One Blood, One Mission: How Coach Fred Is Rebuilding Lives Across Johnston County

Jonathan Breeden: [00:00:00] On this week’s episode of The Best of Johnston County Podcast, our guest is Fred Foreman, the founder of the nonprofit One Blood Movement of Unity here in Johnston County, or better known as Coach Fred to most people. Coach Fred talks to us a little bit about all of the mentoring programs that he has for youth in the Johnston County community, largely around Clayton and Coreth holders, how he helps try to get this youth back on track. He does that through individual counseling as well as group counseling. We talked to him about some of the programs he’s doing for the homeless, including a huge feed where he feeds all the homeless people and anybody. I think they really would like to eat on Thanksgiving Day every year, and he’s also helping children that are victims of bullying sort of get their spine back and be able to deal with it, and also help their parents advocate for the protection their kids need from the local schools. I think you will find this interesting and fascinating. Coach [00:01:00] Fred is one of the tremendous community leaders in Johnston County.

Was happy to have him on talking about one Blood and I think you will find it interesting. So listen in.

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Jonathan Breeden: Hello and welcome to another edition of The Best of Johnston County Podcast. I’m your host, Jonathan Breeden, and on today’s episode we have Fred Foreman, or better known as Coach Fred of one blood movement of Unity in Clayton, North Carolina. He is gonna talk to us a little bit about what his nonprofit does that helps the youth and the homeless in Johnston County, how you [00:02:00] can get involved and the things that he loves most about Johnston County. He’s been here for most of his life, and he’s just a great guy and he’s a connector and a community builder here in Johnston County, and I think you’re gonna enjoy what he has to say. But before we get to that, I’d like to like, like ask you to like, follow and subscribe to this podcast wherever you’re seeing it, whether it’s on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Instagram, or any of the other Best of Johnston County Podcast social media channels so that you’ll be made aware of future episodes of The Best of Johnston County. The Best of Johnston County comes out every single Monday and has now for over 20 months.

So go back and listen to many of our previous episodes. We’ve had the vast majority of the county commissioners. We’ve had now Congressman Brad Knott. We’ve had local dentist, Tim Sims, we’ve had a realtor, Donald O’Meara. We’ve had Adrian O’Neal of the County Parks and Rec Department. Anybody that you might be interested in knowing about in Johnston County, A lot of them have already been on this podcast, so go back and listen to [00:03:00] previous episodes and send us in people that you might, you can email us or reach out to us at Best of Johnston County and let us know people you’d like to see as guests. We’ll reach out to ’em and see if we can get ’em involved. Welcome coach Fred.

Fred Foreman: Thank you.

Jonathan Breeden: Thanks for coming on. I got through my intro there. Tell the audience who you are and what you do.

Fred Foreman: Oh, I’m Coach Fred. I’ve been here for, I’ve been living in Clayton since primary school. So first grade we grew up if you ever heard a place called Worthdale in Raleigh, North Carolina is actually where I’m originally from. And then we moved to Clayton and migrated through.

Clayton and I have actually went through all the schools at Clayton High, our Clayton High School.

Jonathan Breeden: Oh my goodness.

Fred Foreman: So I’m originally from here, ran the streets of Main Street when it was dirt.

Jonathan Breeden: Dirt.

Fred Foreman: When square? When Square was it? Square and what’s the other one? The horn square. And then the other one was just straight, was the dirt field.

When the town of Clayton, where the offices are, was elementary school.

Jonathan Breeden: Oh, yeah. Okay.

Fred Foreman: When Cooper was actual middle school.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: So I went through the original stuff of Clayton. So [00:04:00] this stuff they got going right now is not, it’s not really original behavior. We’re gonna love it anyway.

Jonathan Breeden: Hey, it’s a lot different. Clayton has changed a lot over the last, last few years. So where’d you when you got outta high school, where’d you go? Did you go to school after that? Did you start working?

Fred Foreman: So I went straight military, right there.

Jonathan Breeden: You went to military, okay.

Fred Foreman: I’m Army man. It’s indeed. Then I went to college and then I went back and came back home and got married.

