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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But Chuck Douglass filling the void that this afternoon and
(00:03):
filling that void with me even though he didn't bring
the filet of fish, I'm sorry. Filling that void with
me is the legendary Roy Hall Junior. You can get
yourself all set up over there. I mean, you need
your headphones, or's your headphones? So you got to turn
him on, Zach so he could. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is this is the deal. I am perfectly fine.
You bringing up filet fish? Yeah, making me hungry.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Well, I'm sorry I don't have it, but there's a
lot of chasty candy.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You know, live on the east Side somewhere. I won't
disclose with a bat caving.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'll put your address out on Facebook later.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
However, if I'm leaving from the Eastern area, it's so
much traffic. There's more traffic on the highway than it
is this time at McDonald's when they have fresh fries
and everything, So I might do it on the way out.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Though you have spent the majority of your life as
a driver here in Central Ohio, unbelievable. Has it not
gone in the toilet? I mean, people cannot drive anymore
coming here this afternoon McKinley Avenue out here is I
think it's forty five now.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It used to be fifty, okay, but the rain started.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Somebody in a big, manly, macho suv in front of
me going twenty miles an hour. I'm like, it's rain, man,
it's not kryptonite going out of sky.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You definitely have to watch, you know. My son's seventeen.
I mean he's had his license for I think a
year now, but I'm like, listen, the biggest thing about
driving is you have to watch other people, and you
just have to put yourself in a position where you're
never in a rush. And so most accidents occur because
people can't control their emotions. And so when they're in
(01:37):
a rush, let them be in a rush and don't
get upset at them because they're gonna drive crazy if
they're in a rush. But if you're in a rush
and they're in a rush, and those two things collide
at the same time, hopefully not physically from a car standpoint,
but the emotion of it, oh, you can get road
rage real quick.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I try not to, but it's difficult, it really. I
was last week griping because I tried to get get
through a traffic circle. Where was I, Zach? Where was
that traffic store? I was graping about everywhere?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Was it Hilliard?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I think so? And the car in front of me
gets to the traffic circle and stopped. You know, that's
why it's a circle.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You're supposed to circle around.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And not to stop.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
But here's the deal, though, how many people took the
driving test. Got to have a little bit of how
many people took the driving test, and they were taught
how to do these roundabouts.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No one was taught, right, So if you don't know,
it's intimidating. Man, Like you just don't know. And you
got people who they don't know what's speaking.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So I get people grace on the roundabouts because they
weren't never never talked. So I just go into a
roundabout thinking that they don't know what they're doing anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
See, that's why you're a motivational speaker.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Just so nice.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I just know that I didn't do the roundabout test.
It just it's fun for me to like drive around
the circle as fast as I can go, you know
know what I'm saying. But for everybody else, I'm like
I've seen and most of the time. It's people that
are older than me. So I'm in my mind I'm
thinking they don't know because nobody showed them how to
do it. You can watch a lot of British TV.
I mean, who watches British TV. I don't know who watched.
(03:07):
I mean the closest you're gonna get it quick games.
We got roundabouts in my neighborhood. I was little residential
roundabouts ain't nothing but maybe eight feet across. Those are
the most pointless things in the world. You're supposed to
go around at the term, I'm like, I ain't going around.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Just got straight, go straight, and don't let don't clip
the curve.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So it's been a while since you have had a
chance to get on and come in and talk about
what's going on. The driven foundation is driven, never stops,
keeps moving forward, keeps making positive changes and differences in
Central Ohio. And I just I wanted to have you
in day so you can tell us what's going on
in your world.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Sure, man, I'm thankful. I'm thankful to be here to
hang out with you in person. If it was somebody else,
I would have called in for sure. I know we
were texting. We were texting early and I'm like, you
want me to call?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I'm like, nah, Like, I'd love to hang out with
you for an hour.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's just a blessing to be here. Man.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So I think, you know, the biggest thing that I'm
learning as life continue to move forward for everyone is
you just have to use your life to make a difference.
And every day has to be fulfilling in some aspect.
