The belief that young people have the potential to achieve great things is the foundation of empowering youth. By providing access to inspiring experiences and resources, as well as building their self-assurance, young people can accomplish anything they set their minds to.

In this episode, MBSB Coaching CEO Kurt Ogbewele joins us to share his journey of empowering and inspiring young people to reach their full potential. As someone who has dedicated his career to providing guidance, mentorship, and skill-building opportunities to youth, Kurt has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share on how we can all support the next generation. 

Through all of his experience, Kurt created Mind, Body, Spirit is your Business (MBSB) to give youth resources that create opportunities. MBSB offers a wide range of services, including training in basketball, music, acting, teaching, and coaching, as well as access to professional speakers and basketball players who can inspire and mentor youth as they work to become experts in their chosen fields.

Tune in to hear Kurt's inspiring story and learn practical strategies for how you can help young people and youth in your community. 
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Empowering the Next Generation with Kurt Ogbewele
Welcome to Actions Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today’s youth really need some encouragement. I was actually at a church a couple hours away in a small town community church this past Sunday and I heard the story a woman told me about how her teenage son had already lost seven of his friends to suicide, which is a really, really disturbing thing to hear and something that is even more disturbing when I think about this kind of desperation happening in many different places all across the country and all across the world. My guest today, Kurt Ogbewele, is a coach that is actually helping bring a lot of hope to our youth today with his business, MBSB Coaching.

 
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Kurt, welcome to the program.

 

Steven, thank you so much, man, I appreciate you for having me. Thank you.

 

Well, thank you because this is something that I obviously care about quite a bit, hoping that my upcoming screen time reduction initiative helps relieve some of the pressure and some of the forces that is driving some of our youth to some of these bad places in life away and I know you’re helping the youth get some kind of encouragement for the things that they’re interested in, the things that they want to pursue. And I know that starts from your own story. You have your own story where you needed some encouragement in your youth. Let’s begin with that. You had a pretty sizable family and some turmoil, from what I’ve read, but I’ll let you tell it yourself.

 

Steven, thank you again for having me. Yeah, guys, my name is Kurt Ogbewele, from Brooklyn, New York. Huge family. Dad’s from Nigeria, my mother’s from Trinidad and Tobago. At a young age, we did experience the system. We’re broken up in foster homes and also group homes and reform schools and the whole nine yards and, from that standpoint on, I was able to live with my dad and my older brother. So that right there was a struggle for itself just because I didn’t have a relationship with my dad and living under his system of the household was a challenge because that was something I was not used to. And, for me, I picked up a passion for playing basketball probably around 9 and 10 years old. So my dad, being from his native country, which is Nigeria, basketball, any sports was not a priority, education was, and me being a generation growing up in America, sports can be a number one priority because it can allow you to be able to pay for college and so forth. So, moving forward, I was able to make it to graduation and, from that standpoint on, I knew that I wanted to continue to play basketball so I decided to move back home in Brooklyn, New York,