Thank God we got married. We’ve been married 23 years going on 24. One wife, four children later. I’m still here in Johnston County. So yeah it’s been a while.

Jonathan Breeden: Oh man. Well that’s awesome. That’s awesome. So, when did you decide that you were gonna start this sort of nonprofit, one blood movement of unity?

Fred Foreman: It was 2014 when the good Lord spoke to everything happens in the shower for some odd reason. It’s a great idea. On the toilet or shower. So it was in the shower for me. And God had said unite the people. I was thinking it was something about my family, my wife’s family ’cause we good, but we just never did things together.

And and I’m a mentor by, I’ve been mentoring youth for over 20, probably 24, 25 years. So when he said that, I was [00:05:00] thinking just unite the families and bring people together in the families. And he was like, no, spirit really was heavy on me. So I just kept going, praying.

Then out he said, well, unite all coaches. I’m thinking it’s just bring a bunch of different coaches in. We feed ’em because, you know, food brings in people and unite ’em that way. And he said no. I was like, where we going God? Where we got going? I need to know something. I’m one of the people that likes to move and I gotta move when I hear it.

So he says, no. Teach to people how to unite. And that’s what got me. The only way you can teach something is bring it from the foundation. Foundation is what our youth, so we can get rid of the hate that’s inside of them before it enters them. 10, 30, hopefully 20 years before I’m 30, 20, 30 years after now, we can actually push forward and stop hating one another and actually do something together.

We have more light than we are different.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. So you get this calling in 2014.

Fred Foreman: Mm-hmm.

Jonathan Breeden: What do you do next?

Fred Foreman: So, 2014, we started feeding the homes in the needy.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: That was the first thing we did. The best way to bring people together was what? Food.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: So [00:06:00] we started feeding homeless. The first time I did it, it was only four families that I fed.

Now in 2024, so 2023, and the last couple years before that, we’ve done over 5,000 people for Thanksgiving. We do it on the actual day. So food came first. Then I add in the mentoring.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay, I got you. And I guess your Thanksgiving meal is separate from Serve the Needs Thanksgiving meal that they’re in Clayton, right?

Fred Foreman: Yeah. They’re in Clay

Jonathan Breeden: or is it the same one or y’all?

Fred Foreman: It’s not the same one.

Jonathan Breeden: Not the same. You’re a separate thing. Okay.

Fred Foreman: Separate thing.

Jonathan Breeden: I know serve the need does one as well. Mm-hmm. Which is great. You probably worked with them, great group of people. There in Clayton as well.

Fred Foreman: Oh yeah.

Jonathan Breeden: So, so it starts out with feeding, feeding, doing feeds for the homeless people.

Fred Foreman: Right.

Jonathan Breeden: Then what is the next thing that you start doing?

Fred Foreman: The biggest thing was the mentoring and then speaking for people, uniting people, how to unite themself. Themself,

Jonathan Breeden: okay.

Fred Foreman: In other words, getting rid of the hate that’s inside your heart.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: The only way you can really respond to anybody with hate is you gotta respond with love.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: You can’t do that if you don’t love [00:07:00] yourself.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: So the way what God gave me to teach was to teach our children how to love themselves completely.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: And mentoring has been the outfit for One Blood.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: That’s the foundation of it.

Jonathan Breeden: Alright. And so you do a lot of mentoring of youth. So explain to me how you find the youth, how many mentors you have, how does that go?

Fred Foreman: So as of right now, since we’re still it’s been incorporated since 2020. I pushed everything out a year and a half ago, and I’m now full-time with the mentor. So my mentor, mentees come from sometime they come from the courts. A lot of time come from the churches or just in the community by itself.

Since I still do football coaching at Corinth Holders , I get some of the people from out that area too. I’m well known. Thank God for archie large area.  Corinth Holders area and then some a little bit of the Clayton side that know who I am.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: And that’s how we do the mentoring.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. So how many mentors do y’all have?

Fred Foreman: It is just mentees.

Jonathan Breeden: Yeah. Okay. [00:08:00] You’re the only one doing the mentor.

Fred Foreman: I’m the only mentor.