And it can't come from job description, salary, or accolades
or accomplishing even goals. I think the most fulfilling thing
(04:17):
is helping someone else do something that if you didn't
step in and participate in one way or another, they
wouldn't have accomplished it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And so that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Happens on a lot of different levels. For the Driven Foundation, specifically,
it's serving families. It's making sure that people have basic needs,
making sure that young people have the mentors and the
leaders and the plan and the structure to at least
seed leadership and character principles that can carry them into
(04:47):
high schoolhood and adulthood, and mostly to just give them
an example of what it means to be a good
human being.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And so our team is awesome. We have some great
people involved.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But right now what's hopping for us is our summer
youth camp and we're down at Moler Elementary School on
the South Side. We got twenty one kids that show
up at eight thirty am and they leave at three
point thirty pm every day and they got a full
day of scheduling and whether there's leadership stuff for games
and character building things and team camaraderie things, and field
(05:22):
trip and career exploration going around the city to different businesses.
It's just awesome to see young people get excited about
doing some things that maybe they couldn't do based on
their circumstances. We went to we took them on a
fun field trip last week to it's called Slick City,
just open up, I think in the Polaris area, and
(05:43):
it's basically an indoor water park without the water.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So all the bruhs excited because most of the bruhs
I know don't swim, So like, wait, how do you
do a water park without water?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You get basically some carpet and you build the slides
and let them go down on some nice little slick
yoga matts essentially. But one young lady sent me a
DM on Instagram and was like, thanks to you, Coach
Hall and and our entire team, I was able to
do something that I probably would have never been able
(06:14):
to do, and that was just going to Slick City
and so giving them experiences and allowing them to interact
with people that just want to encourage them and love
on them, spoil them a little bit, but also teach them.
It's something that is very, very valuable to me. And
it's so so awesome to be with those kids Monday
through Thursday in the summertime when normally they would just
(06:35):
be in the house and hot and complain in but
they're out and about. We feed them breakfast, we feed
them lunch, and we send them home with a meal
as well. And they got t shirts, multiple shirts, outfits,
all types of stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's really really cool. Man's what's the youngest. What's the
youngest age in that game?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So sixth grade, So the kids are going to the
sixth through pretty much eighth grade, so we got three
different levels. The eighth graders are kind of our older mentors.
Some of those eighth graders actually have been in our
program for the last two years and so they keep
coming back.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
But they understand the standard and so they're able to
bring the younger, younger kids along. It's really cool, man,
that's where we got to get them.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's just when they're old enough to start realizing themselves,
but before they realize themselves into a corner they cannot
get out of.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, the biggest thing is offsetting.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You offset trauma with triumph, and how you do that
is through love, compassion, and experiences. And so there are
countless moments where we could talk about our kids and
their families and what they go through and what they
see and gun violence and domestic violence and violence violence,
and then on the other side, it's like, what are
we doing to offset that? What are the things that
(07:43):
if in the worst case scenario, they at least have
some memories of some people in some instances and some
moments that were beautiful, some moments that were peaceful.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And so that's what we're creating.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Like, even if it's through the seven weeks of our program, Chuck,
we're going to create this. And then even if it's
going into school, they can say, hey, man, for summer,
we had the closest thing to paradise we could have.
Now it's not just free for all. You can do
whatever you want to. We got rules, we got standards,
but it's just a different way of being able to
do education from an emotional standpoint and mentorship standpoint. It's
(08:18):
something that I believe most educators and teachers would want
to do.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
They just have to stick to the curriculum.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So we don't have the curriculum from a day to
day standpoint where we have to do that. But you know,
it's awesome, It's a blessing to be at a servant
that way.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Now, nobody wants to talk about it in July, but
you got anything coming up for back to school that
you're going.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
To, well, you have to talk about it now. You
know what tenth annual back to school event is coming up.
We pack about four to five hundred backpacks filled with
school supplies. That'll be probably the second weekend of August.
