Episode 88 Donny Jackson and Tim FitzGerald - "Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home"

Shreveport Youth Boxing Club's Coach Donny Jackson and Tim FitzGerald sit down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development for the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

 

0:38 1. Our community consist of too many families who suffer from generational poverty and too many young people who lack mentors and role models.

 

We will get into all the nuts and bolts later today of the Shreveport Youth Boxing Club. But let’s start here.

 

Coach Donny, you once said, “A lot of these kids…no one has taken the time.” It seems kind of obvious, but why does taking the time with these kids matter?

 

1:57 2. Coach Donny, why do you do it? What drives you to be a mentor and role model for these kids?

 

3:15 3. Tim, tell me about the Shreveport Youth Boxing Club, how and why Coach Donny and you started it?

 

6:52 4. Paint me a picture of what the experience will be like for someone walking into the Shreveport Youth Boxing Club for the first time.

 

8:38 5. Who is welcome to use the Shreveport Youth Boxing Club?

 

9:57 6. I would love to hear from each of you on this, what is the one thing so far that you have learned from your experience with the kids in the Shreveport Youth Boxing Club that has most surprised you?

 

14:38 7. The kids that come to you, what can they expect to learn?

 

18:54 8. Lastly, how do we create more mentors and role models in our community?