention, but the attention that we're seeing from our
young men all across the country, so much so that
people have coined them by another name. They're a why
(11:13):
And so hearing that and seeing what is happening with
our young men right now, how does that especially our
young men that I'm talking about, the ones who are
kind of into things that are not, you know, they
that they shouldn't be. How does that make you feel?
As a father, a pastor, and being in this community,
(11:38):
how does that make you feel?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So one of the other many you know, have many jobs,
many assignments. So I'm also a chaplain for our juvenile
justice system, right, And so I go out and I
mentor and I speak to the young boys and the
young girls that's incarcerated in our juvenile system. And there
was one young man in particular in this story hunts me.
(12:01):
So this is why I feel like I do fail
and I have failed as a pastor, as a leader
in the community. He was in a situation where he
and his brother were together. His brother ends up getting
killed while they're in the car, and so he shoots
back as well, you know, because his brother just got shot.
So he shoots back and because the other person is
(12:22):
killed as well, and he gets arrested. He's a young guy.
He's seventeen years old, you know, he's almost at that
age where you can be charged as an adult, right.
And so the individual went through all of this. And
so when I was there just talking and I just
noticed this guy, he just kept staring and I said,
you know, what's wrong? He says, I'm just listening. I'm
just listening. I said, okay, cool, So I'm still talking everybody.
(12:43):
I'm teaching. And then at the end of the session,
this is what he said to me in front of everybody.
Why do you all wait till we get here for
us to hear this kind of information? My god, I said,
I said, you know, surely you know, I'm sure there
are people in your community. He says, no. Man, he says,
I don't hear none of this, Oh my god, until
I got here, right, which, let me know, no one
(13:06):
was in the house boring into him. He probably didn't
go to church, so no one was leading him to church, right,
even if he was in school, he was probably I mean,
and he was so minerable. I mean, if you watch
him and you look at him, the way he carried himself,
that just messed me up. Oh yeah, I'm still getting
chills every time I talk about it. And it broke
my heart because he was right. There are times where
we're expecting them to come to us, and for he's like, nah, man,
(13:29):
why do you all wait till we are in a
situation like this? And so since then, that's why I've
been very intentional that when I see someone, whether it's
at the gas station, you know, Spody walk up and
they got a sweatshirt on and his ninety five degrees outside.
Hey brother, how you doing may Man?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You look good?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
How are you staying safe out here? You know, I'm
finding some kind of way to least break the ice
to have a conversation, so that way, before you know
I leave, it's always hey, O gi, I got a question.
I got a question for you.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Man.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I like your suit. You know this man who make
your suit for you? And all this kind of stuff.
They start asking questions because really, what they're saying in
so many words, man, I need some help. I need
a voice in my life. I need someone who sees
me beyond what I got on, beyond the label that
people attached to me. I need someone that recognizes that
I exist. And we start breaking through that ice, you
(14:18):
start seeing that these are kids for real, they're still kids.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
What would you tell us to do, because all of
us could do that. We all see a young person
in some sort of situation at gas stations or something.
What would you encourage all of the people in Memphis
that have the wherewithal to say something to somebody because
(14:42):
they don't know. A lot of people don't know where
do I start, What do I say? What would you
encourage us all to do?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah? Well, so, first of all, Memphis, we're a very
hospitable town city, you know. I mean we go places
and speak in different cities. You know, we'll go all
the way to the West coast and say hey to
people and they looking at us crazy, why talking to me?
Because that's what we do in Memphis. But also we
shut down when we're in a situation where there's fear,
we're scared, and we're suspicious of the next person. I
want us to put that suspicion to the to the
(15:11):
side a little bit. I mean, you can, you can
have some discernment and all that good stuff. But it
doesn't hurt to say, hey, young man, how you doing,
Hey young lady, you're doing all right? You know, just
wave or do something to show a sense of friendliness,
not a sense of being green and vulnerable, but just
letting someone know for that moment, I see you and
I'm here just just speaking, just being encouraging to them.
