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Troy Miles–Show Notes

Troy Miles is an artist, speaker, basketball trainer and author of "The Virtual Game of Basketball", which highlights the martial arts of basketball. He considers himself as a "beyond profiteer", means he gives priceless contributions to people, places and things. Troy’s passion lives in continuous quality improvements and cooking, and he’s the proud father of two young men.

Troy considers basketball to a "martial art", due to the math, physics and fundamentals of the game itself.

"The mission is to be machine-like across all your skill sets; your technical,

Troy came up with this concept while recovering from an injured Achilles tendon

"I saw myself as a highly physical person before my injury, but now I’m more of a

"The most powerful aspect of the virtual game is the programming, or skill acquisition, aspect. Troy considers this the "brain game".

Mastering this can help people in any area of their lives. Being a father of two bi-racial children is what Troy says makes him a Diversity Dad.

"It takes a certain type of social dexterity to make it work"

When his boys were 9 and 7, Troy and his wife separated, and came up with a very

"It forced me into a higher expression of myself as a parent. I wouldn’t trade it for

Discovering his children’s personalities, likes, dislikes and fears were the most

"The discovery starts immediately, and it just never stops; I’m looking forward to

His proudest moment was when he realized he had raised good people.

"There were a lot of tears on my pillow. That was just tough. It didn’t break the

"He advises parents to encourage their kids to seek and find their passions, and help

I really believe every person has some special skill set. The key is to be able to

"Both of his kids have found their passions, one in music (see Interview Links) and

INTERVIEW LINKS:

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Jim Palmer – Show Notes Jim Palmer is an entrepreneur, speaker and coach. He is the founder of Dream BizAcademy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. He’s also thehost of Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s unique brand of smartmarketing and business building strategies. He’s internationally known to be "The Newsletter Guru"and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate "done-for-you "newsletter-marketing program. Jim just celebrated 14 years as an entrepreneur, and it was about 6 years ago that he transitioned to the online world. Before he started his businesses, he was unemployed for about 15 months. Around this time, he was also diagnosed with cancer.  "With clarity of hindsight, I call that my season of crisis" Certain benefits came with this period of unemployment, as his three kids learnedlessons from this time.  "They knew that if they wanted something, they had to earn money for it; it’s a lifelesson that’s stuck with them for a long time." When a person loses a job, particularly a man, Jim says they lose a piece of theiridentity.  "When you’re unemployed, it really wreaks havoc on your self esteem" One of Jim’s children is now an entrepreneur. "They watch how you bounce back and how you handle things" Faith had helped Jim recovery from his season of crisis. "I really got on my knees and begged for guidance. I asked what I was suppose to dowith my life." His wife encouraged him to be a support group for people that were unemployed, ifnot to help himself, to encourage others. He went and continued going after hestarted his business, to pay it back. "We’re here to help serve each other, that’s what entrepreneurship is. You’re inbusiness to serve people" INTERVIEW LINK: http://www.thenewsletterguru.com/

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Rodney Kellum – Show Notes  Rodney Kellum is a former workaholic turned fatherpreneur. He’s focused on helping parents start and automate their business for the purpose of helping them become more present and engaging with their children. Rodney also loves spending quality time with his family, as well as occasionally playing pickup basketball on the weekends.  Rodney was raised to believe a man should go to work and provide for his family, almost dying at the job. He learned this from his hard working father and grandfather. When he became a father himself, he decided to do all it took as well, which actually was his detriment. “That way to work was wrong; the idea you have to go to work at a place all day and your kids get one percent of your time is no longer necessary” It took some life altering moments and threatening situations for Rodney to change this thinking on “work”. “In reality, I wasn’t doing what was best for my family” In 2008, he achieved what he thought was his dream job, by becoming a video editor. The position was very demanding, but he says the accomplishment blinding him to what was really going on. One day, he couldn’t stand and had severe chest pains, and discovered his left artery was closing. “If I were to have died at that point, I would have left my family with literally nothing. My son would have known me as a hard worker, and that would be it.” Around that time, while watching his son in the evening, he was asked to go into work to do a task that could be done from home, online. Rodney refused as was let go the next day. “It showed me I could choose my son” Rodney feels that the most exciting thing about being a dad is getting to be part of someone’s life forever, and to guide them to be the type of person that God wants them to be. “(Being a father) almost allows you to have a second childhood through their eyes” “Everyday is exciting because you don’t know what’s going to happen” When he first held his son at the hospital, he made a promise that he would always be there, always love him and do whatever it takes to provide the best life possible. Rodney feels the biggest obstacle he had to overcome in becoming a dad was his own mindset.  He had to experience those multiple dramatic events in his life to make the decision to change the way he thought. “When we become providers for our family, it’s hard to open up to another way of doing things” “Until you get to the point where you decide you want to change, any other step you make doesn’t matter. Once things get uncomfortable, you’re going to go back to your safe zone. He recommends that fathers look at the starting line, not the finish line. Start with the decision, then make one small step at a time to reach your goal. Rodney’s advice to Diversity Dads: “Choose everyday to be present and engaged. If you lived and parented every day like it would be your last, how would you do things differently? Do that. You are your son’s example of manhood. Even though you think he’s not paying attention, as he grows older, the things he saw you do or not do, are going to be the things he does or doesn’t do…” INTERVIEW LINKS:www.Fatherpreneurship.com (blog, articles & resources)@Fatherpreneur (Twitter)[email protected] (email)