I don't have the date in front of me right now,
but if you go to stage driven dot org, there's
a volunteer tab you can click the volunteer tab. We
(08:56):
need donations and we also need volunteers. We love to
have you out, meet you, have you come serve. The
cool thing about our reach truck is the fact that
we not only pack the bags, but then we hand
deliver them to the students all around the city. So
we have a list already of the families that we serve,
and we go and send each volunteer with probably about
six to ten backpacks.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And they got to go to six or so or
four or so.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Houses southside, Hilltop, west side, you know, south side, like
they had to go wherever it may be, and they
got to knock on those doors, hand deliver them to
those kids. See those smiles, but actually get a chance
to put their boots.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
On the ground in the same areas where our kids
come from.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I want you to put my name on that list
right now. And I told you that with the holiday
food deliveries last year, I was so impressed.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I call it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You know, that's ground level missionary work man. That's what
we're here for. And au folks went out and delivered
meals at holiday time. And I'm sorry I found about
it just minutes before it happened. I felt like, but
I just I feel compelled to do what I can
do while I'm hearing. If what I can do is
by helping you, I want to be a part of
No that's powerful, that's done. Deal it's a dune deal.
(10:03):
That's back to school. I can't believe I brought that up,
because there's children in cars right now just hating on me.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
No they're not, but it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
They know it's right here. I just said it today
to my son. I said, is first week and second
week of July, and literally in five weeks, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Be back from school.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I missed old school days when we used to stay
up with Jerry and watch the stars come out and
then go back to school the next day.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And now it's every year.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It seems like it's a little bit earlier in August
that these kids are going back to school.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And they don't like it either. No, they don't like
it now.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I remember years ago, my daughter came home first day
of school, went to school, came home with the bag
of candy bars to sell. I called that school, So
hang hang on, first, it's the first day of school.
You sent her a little chubby behind home with the
bag of candy bars. If she ate them on the
way home, who had to pay for it? Well, sir,
we'd ask you.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
No. See there's where you made your mistake.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
They didn't even ask.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
They just send them home.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And her senior year, her senior pictures were two weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Before the first day of school, which was crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Senior pictures used to if you got senior pictures, yeah,
they might.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Be the day before you graduate.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, well you know some some parents maybe they could
afford it, but they were cheap. Anyway. They take you
down to Kmart and getting that little booth, then put.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
The quarter oln nills. They put you in that pose,
go down the olden hills. They put you in that pose.
Everybody had the same pose, the one that you're make
it right now, your hand on your face and why
is my hand covering up half of my friend.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Because that's the ugly half of your son. Mama didn't
want to tell you, but I'm your.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Daddy and I'll tell you straight out.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It make you look, make you look up to the
right and like there's nothing up there wasn't naturally looking
up there.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Driven found this is it the Driven Foundation dot org
or just driven found it, Stay Driven stage or stay
driven driven dot org the Drive And then before we
went on I so you got another site out there
just for your motivational speaking and that apparently you are
way more in demand and then I thought you were.
People are loving all over you for being a motivation speaker.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
See, this is what happens when we have bald heads.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
My brother, is that what they need that they like
when the light shines off the dome? My brother now
Royhall Junior dot com. I've been blessed to be able
to vocalize motivation and inspiration, to share stories and words
in a way.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Where it touches people's hearts. You know, it's not something
that I asked for, It's not something that I was
trying to do.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But I really feel blessed that God put me in
position to be able to say things that need to
be said when they need to be said, it to
whom they need to be said to. And so you
can't really get into sharing a bunch of your faith
in the corporate space, but you don't leave it out,
and so you do the people that you speak to
a disservice when you start carving away and pulling away
(12:52):
pieces that.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Are pillars in your life.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So I'm able to share, you know, parts of my
faith walk, but mostly leadership principles and really motivate people
to be the best versions of themselves. This life is
hard man. Life is really really difficult, and sometimes you
just need somebody to come in and remind you of
who you are, how much power you have, what you're
on this earth to do, and that you haven't been
doing enough, and that.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You can get out of the rut.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You can get off the ground, you can get picked
you could pick yourself back up, and you can help
somebody back up.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And so that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So people hire me man, They pull me all around
the country to go out and speak and share. A
lot of times I'm the only brother in the room,
and that's a good thing because you know, when you're
struggling struggle challenges, difficulty doesn't see color, it doesn't see gender.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's just people going through some tough times.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And when you have somebody to come in and put
everything to the side and uses that sharp knife to
cut through all the fog and all the nonsense that
divide us, you can see how powerful we are when
we work together.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So it's a blessing. So that website is Royhall Junior
dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You know would love to be able to come and
help support your team or team members or company or
business grow and accomplish the goals and the missions that
you have inside you.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And sometimes you are the most memorable to an audience
like that. I believe when you're able to get up
there and just bring that honesty, when you can say
and I was scared, because most people don't want to
say things like that out loud, but when they can
hear another, you know, this big old football playing man
stand up here on this say and say I was
ashamed of myself. What he can say that? And I
(14:27):
think it helps people to feel more empowered to share
their own feelings and thoughts and experiences. And that's the
mark of a great speaker, when you can get people
to reach down inside themselves and bring out their own
stories afterwards.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, it's people are challenged with sharing the forgetful position.
