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M2 Mentoring Youth Football Camp - In Studio with Miles and Omar · The Erica Show

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  G n I five. It's the Erica Show. iHeartRadio, and I'm so
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  honored. So I have o Mar my buddy who we've done many projects together.
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  But you brought your son Miles in with you this time because I've been
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  hearing about these camps and I've been seeing you on social doing your things,
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  So you got to tell us all about the camps. What is going on
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  with these camps. So this year would be our third annual year doing the
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  M two Youth Mentoring Camp, and we just invite kids from everywhere to come.
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  It's like mostly elementary school, some middle school. We just invite them
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  to come. It's a free camp we do at NC State and they just
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  come and learn and get better and have fun. Okay, So that's incredible.
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  So wait, you got to back up though, how did all of
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  this start? Because you're a young adult yourself and you're already mentoring young kids,
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  which is so inspiring because you are still quote cool, you know,
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  like you're not old like some of us, and so the kids really look
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  up to you. So how did it all start? It was just I
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  was always like kids were like, hey, let's throw the ball, let's
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  do this, let's hang out, and I was like cool. So I
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  talked to my dad and I was like, I think we should do a
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  camp for kids. You know, him, just being the type of dad
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  he is, he got it all together and just helped me. Oh yeah,
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  at to bring some tears up in here. That's amazing. Okay,
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  so this was your brain child where you came up with it, and then
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  Dad's like, all right, I'll put the pieces in place to make it
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  happen. How do other kids in the community get involved? And like,
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  what do you do? When is the camp? The camp is July twentieth.
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  We have some other kids that are from our school, some other players
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  who come who have like already have offers and stuff like that, coming down
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  to share their wisdom and what they've been through with the kids. So that's
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  cool to have them also come and help. How long does it last?
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  It's a one day camp. That's awesome. So what if your kids have
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  no football skills? Can I still come? Yes? Like my son has
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  yet to play football, but I'm like he would come. What are the
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  ages? So we do like eighth grade and anywhere down. Okay, so
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  eighth and below starting with kindergarten. I'm assuming y, but we try to
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  do around fourth grade more so okay, because if we go too far down
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  and kids they don't pay attention. I get it, yeah, over the
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  place, and we don't want to be at the indoor facility and you know,
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  somebody bump into something. So probably about the youngest we goers about fourth
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  grade, even though I had a call with the coach yesterday and I say,
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  if you have third grades and they know the game and they kind of
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  played ball, then it's okay. But you don't have to have a lot
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  of experiences, you know, wanting to come out. Now, how did
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  you get n C State wrapped in? Like? How did they agree to
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  this? You know, it was tough because you have to kind of jump
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  through, uh the n C Double A rules and things like that. So
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  it's just a lot of paperwork and a lot of creating proposals and submitting it
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  to them to get the approval to use that to do it at their facility.
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  At the first year when Myles brought it up to me, we did
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  at ninth Tale Station Park. It was a great camp area. Yeah,
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  fun, but you know, we wanted to level level it up and give
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  the kids an experience that uh that other people, you know that you don't
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  usually get. It's not every day that you get to participate in the camp
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  at a D one facility like Kensey State. So right, it's an inspirational,
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  you know, opportunity. Miles tells part of the story. You know,
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  sometimes when Mile's supposed to be practicing, he'll be over there throwing the
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  ball around with kids. He's always kind of had that you know, fun
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  element. I'm like, listen, we gotta get to work, and he'll
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  be over there, you know, helping little kids out and flipping the ball
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  around with them. And then it was after that he came say, you
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  know, Daddy's guys always ask me for corners and tips and stuff, So
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  can we do a camp? Because I really want to help him out.
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  And so you know, you're a parent, so anytime your kids shows interest
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  in something, right, do everything you can to uh to move that forward.
