8: Keith Linton from Boys2Gentlemen on Growing Up in Poverty, a Career in LAPD, a Positive Mindset, and Mentoring Today's Youth
You Are Here
Rachel Rhee
5.0 • 14 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to You Are Here, the podcast where we have conversations with people who have |
| 0:04.8 | courageously taken the road less traveled. I'm your host Rachel Ree and in each |
| 0:09.6 | episode we'll be exploring stories from people who have followed their own path and are living life on their own terms |
| 0:15.8 | Know that we're here to meet you where you are and where you'd like to be. This is you are here |
| 0:25.0 | Hi friend, welcome back. The episode this week is with Keith Linton. |
| 0:28.0 | He is someone who grew up in the projects and by all accounts had a tough start to life. |
| 0:33.0 | However, he maintained a strong and resilient mindset. |
| 0:37.0 | And that mindset took him down the path to not only getting out of the projects, |
| 0:41.0 | but becoming a seasoned and respected member of the Los Angeles Police Department for 12 years. |
| 0:47.0 | Despite having the stability of being in the force, he knew he could do more to effect change more directly in the communities of color that he could identify with. |
| 0:56.0 | So he started Boys to Gentlemen and girls to young ladies, a non-profit that focuses on building emotional social programming for young boys and girls in the |
| 1:05.0 | LA area of Watts, California, where for some context the crime rate is 50% higher than the national average, so you can imagine the types of neighborhoods that kids are growing up in. |
| 1:16.1 | He's truly someone who has taken his hardships in life into triumphs. |
| 1:20.9 | So if this episode resonates with you, please remember to |
| 1:24.2 | subscribe, rate, and review wherever you are listening. |
| 1:28.8 | You're clearly someone who has a mission and a vision and has a passion for showing up for communities that need support and |
| 1:38.0 | specifically around children and we can definitely dive into Boys to Gentlemen of course and all of the really impactful work that's going on with you right now. |
| 1:46.5 | But before getting into that I feel like people really need to understand your upbringing |
| 1:53.2 | where you've been in order to fully appreciate |
| 1:55.9 | where you are now in your journey. |
| 1:58.8 | So would you mind taking us back to childhood? |
| 2:01.8 | I know that's a very broad subject and that's I'm sure just a |
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