The forgetful position is all the bad, the things that
we want. The forgetful position is that, but then people
focus on the finished product.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I like to focus on the forgetful position.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm gonna tell you everything that I should have forgot
that I didn't that empowered me to see this finished
product in front of you. And so you know, most
people will hide it, stay away from it, they bury it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But when you bury those.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Things you think you're doing yourself with disservice, but you're
really contaminating your spirit because it'll poison you from the
inside out. That's why you're anger, that's why you're down.
That's why you don't trust people. That's why you're unforgiving.
That's why you're angry. That's why you don't trust this person.
That's why you don't trust. It's something buried inside you.
But when that thing comes out, you get your power back. Man,
(15:34):
you get the ability to share. And there's other people
that went through what you went through. So if you
got to the point where you're successful enough to work
through it, you should be sharing like this is how
this is what I went through, This is how I
got through. And man, let's connect so I can help
you get through it. So you're gonna have to suffer
like I suffer. Absolutely, that's the key.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That isolation is what stops so many people in their tracks.
Roy Hall Junior is in studio right now. You welcome
to hang out as long as you want. I get
as soon as we get off the air, and I
get the links up to both his site for speaking
if you liked him to come out as well as
Driven Foundation site
But Chuck Douglass filling the void that this afternoon and
(00:03):
filling that void with me even though he didn't bring
the filet of fish, I'm sorry. Filling that void with
me is the legendary Roy Hall Junior. You can get
yourself all set up over there. I mean, you need
your headphones, or's your headphones? So you got to turn
him on, Zach so he could. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is this is the deal. I am perfectly fine.
You bringing up filet fish? Yeah, making me hungry.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Well, I'm sorry I don't have it, but there's a
lot of chasty candy.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You know, live on the east Side somewhere. I won't
disclose with a bat caving.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'll put your address out on Facebook later.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
However, if I'm leaving from the Eastern area, it's so
much traffic. There's more traffic on the highway than it
is this time at McDonald's when they have fresh fries
and everything, So I might do it on the way out.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Though you have spent the majority of your life as
a driver here in Central Ohio, unbelievable. Has it not
gone in the toilet? I mean, people cannot drive anymore
coming here this afternoon McKinley Avenue out here is I
think it's forty five now.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It used to be fifty, okay, but the rain started.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Somebody in a big, manly, macho suv in front of
me going twenty miles an hour. I'm like, it's rain, man,
it's not kryptonite going out of sky.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You definitely have to watch, you know. My son's seventeen.
I mean he's had his license for I think a
year now, but I'm like, listen, the biggest thing about
driving is you have to watch other people, and you
just have to put yourself in a position where you're
never in a rush. And so most accidents occur because
people can't control their emotions. And so when they're in
(01:37):
a rush, let them be in a rush and don't
get upset at them because they're gonna drive crazy if
they're in a rush. But if you're in a rush
and they're in a rush, and those two things collide
at the same time, hopefully not physically from a car standpoint,
but the emotion of it, oh, you can get road
rage real quick.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I try not to, but it's difficult, it really. I
was last week griping because I tried to get get
through a traffic circle. Where was I, Zach? Where was
that traffic store? I was graping about everywhere?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Was it Hilliard?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I think so? And the car in front of me
gets to the traffic circle and stopped. You know, that's
why it's a circle.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You're supposed to circle around.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And not to stop.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
But here's the deal, though, how many people took the
driving test. Got to have a little bit of how
many people took the driving test, and they were taught
how to do these roundabouts.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No one was taught, right, So if you don't know,
it's intimidating. Man, Like you just don't know. And you
got people who they don't know what's speaking.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So I get people grace on the roundabouts because they
weren't never never talked. So I just go into a
roundabout thinking that they don't know what they're doing anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
See, that's why you're a motivational speaker.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Just so nice.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I just know that I didn't do the roundabout test.
