Yemi Mobolade - Community Builder
Mountain & Prairie with Ed Roberson
Mountain & Prairie Media
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Yemi Mobolade is an entrepreneur, public servant, and community leader who devotes his seemingly limitless energy toward the betterment of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Born and raised in Nigeria, Yemi immigrated to the United States for college and eventually landed in Colorado Springs, where he has fully devoted himself to serving the community. He's a co-founder and partner in two wildly successful restaurants, he's served in various capacities within the city's government and economic development arms, and he's deeply involved in numerous non-profit organizations. On top of all of that, he's a devoted husband and father of three beautiful children.
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Yemi and I are neighbors, and our kids have been classmates and buddies for several years– so I've had the opportunity to personally interact with him in a variety of settings over a long period of time. Ever since first meeting Yemi, I have been extremely impressed with his positivity, leadership skills, and deep commitment to our community. Whether he's touting the economic upside of doing business in Colorado Springs or figuring out creative solutions for his restaurants to thrive in the pandemic, I've always been intrigued by Yemi– everything from his personal backstory to why he is so obsessed with community building. So I was happy to finally sit down with him to discuss all of this.
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We met up at his office on a Sunday afternoon for an inspiring conversation about everything from his early days in Nigeria to his upcoming plans to run for mayor of Colorado Springs. We start out discussing his move to the United States from Nigeria, and he talks about his perceptions of America from the outside looking in. We talk about his education, his commitment to his faith, and how he spent parts of his early career starting churches in various parts of the United States. We discuss his deep love for the city of Colorado Springs, and why he has decided to throw his hat in the ring for mayor. We discuss his heroes, his favorite books on leadership, and how his wife and children positively influence his desire to serve.
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I really appreciate Yemi taking the time to chat, and I greatly appreciate his commitment to serving our community. There are lots of important lessons to be learned from Yemi, so I hope you enjoy.
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TOPICS DISCUSSED:
- 4:45 – Yemi's childhood in Nigeria
- 11:45 – What it was like when Yemi came to the US.
- 13:15 – Yemi's journey of self-discovery
- 18:15 – How Yemi ended up in Colorado Springs
- 13:30 – Why Yemi appreciates and builds community
- 25:30 – Yemi's political plans
- 31:45 – How Yemi plans to maintain his ideals within politics
- 35:00 – Yemi's goals for the growth of Colorado Springs
- 39:00 – The impact of Yemi's children on his life
- 44:15 – Leaders that Yemi admires
- 56:30 – Yemi's book recommendations
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody is Ed. Before we get started I've got two quick announcements first is I want to thank some new Patreon supporters Michael Skoronic and my parents |
| 0:09.7 | Edward and Susan Roberson. |
| 0:12.6 | These three folks signed up to support the podcast of a monthly basis through Patreon and |
| 0:16.8 | there are a lot of benefits to doing that and I'm expecting that my parents might unsubscribe |
| 0:21.6 | from supporting me after they see some of the weird stuff on |
| 0:25.0 | Patreon. It's weird but interesting. Most people seem to like it. We'll see if my |
| 0:28.9 | parents do. But regardless I really appreciate everybody's support, your support, particularly financial support through Patreon is what allows this podcast to function on a monthly and weekly basis. |
| 0:41.0 | So I greatly, greatly appreciate it. |
| 0:44.0 | Number two, I upgraded the podcast web page at Mountingprey.com so if you go to Mountingprey.com |
| 0:50.0 | slash podcast there's a list of over 150 episodes that I've recorded over the years. |
| 0:54.8 | I had no real organizational system in place for those episodes. |
| 0:58.2 | It was just this really long list and people seem to be kind of overwhelmed, especially |
| 1:02.4 | new listeners. Like, well, where do I start? |
| 1:04.3 | What do I look at? |
| 1:05.3 | And so I built this drop-down menu. |
| 1:08.0 | I didn't build it. |
| 1:08.8 | My web guru Nicki built it on behalf of me and we use the money from Patreon supporters to |
| 1:14.4 | pay Nicki and so we have a drop-down menu with about 20 different categories and |
| 1:20.0 | you can sort the episodes by profession or by topic that we cover and I'm going to continue |
| 1:24.6 | to kind of get that dialed in but for example if you want to see all the conversations I've had |
| 1:29.4 | with writers over the past six years just go hit writers on the drop down menu and it will show you |
| 1:34.8 | the only the episodes with writers. I have the same thing for ranchers, for conservationists, |
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