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Jay Forte – Show Notes (Diversity Dad) Jay Forte is a motivational speaker and certified workplace and life coach. He hosts a podcast for parents called "Get Your Kids Ready For Life". He helps parents learnhow to guide, support and coach their kids so they can discover, develop andlive who they really are. Jay is also a gay man and a father of three children. He knows the values of being heard and respected, and is inspired to help every child feel valuable and important for whom they are. Jay is an avid writer, gardener and cook, residing in sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Jay grew up in a white, middle class family, never thinking of himself becoming a diversity dad. He spent most of his life pretending not to be the gay kid in a big Italian family. He had three daughters and was married for 10 years before he had to be honest about his sexual orientation. "I realized what it’s like when the world shuns you and points its finger at you." He spent a number of years being an average parent before boldly stepping intowho he was. When he did that, his parenting completely changed, along with hisoutlook on life. "That’s why I do what I do. Everyone should feel valued and significant". Jay considers himself a Diversity Dad, in that he is a gay dad trying to raise kidswith a lot of expectations, and pressures about how to be what is considered a real dad. "The diversity part of it is embracing who it is and what is unique and amazingabout us." "If life changes, just stay consistent to what you do, which is love your kids. Prettysoon, the world starts to catch up and allows you to be who you really are." He reminds us that kids are a work in progress, not perfect, and there’s somethingremarkable in that. "Our job is to help them figure out how they fit in today’s world." His biggest realization is he had nothing to be ashamed of in regards to who he is. "The ability to coach somebody into showing up big and discovering their purpose iswhat excites him most about being a dad." "Deep in us, we’re so connected to our kids, and the wish for them to be successful,happy and responsible" Jay’s proudest moment about being a dad include walking his two daughters downthe aisle when they got married. "It’s the moment where everyone focuses on you, and the work you’ve done, to getthem ready to move on in life. There aren’t words for it." "His biggest obstacle in being a dad has been in accepting his own identity." "Your own voice is true; you should listen to it, trust it and follow it" His advice to others is to be authentic, which opens up the opportunity foreverything else to happen. "If you play small, you short change yourself and you short change the world". INTERVIEW LINKS:www.Ready4Life.me [email protected](email)

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Hello Diversity Dad Community! Just wanted to thank you all for the support and love that I've been receiving for this podcast. Please leave a rating and review on iTunes or Stitcher radio to help the show to get noticed. What a ride it's been sharing with you all out there. I have been receiving a lot of love on the direction of the podcast, but I want to hear from you all on what things you like or maybe things you want to change with the podcast.

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Bolaji O resides in North Carolina with his wife and two boys. He is a 7-time bestselling author and founder of Brave Little Heroes. Brave Little Heroes creates incredible hero adventures that help kids discover their inner-awesome. So they can LIVE EPIC, and CHANGE THE WORLD. With over 100,000 kids already reached, Bolaji is showing no signs of slowing down.

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Jay Cerrone Smith is an author and owner of Paper Chase publications LLC. Through his journey of having a unique upbringing, it has created his books and given him the focus to be a great dad.

Here is Jay Cerrone Smith's recent book, Illegal life: A North Philadelphia Story. I highly recommend this book:

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Matt Parri shares the story of him overcoming his health trials as a young boy and his daughter having to fight a similar battle since birth. His family history of health weighs on his mind, but he will continue to live life to the fullest.

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