(15:34):
But if you see somebody sagging their pants, you don't
don't come off automaticaly pull them pans up, right, I know,
because once you, once you pour into people, you start
you start watching them start self correcting. I tell my
members all the time, I said, let the young girl
come into church with pink care and the short skirt
on and all of that kind of So I said,
let her come. I said, because as she shows up
(15:54):
and she's she's receiving the word and encouragement from our
elder mothers. I said, you'll notice the hair start turning
black and the skirt becomes a dress, right like, because
people have to grow into it, you know, and they
got to see themselves in a different light. And sometimes
people do things just out of the feeling of rejection.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, and so yeah, yeah, and I think too that
sometimes you have to meet them where they are to
all the.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Time, all the time. You know, let's be honest. Stormy's
not stormy by accident. Someone met you right where you
were and then they showed you and they poured in some.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
One, someone, Thank God for all the someone that poured
into me. And that's why, you know, I think we
all could, we all can do it. That's why I
wanted to ask you that because I feel like if
we all take the time to reach somebody, because see,
and a lot of us to be thinking we got to,
you know, go to the grocery store. No, you got
kids around your house.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's around you. I'm telling you don't have to go far.
This work is right in our face. Yeah, it is
in our face. And especially those that's that's in our
house already, our nieces, our nephews, our children. Yes, stop
branding them. Stop first, don't call them bad, because when
you start calling them bad, they'll take that label on
right or tell you stop, tell them to shut up.
And you know you talk too much because you don't
know you could be raising a little stormy who can
(17:12):
make you millions of dollars with that voice. But because
you told them to shut up, now they're afraid to
use it right, right, And so I think we got
to start tapping and not think. I know, we got
to start tapping into the potential and start speaking life
to our kids, whether they're malefic, whether you're they're your
kids or not, speak life into that that child inside
of them. There are so many adults like you and
(17:34):
I that have yet to try to pursue something because
somebody told the kid of them they couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Right right now with this program lead like a dad.
Is it something that's become a program since the event?
Is this something that you're you're you and the mayor
are deciding to do or make bigger?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Sure? Sure? So what we're doing is actually I wanted
to see this more as the great convener. So we
are we the sum It was designed and it is
designed that we're bringing on all these other organizations that's
doing great work, right like a firm and uh great fathers.
It's it's so many different organizations out there that exist,
(18:14):
so we want to strengthen the work that they're doing. Right.
So the city is not trying to own this. We're
just trying to pour partner and partner there you go,
and empower the organizations that are already doing it and
let folks know, hey, these groups exist, right and they
exist for you, and so what other support can we give? Them?
And so uh so yeah, that's that's the plan that
as we continue, uh these sessions of and these intensives,
(18:37):
we'll make sure that we're letting all of our residents
know that if you live in this area, hey, this
organization does their work here. If you live in this area,
this is an organization you need to partner with right
that can make sure that your your needs are being met.
And so so lead like a Dad was amazing. I
can't wait for now to do Lead like a mom. Ah.
(18:58):
And then the other one is lead Next Generational Leaders.
That's where we're talking about school age kids and we're
going to pour into them in real time as well.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I love that. I love all of that. Yeah, I'm stormy.
It is the pulse. And doctor Reginald Boyce on the
show today, if you're just joining us, thank you again
for coming. Lead like a dad, like a mom, like
a Next Generational Leaders. So will you take that into
the schools?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Hey, that's the plan. So we do have some schools
and some schools that have been working with us, and
some schools that's talking about working with us as well,
and so we hope that that can be something that
will become, you know standard.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And what about churches that are already doing the work,
because there are a lot of churches around here that's
doing a lot of work. Churches get a bad rep sometimes,
you know, people think this or that or whatever and
don't realize that there are a lot of people in
a lot of these churches that really are doing some work.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yep. And so we are definitely working with churches. One
of the other roles that I do have with the
City of Memphis, that's my job, is to work with
faith leaders again, how can we strengthen the work that
they're doing, How can we add capacity, help build capacity?
