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The Gib Lewis Initiative team has arrived on the Cleveland Unit.\u00a0 The members are Jason C, Davis H., Tyrell I., Thuan N., Jonathan O., and Isaac S.\u00a0 We arrived at the Cleveland Unit with the understanding that we were brought here to learn PEP\u2019s culture so that we could incorporated the tenents at the Gib Lewis unit. Man, we have been absolutely blown away by the culture of PEP here on the Cleveland Unit.<\/p>\n
We thank all of our fellow PEP brothers, as well as PEP staff and the Cleveland administration for welcoming us with open arms. \u00a0Everyone has been very helpful and kind. We are excited to be presented with the challenge of taking this amazing fraternity and culture with us back to the Gib Lewis Unit.<\/p>\n
We have begun our experience with Alfredo M. at the forefront of the ship.\u00a0 He\u2019s a great leader who is genuine in his walk and talk.\u00a0 He communicates with sincerity and passion.\u00a0 His resolve tells stories of his character, and we are overjoyed at the fact that he will be leading us as we journey back to the Gib Lewis Unit on a great task. Thank you all for your love and continued support.<\/p>\n
Jason C. <\/strong><\/p>\n It was a very interesting day. We are learning a lot about public speaking in our Toastmasters class.\u00a0 A lot of our brothers are really getting better in their speaking skills. You can see the confidence growing every week, and the speeches are getting better as well.<\/p>\n We are learning a lot that will help us develop our business plans. We are also preparing our pitches for the Venture Capital Panel (VCP) event. We really look forward to speaking with the executives and getting feedback that will help us hone our pitches.<\/p>\n We also received a chance to hear from Harvey M. and Manny R. about the re-entry process and resources that will be available to us upon release.\u00a0 They answered a lot of our questions and eased a lot of our worries.\u00a0 We also saw some pictures of our brothers who are now out working and living life.\u00a0 We are growing from these experiences and the brotherhood is getting stronger.<\/p>\n Martin D. (a.k.a. Brown Sugar)<\/strong><\/p>\n Well it is Wednesday, February 8th<\/sup> and the Chapter 5 test is in the books.\u00a0 Our class did a tremendous job!\u00a0 We celebrated our birthday boys: Eduardo V., Tyler P., Robert V., Bruce T., and Brian H.<\/p>\n After completing Bert\u2019s challenging test it was time to move on to some much-needed fun.\u00a0 After losing to the New England Patriots, Bert showed his best rendition of Jane Fonda, giving 50 \u201cFonda\u2019s\u201d to the Kings of Spring \u201817.\u00a0 After the fun, we got down to business and reviewed the revenue models.\u00a0 Bert explained the purpose of the Economics of One Unit (EOUs), their use and how this will be applicable to our business revenue model. The breakdown of this diagram is very informative and important to our sales model. Everyone learned a great deal from this class, and we can\u2019t wait to see how the puzzle comes together, making us better businessmen.<\/p>\n As class came to an end, it was great to see growth continue to take place.\u00a0 It is amazing to imagine where we have all come from and to see the vision many of the fellows have in their eyes. Inspiring is what it is!\u00a0 As always, it has been a very motivating day in our transformation as men.<\/p>\n William E. (a.k.a. Elmo) <\/strong><\/p>\n Today was a fun but challenging day.\u00a0 We were surprised by the names test and it was not very pretty when the test scores came back.\u00a0 We will come together and make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u00a0 It is absolutely amazing to see just how far we have come since the start of Men\u2019s Life and Leadership Academy. To have so many different religions, personalities and backgrounds of all varieties come together like we have is a blessing that we are thankful to be a part of.<\/p>\n Our class has the mentality that we can do great things in this world if we put in the hard work to do it.\u00a0 That is why we appreciate our brothers who have graduated and taken the time and effort to give back to us.\u00a0 Our brothers who came before us could have easily faded into the background, but instead they chose to continue to pour into our lives.\u00a0 So as the next class starts to move in, it is on us to help them along the way.\u00a0 The PEP brotherhood is strong.<\/p>\n The support that we have received from our families has been mind-blowing, and that includes all of our PEP family as well.\u00a0 Every executive, every brother, mother, wife, friend, child, servant-leader and staff team member: we, the Kings of 2017, would like to take this opportunity to thank you.\u00a0 Your efforts, love and support continue to be the backbone not only of us as individuals, but also of this revolutionary journey that we call PEP.<\/p>\n Xavier A. (a.k.a. Chocolate Drizzle)<\/strong><\/p>\n We were called out today after lunch to pray for of our brothers who will be released shortly.\u00a0 It\u2019s an amazing experience to hear some of the motivational things being said to the soon-to-be-released brothers. As a class we are starting to realize the importance of having strong men around us \u2013 men to support you, to hear you out, and to help guide you when we lose our way.\u00a0 It\u2019s vital to a man\u2019s growth to have strong men around him who aren\u2019t afraid to tell him when he is slipping, and to congratulate him when he succeeds.<\/p>\n Today my brothers and I were able to check out some books in the PEP library.\u00a0 I know that doesn\u2019t seem like much, but in this environment (or in fact any environment) having the ability to read quality books is a blessing that one cannot overstate.\u00a0 PEP has a wide array of books about everything from fathering and being a great husband to economics, biographies, history \u2026 you name it, they have it.\u00a0 My brothers and I looked like kids in a candy store standing in the library.<\/p>\n \u201cDeep breath\u201d \u2013 that\u2019s the advice that one of my brothers gave me when I told him that I was buried in work.\u00a0 That\u2019s the beauty of this fraternity, in that we have brothers who are willing to listen to us vent, but we are surrounded by authentic men and not just \u201cyes men.\u201d\u00a0 Rarely are you able to present a problem without presenting a possible solution as well. And for many of us that is what we have been lacking: the support of real men.<\/p>\n Donald M. (a.k.a. Jerome in the house)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cIt is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them: the character, the heart, generous qualities, and progressive ideas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n -Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Success is often thought of something that we must pursue: a lofty title, goals, and priorities.\u00a0 Happiness and success become an evasive carrot that we continue to chase throughout our lives, but this is a dangerous notion because it will cause us to live in constant flux between happiness and misery.\u00a0 Happiness, or rather joy, is not attained by those who are intellectually inclined, but is instead a state of being for those who are morally established, those whose intentions are kept pure, those who give without reproach, and those who act upon their noble ideas.\u00a0 Books can guide us, but it is our hearts that define us as men.<\/p>\n Jaa\u2019far A. (a.k.a. Jolly Rancher)<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#ffffff” allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Week 5 Week in Review Monday February 6, 2017 The Gib Lewis Initiative team has arrived on the Cleveland Unit.\u00a0 The members are Jason C, Davis H., Tyrell I., Thuan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clsp17"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/pamlychner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/pamlychner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/pamlychner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/pamlychner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/pamlychner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/pamlychner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/pamlychner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/pamlychner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/pamlychner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tuesday\u00a0February 7, 2017<\/h1>\n
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Friday\u00a0February 10, 2017<\/h1>\n
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