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From the Classroom to the Club: DJ Mr. King's Dual Impact on Youth

• Coach Tim Brown, Uncommon Life • Season 3 • Episode 1

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 DJ Mr.  King of 107.5/106.3 kickoffs  BAB Podcast season 3, revealing his unique challenge to students: develop positive relationships that will lay the groundwork for your future. Unlock the power of mentorship with the dynamic DJ Mr. King, who's not just spinning tracks but also shaping young minds as an assistant principal at Gahanna Lincoln High School.  He harmonizes his twin passions for music and education, illustrating how they play a pivotal role in empowering the next generation. 

Our live audience at the Ballers Edge event set the bar high with their unwavering attention, proving that when we're fully present, we can create an atmosphere ripe for growth and learning. The respect and focus they showcased are the very pillars of a supportive community, and we're deeply grateful. We wrap things up by extending a warm invitation to share the spark of the Be A Baller Podcast far and wide and to stay tuned for the wisdom that future episodes promise. Together, we're rolling towards success, and with each shared story and lesson, we inch closer to attaining that baller status.

As we celebrate our own milestones, including an incredible 6,800 episode downloads and a reach extending to 500 cities across 22 countries, we're reminded of the collective journey we're on to build a lasting legacy.

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Speaker 1:

Hello everyone. This is Coach Tim Brown from Be A Baller Podcast. I want to thank everyone for your support during season one and season two of the podcast. Some of the highlights from the first two seasons included over 6,800 episode downloads. The podcast was listed in over 500 cities and 22 countries. This first episode of season three is from our Be A Baller Ballers Edge live event, where we had a focus on mentors and the impact that mentors can have in the lives of students. We were blessed to have over 150 students along with 10 vendors. Vendors were able to share with students about summer opportunities for internships and apprenticeships.

Speaker 1:

This episode features Mr Stephen King. Mr King is the assistant principal at the Hannah Lincoln High School and he's also a DJ for 107.5 and 106.3 here in Columbus, ohio, where he's known as a DJ Mr King. So we're so excited to have him present a challenge to the students in the audience about building positive relationships, not only with adults, but also with their peers, which will help them be successful. So listen in to DJ King as he shares. Also, don't forget to subscribe to the channel and share with your friends. This Coach Tim Brown has always continued to be a baller. Our first speaker today is DJ Mr King.

Speaker 1:

Dj Mr King is a husband, father four. He's the ultimate hustler. I'm not sure what that means, but that's what he gave me to read. Whether it's Keeper Central Hals and Gates and energized daily on part 107.5, 106.3, coaching basketball or encouraging youth to stay the course throughout the community, dj Mr King is the definition of driven. King, who began DJing at the age of 16, uses understanding and connection of music and culture to relate to youth on an academic and motivational level as well. Serving as assistant principal at Hannah Lincoln High School for the past three years, some of the lions should have clapped for that. King and his wife Alana also are the owners of the greenhouse and educational resource center in Columbus that's centered around enrichment and closing the academic gaps I'm sorry, achievement gaps on an individual basis that promotes life learning. In addition, he's a graduate of the Ohio State University, wearing a bachelor's degree in journalism, communication. He also has a master's in curriculum and instruction from Aston University and educational leadership at the American College of Education.

Speaker 1:

All that sounds good. You know, I love reading these little bios of people. All that stuff sounds good, but I mean sometimes you got to be real and think about DJ Mr King. He's real. He's real. He's a real guy. What you see is what you get. He's a real guy, and so I'm just excited he's going to kick this thing off. Let's welcome DJ Mr King.

Speaker 2:

Thanks, coach, good morning, good morning, come on y'all, come on, good morning. Who we got in the building today? What high school? All right, first of all, let's kick it off with my with him linking that with him lying inside. Get a hand in the building, that's good. Who else we got Eastmore? Eastmore, okay, what else? Who else we got CAEC, caec, okay. Alpha Centric Four, hayes, beechcroft who else? Marion Franklin, west in the building, who else? Who we missing? Mifflin Is the Westerville schools here? Yet Westerville, what North or south? North, okay, westerville north. Who else South? Okay, westerville south. That's what's up. All right, man, good morning.

Speaker 2:

Listen, I don't want to take up too much of your time at all but, like you said, dj, mr King Power, 107.5, 106.3. I am also an assistant principal at Gehanna Lincoln High School. I know, for most people typically say, well, how are you a DJ and how are you a principal? Right, I love music and I love kids. I love music, I love kids, I love having fun, I love partying, I love making the impact. That's how. So, whatever it is that you want to do, find something to do and do what you love.

Speaker 2:

Okay, now, real quick. I want to hit on three things. Does anybody know why you're here today? Raise your hand. If you know why you are here today, anybody. You can be honest. How many people are here because a random person or a teacher or mentor in your building came to you with a permission slip, said I want to take you to a field trip. Look at all my kids. Yep, they know. I said that. Uh-huh, raise your hand. That's why you were here, right? How many people are here just because they didn't want to go to second period or third period, fourth period? Be honest with me, dawg. We all here. Be honest with me, okay. How many people are here because they want to connect with somebody? Okay, all right. Look at all the business vendors and I do meet me. Yeah, how many people are here because they want to learn something? Okay, I take that too. Some of y'all lying, but it's okay, that's all right. All right, but look, no One thing I will say is that everybody that is in this building, you're here for a reason.

