I am not a role model I’m not paid to be
a role model I get paid to wreak havoc
on the court parents should be role
models just because I can dunk a
basketball doesn’t mean I should raise
your kids these are the famous words
from the 1993 Nike commercial with NBA
Hall of Famer and NBA analyst Charles
Barkley from 25 years ago Webster’s
dictionary defines role model as a
person whose behavior in a particular
role is imitated by others parents are
role models certainly mine are for me
but who can kids look to outside of
their parents teachers and mentors to
inspire us to provide a direction to
achieve the heights that we hope to our
society has been focused around
entertainment media sports and political
figures as role models sports stars like
LeBron James and Steph Curry are looked
up to by millions and icons like Lance
Armstrong and Tiger Woods have
disappointed millions with professional
and personal problems entertainment
stars like Ellen and Oprah aspire to our
better selves versus the Harvey
Weinstein’s and the bill cosby’s who are
examples of those who are once held in
high esteem only to find out some
terrible truths superheroes you should
be just be white guys like spider-man
and Iron Man but now we have Black
Panther and Wonder Woman and it’s great
that minorities and women are finally
being represented in these superhero
roles but they are just fictional
characters the Kardashians have a huge
social media following over a hundred
million and are looked up to by many and
but their biggest accomplishment is
being famous is this something that a
kid like me should aspire to or should
we look to someone of role model who is
more inspiring more relatable that us
kids can see ourselves in them
I believe that kids can be their own
best role models
[Applause]
kids who have no fear to start something
that they’re interested in or passionate
about kids who have been on amazing
experiences and journeys and are
examples to all of us kids like became a
loner who when she was four was stung by
a bee twice so she did she learned up
about the bees and saw the challenges
that they were facing so she took her
1940 granny’s hone granny Helens um flax
seed lemonade recipe and sweetened debt
with local honey she went from the
simple lemonade stand
and now she’s thirteen has four
different types of lemonade and has them
in hundreds of Whole Foods across the
country and donates a percentage of her
profits to international organizations
working to save the bees or Australian
Jade ham my sister who by age 16 was the
youngest girl and the first girl to ski
the North Pole and the South Pole and
across the largest polar icecap in
Greenland or moziah bridges who I know
personally mol wanted wear bow ties but
didn’t like any of the bow ties that he
saw so he asked his grandmother had to
sew them started his own business got on
Shark Tank didn’t get a deal but kept
data and now has a multi-million dollar
deal with the MBA yeah
or the parkland teenagers like Emma
Gonzales David Hogg and others or Malala
who win the Nobel Peace Prize and all of
these kids were teenagers when they
achieved these great Peaks uh these I
could go on but these are just a few of
the examples of kids who lives can serve
as role models for other kids and adults
to aspire to in their own lives these
kids can be great role models for other
kids because they show what is possible
as a kid but how does a kid go from
being just a normal kid to aspire their
own path journey and experiences just
like a few of the kids that I just
mentioned for me I would say just go do
it my star is sorted my story started
five summers ago when I wanted the Lego
Star Wars Death Star I asked my parents
if I could get it they said I could but
I would have to pay for it
I was eight years old and it cost
four hundred dollars I was like well how
am I gonna make that much money I’m
eight years old I couldn’t get a paper
route and a lemonade stand at the end of
my street would take forever so my dad
suggested that I put my own lemonade
stand at my local farmers market I had
my parents and the farmers market
manager encouraged me to treat this like
a real business with proper permits and
licenses after one year I saw two
thousand dollars worth of lemonade and
after expenses made nine hundred dollars
in profit and yes I got my Lego Death
Star I had such a great experience that
I wanted to share this with other kids
so I created my own business where kids
and their families could sign up a
website to sign up for a date and a time
and a location to operate my stands
there I was getting so many customers
that I also reach out to other young
entrepreneurs to sell their products at
my stands in both cases I just did it
mode didn’t give up on finding the type
of bowtie that he liked with the help of
his grandmother and his mom he started
designing and making the bow ties that
he liked he just went ahead and did it
Mikayla didn’t like to be seen stop her
with the support of her parents she’s a
successful social entrepreneur be
ambassador educator and student she just
did it Jade when she was 12 me the trek
to Everest base camp and was inspired by
to him and she met there to go on her
own quest geez pull request these kids
had no expectation of being role models
to us in the world they just had the
curse to just go do it and to just
figure it out with the support of their
parents school and mentor along the way
it was the simple effort of having
interest a passion a to cause our
solving a problem and the courage to
just go do it
there are so many kids that we can look
to to see ourselves in their shoes their
journey to inspire us to embark on our
own journey our own path we can see
ourselves in them because they are just
like us they are us I am inspired by
Mikayla mo Jade Emma and David and I see
myself in them if they can do it then
maybe we can do it
whatever our it is thank you
you [Applause]
