Sankofa Story Garden: Cultivating the Seeds of Creative Community Leaders
"Until the lion learns to write their own story, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
- African Proverb
In collaboration with:
This project was supported, in whole or in part, by federal award to the City of Chicago by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
L I O N S P E A K S
The ConTextos Authors Circle was developed in collaboration with young people experiencing, navigating, surviving complex traumas in El Salvador. In 2017, this innovative program expanded into Chicago to create tangible, high quality opportunities that nourish the minds, expand the voices and share the personal truths of individuals who have long been underserved and underestimated. Through the process of drafting, revising, and publishing memoirs, participants strengthen self-reflection, critical thinking, camaraderie and positive self-projection to author new life narratives.
This project is partially supported by a Together We Heal Creative Place grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events and the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Justice. MAAFA’s mission is to significantly improve the quality of life for young men of color and their families on West Garfield Park providing dormitory-style residential support, workforce training, personal/spiritual development, and a host of wrap-around social services.
The embedded ConTextos Authors Circle provides a synergistic space of reflection, connection, and healing growth as authors continue to forge new life chapters.
The powerful writings from the MAAFA Leadership Circle, Sankofa partners and Sankofa artists complicate myopic, monolithic narratives and include and array of reflections, transformative experiences and candid insights of residents and friends on the West Side of Chicago.
N T R O D U C T I O N
The Sankofa Story Garden is more than a plot of land, it’s a sacred space; holy ground. It’s a space for healing, growth and communal storytelling. Sankofa literally means “ go back and get it.” It’s a philosophical, cultural and spiritual process designed to help us reflect in order to “ move forward.” The Sankofa Story Garden is meant to embody and cultivate this process. We’ll meditate here, grow here and envision better days for our neighborhood, West Garfield Park. The stories we tell here are for us; they’ll ground and gather us around what we hope for, and create space for genuine community. But they are also for the coming generations. We will pass this garden and our stories down so that our children and our children’s children inherit what we have: Sankofa stories.
Marshall Hatch Jr. Executive Director, MAAFA Redemption Project
Sankofa is a constant “remembering” as we move forward with our lives as individuals nourished by active engagement of our people’s shared narratives in America. Derived from King Adinkera of the Akan people of West Africa, Sankofa is expressed in the Akan language as “ se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenkyi.” Literally translated, it means, “It is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot.”
In 2023, we looked to a new initiative in partnership with Chicago’s DCASE and MAAFA Redemption Project that would engage two cohorts of system-impacted Authors from West Garfield Park and layer leadership development opportunities within our Authors Circle model. That spring, a first cohort spent several months in twice weekly Circles shaping new narratives, growing as writers and reflecting on themes of individual and collective hurt and healing – with a focus on the pandemic and racial reckoning. In the spring of 2024, five of these young men had an opportunity to continue the journey by growing as leaders, collaborating with ConTextos and MAAFA to host a series of community dinners and storytelling sessions, convening an intergenerational group of neighborhood residents as they collectively excavate the histories and stories of West Garfield Park. Then, they selected a group of West Side sculptors and muralists to create permanent installations in a currently vacant community space on West Garfield Park’s Washington Blvd. as a vibrant garden for reflection and a space for building power from the neighborhood’s history and memories – the Sankofa Story Garden. This community asset is situated within the Chicago prize-winning Sankofa Wellness Village and was created partially with a transformational Together We Heal grant from Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
ConTextos and the MAAFA Redemption Project
Sankofa Story Garden
THE MAAFA AUTHORS CIRCLE
...Every member of this circle is dope, unique and talented in their own right. Nevertheless, they came together to make this Circle the illest MAAFA Circle yet. They have brilliantly woven together a taperstry of poems and memoirs that allows the reader to peer into their world and see the beauty of their experiences growing up primarily on Chicago’s westside (their Shaolin). The reader is in for a literary treat equivalent to the lyrical supremacy of Raekwon, Ghostface Killah or Method Man, the creativity and and boldness of Ol’ Dirty Bastard and the spirituality and technique of the RZA.
The power of this group ’ s dynamic showed up most respectfully and admirably when Authors came to every Circle ready to engage, participate and be vulnerable with their intimate truths, giving all of the things that are happening in their lives. On many occasions, they had every reason to not show up at all. Yet time and again they did! Heavy hearts from dealing with the death of a loved one, difficult domestic situations, challenges with the criminal legal system, personal health issues and the difficulties of navigating growing up in communities suffering from historical trauma and violence. They showed up to write about their experiences as an act of catharsis, defiance and to simply breathe. Enjoy their exhalations.
Spankey,
ConTextos
Author Circle Facilitator
B Y R A S H A A D W A S H I N G T O N
I am from the 1000 block of Kedvale in K Town. From jumping gates and climbing garages.
I am from an orange and red brick house with red overheading.
I am from abandoned lots with garbage and grassy fields of dead dandelions.
I’m from Mae Smely and Sharnonda Washington. From Christmas grab bags and extravagant Easter egg hunts. And from being outspoken, outgoing, creative and understanding.
I’m from “put that down” and “be quiet.”