Jonathan Breeden: You’re the only mentor,

Fred Foreman: right, right.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. Alright. So how many mentees are you can you work with at one time?

Fred Foreman: So when I do throughout the month, if I do group, I can do it with 40 at one time in a group setting.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: Now, if I’m doing one-on-one, which I do a lot on, one-on-one, like we have right now, about 15 that are one-on-one.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: Preferred group.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. And so you charge for this. Is this all free to the parents? The schools pay. How is this work?

Fred Foreman: So everything is a charge. It’s a 10 week program that I put ’em through. And it’s a $50 fee per week. So on the hour, $50 per hour. The thing that we’re working on now, especially with a tennis shoe drive, is to obtain scholarships and then we take in donations as well.

That covers that fee for that child, which is $500 for 10 weeks. That’s how we are able to afford the office and able to afford them to be able to get mentored by me.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay, and can you come in at any point in the 10 weeks or is it you start every quarter, you start a [00:09:00] new group?

Fred Foreman: I start you where you are, like every quarter type style. So when they come in, say you’ve brought your child in and then all of a sudden you have that one child and I got 10 already. I’ll still start your 10 weeks right there.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: And we go from there.

Yeah.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. So it doesn’t have to, it doesn’t just start four times a year. It can start any week.

Fred Foreman: Any week. A year.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. Is it a series of rotating. I don’t, not really lecture lectures, but I mean lessons. And so once you’ve gone through the 10 lessons, you’ve graduated.

Fred Foreman: You’ve graduated. Yes.

Jonathan Breeden: Right. So, and the lessons are. Right. You do the, you

Fred Foreman: right,

Jonathan Breeden: you, once you’ve been through all 10 lessons,

Fred Foreman: right

Jonathan Breeden: you graduate and you can start at any point, whether you’re on lesson five or lesson six as you’re going through the teaching.

Fred Foreman: Yes. You can start in that. Yeah. It doesn’t matter. It’s you. So I’m, my focus is when that child comes in, I’m focused on that one. Child doesn’t have nothing to do with anybody else.

So when that lesson start, when that 90% of the parents never leave, [00:10:00] so I’m consistently mentoring. When they get through the 10 week program, they have that foundation. Now they just come back to hang with Coach Fred.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: And that’s pretty much how it’s been for the last four years.

Jonathan Breeden: Right. So, but that is, I mean, we got two different types of mentoring going on here. We got 40 people in the room and we got one-on-one. So how does the one-on-one mentoring work.

Fred Foreman: So the one-on-one is the norm? That’s when they normally come in. I just, it’s me and that child we’re one-on-one. Now when I do group, I go to the actual school. Like not Cooper, but Corinth holders or Hornet Elementary or Archer Lodge Middle School.

I mentor that one group. And that’s just for a few hours of that day and that’s how that works. And then when they, we’ll set it up for a same time next week. I go in for a couple hours that day and I take that whole group through the same 10 week program.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. At the school.

Fred Foreman: At the school, right.

Jonathan Breeden: Oh, okay.

Fred Foreman: We’ll do it that way. That’s easier for our I mean it at the Corinth holders fire department. I meet kids there as well, [00:11:00] and I take ’em through a group. I take ’em through a 10 week through as a group. Now, when you come in for that part, you have to start that as it goes.

Jonathan Breeden: As it goes. Okay.

Fred Foreman: Right, because that is straight quarterly.

Jonathan Breeden: Oh, that’s right.

Fred Foreman: I can’t let you jump in.

Jonathan Breeden: No, that’s what I was asking. Okay. Right. Okay. Yeah,

Fred Foreman: My apologies.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. No, that’s good. I just wanna make sure parents understand, because I mean, there are a lot of parents who need what you’re doing.

Fred Foreman: Right.

Jonathan Breeden: So when you’re doing the group stuff at the school, is that free to the student?

Fred Foreman: That is free it. It’s free. Well, you know, scholarship wise. It’s free to the student. It is. But it’s the service. My service is not free.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. The school system, I guess.

Fred Foreman: Well, not, no, it’s, I’m, I am a faith-based, so school systems really don’t allow me to push that out from that point of view.

