January 12, 2024 • 29 mins
1philadelphia is working towards a more equitable tech and innovation ecosystem in Philadelphia would not only drive economic growth but also promote social inclusion, community engagement, and improved quality of life for all residents. I speak to Danae) Mobley, Executive Director, 1Philadelphia. Website: https://www.1phl.org/
Social media:
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LinkedIn: 1philadelphia
I speak with Todd Inman, author of 12 Ordered Steps: A Foundational Design for Living" - a transformative workbook specifically crafted for Black men seeking to reclaim their true potential. https://www.tinmancreative.com/workbook
And we check with recording Artist, Producers, activist and golfer – Chill Moody about his plans to bring golfing to the community.
Instagram: @chillmoody
Social media:
Instagram: 1phltech
LinkedIn: 1philadelphia
I speak with Todd Inman, author of 12 Ordered Steps: A Foundational Design for Living" - a transformative workbook specifically crafted for Black men seeking to reclaim their true potential. https://www.tinmancreative.com/workbook
And we check with recording Artist, Producers, activist and golfer – Chill Moody about his plans to bring golfing to the community.
Instagram: @chillmoody
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Good morning. You're listening to Insight, a show about empowering our community.
I'm Lorraine Ballard Morrow. Aside fromTiger Woods, we don't think of golf
as a big sport in black andbrown communities, do we? Recording artist,
producer, activist, and golfer ChillMoody wants to change that. We
speak with him. Wouldn't it begreat to have a handbook for living a
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successful and fulfilling life? While ToddInman has written Twelve Ordered Steps, a
Foundational Design for Living, a transformativeworkbook specifically crafted for Black men seeking to
reclaim their true potential. First,a more equitable tech and innovation ecosystem in
Philadelphia will not only drive economic growth, but also promote social inclusion, community
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engagement, and improved quality of lifefor all residents. It requires a concerted
effort from the government, private sector, and community organizations to ensure that the
benefits of technology and innovation are accessibleto everyone. One. At a November
annual Innovation Weekend One Philadelphia announced theorganization's commitment in raising twenty million dollars for
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tech equity initiatives by twenty twenty six. And we're going to talk more about
that with Denee Mobiley, executive directorof One Philadelphia. Denay, nice to
meet you and tell us, firstof all, what is One Philadelphia.
Well, Laurene, thanks so muchfor having me. Would love to talk
a little bit more about One Philadelphiaand what we're doing. We are a
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citywide initiative and we're a coalition ofstakeholders that are working to make Philadelphia the
capital for equitable tech and innovation.We really want to create a national model
where we're looking to see how wecan make sure that underrepresented people have equitable
access to opportunities in tech and innovation. So we've been working for the past
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few years with partners across the cityin government and nonprofit organizations and corporations and
philanthropy to make sure sure that we'resetting a bold vision for how Philadelphia can
raise this profile nationally to be atech hub. What would that look like?
What would a more equitable tech innovationecosystem? What does it mean?
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What would it look like in yourbest vision? You know what we look
at when we see this as welook at the population of Philadelphia and our
tech and innovation industries don't look likethat population. We're looking to get more
black and brown workers into the workforce. That looks like more underrepresented people being
able to start their own businesses andgrow their own businesses. Right here in
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Philadelphia. We know that by enablingpeople to get into the workforce to have
access to capital, they're able toinvest dollars back into Philadelphia, spuring economic
activity and really creating the Philadelphia thatwe all know that we want to see.
Certainly, tech is an area oftremendous growth and career opportunities. Like
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one of the challenges is that pipelineto get people of color, black and
brown folks into the pipeline to betrained to be first of all, interested
in getting into tech. So I'mjust wondering if what are your thoughts on
that pipeline and how do we getit to open up more? Right,
so, I said in a uniqueseat. I'm also the chief operating officer
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for Coded by Kids and we area youth tech organization that we've been doing
the work in the city for abouta decade, and I think you're quite
right about that pipeline issue. We'renot engaging young people early enough in tech
and innovation. And I'm really inspiredand excited to see so many new organizations
that are taking on this mandate tomake sure that we're really engaging students at
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an early age to get excited aboutSTEM and STEM opportunities. For adults that
are interested in this, you understandingwhat the opportunity is and knowing that they
can transition from what they're currently doinginto other opportunities. That's something that we
want to make sure that if theyare under employed or they want to make
a transition, helping them know howto take those steps so that it doesn't
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feel daunting or unachievable. Before weget into a little bit of the weeds
of what you're actually doing, I'dlike to get some origin story stuff here,
so you know, everybody has anorigin story. I walked into a
student radio station one day and boom, you know here. I am,
what was the pivot point for youor what was the thing that kind of
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interested you in getting into that techspace. I am actually not a technologist
by trade. My background is ineducation and urban and regional planning, and
I got into that because I noticedthat there were systems right that were in
place, whether it be how wethink about a neighbor, how we think
about an education system, and howpeople get access to things that separate people's
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potential because of the opportunity that theyhave access to. And as I got
introduced to tech and I learned morethrough that through personal avenues, it interested
me because I basically saw this asthe next conduit, as the next opportunity
area for people who wanted to havean opportunity and something that was not just
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the next job but actually provided areal career pathway. We know that tech
provides sustainable wage jobs in a waythat many of our other opportunities are not.
We know that so much is goingaway because of automation, and tech
now allows us to create our newopportunities and be a part of that creation
rather than just being consumers of technology. So that was what really interested me.