It just it's fun for me to like drive around
the circle as fast as I can go, you know
know what I'm saying. But for everybody else, I'm like
I've seen and most of the time. It's people that
are older than me. So I'm in my mind I'm
thinking they don't know because nobody showed them how to
do it. You can watch a lot of British TV.
I mean, who watches British TV. I don't know who watched.
(03:07):
I mean the closest you're gonna get it quick games.
We got roundabouts in my neighborhood. I was little residential
roundabouts ain't nothing but maybe eight feet across. Those are
the most pointless things in the world. You're supposed to
go around at the term, I'm like, I ain't going around.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Just got straight, go straight, and don't let don't clip
the curve.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So it's been a while since you have had a
chance to get on and come in and talk about
what's going on. The driven foundation is driven, never stops,
keeps moving forward, keeps making positive changes and differences in
Central Ohio. And I just I wanted to have you
in day so you can tell us what's going on
in your world.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Sure, man, I'm thankful. I'm thankful to be here to
hang out with you in person. If it was somebody else,
I would have called in for sure. I know we
were texting. We were texting early and I'm like, you
want me to call?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I'm like, nah, Like, I'd love to hang out with
you for an hour.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's just a blessing to be here. Man.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So I think, you know, the biggest thing that I'm
learning as life continue to move forward for everyone is
you just have to use your life to make a difference.
And every day has to be fulfilling in some aspect.
And it can't come from job description, salary, or accolades
or accomplishing even goals. I think the most fulfilling thing
(04:17):
is helping someone else do something that if you didn't
step in and participate in one way or another, they
wouldn't have accomplished it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And so that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Happens on a lot of different levels. For the Driven Foundation, specifically,
it's serving families. It's making sure that people have basic needs,
making sure that young people have the mentors and the
leaders and the plan and the structure to at least
seed leadership and character principles that can carry them into
(04:47):
high schoolhood and adulthood, and mostly to just give them
an example of what it means to be a good
human being.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And so our team is awesome. We have some great
people involved.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
But right now what's hopping for us is our summer
youth camp and we're down at Moler Elementary School on
the South Side. We got twenty one kids that show
up at eight thirty am and they leave at three
point thirty pm every day and they got a full
day of scheduling and whether there's leadership stuff for games
and character building things and team camaraderie things, and field
(05:22):
trip and career exploration going around the city to different businesses.
It's just awesome to see young people get excited about
doing some things that maybe they couldn't do based on
their circumstances. We went to we took them on a
fun field trip last week to it's called Slick City,
just open up, I think in the Polaris area, and
(05:43):
it's basically an indoor water park without the water.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So all the bruhs excited because most of the bruhs
I know don't swim, So like, wait, how do you
do a water park without water?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You get basically some carpet and you build the slides
and let them go down on some nice little slick
yoga matts essentially. But one young lady sent me a
DM on Instagram and was like, thanks to you, Coach
Hall and and our entire team, I was able to
do something that I probably would have never been able
(06:14):
to do, and that was just going to Slick City
and so giving them experiences and allowing them to interact
with people that just want to encourage them and love
on them, spoil them a little bit, but also teach them.
It's something that is very, very valuable to me. And
it's so so awesome to be with those kids Monday
through Thursday in the summertime when normally they would just
(06:35):
be in the house and hot and complain in but
they're out and about. We feed them breakfast, we feed
them lunch, and we send them home with a meal
as well. And they got t shirts, multiple shirts, outfits,
all types of stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's really really cool. Man's what's the youngest. What's the
youngest age in that game?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So sixth grade, So the kids are going to the
sixth through pretty much eighth grade, so we got three
different levels. The eighth graders are kind of our older mentors.