Speaker 2:

You're here for a reason. Okay, you are here for a reason. Think about this. As I was riding over, I was talking to Coach Bailey and that's the one thing I thought about. Is this Yesterday, how many people didn't have school because of the temperature. Right, raise your hand if you didn't have school. I said, well, something I know Columbus was already out, but we, unfortunately, were in school, but a lot of people didn't have school. Tomorrow we're supposed to get snow, so possibly we might have another snow day, right? But how is it that this conference, this particular event, happens right in the middle of all this? It's a reason that we're here, it's a reason that you're supposed to be right here at this time. We don't know what that reason is yet. The reason could be you meet somebody and now you have a lifelong relationship. We just talked about that, right, and that's another point I'm gonna hit in a second. But there's a reason why you're here. We don't know what that reason is right now, but we have figured out. It may not be in an hour, it may not be in a month, it may not be in a year, but we'll figure out why the reason that you're here.

Speaker 2:

Second thing I want to hit on and this is something to me that I preach to every single kid that I come in contact with Life, school, work, sports, all of that is hard, but you don't have to. All that stuff is tough, but you don't have to be tough all the time. Does that make sense? Anybody understand what I'm saying with that, life, sports, everything else can be tough, but you don't have to be tough all the time.

Speaker 2:

Initially, like a lot of these things that I say are kind of directed to my young man, we walk around, we see our young black man in particular, young man in general we mug him, we mad, we look upset and I'm not judging anybody that has a hoodie on. But I know me, keep your hoodies on. I ain't gonna tell you to take them off whatever. Keep your hoodie on if you want to. But a lot of that we're hiding. We're hiding some hurt sometimes when we walk around and we try to be too tough. We got our shiesty mask on walking around. Am I lying? Tell me I'm lying. I ain't lying right. Christian, christian, I ain't lying right. But we walk around, we're hiding those things.

Speaker 2:

I want to challenge and encourage my young men and ladies, but mostly my young men. When you walk around, challenge yourself to smile. Smile when you wake up in the morning, smile throughout the day. I used to be super, super insecure, like I don't know if you can see. But I got a big old gap. Right, I got a big gap and I used to be super insecure about that, to the point where I don't know how y'all do with y'all roast or rift. If you're going to me, you'll never know who you're going to need somewhere in the future. Okay, you'll never know. I was talking to one of my former players last night who plays for Muskegum now. Now he's two years in and I said, okay, cool, basketball's going. Good, you got that go.

Speaker 2:

Now we're on the second half of the college season. We got to start thinking beyond basketball. Now we got to start thinking what's next? Because now you're getting ready to get the degree. Now you got to go get a job. So now we got to start thinking internships and everything else like that. Because the degree how many people in here first of all want to get a diploma? Raise your hand, everybody's hands should be up, okay. So we got that go. How many people plan on going to college or any education beyond that? Okay, good, certifications or whatever. All of those things degrees, certifications they show that you can do the work. That guarantees that I can do the work.

Speaker 2:

But it's not about what you know, it's about what? Who you know. It's about who you know. You can have all the degrees in the world, but if you don't have the right connections it's not going to help you and I guarantee you it's some other people that don't look like you that have way more connections than you. So it's about who you know. So when you're in this place, connect with people All right, so real quick. Actually, we might not have time, so I'm not going to do that. Last thing, when we said meet somebody, greet somebody, and what? Tea somebody. Tea somebody something.

Speaker 2:

If you are the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room. If you're the smartest person in the room, get out of that room. If you're the best, if you're the most dominant athlete on your team, you need to figure out another team. Go, go, go. Like you know what I'm saying. Every room that you're in, you should be constantly learning and you should be teaching. I can't know everything and then I wanna pour down or teach somebody else. Right, you know what I'm saying. You can't cap it off at you. Who else is learning from you? And don't think that you, at age 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18 years old, can't teach somebody else.

Speaker 2:

I learned every single day from all of my students, or I learned every single day from every youth that I come in contact with. It shows in my ratings right Terrence, every day. I'm in a mix, every day that I DJ on the radio at five o'clock. The songs that I play is not because oh yeah, this is Mr King's playlist and this is what I listen to every day. It's not it's because I'm in. I got sons. That's the Yaw's age. I have kids that I deal with every day and I'm like, oh, what is it? Okay, this is popular, okay, cool, I'm assuming it is. So I'm gonna play that because I understand that that's the demographic. So I'm learning from Yaw just as much as Yaw learning from the teachers that stand it up in front of you. So again, I'm not the smartest DJ, but I understand that I can learn from whoever's out there. I can learn from youth. Yaw's generation is the most impactful generation that we will ever, ever see.

Speaker 2:

Yaw, create, change. Yaw, create, change. Yaw, force, change. Yaw. Stand up for everything that y'all won't or don't want, right? You go against the grain. You're super creative. You don't. You're taking routes and careers that we've never seen. There's millionaires that are your age, all because of electronic or technology or whatever. So the world is at your disposal. You have to be able to use that and create that. Okay.

Speaker 2:

So today, your goal by the time that you walk out of here, I want you to have met three different people that you don't know, at least one adult for sure, but three other students, okay, from another school or whatever. However, y'all choose to switch contacts or stay in contact with each other is on you. I know y'all got every social media platform and some other ones that we ain't even heard of yet, that y'all done, mastered. But when you walk out of here, I want you to know three different people and I'm gonna quiz you. I'm gonna randomly walk around and I'm gonna pull you. I'm like, all right, show me two people that you met. Okay, you, yeah, see, look at that, smile, look at that, see, all right. So, look, we're gonna have fun today. Make sure that you stay focused, stay paying attention, and one thing I would do I want everybody to give themselves a round of applause, because this is why.

Speaker 2:

Now, one time did I look down until I looked over at Capone right here, but not one time did I look in his crowd and see somebody on their phone. Now, one time did I see headphones in, so give yourself a round of applause for that. Listen, we work in the schools every day. That's the problem we see every day. Put your phone up, put your headphones up. Nah, man, y'all give it a lot of respect. That's giving back, all right. So make sure y'all do that same thing for our next panelist that's going up. We gonna have fun today, all right.

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