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I've always cared deeply about young peopleand education, so that's what really
brought me to Coded by Kids.And as I do that more and more,
seeing the network of people that careabout this work, that are trying
to do good work but have struggledbecause of a lack of coordination and kind
of a bigger vision of how wedo this together, that's what really drives
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me to do this work because wedon't want that work to go unrewarded because
the cost is too high for thenext generation of young people that can be
the leaders of this If we canget it right, there are exponential benefits
for them and our city. Accessto quality education, access to opportunities in
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all areas, including tech. That'sthat's social justice work. So we thank
you for that. Now, youare planning to raise twenty million dollars for
tech equity initiatives by twenty twenty six. You've already raised four million dollars,
so you're on your way. Tellus more about the money that you're raising,
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Where does it go, how doesit contribute to your ultimate goals,
and how can we help. Yeah, so you know, we're really grateful
to early sponsors that we've had thathave shown support for what we're doing.
So, you know, we hadinitial investments from Comcasts, from Bank of
America and the Lenfest Foundation to getus started on our way. Very excited
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because this next amount of funding isgoing to really catalyze one existing organizations that
are doing the work, as wellas filling gaps for programs that are needed
that don't currently exist. So,for example, we've noticed that there is
a lack of opportunity to access tocapital for underrepresented people in this space,
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being able to prepare entrepreneurs to beready for that capital. We're you know,
creating our own programming as well asscaling and giving financial support to organizations
that are doing that work. We'realso really excited because we have the opportunity
to think about how we also provideopportunities to allow Philadelphia to be on the
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national stage. So thinking about signatureevents that bring attention to Philadelphia as a
tech hub. You know, we'vethought about Philly Tech Week is a is
a regional and national profile event thatwe've had in the city for years.
Think about events like that as wellas our own Innovation weekend that we just
hosted, being able to do thingslike that, as well as think about
widescale education initiatives. How can wesupport education in the city around computer science,
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How do we make sure that peoplehave access to digital devices and digital
literacy. These are also of thethings that we're looking to fund through the
twenty million dollar race. What's nextfor twenty twenty four? Yeah, so
for twenty twenty four, we're excited. I just mentioned we will be co
leading Philly Tech Week with technically media, and we'll be also hosting another innovation
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weekend, so some big events comingyour way from One Philadelphia. Will also
be convening the local tech community.We have quarterly meetups where we're working to
build that cohesiveness with the local techcommunity, and we'll also be doing some
really important convenings around how to bringemployers to the table with program providers to
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really strengthen that pipeline into the workforce. So, you know, we love
to have everyone get involved. Wewant people to look at one Philadelphia as
their accessible entry point into tech.If you don't know where to get started,
learn about our events, follow uson social media so that you can
be welcomed into our community. Andif people want to know more information about
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all the events and all the opportunitiesthat you're presenting in twenty twenty four,
how do they find out more?They can visit our website at onephl dot
org to learn more. And that'sthe number one right, number one,
Yes, fantastic. Denay Mobley,executive director of One Philadelphia. They are
committed to raising twenty million dollars fortech equity initiatives by twenty twenty six.
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Also have to mention that Denay,You've been named tech Community Leader of the
Year by Technically Philadelphia, which isa pretty pretty cool and we wish you
the best of luck and keep usinformed, let us know what you're up
to, and we'll try to spreadthe word as well well. Do Thank
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on how to live life effectively?Well, there is one twelve Ordered Steps,
a Foundational Design for Living, atransformative workbook specifically crafted for Black men
seeking to reclaim their true potential.Joining us right now is the author Todd
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Iman. Todd, thank you forjoining us today. Thank you for having
me on, Lorraine. It's beensome time, so it's terrific to see
you again. It's great to seeyou too. Now. You have created
this workbook, which I'd say isso very useful. What was the genesis,
how did it get started? Whatmade you decide to put this together?
Sure so, Loraine. For myself, you know, I was raised
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by single mom and not with myfather not being very active in my life.
And unfortunately, even though there weremale role models around, you know,
at church and family members, Imyself was very arrogant and really refused
to humble myself to seek wisdom andknowledge from these people. And so with
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that being said, I stumbled throughmy early years, made some poor choices,
and unfortunately it came to a pointwhere sort of the bottom fell out
of my life, you know,with the different decisions that I made,
really the outcomes were very poor.And so with that being said, I
was very fortunate to kind of puttogether, you know, my own personal
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playbook or blueprint to recover. Anda lot of that had to do with
my faith. You know, Iwas very actively involved in Bible study at
the time and also going to church. I'm actually a member of an eenon.
With that being said, I justyou know, started to really delve
into the Word of God and findscriptures that assisted me with putting my life
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back together. That coupled with unfortunately, I am a person who during that
time period where the bottom fell out, I turned to alcohol and so went
through the Alcohol Anonymous program, whichyou know got me sober. But a
lot of people don't understand that it'snot just about putting down a bottle,
but it's about changing behaviors and mindsets. So basically, Lorene, I was
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able to combine my faith along withthat program to kind of put together again
sort of a blueprint to recover mylife. And by the grace of God,
I was able to do that,and you know, my life is
totally different than it was before thefuture is bright able to accomplish a lot
of things. And so with thatbeing said, it's like I started to
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look at some friends and some otherpeople saying, you know, this could
be useful what I put together asa plan for my own life. And
you know, I was able tokind of put together this workbook and it's
been helpful to some people in situationswhere their lives didn't turn out the way
that they would have wanted, whetherthat's unfortunately they've you know, been incarcerated
or divorce or you know, babyMama drama or unemployment, a lot of
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different things that men can face.They've been able to turn to this book
to kind of give them a freshstart. Yeah, that's that's great.