a role model I get paid to wreak havoc
on the court parents should be role
models just because I can dunk a
basketball doesn’t mean I should raise
your kids these are the famous words
from the 1993 Nike commercial with NBA
Hall of Famer and NBA analyst Charles
Barkley from 25 years ago Webster’s
dictionary defines role model as a
person whose behavior in a particular
role is imitated by others parents are
role models certainly mine are for me
but who can kids look to outside of
their parents teachers and mentors to
inspire us to provide a direction to
achieve the heights that we hope to our
society has been focused around
entertainment media sports and political
figures as role models sports stars like
LeBron James and Steph Curry are looked
up to by millions and icons like Lance
Armstrong and Tiger Woods have
disappointed millions with professional
and personal problems entertainment
stars like Ellen and Oprah aspire to our
better selves versus the Harvey
Weinstein’s and the bill cosby’s who are
examples of those who are once held in
high esteem only to find out some
terrible truths superheroes you should
be just be white guys like spider-man
and Iron Man but now we have Black
Panther and Wonder Woman and it’s great
that minorities and women are finally
being represented in these superhero
roles but they are just fictional
characters the Kardashians have a huge
social media following over a hundred
million and are looked up to by many and
but their biggest accomplishment is
being famous is this something that a
kid like me should aspire to or should
we look to someone of role model who is
more inspiring more relatable that us
kids can see ourselves in them
I believe that kids can be their own
best role models
[Applause]
kids who have no fear to start something
that they’re interested in or passionate
about kids who have been on amazing
experiences and journeys and are
examples to all of us kids like became a
loner who when she was four was stung by
a bee twice so she did she learned up
about the bees and saw the challenges
that they were facing so she took her
1940 granny’s hone granny Helens um flax
seed lemonade recipe and sweetened debt
with local honey she went from the
simple lemonade stand
and now she’s thirteen has four
different types of lemonade and has them
in hundreds of Whole Foods across the
country and donates a percentage of her
profits to international organizations
working to save the bees or Australian
Jade ham my sister who by age 16 was the
youngest girl and the first girl to ski
the North Pole and the South Pole and
across the largest polar icecap in
Greenland or moziah bridges who I know
personally mol wanted wear bow ties but
didn’t like any of the bow ties that he
saw so he asked his grandmother had to
sew them started his own business got on
Shark Tank didn’t get a deal but kept
data and now has a multi-million dollar
deal with the MBA yeah
or the parkland teenagers like Emma
Gonzales David Hogg and others or Malala
who win the Nobel Peace Prize and all of
these kids were teenagers when they
achieved these great Peaks uh these I
could go on but these are just a few of
the examples of kids who lives can serve
as role models for other kids and adults
to aspire to in their own lives these
kids can be great role models for other
kids because they show what is possible
as a kid but how does a kid go from
being just a normal kid to aspire their
own path journey and experiences just
like a few of the kids that I just
mentioned for me I would say just go do
it my star is sorted my story started
five summers ago when I wanted the Lego
Star Wars Death Star I asked my parents
if I could get it they said I could but
I would have to pay for it
I was eight years old and it cost
four hundred dollars I was like well how
am I gonna make that much money I’m
eight years old I couldn’t get a paper
route and a lemonade stand at the end of
my street would take forever so my dad
suggested that I put my own lemonade
stand at my local farmers market I had
my parents and the farmers market
manager encouraged me to treat this like
a real business with proper permits and
licenses after one year I saw two
thousand dollars worth of lemonade and
after expenses made nine hundred dollars
in profit and yes I got my Lego Death
Star I had such a great experience that
I wanted to share this with other kids
so I created my own business where kids
and their families could sign up a
website to sign up for a date and a time
and a location to operate my stands
there I was getting so many customers
that I also reach out to other young
entrepreneurs to sell their products at
my stands in both cases I just did it
mode didn’t give up on finding the type
of bowtie that he liked with the help of
his grandmother and his mom he started
designing and making the bow ties that
he liked he just went ahead and did it
Mikayla didn’t like to be seen stop her
with the support of her parents she’s a
successful social entrepreneur be
ambassador educator and student she just
did it Jade when she was 12 me the trek
to Everest base camp and was inspired by
to him and she met there to go on her
own quest geez pull request these kids
had no expectation of being role models
to us in the world they just had the
curse to just go do it and to just
figure it out with the support of their
parents school and mentor along the way
it was the simple effort of having
interest a passion a to cause our
solving a problem and the courage to
just go do it
there are so many kids that we can look
to to see ourselves in their shoes their
journey to inspire us to embark on our
own journey our own path we can see
ourselves in them because they are just
like us they are us I am inspired by
Mikayla mo Jade Emma and David and I see
myself in them if they can do it then
maybe we can do it
whatever our it is thank you
you [Applause]
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