Hello, everyone. I am Julia Barbaro, host of the Julia and Gino podcast. I'm here with the co-founder

of Jake and Gino, my husband and co-host, Gina Barbaro. Hey, how are you? I am great. Today we're

welcoming Mark Hancock, Chief Executive Officer of Trail Life USA to the show. Mark began his career

by founding an advertising agency that grew to national prominence over 15 years.

He's now an author, award-winning writer, and speaker who can be heard on over 1,000 radio

stations with his broadcast, Raising Godly Boys Minute. Welcome to the show, Mark.

Thanks, Julian and Gina. Great to be here. Yeah, it's exciting to have you here.

So we're saying that you were a halfback.

You're in Florida, going up to South Carolina.

How did you start the mission of your company?

Because it's such an amazing mission.

Share the mission with the listeners for us.

Yeah, well, that's amazing.

Trail Off USA is a Christ-centered, boy- character leadership and adventure organization. We're formed

in over 1,200 churches across the country, all 50 states, over 50,000 members. I think we're close to

almost 60,000 members now participating on a weekly basis. We're formed in troops that go out

in camp and hike and uniforms and handbooks and a robust awards program, everything you would expect

from an outdoor

boys program. You may have heard of another one that's been around for over 100 years. And about 10

years ago, that one kind of began to lose its way. Boy Scouts of America kind of showed some

signs that it was going to abandon some of the traditional values that it supported. And so about 300 volunteers across the country got together.

So we need to do something about this.

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