We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Mycheal/ Darrel Franklin . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Mycheal/ Darrel below.
Mycheal/ Darrel , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. How did you come up with the idea for your business?
It Was Always A Dream Of Ours To Give Back To Our Community an Some Type Of Way… like our whole circle we use to sit back and talk about it…like all the free stuff we’ll do what celebrity we’ll bring around there things like that for when we get rich…. That type of stuff we know would bring joy smiles through the people in the neighborhood… we wanted to paint a different picture for our neighborhood to show it in a different light than always negative….we are from the Northside of chicago east Rogers park Howard st area…. So it was just us dreaming on it until a tragic situation happened to one of our brothers in the circle passed away.. his name was Nate Aka Lil Nate Or Nate The Great Some Call Him…He Passed Away In 2019 He Was A True Hero To Many In My Neighborhood Loved and Knew By Penalty He Was Very Playful Smart And Funny..He Was Also Like A Big Brother/ Good Mentor To A lot Of People…He Was Also Heavily Into The Bible He Will Always Be At Bible Study On Sundays….The Name Nate The Great I Believed Came From Boxing Bro Had Won The Golden Gloves And Was A Big Boxing Fan He Was Fast With His Hands…but we just used his death to keep going because we know that’s what he’ll want for somebody to win and make it out so it can get us out….A Couple Months After He Passed we started reminiscing about Nate we start thinking about doing something for him that he would want us to do/ he’ll do it his self if he was alive because Nate was a given person and plus it was one of our dreams to give back..so darrel like we don’t gotta wait til we rich let’s find away n do it in 2021…..Darrel found a sponsor who was able to help us get a couple more small donations too..They’re Name Was “C24/7” they was a big part of helping us because they Are a nonprofit Christian organization in the neighborhood a couple of us also attend there man’s Bible study Group On Sundays..The First Year We Did It It Was Rushed We Did It In 3 Months No Name For It Until Like A Month Ahead We Came Up With The Great Give Away Because Of Nate It Was A Dedication To Him… Even Doe It Was Rushed We Came Out On Top So Many People Came Out From The Neighborhood So Many Kids Got Bikes Or Whatever Toy They Wanted… So Many People Was Happy And Had Fun People Was Over Thanking Us Saying How We Gotta Keep This Going This What Our Neighborhood Needed… Every Year It Got Bigger More Planned Out Seeing Where We Went Wrong At The Year Before So We Can Improve It The Falling Year… It Takes A lot Of Time But It’s Worth It The Great Give Away Has Been Something Our Community Looks Forward To Every Year Now The Kids Cant Wait It’s A Blessing In A Joy To See This Come Alive In Front Of Our Eyes…
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
We Created This Event For Our Community To Bring Joy And A Different Light Into Our Community.. Giving Them Something To Look Forward To Because Nobody Does This Where We Are From The Kids Seem Like They Don’t Have Fun Or Hope Like We Did Growing Up… So We Create This To Be That Hope In Fun Also For The Less fortunate Who Parents Might Can’t Get Them A Bike, Laptop, this type of toys, etc… It’s So Many Kids That Leave With Bikes They Be So Happy And To Leave With Memories They’re Going To Always Remember…. It Takes A lot Of Time, Energy, and Money To Create This Event..We Get Sponsors In Or Donation To Create Events Plus Come Out Of Pocket…We Care About Our Community Especially The Youth This One Step To Give Them Hope To Show You Can Go A Different Route And Still Make Things Happen..
How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?
Being From Our Neighborhood It Was Easy Because Everybody Know Us We Relate To The Struggles They Go Through Daily We Understand The People From There We Know The Trials and tribulations They Go Through We Lost Of People Due To Street Stuff We All Face Them Problems We Got The community Because We Who The People Can Trust and Can Relate To
Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?
Mycheal And Darrel Are Blood Brothers Mycheal Is The Oldest Out 3 On Moms Side Darrel Is The Second Youngest Out Of His Twin We Both Got The Same Mother And Father
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