Jonathan Breeden: No, I understand that.

Fred Foreman: So I go in as coach Fred. Why? ’cause most people know me as Coach Fred.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. Right. And the then this, I mean, you’re mentoring the students there,

Fred Foreman: right

Jonathan Breeden: but those students don’t have to pay anything, do they?

Fred Foreman: They don’t have to pay anything then?

Jonathan Breeden: No. Okay. All right.

Fred Foreman: So what the organization does, that’s why we continue doing the the [00:12:00] fundraising.

Jonathan Breeden: The fundraising.

Fred Foreman: So we did the plate sale every last Friday at the end of the month in downtown Clayton, we have the two, a tennis shoe drive in where you turn your tennis shoes to us and we send tennis shoes back off. They reimburse us for that. So that does is get them scholarships going so we can hand that to that child and say, Hey, you got $500 scholarship to be coached by Coach Rick. Mentored by Coach Fred.

Jonathan Breeden: Oh, that’s awesome. That’s awesome.

Fred Foreman: And that’s how that works. It keeps the especially lower income families who can’t afford it, it, it’s a huge help for them.

Jonathan Breeden: Right, right. So how often are you working with the groups in the schools?

Fred Foreman: I have not done since we’ve been out as, uh. summertime. So that normally I do it at the fire department.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: That’s my main spot. So that would be, those go it’s almost like a quarter basis.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: So I start January, give you 10 weeks.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: Take a month, spend with just the individuals and then we go from there, do another month.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: So it’s, it is more, more roughly three to four times a year.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: And you just have to get in there.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. Well, that

Fred Foreman: I am on the verge of bringing in volunteer [00:13:00] mentors.

Jonathan Breeden: Right.

Fred Foreman: But me personally, I like to work with the volunteer for at least six months before I say, Hey, you can mentor on your own under one blood.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: It’s a trust factor.

Jonathan Breeden: Right.

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Jonathan Breeden: Well, one other, one of the other things one Blood does is it offers community service opportunities for juveniles that are in the court system.

Fred Foreman: Yes.

Jonathan Breeden: Talk a little bit about that and how does that work?

Fred Foreman: So when they, the courts to send the juvenile to our direction for community service. Great. They come in, they need 10, 15, 75 hours. The things that I have, I got, I have a few connections with people who cut grass so I can send ’em out with them, get a few hours.

I have a catering company that I deal with. Send ’em [00:14:00] out with them to get a few hours. Me personally, what we do, me, our brother we’ll help the people who are like elderly move to a different home when they buy a new house or they need to move, period. No charge, need a deck to re be rebuilt, we go to fix their deck, stuff like that.

I’ll bring those youth in with me to help build or move one individual to the next.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. So how many youth are y’all working with now through the court system, through their community service?

Fred Foreman: I don’t have no youth in the community service. I mean, from a courts right now,

Jonathan Breeden: none for the right, right now. None. Right. But you do that service?

Fred Foreman: I do that service.

Jonathan Breeden: So the court will call the court counselors will call you and say, Hey, we’ve got a young man. Can you find, do get him to do something so he can get these hours and teach him a little bit?

Fred Foreman: We can do that.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. Well, that’s great. I thought that’s, you know, I used to represent juveniles in Johnston County many years ago, and we always struggled to find community service outlets for the juveniles. You know, we also struggled to find ’em for the adults, but we really struggled to find ’em for the [00:15:00] juveniles. And but what we did was we would often find people that were mowing grass, fixing decks, cleaning up yards for elderly.

You know, and I think the kids got a lot of value. Out of that. You know what I mean? Because I mean, most, all of them are good kids and they want to help and this is something they can do to help and take pride in.

Fred Foreman: Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Adding value is the key. Adding value. You said the keyword. If I can add some value to you, you’re good.

And some self structure, self-discipline, you have those, you can make it in life. And most of ’em are very good that most irish youth are, they’re not bad kids. They’re just, they’re bored. They are bored and they don’t know what to do at that time. ’cause they hadn’t been properly raised or trained. So they come to my I’m, military structured, so when you come to me and you first meet me, you’re probably not gonna like me because out the gate I’m on your highland part right then.

