Becoming w/Cameron Frazier

07/15/22 • 63 min

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (Maya Angelou)

In this episode, Marc and Tavarus dive into a rich conversation with the founder and CEO of THE First HBCU Themed Elementary School, Cameron Frazier.

Amongst many other accolades, Cameron is the proud Founder and Principal of Becoming Collegiate Academy; a first of its kind aimed at educating and raising up strong students who are proud of their heritage and are ultimately poised to be world changers, just like Cameron. He’s a “son” of the Eastside community of Jacksonville, FL, where he returned and spent his early years of teaching as a way to give back and pay it forward.

In this interview, Cameron shares his passion, his vision, his dreams, and pieces of his story with Marc and Tavarus in a candid and heartfelt way. He speaks about his drive to help Black and Brown students experience a sense of “belonging” similar to the ethos that is so often experienced and celebrated on the campuses of HBCUs across America. He believes this model will not only instill pride in these students, but will also help lift the HBCU experience up beyond age old negative stereotypes, and elevate them and their unique communities to their rightful place in the history of this great country.

If you’d like to learn more about Cameron and the amazing work he’s doing visit their work at: www.becomingschools.org, email them at [email protected], follow them on FB and IG at Becoming Collegiate Academy. Further support them by visiting https://www.becomingschools.org/support

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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (Maya Angelou)

In this episode, Marc and Tavarus dive into a rich conversation with the founder and CEO of THE First HBCU Themed Elementary School, Cameron Frazier.

As always, If you have suggestions about a topic you’d like to hear discussed, or would like to know more about how you can support this podcast, email us at [email protected]

Support the show

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Physical Health

Our physical health not only impacts our physical bodies, but it is also directly correlated to our mental health as well.
In this episode Marc and Tavarus discuss their commitments to maintaining healthy lifestyles, how it's positively benefited them individually in life, and how they've managed to stay on the ever evolving journey of staying healthy. They both take there physical health rather seriously and use this episode to encourage others to do the same.
According to Healthypeople.gov:

More than 80% of adolescents do not get enough aerobic physical activity to meet the guidelines for youth.
Physical activity can lower the risk of
- Early death
- Coronary heart disease
- Stroke
- High Blood Pressure
- Type 2 diabetes
- Breast and colon cancer
- Falls
- Depression and more...

Tavarus recently entered and placed first in another duathlon!
Factors that are negatively associated with adult physical health include:

Advancing age
Low Income
Lack of time
Rural residency
Perception of great effort needed for excellence
Overweight or obesity
Perception of poor health
Being disabled

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Genetics, Pollen, Seeds, Family

In this episode Marc and Tavarus revisit a conversation that was sparked on one of their many "power trips", this one to Spartanburg, SC specifically. What started as an epiphany moment for Marc after meeting several successful members of Tavarus's family, ended in a conversation about genetics, DNA, family traits and wealth.
It was evident early on upon meeting Tavarus's family that there were inherent family values around hard work, persistence, dedication, entrepreneurship, and the enjoyment of the "pay off". What wasn't so easily detected was the fact that all of these values weren't necessarily passed down; some where acquired, picked up along the way and incorporated at the appropriate time.
I (Marc) was also shocked to realize that our backgrounds, though starkly different, aligned in many ways as well. We like Tavarus's immediate family, were very poor early on in life. We ate from dumpsters, lived on a toxic waste dump site, surrounded by death, disease and addictive behaviors. Much of which was passed or handed down to me genetically. However, and oddly enough, we were very rich in love, family support, faith and "grit".
In this episode, Marc and Tavarus go on to discuss topics such as:

Generational Wealth
Epigenetics
Wealth Mindset
Family values and more

We also thought it would be helpful to provide the following resources to maybe help spark conversations that could lead to healthier and wealthier futures for generations to come:

Creating a Wealthy Mindset: https://www.lifecoach.com/articles/wealth/talanes-top-10-tips-create-wealthy-mindset-attract-true-wealth/
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: https://www.richdad.com
The Dave Ramsey Show: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRamseyShowEpisodes
Project Restore Ministries; Increasing Financial Literacy: https://restoretoday.org/

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