You know, it seems as thoughso many of us go through trauma,
and as a black man, lifeis trauma, you know, just the
inherent racism that a black man hasto experience every day. And certainly trauma
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can often lead to behavior that isn'talways positive. But it seems as though
you have, through your path,gotten onto a very positive way of looking
at life and wanting to share itwith other people. You have a lot
of testimony, and you spook tellus about the testimony. Yes, so
you know, again, just interms of my own background, I went
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through a lot of things that Ijust described as far as you know,
went through an ugly divorce. Youknow, I was a person that wanted
a family since I was young.You know, I didn't grow up again
with my father, so I wantedthat kind of nuclear family. That was
a goal of mine. And thenwhen things can work out with my ex,
and it turned out that she movedabout three hundred and fifty miles away
with my children, So a lotof pain was associated with that. You
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know. I was very close tomy children, coached all the sports and
all those wonderful things, and tohave them move and you know, for
me to really feel a loss wasvery painful. You know. So that
was one area that didn't you know, result in what i'd like, you
know, my life to look like. And then I went to college,
have a degree and had a greatjob as many people would would think,
you know, in pharmaceutical sales,and with things not working out with the
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family, you know, I endedup losing that job. As I said,
you know, unfortunately I had turnedalcohol to cope. I also due
to all that, I had anervous breakdown, which when that was really
uncovered that I had a mental healthissue, so a lot of things,
you know, sort of happened atonce, Lorraine and just sent me spiraling.
And unfortunately, I actually kind oflost hope as to living this in
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this world, you know, andso by the grace of God, he
spared me. Like I said,I went through these steps that described in
the book, and you know,fortunate enough life has turned around. Well,
these are steps that that anyone canpick up. And so I'm going
to ask you about the program itself. It's there are a lot of different
steps here. What is involved ingoing through this program and what are some
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of the things that you would tellpeople about the program? Sure, so,
first of all, you know,after kind of learning what the program
is in the first chapter, youhave to do an honest self assessment.
You know, you have to reallysit down and say to your you know,
and kind of look at yourself.You know, you have to say,
Okay, where am I career wise? Where am I relationally? You
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know, where am I as paternally, Where am I in terms of my
community standing? You know, youhave to really do an honest, real
self assessment as to where you arebefore we can kind of go through the
steps to kind of uncover how yougot to where you are today. You
know, what are the behaviors,what are the mindset and outlook that you
have which caused where you are today? If you're taking the steps, more
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than likely things have not turned outthe way you would have wanted. You
know, you do things like throughthe Steps. I mean, you know
again there's twelve of them, butyou know, you do things like having
to face a lot of the peoplethat you have caused heartache for. You
know, you have to understand that, you know, you your behaviors affected
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other people, you know, family, friends, romantic relationships, and so
you can't run from that. Youhave to be humble enough. And that's
that's part of the whole theme ofthe whole Steps, Lorraine, is to
be humble, you know, andto be humble to a higher power.
You don't have to necessarily be aChristian to take take part in this,
although it's Christian themes of course,however, you know, to humble yourself
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to a higher power right that.You know, you aren't the center of
the universe, you aren't the onethat knows all things, so you have
to go through that kind of processof humbling yourself again. You know,
you have to confront the people thatyou have affected, have to humbly apologize
for, you know, the thingsthat you did or did not do.
You know, of course that issomething that can give you a firm foundation
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as to not just moving forward inlife, but also kind of cleaning up
some of your past. Right,So it sounds like it's an opportunity to
take a look at yourself and stepby step figure out ways in which you
can turn those behaviors that were negativeinto positives. And so how long do
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you think it would take for aperson to go through this? I guess
it really kind of depends on whoyou are, right, yes, yes,
So all we really ask is forpeople to commit to it. More
than likely it's going to take sometime because you know, again you have
to really go back into your past, even from your youth, as to
you know, a getting people youaffected in terms of the different things that
again you mentioned about behaviors and knowwhat caused those behaviors. You know,
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you have to really really go throughthe steps in depth. It can take
months, but like I said,as long as you consistently work on it,
because at the end of the day, it's about you unearthing your old
character and replanting it with a newcharacter. And of course that's not something
that can be done immediately. Youknow, you've spent your entire life living
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a certain way, thinking a certainway, behaving a certain way. So
now it's important to again really unearthand to pull out that the roots of
your old character and replant it withthe person that you can be proud of.
Well, there's certain suggestions that youhave, recommendations to increase your chances
of success. What are they?Yes, so you know you really want
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to approach things like as far asyour dress even right, so you know,
during the period you take the course, you know, you don't want
to walk around with your pants saggingdown. You know, you want to
show some self respect, you know, so you want to dress up daily.
You know that doesn't mean suit andtie, but if you wear if
you have button up shirts, youknow, wear a button up shirt,
you know, wear a sweater again, you know, have your your pants
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on your hips and not hanging offyour behind, you know, and if
you wear sneakers, you know,clean them. You know, really show
some self respect so that you feellike, you know what, I'm a
good person here. That's just oneexample. Of how you can set yourself
up for success. Any final wordsbefore we close the excitement of the program.