And so there are grants that exists as well. So
you are one of those churches and nonprofit neighborhoods, that's
(20:18):
that's that's saying, hey, we have this organization to exist
that's helping with building children and public safety. We got
a public safety grant that should be released soon in
the next few weeks, and so, hey, we want to
help these churches and other organizations, you know, build capacity work.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now, when you guys were doing the clean Up Memphis
campaign with a lot of the non nonprofit organizations, is
that what you know that grants that you were giving
to people to help clean up our city.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So we got so there is a grant that does
help with that's the Community Enhancement. They have one that
partners will kind of give a contracts to those that
help clean the city. But what you're probably talking about
is what we just recently did with on your block. Yes,
so yeah, so we didn't give them grants. What what we
did do is give them the supplies. All the churches
that partner with us, we provide the supplies, and we
just asked them, hey, if you can just clean in
(21:07):
a specific area, an area where it's by your church,
is an area by your school, your employment, and we'll
provide the resources. All we need for you is to
provide the hands and defeat. And so we had over
fifty five churches and organizations that partner with us on
that day September twenty was today.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, and you're gonna do that again, absolutely, because y'all
need to partner with us. Come on and we let
us get in on some of this. You know what
I'm saying, because we can really get the word out
because there's more churches around here than fifty five.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, it's over three thousand, and there.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Are a lot of people that really care about the
community that would have probably been a part of it
but didn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yep. So we're finding it out that a lot of
people say, I didn't know nothing about this, So you'll know,
we want to keep getting the word out. And so
the goal is right now, we've been talking about quarterly,
but what does this look like where people once a week,
you know or monthly just saying hey, we're going to
do we're going to clean it up and they're gonna
do mainten and work right. We're ensuring that it stays
clean for the month, for the then for the quarter
(22:04):
and the course of the year. And so because one
of the things that happens, well, you know, a group
of go out there and they have remove those tires
on that spot, but then one tire shows up, No
one moves it. Two tires next, you know, is one
hundred tires. So I think we have to start make
sure we're doing real maintenance work and we're teaching this
is gonna be good for our churches too, that we
teach behavior change, you know, because folks are not I mean,
(22:28):
we got to teach about littering, Like what does it
what does it look like when we start teaching our
churches that when you start throwing trash on the ground,
how this does not benefit your community? How doesn't benefit
the property value?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Because you remember when we were kids, we had the
Native American on the TV crying. So it was in us,
and I'm telling you because it's in me, and I
saw those commercials over and over and over again. Yes,
and it's not something you gonna see me do. If
you see me do it, it's because I don't know.
(23:02):
I did it, because it's in me to go and
get it and pick it up, and.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You know something to me. Yeah, I mean if I
see it at my church, there's nothing for me to
walk by and I see a mad dog. I think
that's the name of the drink on the ground. There's
there's this here. I mean, it's just weird stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I don't know why you asked me about.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I don't drink. Somebody, listen, it's a mad but you
see all those cans and packets and stuff all there.
But I get it up because again, you know, I
take you know, pride in my church and in my city.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Do you know I did that? One time? I bought
these the clicker things where you can you don't have
to touch it and you pick it up. And somebody
laughed at me. They said, I cannot believe you cleaning up.
And I thought to myself, why because it's my neighborhood too.
If I'm in the neighborhood. If I'm walking in the
neighborho hood and I see trash, how come I can't
(24:02):
pick it up. I didn't put it down there, but
I don't mind taking.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Out one in my car. I kid, you got the
little yep.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Mine is in my car too.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Look everybody, see we all do. When you get your license,
you get one of these two.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah. I tell you what if y'all start a program
like that, remember when the police department was giving away
the wheel locks. If y'all give away one of those,
I'm coming to get one. Yeah. Can you imagine how
many people would really start to do that when we
do little things to kind of put it back into them.
And I think that's it seems like we lost that,
(24:38):
but but we got to pick it up. We got
to pick that back up. Our generation is on.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Us now, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. I promise.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah. So y'all are doing it.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
We're trying the best.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah. Well that's that's about all they say. You can
do your best. Yeah, and then you know, hey, get
some people to come along with you, and then we
all start doing our best, and then it'll get greater
and greater.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's amazing. I'm excited about it. All the works. So
shout out to Mayor Paul Young. He's do an amazing
work and I'm just so grateful to have it as
our leader.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, So if people want to get in contact with
your office, you guys are talking to doctor Reginald Boys.