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  And then so we sit down together and you know, I have to
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  do some of the heavy lifting, but he's super involved helping me out with
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  the sponsors and ideas and all that type of stuff. And he actually gets
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  out there and trains during part of your camp. Like some of the videos
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  that we have, So this is gonna look so amazing on your resume obviously
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  or your you know, your your stuff before you head off to college.
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  Do you want to play ball in college too? Yes? Man, that's
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  the plan. That's the plan. Okay, I love that. And then
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  as a mom of my brain's always like, all right, how many adults
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  are going to be there? So do kids get dropped off by their parents
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  or do they stay? We're there, but we need the parents to stay
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  because I want we don't want to be responsible exactly. Yeah, because you
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  know in some advance they drop them off and go shopping for three or four
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  hours. But no, this is not the type of party. You need
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  to stay there kids that we have a great group of high school coaches,
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  some of the coaches from Mouths High School, but coaches from all around the
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  area. We invite everybody because it's about the community of football more so than
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  you know one team or the other team. So a great group of coaches
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  every year come out and help us out with the kids. And for us,
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  that's important because we want the kids to know that if you want to
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  play ball, one, your grades have to be like they need to be
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  right. That's why we're at university, and two, these high school guys
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  are who you're going to be talking to and if you if you decide to
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  play ball, So why not get information from them early. What are some
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  of the things you've heard, like response, positive feedback, some things that
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  stand out to either of you that you're like, Wow, that made a
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  difference, or I know that that kid will remember this moment forever. Yeah.
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  Oh, I had a lot of kids tell me like I remember a
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  kid last year came up and he said, Myles, I feel like I've
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  gotten so much better, and that really touched me and puts smile on my
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  face. So it's good just to see kids that like take something away from
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  the camp right in the future, and it just shows like you can go
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  so much further, you know, because kids have influence in all areas of
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  life now and so sometimes they'll get pulled in the wrong direction, and so
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  I can't like this keeps your mind right, keeps you motivated, It shows
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  kids like you, Miles that are going to do big things with your life.
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  And it's so it's like I want to be more like that, you
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  know, and not go in another direction because there is so much influence now,
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  and I think what you said earlier is a big deal because it bridges
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  the gap. Right, me and you say something to a kid at that
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  age, they were like, whatever, we're old right exactly. So but
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  you know this is a little bit closer to their age. So him doing
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  things and working with them and still uh, you know, growing and saiff.
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  There are times when you know, I still have to get on them
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  on certain things, of course, but they can relate to that better right
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  coming for much And it is really cool because we'll be out and you know,
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  little kids will roll up on, Hey, when's the camp again?
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  I'm coming back, and then they get to the points I'm gonna beat you,
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  compete with It'll be to see how far they could throw the ball.
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  And it's great to uh for me too to see that. In the community,
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  kids and parents are like, hey, when's the camp. We had
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  a great Yeah, And it's really another cool thing that Miles wanting to make
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  sure that was in the camp is we're not just talking about football for three
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  or four hours. That's not what it is. In between the sessions,
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  we have speakers come out and speak about life. Uh. Jason Gore Pactigue
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  UH, the head coach for the Carolina Covers. These are coming through.
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  We have guys come through and talk about out, you know, life in
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  general, not just football. That's why we make sure people know that it's
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  a mentoring camp, not just a footballs So how can they sign up,
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  get involved and get more details? So this is this is another youth think
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  because Miles didn't know what event Bright was because he never had to buy a
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  ticket, right see, I see I talked about that on the way over
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  here. But it is an m too youth mentoring camp and it's on event
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  Bright And I'll send you a link so that you can share it with you.
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  Yeah, I'll put it on the social of course, this will be
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  on the Aircashra podcast. But I'm so excited to finally meet you and like
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  see where you're going to go in your life because you know you're going to
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  do some big things in your life. And kudos to you, Dad.
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  Sounds good. I appreciate you give us an opportunity to you know, let
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  everybody know about it and come out and have a good time. Thanks y'all,
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  Thank you,