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A lot of people again who reallyrecognize, hey, look, my
life hasn't resulted in the way thatI wanted to have been able to work
this program and it really sort ofreplaces a lot of the wisdom you would
have inherited as a younger man.Now you are working on yourself with a
community of other men to increase yourchance of having a better life. Major
props for taking a close look atyourself and what was not working and turning
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your life around, and then creatingthis workbook which is going to help other
men who might be facing their ownchallenges going through these Twelve Ordered Steps,
a foundation designed for living, atransformative workbook specifically created for black men.
And if people would like to geta copy, how do they do that?
So if you would go to TwelveOrdered Steps dot com, which is
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our website, you can order itdirectly. You can order a hard cop
as well as an ebook. ToddInman, who is the author of Twelve
Ordered Steps. It is a foundationaldesign for living to help black men get
their lives on a forward and positivepath. Thank you so much. Thank
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What is dedication? My daughter startmaking necklaces. She makes what we call
affirmation fashion. I tell her everyday that you're black is beautiful. Your
black is beautiful. And if there'sanything better than being beautiful, it's being
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smart. If there's anything better thanbeing smart, it's being kind. And
reaffirming that every day is our methodof making sure her chin never drops.
My dad wasn't around, and Iremember riding a bike and falling off and
cutting myself and me never just wantedto get back on it. People ask
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how your children learn how to ridea bike and you didn't. I didn't
teach them. I just create anenvironment. But they taught themselves and all
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Services and the AD Counsel. I'mhere in the studio with a Philadelphia icon,
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Chill Moody, who is not onlyone of Philadelphia's best musicians, artists,
creators, but he's all so agolfer. He's also an entrepreneur.
And it's all about everything nice,right, everything is you know, everything
is nice things. It's great.I love that well, you know,
aside from your musical career, whichis, you know, very storied and
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very well respected, you are doingso much for the community. And one
of the things which I was interestedto hear about is your fascination with golf
and bringing it to folks in thecommunity. Tell us about that. So
I'm, you know, caught thebug and I've been golfing, uh,
I don't know, probably about threeyears now, but always love the sport.
Grew up loving watching golf and justnever really had to access to,
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you know, get into the sportthe way I wanted to, and you
know, most recently I have.So we launched the Nice Things Invitational,
which is you know, my golftournament, and I'm working on launching a
nonprofit and collaboration with that to getmore you know, black and brown youth
into the sport, into the businessof golf as well. So not just
you know, picking up clubs andplaying the game, but understanding that there's
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a lot of opportunit in the game, whether it be you know, creating
content, creating merch, you knowwhatever, but just find and finding ways
to bring the culture and infuse theculture more into the into the sport.
Yeah. I think that what peoplesometimes forget, or actually usually forget,
is when you talk about sports ingeneral. People think about basketball, they
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think about football, they think aboutthe players, but there's a whole layer
of people on the back end whodo very well in support situations and and
that, and you know, whenyou talk about golf, I hadn't really
thought about that that there's a lotin addition to playing exactly. And I
learned that once I'm in the space, and I'm in the space, I
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look around and try to find thevoids in the space and find, you
know, what I can do toelevate the space, leave it better than
it was when I got here.So I kind of identify this as as
the possibly the way to do itright. Right. And as you say,
it's golf is not something that younecessarily except for you know, Tiger
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Woods certainly the icon of golf,but in general people tend to think of
it as being sort of like ayou know, like a white sport,
a mainstream sport. Why should Iget involved in that? Well, tell
us why. I mean, TigerWoods was my biggest influence, you know,
in the sport period growing up,as like, there's a black man
that's running this sport. You know, it is not too many of them
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in this sport, but he's theone. So it's like, all right,
this is a black sport to me. If you ask me, he's
winning, it's a black sport tome. We should we should be more
involved in it. But on topof that, and you know that's you
know, being a little facetious jokingor whatever, But on top of that,
the solace and the piece that Ifind in playing the game the way
it's humbled me. You know,you spend it so much time in your
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life. Once you get set doingwhat you know you're good at, being
trash at something and watching you foraggressively get better, it's humbling. It's
those life lessons that I think weneed to continue to learn as we continue
to grow. You're never really donegrowing, never done learning. So bringing
those those elements and introducing those elementsto the youth I think will better them
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as opposed to you know, findingit out in your thirties, which is
cool too, but yeah, Ithink you know, you start a little
bit earlier, you might you mightbe good. Yeah, that's that's so
true. So if people would liketo get involved in this program, how
do they do that? I mean, you can follow me on all social
media at Chill Moody and you knowI'm always available. I'm a resource to
to whoever. And yeah, yeah, look out for the nice things.
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Invitation or our second tournament will bethis year working with the Amateur Golf Society
on a lot of things and youknow, expanding Philly golf beyond you know,
its market, you know, witha lot of content things like that
too. So yeah, it shouldbe it should be a nice year for
golf. And what about the music. What's what's happening here? I just
dropped the new album. It's calledWe Still Got Time. It's available on
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all streaming platforms. Dropped the videohorns at the funeral where we kind of
encapsulated a lot of what I've beendoing, you know, in my career,
but also what was kind of likea culmination of sorts when I performed
with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the ManCenter. So we captured you know,
everything leading up to that event aswell, and yeah, it was it
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was special. Yeah, you thinkbig that's wonderful and you give big two.
