This Is Bigger Than Comedy — It’s About Saving Young Men

A lot of people ask me why I started the Mentoring Camp… truth is, it came from a real place of pain, reflection, and purpose.

I was sittin’ at my daddy’s funeral one day — 43 years old — lookin’ at that man layin’ there, and it hit me: “Without him, I wouldn’t have made it.” Everything I learned about work ethic, discipline, manhood — all of it came from him.

And I started thinkin’, “What happens to the little boys who don’t have that?”
What happens to the ones who don’t got a father showin’ them how to tie a tie, shake a man’s hand, keep their word, or push through when life gets hard?

See, there’s a lot of single mothers out here raisin’ boys — doin’ the best they can — but that’s a hard job. You can love that child with everything you got, but it takes a man to show a boy what bein’ a man really looks like.

That’s when it hit me — I gotta step in.
I gotta help fill that gap.

So I started speakin’ at schools, juvenile centers, wherever I could. I met young brothers who told me years later that one talk changed their life. That’s when I knew God was usin’ me for somethin’ bigger than jokes and TV shows.

The Mentoring Camp became my way of payin’ forward what my father gave me — structure, guidance, love, and accountability.
It’s about teachin’ young men who they are, and whose they are.

If you’ve ever wondered why I do what I do — it’s because I believe every young man deserves a chance to become who God created him to be.

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