The Build Community Through Love Podcast

Coach Gray is the founder of Wide Receiver University (WRU), LLC, a wide receiver coaching, training and development program that attracts local prospects. Recently featured in Sports Illustrated (SI), he has been recognized for his dedication to training some of the top wide receiver prospects in the DMV area. He has made it a priority to work with players of all skill levels. He is committed to making a positive impact on youth in the community and has created a well rounded program that not only trains athletes but encourages the importance of education, discipline, problem solving and life skills.

Coach Miles Gray, a DMV native first fell in love with football at age 8 when he began playing for youth programs like the Colesville Jaguars and Silver Spring Saints . He excelled not only in football but also basketball at St. Johns College High School (DC) and Springbrook High School. Coach Gray is a proud member of the 2008 Springbrook HS MD State Champion Basketball Team, and was a two year starter on the Varsity Football Team. He finished his senior season leading the team in rushing yards rushing touchdowns. After playing briefly at Saint Vincent College and spending time at Frostburg State University, he came home and his coaching and mentoring career began. Gray has coached 6 years at the high school level. ( 4 at Springbrook ; 2 at Northwest High School). Coach Gray has recently been named the Wide Receiver Coach for Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s Football program in Olney, MD.

Keon Rahzeem Mitchell joins The Build Community Through Love Podcast for Episode #15, "Living Your Vision." Keon is growing his acting career on stage and on the big screen, while maintaining his corporate job as a business systems analyst.

Get Connected With Keon Rahzeem Mitchell

Instagram: @keonrmitchell

Email: thekr.mbrand@gmail.com

Recent Highlight: Appearance on Episode 3 of HBO's "Lovecraft Country" Executive Produced by Jordan Peele

Keon Rahzeem Mitchell joins The Build Community Through Love Podcast for Episode #15, "Living Your Vision." Keon is growing his acting career on stage and on the big screen, while maintaining his corporate job as a business systems analyst.

Show Notes, Episode #15 - Part 1:
As we introduce a new opening segment to the podcast, listen to Keon's response as he is the first guest to answer the question: Do Dreams Have Zip Codes?Growing up on the Eastside of Atlanta, in Decatur, GA, Keon has been working to fulfill his dreams and is a huge fan of "Living Your Vision". Though he didn't have a plan on attending college, his fascination with airplanes, in seeing them land and takeoff at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, birthed the desire to pursue engineering. This led him to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. On his way to earning his bachelors in Computer Science, his heart led him to pursue an acting career in his senior year at A&T. Pursuing acting in the midst of getting a computer science degree wasn't straight forward. He surrounded himself with people who would encourage him, mentor him, and help him get his foot in the door. Experience his mental process in taking a leap of faith, and "Living His Vision".Make sure you tune in for Part 2 of Episode #15.

Get Connected With Keon Rahzeem Mitchell

Instagram: @keonrmitchell

Email: thekr.mbrand@gmail.com

Recent Highlight: Appearance on Episode 3 of HBO's "Lovecraft Country" Executive Produced by Jordan Peele

In this episode, our host Joe Daniels provides a candid monolog about the development of Build Community Through Love and The Build Community Through Love Podcast. The humble beginnings establish a benchmark for growth and development. We Are Building!!!

In this episode, we discuss a career in the S.T.E.M. field, entrepreneurship, and serving community with a specificity on the underrepresented youth with Marcell Jackson. Marcell is the Brilliant Factory Project Leader at GE Healthcare who is enabling the digital transformation across global manufacturing sites. He has been with GE for 8 years, is a GE Recruiter, and a Certified Project Management Professional (or PMP). Marcell is also a Resume Writer, Career Coach, and the Founder of Professionally Developed, LLC. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from THE illustrious North Carolina A&T State University. In 2018, Marcell was named GE Healthcare's Volunteer of the Year and Biz Time Media's Nonprofit Excellence Corporate Volunteer of the Year. Marcell is a husband, a father, and committed to exposing Black youth and professionals to opportunities in STEM with an emphasis on engineering and tech.

This week, Joe talks with Britney about her fusion of software development and tech, with her love for sneakers. See how Britney a.k.a. Nerd Wonder takes her authentic self to the classroom to teach coding to the youth in Detroit, to the entrepreneurial space to create and grow businesses with her expertise as a software engineer, and to the community as she supports and uplifts the black owned business community.

In this episode, we discuss the formula of creating and receiving new opportunities with Ms. Angelica Guiao. As of this interview, Angelica is an Assistant Manager and Latin@Bay Area Lead at Facebook, and she talks about success not being the straight and narrow. 