So do you have a website?Just all social media? I'm mostly
on their Instagram and Twitter fantastic mostlyYeah, correct, Murdy, thank you,
appreciate you. N you know mystory right rise the thing from the
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Pain of Glory, right, heardfrom a soucy rip sort of Mike's nakes
and all sort of lights sort ofright. So you're just knowing about the
daily obsession to take a step aside, and both the mac and daily confession.
You don't know about the daily depressionand doubtment comes waiting. Just swit
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Good morning. You're listening to Insight, a show about empowering our community.
I'm Lorraine Ballard Morrow. Aside fromTiger Woods, we don't think of golf
as a big sport in black andbrown communities, do we? Recording artist,
producer, activist, and golfer ChillMoody wants to change that. We
speak with him. Wouldn't it begreat to have a handbook for living a
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successful and fulfilling life? While ToddInman has written Twelve Ordered Steps, a
Foundational Design for Living, a transformativeworkbook specifically crafted for Black men seeking to
reclaim their true potential. First,a more equitable tech and innovation ecosystem in
Philadelphia will not only drive economic growth, but also promote social inclusion, community
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engagement, and improved quality of lifefor all residents. It requires a concerted
effort from the government, private sector, and community organizations to ensure that the
benefits of technology and innovation are accessibleto everyone. One. At a November
annual Innovation Weekend One Philadelphia announced theorganization's commitment in raising twenty million dollars for
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tech equity initiatives by twenty twenty six. And we're going to talk more about
that with Denee Mobiley, executive directorof One Philadelphia. Denay, nice to
meet you and tell us, firstof all, what is One Philadelphia.
Well, Laurene, thanks so muchfor having me. Would love to talk
a little bit more about One Philadelphiaand what we're doing. We are a
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citywide initiative and we're a coalition ofstakeholders that are working to make Philadelphia the
capital for equitable tech and innovation.We really want to create a national model
where we're looking to see how wecan make sure that underrepresented people have equitable
access to opportunities in tech and innovation. So we've been working for the past
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few years with partners across the cityin government and nonprofit organizations and corporations and
philanthropy to make sure sure that we'resetting a bold vision for how Philadelphia can
raise this profile nationally to be atech hub. What would that look like?
What would a more equitable tech innovationecosystem? What does it mean?
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What would it look like in yourbest vision? You know what we look
at when we see this as welook at the population of Philadelphia and our
tech and innovation industries don't look likethat population. We're looking to get more
black and brown workers into the workforce. That looks like more underrepresented people being
able to start their own businesses andgrow their own businesses. Right here in
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Philadelphia. We know that by enablingpeople to get into the workforce to have
access to capital, they're able toinvest dollars back into Philadelphia, spuring economic
activity and really creating the Philadelphia thatwe all know that we want to see.
Certainly, tech is an area oftremendous growth and career opportunities. Like
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one of the challenges is that pipelineto get people of color, black and
brown folks into the pipeline to betrained to be first of all, interested
in getting into tech. So I'mjust wondering if what are your thoughts on
that pipeline and how do we getit to open up more? Right,
so, I said in a uniqueseat. I'm also the chief operating officer
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for Coded by Kids and we area youth tech organization that we've been doing
the work in the city for abouta decade, and I think you're quite
right about that pipeline issue. We'renot engaging young people early enough in tech
and innovation. And I'm really inspiredand excited to see so many new organizations
that are taking on this mandate tomake sure that we're really engaging students at
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an early age to get excited aboutSTEM and STEM opportunities. For adults that
are interested in this, you understandingwhat the opportunity is and knowing that they
can transition from what they're currently doinginto other opportunities. That's something that we
want to make sure that if theyare under employed or they want to make
a transition, helping them know howto take those steps so that it doesn't
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feel daunting or unachievable. Before weget into a little bit of the weeds
of what you're actually doing, I'dlike to get some origin story stuff here,
so you know, everybody has anorigin story. I walked into a
student radio station one day and boom, you know here. I am,
what was the pivot point for youor what was the thing that kind of
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interested you in getting into that techspace. I am actually not a technologist
by trade. My background is ineducation and urban and regional planning, and
I got into that because I noticedthat there were systems right that were in
place, whether it be how wethink about a neighbor, how we think
about an education system, and howpeople get access to things that separate people's
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potential because of the opportunity that theyhave access to. And as I got
introduced to tech and I learned morethrough that through personal avenues, it interested
me because I basically saw this asthe next conduit, as the next opportunity
area for people who wanted to havean opportunity and something that was not just
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the next job but actually provided areal career pathway. We know that tech
provides sustainable wage jobs in a waythat many of our other opportunities are not.
We know that so much is goingaway because of automation, and tech
now allows us to create our newopportunities and be a part of that creation
rather than just being consumers of technology. So that was what really interested me.
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I've always cared deeply about young peopleand education, so that's what really
brought me to Coded by Kids.And as I do that more and more,
seeing the network of people that careabout this work, that are trying
to do good work but have struggledbecause of a lack of coordination and kind
of a bigger vision of how wedo this together, that's what really drives
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me to do this work because wedon't want that work to go unrewarded because
the cost is too high for thenext generation of young people that can be
the leaders of this If we canget it right, there are exponential benefits
for them and our city. Accessto quality education, access to opportunities in
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all areas, including tech. That'sthat's social justice work. So we thank
you for that. Now, youare planning to raise twenty million dollars for
tech equity initiatives by twenty twenty six. You've already raised four million dollars,
so you're on your way. Tellus more about the money that you're raising,
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Where does it go, how doesit contribute to your ultimate goals,
and how can we help. Yeah, so you know, we're really grateful
to early sponsors that we've had thathave shown support for what we're doing.