Some of those eighth graders actually have been in our
program for the last two years and so they keep
coming back.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
But they understand the standard and so they're able to
bring the younger, younger kids along. It's really cool, man,
that's where we got to get them.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's just when they're old enough to start realizing themselves,
but before they realize themselves into a corner they cannot
get out of.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, the biggest thing is offsetting.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You offset trauma with triumph, and how you do that
is through love, compassion, and experiences. And so there are
countless moments where we could talk about our kids and
their families and what they go through and what they
see and gun violence and domestic violence and violence violence,
and then on the other side, it's like, what are
we doing to offset that? What are the things that
(07:43):
if in the worst case scenario, they at least have
some memories of some people in some instances and some
moments that were beautiful, some moments that were peaceful.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And so that's what we're creating.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Like, even if it's through the seven weeks of our program, Chuck,
we're going to create this. And then even if it's
going into school, they can say, hey, man, for summer,
we had the closest thing to paradise we could have.
Now it's not just free for all. You can do
whatever you want to. We got rules, we got standards,
but it's just a different way of being able to
do education from an emotional standpoint and mentorship standpoint. It's
(08:18):
something that I believe most educators and teachers would want
to do.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
They just have to stick to the curriculum.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So we don't have the curriculum from a day to
day standpoint where we have to do that. But you know,
it's awesome, It's a blessing to be at a servant
that way.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Now, nobody wants to talk about it in July, but
you got anything coming up for back to school that
you're going.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
To, well, you have to talk about it now. You
know what tenth annual back to school event is coming up.
We pack about four to five hundred backpacks filled with
school supplies. That'll be probably the second weekend of August.
I don't have the date in front of me right now,
but if you go to stage driven dot org, there's
a volunteer tab you can click the volunteer tab. We
(08:56):
need donations and we also need volunteers. We love to
have you out, meet you, have you come serve. The
cool thing about our reach truck is the fact that
we not only pack the bags, but then we hand
deliver them to the students all around the city. So
we have a list already of the families that we serve,
and we go and send each volunteer with probably about
six to ten backpacks.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And they got to go to six or so or
four or so.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Houses southside, Hilltop, west side, you know, south side, like
they had to go wherever it may be, and they
got to knock on those doors, hand deliver them to
those kids. See those smiles, but actually get a chance
to put their boots.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
On the ground in the same areas where our kids
come from.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I want you to put my name on that list
right now. And I told you that with the holiday
food deliveries last year, I was so impressed.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I call it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You know, that's ground level missionary work man. That's what
we're here for. And au folks went out and delivered
meals at holiday time. And I'm sorry I found about
it just minutes before it happened. I felt like, but
I just I feel compelled to do what I can
do while I'm hearing. If what I can do is
by helping you, I want to be a part of
No that's powerful, that's done. Deal it's a dune deal.
(10:03):
That's back to school. I can't believe I brought that up,
because there's children in cars right now just hating on me.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
No they're not, but it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
They know it's right here. I just said it today
to my son. I said, is first week and second
week of July, and literally in five weeks, you're gonna.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Be back from school.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I missed old school days when we used to stay
up with Jerry and watch the stars come out and
then go back to school the next day.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And now it's every year.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It seems like it's a little bit earlier in August
that these kids are going back to school.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And they don't like it either. No, they don't like
it now.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I remember years ago, my daughter came home first day
of school, went to school, came home with the bag
of candy bars to sell. I called that school, So
hang hang on, first, it's the first day of school.
You sent her a little chubby behind home with the
bag of candy bars. If she ate them on the
way home, who had to pay for it? Well, sir,
we'd ask you.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
No. See there's where you made your mistake.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
They didn't even ask.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
They just send them home.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And her senior year, her senior pictures were two weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Before the first day of school, which was crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Senior pictures used to if you got senior pictures, yeah,
they might.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Be the day before you graduate.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, well you know some some parents maybe they could
afford it, but they were cheap. Anyway. They take you
down to Kmart and getting that little booth, then put.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
The quarter oln nills. They put you in that pose,
go down the olden hills. They put you in that pose.