So I’m very structured from day one. I do the same thing we did in military for, as our first two weeks we were going basic training. I couldn’t stand none of the dress arms. But after those [00:16:00] two weeks, everything works out wild because they dumped out, they took everything that was negative out.

Started planting back the good seeds. Same concept I use with all our kids. First two weeks, I give them pure, just nothing but Coach Fred. It is. It is nothing. What they say is good. It is just Coach Fred gotta give you the business. I gotta MDI pull all the negative out. And then so I can enter back something that’s good for you to use some value.

Jonathan Breeden: Well, that’s awesome. That’s awesome. So what else are you doing with the homeless? I mean, I know that’s a big part of what you’re doing.

Jonathan Breeden: You do the meal on Thanksgiving. What else are you doing with the homeless?

Fred Foreman: Homeless that’s, that is the main thing. And the biggest part is I love ing to the homeless.

When we do Thanksgiving, we would actually bring them into the church and prayerfully, COVID stopped that. So when we went COVID uh, pre COVID, we was able to bring them in. Actually minister to ’em and feed ’em and give ’em a good meal. We’re adding in and starting a coat drive. I don’t think that’s gonna start this year.

Possibly could. We gotta figure out how it works. But we’re gonna add that in with the homeless and they needed to, but we feed them through the boxes that you see [00:17:00] around town as well.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: And if we get chances to help them get back on their feet and not give ’em resources, places that they can go, that, that can help ’em.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: Personally, no. I cannot financially help homeless. But I can guide them in the right direction.

Jonathan Breeden: Right. Okay. You also do inclusion counseling and advocacy. I don’t exactly know what that is, so I wanted to ask

Fred Foreman: Yeah, I

Jonathan Breeden: saw it on your website.

Fred Foreman: Yeah. Yeah. So, so that’s on the life coach side of Coach Fred.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: I’m a certified life coach and certified youth mentor that’s gonna be coming off of one blood side. Everything was in the same entity, so now we’re separating Coach Fred from One Blood, so it’d be two different entities. But yes, I didn’t, don’t call it counselor. I get in trouble. You know, my background is psychology, but

Jonathan Breeden: right

Fred Foreman: I’m not counseling anyone, but I I am coaching people.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay, I got you. So what is involved with in coaching inclusion coaching?

Fred Foreman: So with these uh, let’s say like a marriage coupling, right? So instead of them going to a marriage [00:18:00] counselor, they come to marriage coaching.

Fred Foreman: And that’s what I include with that. I push them out from that point instead of them going to, you know, counseling deals with the past and coaching deals with the future.

So I’m able with a psychology read to actually pull out some of the past so we can go forward, but prevent them from reoccurring, redoing what they did in the past.

To get to that point with the life coaching.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. Another thing the website talks about is bullying victim services?

Fred Foreman: Yeah.

Jonathan Breeden: What is that?

Fred Foreman: So what we’ve been doing lately is the kids that are being bullied, it’s synonymous. They can come in and they can talk me, and what we do is provide a way for them not to feel like they’re bullied anymore.

So I coach ’em out of that vibe and outta that feeling.

And I’ll actually go to the schools of where they are and where they’re being bullied, and I’ll help the parents talk to the staff, talk to the other parents, give them somebody. In other words, you’re being a backbone. For people who don’t have, they don’t really, don’t have a backbone,

Jonathan Breeden: okay?

Fred Foreman: But you’d be a [00:19:00] back like you,

Jonathan Breeden: okay?

Fred Foreman: You are a lawyer, so you’re the backbone for people who don’t have that voice and they able to stand up and talk.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: That’s what I do with the bullying.

Jonathan Breeden: So you help the children and the parents and the parents try to help the children overcome the bullying, help the parents get some advocacy with the schools, see if the schools will help the parent.

Fred Foreman: For the child, not help,

Jonathan Breeden: help the child. Right, right. And I guess, you know, at least in that area, you know, all the principals and not guidance counselors, you know, a lot of ’em, you know, you’re really involved in the community.