So, you know, we hadinitial investments from Comcasts, from Bank of
America and the Lenfest Foundation to getus started on our way. Very excited
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because this next amount of funding isgoing to really catalyze one existing organizations that
are doing the work, as wellas filling gaps for programs that are needed
that don't currently exist. So,for example, we've noticed that there is
a lack of opportunity to access tocapital for underrepresented people in this space,
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being able to prepare entrepreneurs to beready for that capital. We're you know,
creating our own programming as well asscaling and giving financial support to organizations
that are doing that work. We'realso really excited because we have the opportunity
to think about how we also provideopportunities to allow Philadelphia to be on the
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national stage. So thinking about signatureevents that bring attention to Philadelphia as a
tech hub. You know, we'vethought about Philly Tech Week is a is
a regional and national profile event thatwe've had in the city for years.
Think about events like that as wellas our own Innovation weekend that we just
hosted, being able to do thingslike that, as well as think about
widescale education initiatives. How can wesupport education in the city around computer science,
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How do we make sure that peoplehave access to digital devices and digital
literacy. These are also of thethings that we're looking to fund through the
twenty million dollar race. What's nextfor twenty twenty four? Yeah, so
for twenty twenty four, we're excited. I just mentioned we will be co
leading Philly Tech Week with technically media, and we'll be also hosting another innovation
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weekend, so some big events comingyour way from One Philadelphia. Will also
be convening the local tech community.We have quarterly meetups where we're working to
build that cohesiveness with the local techcommunity, and we'll also be doing some
really important convenings around how to bringemployers to the table with program providers to
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really strengthen that pipeline into the workforce. So, you know, we love
to have everyone get involved. Wewant people to look at one Philadelphia as
their accessible entry point into tech.If you don't know where to get started,
learn about our events, follow uson social media so that you can
be welcomed into our community. Andif people want to know more information about
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all the events and all the opportunitiesthat you're presenting in twenty twenty four,
how do they find out more?They can visit our website at onephl dot
org to learn more. And that'sthe number one right, number one,
Yes, fantastic. Denay Mobley,executive director of One Philadelphia. They are
committed to raising twenty million dollars fortech equity initiatives by twenty twenty six.
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Also have to mention that Denay,You've been named tech Community Leader of the
Year by Technically Philadelphia, which isa pretty pretty cool and we wish you
the best of luck and keep usinformed, let us know what you're up
to, and we'll try to spreadthe word as well well. Do Thank
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Kids, and the ad Council.Don't you wish you had an owner's manual
on how to live life effectively?Well, there is one twelve Ordered Steps,
a Foundational Design for Living, atransformative workbook specifically crafted for Black men
seeking to reclaim their true potential.Joining us right now is the author Todd
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Iman. Todd, thank you forjoining us today. Thank you for having
me on, Lorraine. It's beensome time, so it's terrific to see
you again. It's great to seeyou too. Now. You have created
this workbook, which I'd say isso very useful. What was the genesis,
how did it get started? Whatmade you decide to put this together?
Sure so, Loraine. For myself, you know, I was raised
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by single mom and not with myfather not being very active in my life.
And unfortunately, even though there weremale role models around, you know,
at church and family members, Imyself was very arrogant and really refused
to humble myself to seek wisdom andknowledge from these people. And so with
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that being said, I stumbled throughmy early years, made some poor choices,
and unfortunately it came to a pointwhere sort of the bottom fell out
of my life, you know,with the different decisions that I made,
really the outcomes were very poor.And so with that being said, I
was very fortunate to kind of puttogether, you know, my own personal
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playbook or blueprint to recover. Anda lot of that had to do with
my faith. You know, Iwas very actively involved in Bible study at
the time and also going to church. I'm actually a member of an eenon.
With that being said, I justyou know, started to really delve
into the Word of God and findscriptures that assisted me with putting my life
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back together. That coupled with unfortunately, I am a person who during that
time period where the bottom fell out, I turned to alcohol and so went
through the Alcohol Anonymous program, whichyou know got me sober. But a
lot of people don't understand that it'snot just about putting down a bottle,
but it's about changing behaviors and mindsets. So basically, Lorene, I was
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able to combine my faith along withthat program to kind of put together again
sort of a blueprint to recover mylife. And by the grace of God,
I was able to do that,and you know, my life is
totally different than it was before thefuture is bright able to accomplish a lot
of things. And so with thatbeing said, it's like I started to
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look at some friends and some otherpeople saying, you know, this could
be useful what I put together asa plan for my own life. And
you know, I was able tokind of put together this workbook and it's
been helpful to some people in situationswhere their lives didn't turn out the way
that they would have wanted, whetherthat's unfortunately they've you know, been incarcerated
or divorce or you know, babyMama drama or unemployment, a lot of
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different things that men can face.They've been able to turn to this book
to kind of give them a freshstart. Yeah, that's that's great.