She describes her love for sports, and the power sports has in bringing communities and families together. This influences her to pursue and earn her MBA in Sports Business Management, where she details her time working in the professional sports industry for teams like the Oakland Raiders and San Jose Sharks, just to name a few. Her secret to successs...she puts it like this: "I strongly believe if you can connect with people, whether it be a CEO of company, whether it's a child, whether it's a poor person or whether it's a rich person, if you can meet people as people, that will take you so far and people will do things and go out of their way to support you if they feel seen." Angelica has lived by that in her professional career and from it she has created several opportunities for herself.

And so we had to ask: What are the top 5 things people should know and do when entering the workforce, or looking to make a transition in their career? Here is her list: 1) Reach out to people and seek out knowledge and wisdom. 2) There are great opportunities at small companies and not always your top big name companies. 3) Drop your ego at the door. 4) Put in the work. 5) Stay patient along the journey.  It was Number 5 that landed Angelica large recognition at Facebook and even helped her develop her purpose. How crazy is that. Listen and discover how hosting a work-based conference steered her in the direction of her purpose: becoming a life coach. Watch to the end and see how she unveils her true calling as a life coach as she motivates, encourages, and inspires.

This week, Joe talks with Pastor Daniels, and discusses affordable housing, returning citizens from prison, and resources in the Washington D.C. area for people to begin building wealth.

This week, Joe talks with Rodney Kizito and discusses how future graduate students should approach their program in order to monetize their brilliance and expertise.

On Part 4, Joe talks with his former high school basketball teammates as they provide advice and encouragement to young student-athletes and graduating seniors.

On Part 3, Joe talks with his former high school basketball teammates to discuss the role of coaching in sports and in life.

On Part 2, Joe talks with his former high school basketball teammates to discuss how basketball has changed all of our lives for the better.

On Part 1, Joe talks with his former high school basketball teammates to discuss the state of the country, police killings, systemic racism, etc.

This week, Joe talks with Jessica Young, M.D. about how the health care system is handling COVID-19, how she is navigating as a black woman physician, and the racial disparities in the health care system exposed by the Coronavirus pandemic.

This week, Joe talks with Crystal McDonald about the need for education, access, and opportunities for youth in disenfranchised and underfunded communities.

This week, Joe talks with Wallace Miles about the mindset of walk-on kicker to becoming a professional athlete at the wide-receiver position. We go on to discuss how that mindset is valuable and necessary for all goals we set out to accomplish in life.

This week, Joe talks with Kathryn Reed about her journey in the health care industry, becoming a physician assistant, and founding the National Society of Black Physician Assistants.

From humble upbringings in North Little Rock, to trailblazing his own path as a digital media marketer and community servant. Experience how Carl Dunn, founder of Etavonni Media, has grown from life lessons and works to build his business and his community.

In this conversation, Krystal Beachum, founder of Student-Athletes Unite, shares her passion and vision to provide entrepreneurship training to collegiate student-athletes interested in pursuing and building businesses.

Connect with Krystal at Student-Athletes Unite: http://www.studentathletesunite.com/contact

Krystal is the author of "For The Other 98%". In this informative and inspiring book, Krystal will help you discover your purpose and give you practical guidelines to be used whether you want to become an entrepreneur or advance your career by leveraging your resources and network. For the other 98% offers specific and real life experience to collegiate student-athletes who are looking to become entrepreneurs.Let me be clear. All athletes do not make great entrepreneurs, but the experience they garner and the training they receive in collaboration with their innate skills are enough to make great entrepreneurs. The motivation, persistence, self-drive, and skills applied to defeat the opponent at the other end of becoming the number one in sport are the same as what is needed in the business world to dominate market share against competition. Are you ready to go pro in entrepreneurship?

From a vision birthed while in the cleaners, to providing affordable housing to over 250 people in Washington, DC, experience how Dr. Joseph W. Daniels, Jr., Lead Pastor of The Emory Fellowship in Washington, DC, has utilized community and economic development to pastor a church to change a community. "When God Gives a Vision, God Makes Provision."

Website: https://www.emoryfellowship.org/

Dr. Daniels is a published author and lectures around the country. The content of his books is based upon the processes of leading people to WHOLE lives and the responsibility of the church to be REAL - Relevant, Enthusiastic, Authentic and Loving. Each of these books reflect Dr. Daniels' personal relationship with God, the model he espouses for Christ-driven Kingdom building, and a guide for people seeking to deepen their connection in sustainable and authentic ways for 21st century living.