People want to get in contact with your office at
the City of Memphis, how do they do that? Because
sometimes for just you know, the regular person, it seems
like the people in your position and beyond are untouchable,
(25:30):
you know what I'm saying, So how do we get
in touch with you?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
All right? So I'm so grateful to know and to
tell everybody this and glad to tell them our administration
is not untouchable. In fact, we have an open door policy.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
So I can just walk down and talk to the game.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Well you won't to talk to somebody from Mayor's office,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay, So somebody will meet me where I am.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Absolutely absolutely, And so number one, you can follow us
on social media. So O c A Memphis that's our
that's my office page, but also just City of Memphis
at City Memphis, that's our webs you know. For the
City Memphis tag candle. But then also if you want
to personally reach out to me, you can email me
at reginal dot boye reginald dot boys b O y
(26:14):
c E b as in ball at Memphis t n
T as in tom in as in Nancy at what
is it Memphis ten dot gov. There it is original
dot voice at Memphis ten dot gov. Email t dot
go dot gov. So email me, send me some information
and I'll make sure to connect you. Last time I
gave my cell phone number out on the Yeah, it definitely,
(26:37):
which I don't mind. I still don't mind. You can
do it. But if you email me, we can we
can make sure we can get your schedule. Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And if we see you on the street and say.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Hey, hey doctor boys, I heard you on the radio.
Let me tell you something earlier today. It's my daughter's birthday. Yeah,
and so we uh we we well, earlier this week
when I went by her school, uh, one of the
kids stopped me. He said, that's him. I didn't know
what that meant. I was on the news a few
(27:06):
days ago. He said that's him. That's him. So yeah,
people you see me and you think I'm him, I
may not be who y'all thinking about it? But yeah,
stop me and I talk to you. That was very encouraging.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I bet it was because he saw you on the news.
But you know when when they say that, what it
really means you him or they say I'm him, but
he meant you were him from the news, but you
are him to.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Come on him.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah. Okay. So the work is being done and and
sometimes people feel like, I guess they don't know where
to go. But I'm so glad that you have told
us where to go in the community when we have
so people have ideas for the community and things like that.
Are you taking those two?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Absolutely? So if you if everyone make sure they follow
the Mayor's newsletter.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
YEA thought that's what I was going to talk about too,
because I follow the newsletter.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, subscribing you can actually submit your ideas and your
concerns there really, yeah, absolutely, so I didn't know that. Yeah,
so you can. You can submit some things even if
the events. So once you read that at the bottom,
is gee some information there that you can do that.
Thank you for telling me.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Absolutely, Okay, So how do they find that to subscribe
to it? Because I don't remember how I did it.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, just go to the City of Memphis webpage, go
to the mayor about who's your mayor? And when you
do there, there's a little link that says subscribe here
for newsletter.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Okay, yeah, I've been telling people, listen, if you really
want to know what's happening. Mayor Paul Young puts the
newsletter together, and I know he I remember getting it
from Mayor Strickland when he was doing it, and now
getting it from Mayor Paul Young. It's like information in
there that I didn't even know what was going on.
I've told people a time or two, Hey, you need
to get that newsletter. You want to know what's happened
(28:55):
to get that news Yeah, so thank you for telling us. So.
City of Memphis.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yep dot com a tam dot gov.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Okay, no, I mean the website.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah, it was it.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
City of Memphis dot gov, dot govt go. Okay, we
go to the website, go to the mayor.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
About who's your mayor? Say who's your mayor? You click
on that and then you'll see a link right there.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, yeah, we're going to get that information. Are you
there too? On the City of Memphis website?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I am I'm there. And then also my office is
located at five five five Bill Street, So if you
ever want to come in and you have concerns there
because we also have programs that exist in our office.
We have expungement program that exists there. We have a
program for opportunity youth ages sixteen to twenty four. We
also have our park program that is pa r C
(29:42):
Police Advisor Review Committee, so this is where it deals
with police complaints. So we have an office space there
for there for for that office as well. So if
you ever just ever want to come by and learn
more about community fairs, We're located at five five five
Bill Street.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Okay, five five five Bill Street. We got it, Reginald
Boys at.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Memphis, TN DoD go all right, I almost gave my
number out again.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You can you still have time?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We do? All right? Hit me up nine zero one
six seven four one zero one zero. Okay, you want
to give it again nine zero one six seven four
one zero one zero. You have any concerns, feel free
to reach out there. You go.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Ah, you got that information right here. I am Stormy.
It is the pulse, always keeping our fingertips on the
pulse of our community. Thank you again. To doctor Reginald Boyce,
the Director of Community the city's Office of Community Affairs. Yeah,
any parting words.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Be great and speak greatness in life to others.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I like it all right. Thank you guys for listening
to the Pulse. I am Stormy. We'll see you next week,
same time, same station. God bless you have a great week.
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