You know, it seems as thoughso many of us go through trauma,
and as a black man, lifeis trauma, you know, just the
inherent racism that a black man hasto experience every day. And certainly trauma
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can often lead to behavior that isn'talways positive. But it seems as though
you have, through your path,gotten onto a very positive way of looking
at life and wanting to share itwith other people. You have a lot
of testimony, and you spook tellus about the testimony. Yes, so
you know, again, just interms of my own background, I went
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through a lot of things that Ijust described as far as you know,
went through an ugly divorce. Youknow, I was a person that wanted
a family since I was young.You know, I didn't grow up again
with my father, so I wantedthat kind of nuclear family. That was
a goal of mine. And thenwhen things can work out with my ex,
and it turned out that she movedabout three hundred and fifty miles away
with my children, So a lotof pain was associated with that. You
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know. I was very close tomy children, coached all the sports and
all those wonderful things, and tohave them move and you know, for
me to really feel a loss wasvery painful. You know. So that
was one area that didn't you know, result in what i'd like, you
know, my life to look like. And then I went to college,
have a degree and had a greatjob as many people would would think,
you know, in pharmaceutical sales,and with things not working out with the
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family, you know, I endedup losing that job. As I said,
you know, unfortunately I had turnedalcohol to cope. I also due
to all that, I had anervous breakdown, which when that was really
uncovered that I had a mental healthissue, so a lot of things,
you know, sort of happened atonce, Lorraine and just sent me spiraling.
And unfortunately, I actually kind oflost hope as to living this in
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this world, you know, andso by the grace of God, he
spared me. Like I said,I went through these steps that described in
the book, and you know,fortunate enough life has turned around. Well,
these are steps that that anyone canpick up. And so I'm going
to ask you about the program itself. It's there are a lot of different
steps here. What is involved ingoing through this program and what are some
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of the things that you would tellpeople about the program? Sure, so,
first of all, you know,after kind of learning what the program
is in the first chapter, youhave to do an honest self assessment.
You know, you have to reallysit down and say to your you know,
and kind of look at yourself.You know, you have to say,
Okay, where am I career wise? Where am I relationally? You
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know, where am I as paternally, Where am I in terms of my
community standing? You know, youhave to really do an honest, real
self assessment as to where you arebefore we can kind of go through the
steps to kind of uncover how yougot to where you are today. You
know, what are the behaviors,what are the mindset and outlook that you
have which caused where you are today? If you're taking the steps, more
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than likely things have not turned outthe way you would have wanted. You
know, you do things like throughthe Steps. I mean, you know
again there's twelve of them, butyou know, you do things like having
to face a lot of the peoplethat you have caused heartache for. You
know, you have to understand that, you know, you your behaviors affected
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other people, you know, family, friends, romantic relationships, and so
you can't run from that. Youhave to be humble enough. And that's
that's part of the whole theme ofthe whole Steps, Lorraine, is to
be humble, you know, andto be humble to a higher power.
You don't have to necessarily be aChristian to take take part in this,
although it's Christian themes of course,however, you know, to humble yourself
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to a higher power right that.You know, you aren't the center of
the universe, you aren't the onethat knows all things, so you have
to go through that kind of processof humbling yourself again. You know,
you have to confront the people thatyou have affected, have to humbly apologize
for, you know, the thingsthat you did or did not do.
You know, of course that issomething that can give you a firm foundation
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as to not just moving forward inlife, but also kind of cleaning up
some of your past. Right,So it sounds like it's an opportunity to
take a look at yourself and stepby step figure out ways in which you
can turn those behaviors that were negativeinto positives. And so how long do
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you think it would take for aperson to go through this? I guess
it really kind of depends on whoyou are, right, yes, yes,
So all we really ask is forpeople to commit to it. More
than likely it's going to take sometime because you know, again you have
to really go back into your past, even from your youth, as to
you know, a getting people youaffected in terms of the different things that
again you mentioned about behaviors and knowwhat caused those behaviors. You know,
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you have to really really go throughthe steps in depth. It can take
months, but like I said,as long as you consistently work on it,
because at the end of the day, it's about you unearthing your old
character and replanting it with a newcharacter. And of course that's not something
that can be done immediately. Youknow, you've spent your entire life living
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a certain way, thinking a certainway, behaving a certain way. So
now it's important to again really unearthand to pull out that the roots of
your old character and replant it withthe person that you can be proud of.
Well, there's certain suggestions that youhave, recommendations to increase your chances
of success. What are they?Yes, so you know you really want
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to approach things like as far asyour dress even right, so you know,
during the period you take the course, you know, you don't want
to walk around with your pants saggingdown. You know, you want to
show some self respect, you know, so you want to dress up daily.
You know that doesn't mean suit andtie, but if you wear if
you have button up shirts, youknow, wear a button up shirt,
you know, wear a sweater again, you know, have your your pants
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on your hips and not hanging offyour behind, you know, and if
you wear sneakers, you know,clean them. You know, really show
some self respect so that you feellike, you know what, I'm a
good person here. That's just oneexample. Of how you can set yourself
up for success. Any final wordsbefore we close the excitement of the program.
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A lot of people again who reallyrecognize, hey, look, my
life hasn't resulted in the way thatI wanted to have been able to work
this program and it really sort ofreplaces a lot of the wisdom you would
have inherited as a younger man.Now you are working on yourself with a
community of other men to increase yourchance of having a better life. Major
props for taking a close look atyourself and what was not working and turning
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your life around, and then creatingthis workbook which is going to help other
men who might be facing their ownchallenges going through these Twelve Ordered Steps,
a foundation designed for living, atransformative workbook specifically created for black men.
And if people would like to geta copy, how do they do that?
