177: Kids Don't Respect Life If They Don't See Anything in It for Them

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Brian Thompson is founder of The Corporate Kid Organization, a nonprofit agency providing a unique mentoring program for “at risk” youth in urban centers of the United States. Too many teens, even very talented teens, are being lost to the neighborhood. Many do not have successful role models to help guide them to be the best they can be. “I'm an assistant scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts in the inner city. We just took a bunch of kids out to their first camping trip last week. We have to show these kids what life is about so they can ‘live life’ and not be merely ‘fans of life.’ That's what Corporate Kids is about. I want to show them what they can achieve so they can be in the game of life and playing the game of life.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 177. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered
0:22.2	his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Today,
0:28.7	I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Brian Thompson. Welcome, Brian. Glad to be here,
0:33.6	Don. Brian, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:42.6	Yes, I am, Don. All righty. We want to hear the whole story. Brian Thompson is only interested in one thing. He is interested in changing the trajectory of young lives that usually and unconsciously
0:50.4	go down very limited paths. These are critical times in our history as a strong nation.
0:56.5	And if actions like what corporate kid are doing aren't acted on in even broader fashion,
1:01.9	the growing income gap will turn the U.S. into a huge class society. Brian Thompson and corporate
1:07.1	kid are meeting that challenge head on. Brian, that's a summary of your career today.
1:12.9	Tell us what you're working on now that has you engaged and excited.
1:16.8	Well, what we're doing now is working with youth that are in situations where you have a child
1:22.7	who is struggling but successfully earning good grades in school, A and B students, and these kids are in
1:29.7	disenfranchised situation, whether it's in the inner city on the reservation or in rural America.
1:36.6	These kids are engaged in terms of they're getting their education, they're putting together
1:40.6	what needs to be done to get A's and B's, but they're going home to situations where there's no electricity, or they may even be homeless, or they're in areas where there's a lot of violence, high crime, or just a very little hope. And these kids, a lot of times, when they get to be 14, 15, 16 years old, they're very smart. And a lot of times they realize it's not really for me. This education thing's not
2:01.7	going to work. No one that I know has gotten out of this neighborhood or no one I know has been
2:06.7	able to escape the coal mine or the reservation, regardless of what their grades are, because
2:11.3	there's really nowhere for us to go. We're not accepted. And it's really an act on generational
2:16.3	poverty. We've not solved that,
2:18.8	even to this date. And what corporate kid does is it kind of eliminates all the mismatch.
2:24.1	Well, how do these kids get to this level? We just do something real simple. We take these children
2:29.3	who are bright kids, who have limited scope, who have limited hope, and we directly contact them or connect
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