When Structure Meets Opportunity for Detroit’s Youth with Renee Fluker
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What do golf, grit, and gratitude have to do with college success? Renee Fluker answers that question with 25 years of proof. As the founder of Detroit’s College Career & Beyond | Midnight Golf Program, Renee has helped more than 3,000 students—many written off by traditional systems—develop the life skills, discipline, and confidence to thrive in college and beyond.
In this episode, Guy Kawasaki sits down with Renee to unpack how a small, food-fueled experiment turned into a nationally recognized pipeline to higher education, why rules and respect still matter, and how love—paired with structure—can change the trajectory of a young person’s life. Renee’s story is raw, practical, and deeply hopeful, offering a blueprint for anyone who believes opportunity should be taught, not assumed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. It's Guy Kawasaki. I believe we are in troubling and dangerous times. |
| 0:08.2 | One of the things that's happening is that privacy is eroding. And when privacy erodes, so does |
| 0:15.0 | democracy. So Maddoz and Nizmer and I, we just finished the book. It's called Everybody Has Something to Hide. |
| 0:24.0 | This is a jargon-free book. It is for everybody to learn why and how they should use signal. |
| 0:32.0 | They should use signal to ensure their privacy, safety, and well-being. |
| 0:36.2 | It comes out on January 28th for five days. |
| 0:40.1 | It'll be free. And then it'll go to $4.4. I hope you see what we did there. The forward is from |
| 0:47.9 | Congressman Rokana because he believes, like we do, that democracy is extremely important. And Signal is one of the tools |
| 0:58.5 | that can help us preserve democracy. So remember the name. Everybody has something to hide. |
| 1:05.8 | It's by Guy Kawasaki and Madison Nizmur. Our students don't know how to write. |
| 1:11.6 | They don't know how to address the envelope. |
| 1:14.6 | They don't know where to put their name or who they send in it to. |
| 1:17.6 | So we have to show them. |
| 1:18.6 | We got to show them what color ink to use. |
| 1:20.6 | We do dinner etiquette. |
| 1:22.6 | They don't know how to cut their chicken or drink coffee or soup or whatever. |
| 1:26.6 | We teach them all those soft skills that they need to learn how to do their chicken or drink coffee or soup or whatever. We teach them all those soft skills |
| 1:29.6 | that they need to learn how to do before going away to college. Hello everybody. I'm Guy |
| 1:36.3 | Kawasaki. This is the Remarkable People podcast and we scour the world looking for remarkable people |
| 1:43.6 | people and we found one in Detroit, looking for remarkable people, |
| 1:47.4 | and we found one in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 1:49.6 | Her name is Renee Fluker, |
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