So if you would go to TwelveOrdered Steps dot com, which is
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our website, you can order itdirectly. You can order a hard cop
as well as an ebook. ToddInman, who is the author of Twelve
Ordered Steps. It is a foundationaldesign for living to help black men get
their lives on a forward and positivepath. Thank you so much. Thank
you for having me, Laurie joinus for the Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King
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volunteer dot global, Citizen three sixtyfive dot org, Slash jobs Fair.
What is dedication? My daughter startmaking necklaces. She makes what we call
affirmation fashion. I tell her everyday that you're black is beautiful. Your
black is beautiful. And if there'sanything better than being beautiful, it's being
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smart. If there's anything better thanbeing smart, it's being kind. And
reaffirming that every day is our methodof making sure her chin never drops.
My dad wasn't around, and Iremember riding a bike and falling off and
cutting myself and me never just wantedto get back on it. People ask
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how your children learn how to ridea bike and you didn't. I didn't
teach them. I just create anenvironment. But they taught themselves and all
I had to do was be there. That's dedication. Visit Fatherhood dot gove
to hear more. Brought to youby the US Department of Health and Human
Services and the AD Counsel. I'mhere in the studio with a Philadelphia icon,
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Chill Moody, who is not onlyone of Philadelphia's best musicians, artists,
creators, but he's all so agolfer. He's also an entrepreneur.
And it's all about everything nice,right, everything is you know, everything
is nice things. It's great.I love that well, you know,
aside from your musical career, whichis, you know, very storied and
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very well respected, you are doingso much for the community. And one
of the things which I was interestedto hear about is your fascination with golf
and bringing it to folks in thecommunity. Tell us about that. So
I'm, you know, caught thebug and I've been golfing, uh,
I don't know, probably about threeyears now, but always love the sport.
Grew up loving watching golf and justnever really had to access to,
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you know, get into the sportthe way I wanted to, and you
know, most recently I have.So we launched the Nice Things Invitational,
which is you know, my golftournament, and I'm working on launching a
nonprofit and collaboration with that to getmore you know, black and brown youth
into the sport, into the businessof golf as well. So not just
you know, picking up clubs andplaying the game, but understanding that there's
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a lot of opportunit in the game, whether it be you know, creating
content, creating merch, you knowwhatever, but just find and finding ways
to bring the culture and infuse theculture more into the into the sport.
Yeah. I think that what peoplesometimes forget, or actually usually forget,
is when you talk about sports ingeneral. People think about basketball, they
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think about football, they think aboutthe players, but there's a whole layer
of people on the back end whodo very well in support situations and and
that, and you know, whenyou talk about golf, I hadn't really
thought about that that there's a lotin addition to playing exactly. And I
learned that once I'm in the space, and I'm in the space, I
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look around and try to find thevoids in the space and find, you
know, what I can do toelevate the space, leave it better than
it was when I got here.So I kind of identify this as as
the possibly the way to do itright. Right. And as you say,
it's golf is not something that younecessarily except for you know, Tiger
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Woods certainly the icon of golf,but in general people tend to think of
it as being sort of like ayou know, like a white sport,
a mainstream sport. Why should Iget involved in that? Well, tell
us why. I mean, TigerWoods was my biggest influence, you know,
in the sport period growing up,as like, there's a black man
that's running this sport. You know, it is not too many of them
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in this sport, but he's theone. So it's like, all right,
this is a black sport to me. If you ask me, he's
winning, it's a black sport tome. We should we should be more
involved in it. But on topof that, and you know that's you
know, being a little facetious jokingor whatever, But on top of that,
the solace and the piece that Ifind in playing the game the way
it's humbled me. You know,you spend it so much time in your
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life. Once you get set doingwhat you know you're good at, being
trash at something and watching you foraggressively get better, it's humbling. It's
those life lessons that I think weneed to continue to learn as we continue
to grow. You're never really donegrowing, never done learning. So bringing
those those elements and introducing those elementsto the youth I think will better them
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as opposed to you know, findingit out in your thirties, which is
cool too, but yeah, Ithink you know, you start a little
bit earlier, you might you mightbe good. Yeah, that's that's so
true. So if people would liketo get involved in this program, how
do they do that? I mean, you can follow me on all social
media at Chill Moody and you knowI'm always available. I'm a resource to
to whoever. And yeah, yeah, look out for the nice things.
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Invitation or our second tournament will bethis year working with the Amateur Golf Society
on a lot of things and youknow, expanding Philly golf beyond you know,
its market, you know, witha lot of content things like that
too. So yeah, it shouldbe it should be a nice year for
golf. And what about the music. What's what's happening here? I just
dropped the new album. It's calledWe Still Got Time. It's available on
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all streaming platforms. Dropped the videohorns at the funeral where we kind of
encapsulated a lot of what I've beendoing, you know, in my career,
but also what was kind of likea culmination of sorts when I performed
with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the ManCenter. So we captured you know,
everything leading up to that event aswell, and yeah, it was it
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was special. Yeah, you thinkbig that's wonderful and you give big two.
So do you have a website?Just all social media? I'm mostly
on their Instagram and Twitter fantastic mostlyYeah, correct, Murdy, thank you,
appreciate you. N you know mystory right rise the thing from the
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Pain of Glory, right, heardfrom a soucy rip sort of Mike's nakes
and all sort of lights sort ofright. So you're just knowing about the
daily obsession to take a step aside, and both the mac and daily confession.
You don't know about the daily depressionand doubtment comes waiting. Just swit
it off. You can listen toall of today's interviews by going to our
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