Everybody had the same pose, the one that you're make
it right now, your hand on your face and why
is my hand covering up half of my friend.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Because that's the ugly half of your son. Mama didn't
want to tell you, but I'm your.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Daddy and I'll tell you straight out.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
It make you look, make you look up to the
right and like there's nothing up there wasn't naturally looking
up there.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Driven found this is it the Driven Foundation dot org
or just driven found it, Stay Driven stage or stay
driven driven dot org the Drive And then before we
went on I so you got another site out there
just for your motivational speaking and that apparently you are
way more in demand and then I thought you were.
People are loving all over you for being a motivation speaker.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
See, this is what happens when we have bald heads.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
My brother, is that what they need that they like
when the light shines off the dome? My brother now
Royhall Junior dot com. I've been blessed to be able
to vocalize motivation and inspiration, to share stories and words
in a way.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Where it touches people's hearts. You know, it's not something
that I asked for, It's not something that I was
trying to do.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But I really feel blessed that God put me in
position to be able to say things that need to
be said when they need to be said, it to
whom they need to be said to. And so you
can't really get into sharing a bunch of your faith
in the corporate space, but you don't leave it out,
and so you do the people that you speak to
a disservice when you start carving away and pulling away
(12:52):
pieces that.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Are pillars in your life.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So I'm able to share, you know, parts of my
faith walk, but mostly leadership principles and really motivate people
to be the best versions of themselves. This life is
hard man. Life is really really difficult, and sometimes you
just need somebody to come in and remind you of
who you are, how much power you have, what you're
on this earth to do, and that you haven't been
doing enough, and that.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You can get out of the rut.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You can get off the ground, you can get picked
you could pick yourself back up, and you can help
somebody back up.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And so that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So people hire me man, They pull me all around
the country to go out and speak and share. A
lot of times I'm the only brother in the room,
and that's a good thing because you know, when you're
struggling struggle challenges, difficulty doesn't see color, it doesn't see gender.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's just people going through some tough times.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And when you have somebody to come in and put
everything to the side and uses that sharp knife to
cut through all the fog and all the nonsense that
divide us, you can see how powerful we are when
we work together.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So it's a blessing. So that website is Royhall Junior
dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You know would love to be able to come and
help support your team or team members or company or
business grow and accomplish the goals and the missions that
you have inside you.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And sometimes you are the most memorable to an audience
like that. I believe when you're able to get up
there and just bring that honesty, when you can say
and I was scared, because most people don't want to
say things like that out loud, but when they can
hear another, you know, this big old football playing man
stand up here on this say and say I was
ashamed of myself. What he can say that? And I
(14:27):
think it helps people to feel more empowered to share
their own feelings and thoughts and experiences. And that's the
mark of a great speaker, when you can get people
to reach down inside themselves and bring out their own
stories afterwards.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, it's people are challenged with sharing the forgetful position.
The forgetful position is all the bad, the things that
we want. The forgetful position is that, but then people
focus on the finished product.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I like to focus on the forgetful position.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm gonna tell you everything that I should have forgot
that I didn't that empowered me to see this finished
product in front of you. And so you know, most
people will hide it, stay away from it, they bury it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But when you bury those.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Things you think you're doing yourself with disservice, but you're
really contaminating your spirit because it'll poison you from the
inside out. That's why you're anger, that's why you're down.
That's why you don't trust people. That's why you're unforgiving.
That's why you're angry. That's why you don't trust this person.
That's why you don't trust. It's something buried inside you.
But when that thing comes out, you get your power back. Man,
(15:34):
you get the ability to share. And there's other people
that went through what you went through. So if you
got to the point where you're successful enough to work
through it, you should be sharing like this is how
this is what I went through, This is how I
got through. And man, let's connect so I can help
you get through it. So you're gonna have to suffer
like I suffer. Absolutely, that's the key.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
That isolation is what stops so many people in their tracks.
Roy Hall Junior is in studio right now. You welcome
to hang out as long as you want. I get
as soon as we get off the air, and I
get the links up to both his site for speaking
if you liked him to come out as well as
Driven Foundation site
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