Fred Foreman: Right, right.

Jonathan Breeden: Well, well that’s great. That’s great. So what’s the next step for One Blood?

Fred Foreman: So now we are, we wanna push the 10,000 plates out for Thanksgiving. So the biggest step that we’re trying to do, and we’re hoping we can implement soon, is actually really getting our own building. So we can do something more greater and more better for our youth.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: And meaning that we can actually bring them in. On a consistent basis.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: Not just sporadically.

Jonathan Breeden: Right.

Fred Foreman: We can bring ’em in a consistent basis.

Jonathan Breeden: Right. And your office is currently in [00:20:00] the same building as Chefella’s, right?

Fred Foreman: Right.

Jonathan Breeden: On Main Street and Clayton

Fred Foreman: Main Street and Clayton

Jonathan Breeden: between the Post office and Mannings.

Fred Foreman: Yes

Jonathan Breeden: right they’re on Main Street.

Fred Foreman: Main Street.

Jonathan Breeden: Chefella’s is great.

Fred Foreman: Yes.

Jonathan Breeden: That is the best catering. That lady is unbelievable Cook.

Fred Foreman: Yes.

Jonathan Breeden: I know she’s on your board,

Fred Foreman: right

Jonathan Breeden: Gabriella Terry, I think is her name, right?

Fred Foreman: Yeah.

Gabriel.

Jonathan Breeden: Oh yeah. So she’s, she’s great. And I would highly recommend Chefella’s for anything. It is so good.

Whatever they do. If my office was in that building, I would be even bigger than I already am and I’m plenty big enough because, but anyway. So cool. So how can people, um. reach out to you and OneBlood and get involved.

Fred Foreman: They can call 9 1 9 9 4 4 1800.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay.

Fred Foreman: And that’s the office number and they can set up a time to talk with me.

Jonathan Breeden: Alright. And what is the website?

Fred Foreman: Website is OBMOU.com, which is OneBloodMovementofunity.com. Really simple. O-B-M-O-U.

Jonathan Breeden: Okay. And your email address is? Fred

Fred Foreman: Fred@OBMOU

Jonathan Breeden: MOU.com. Alright, the last question we ask everybody on this podcast is, [00:21:00] what do you love most about Johnston County?

Fred Foreman: Johnston County has a lot of great pockets, a lot of great love, a lot of people doing a lot of different things in Johnston County that people don’t know about.

So the biggest thing I want to do with that is unite those pockets. That’s the beauty. ’cause Johnston County is not by itself. People really uh, they’re, they’re not educated enough to know everything about Johnston County. So we have a lot of love that’s sitting right in the heart of Johnston County and it’s moving, but all of us don’t know each other.

So hopefully with you. And what we’re, what you’re doing with the podcast and everything, we can start figuring out who these people are that are doing great things and then we can start uniting or putting together.

Jonathan Breeden: Well, there’s no, there’s no doubt. There’s no doubt. And I know you’ve already done a lot of that and I know you’re friends with Addie Raws and the former judge and everything she’s done for bat school youth at Pros and through the New Generation church and all of that and uh, there’s a lot, a lot of great people doing a lot of great things in Johnston County. And you should reach out if you want to get involved in helping youth or if you want to even. Just donate so that, that you can get scholarships to [00:22:00] meet with Coach Fred. You can just go to his website and there’s a donate button right there.

He’s got a list of sponsors, hometown realities on there. I mean, there’s a ton of businesses that, that, you know, golden Corral like, I mean, these are all good businesses that are, that are all about supporting the youth here in Johnson County, giving to coach Fred and his team and his board of directors so that they can give back to the youth in this community and see if we can’t redirect some youth that might be starting to go a little bit astray and starting to give them stuff to do as well.

I think he’s right about that, that their board, and I really appreciate him coming on and being here today. Like we said before, please like, follow, and, subscribe to this podcast wherever you’re seeing it. Also, give us a five star review down below. Tell us what you like or dislike. If you have any questions for Coach Fred, you’d like us to get, get those to us.

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Until next time, I’m your host, Jonathan Breeden.

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