And from “ go to school” and “ never let no one dictate your pace or movement.”
I'm from a house full of women dragging you to church with them.
I'm from Rush and Oak Park.
From ribs, chicken, Dusse, Bellaire and card games.
From Rasta and Sharnonda.
I am from a grateful and happy place from out west… despite what you heard!
B Y S Q U E A K E Y
I am from the Austin community.
I’m from Shoonie and baby D.
From basketball.
I’m from “ come in the house on time.”
And from “do your homework first before you go outside.”
I’m from Christ.
I’m from Chicago.
From chicken and steak.
From Dre Money and Squeaky.
I am from good.
W H E R E I A M G O I N G
B Y G L E N N A D A M S
I am going to swim with dolphins.
I am going to jump out of a place to feel the rush, the air slapping against my face, defying gravity.
I am going to Mount Rushmore to imagine my own face up there.
I am going to Africa to see my people and see how it looks for myself not a “help the children” commercial.
I am going to get closer to God.
I am going to stay focused.
I am going to start fasting and praying more to get closer to God.
In the future I am going to start a movement to stop poverty, killings and to protect our children and women.
I am going to leave my kids my legacy, my love, peace of mind and a whole lotta money.
O M Y F U T U R E S O N
B Y D A Y D A Y R O L L I N S
Son. One day you gon ’ be born and you will learn of a word called “love.” It is a word that you will hear your mother and me say to you before you even know what it means. Love is an action word, shorty. If someone ever tells you that they love you, you should be able to tell by the way they treat you. One day, you gon ’ find out that love hurts too. When you love someone and you think that they love you back, it’s gon ’ hurt to find out that they don’t. I hate that shit for you! But man up and don’t crash out ‘ cause it's gon ’ be their loss. But when love is reciprocated, it’s magical! The ones who love you will love you genuinely and unconditionally.
THE MAAFA LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
For me, what made me want to get involved [was] bringing something different to the community. Like a lot of us don’t get outside the neighborhood that much... So I get impressed by the smallest of things. Being excited about the smallest of things [that] you don’t come across that much just because of where you ’ re from. Being able to bring that to them so you don’t got to go all the way yonder just to... get some sense of tranquility. I just want to be able to bring that to people. Being able to look at something that’s positive, we took so much from our neighborhood that being able to add to, that’s what made me want to be involved.
Day Day
For me, prior to this initiative, I viewed a community that was hopeless. Looking around at first, there wasn’t nothing to lift your spirits up. Everything was dead and dying, all the doors closed, a lot of abandoned buildings, a lot of homeless people. So I viewed it as hopeless. But that being said, I was part of the problem... Just doing something different... and trying to leave my imprint on the community. The community has been through a lot and I felt like this initiative could be a light in a dark spot.
Ferrice
A C O N V E R S A T I O N W I T H S Q U E A K E Y A N D R A S H A A D
THE MAAFA LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
SQUEAKEY: In our community, it was always activities [and] things to do. You still had your bad days going on, but it was more structured in the neighborhood instead of just being wild and just doing whatever you want to do. Now, it’s like people just do whatever they want to do in a community they don’t care about. They don’t respect the community.
RASHAAD: I became a part of my community, you know what I’m saying? I grew up in the trenches, so everything- I’ve seen everything, I been through is not the same no more. All the activities like Squeak said, all the activities we had growing up, summer camps and stuff, all-season basketball teams and shit like that... we don’t have that no more for real because the community is so cruel now. There’s too much killing.
Me personally, I was thirsty to put a garden in the community I grew up in, especially on the block I grew up on. I wanted to see that. I knew it was gonna be a milestone or a pillar in the community. Like I can go right up and walk through there like, “I made that” or “I helped build that.”
SQUEAKEY: The garden can make the community real peaceful and calm and collected. It can bring people together. As long as it gets put up and the community comes to see it and come chill.
C O M M U N I T Y D I N N E R S
THE MAAFA LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
MAAFA Sankofa Story Garden Community Dinner: An opportunity for community members to provide input, hopes, and dreams for the planned community garden in West Garfield Park
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 and March 12th, 2024
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the MAC, 4241 W Washington, Chicago IL 60619
ConTextos Chicago and the MAAFA Redemption Project will collaborate over two years to envision and manifest the Sankofa Story Garden, transforming a vacant lot in West Garfield Park into a space for storytelling, healing and co-creation. This new green space will feature murals and other evocative pieces of visual art made by local artists and inspired by the stories and histories of community residents. Community stories and aspirations for the garden will be documented through a series of dinners, organized by our teams in partnership with two cohorts of young Black and Brown storytellers and civic leaders from the West Side.
We hope that you will help us bring out West Side residents to provide their input on what will be a beautiful garden space at the corner of Washington and Kildare.
O M M U N I T Y S U R V E Y
THE MAAFA LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
What do you want to see implemented into the design for the Sankofa Story Garden?
Colorful flowers and a section for sitting and reading
Talei
Benches made from recycled plastic
Ivan
Inspirational information on the past, present and future
Gina
Spaces to rest and meditate, and an area for herbal plants
Alexandra
Training programs and classes
Brenda A place for fellowshipping
Mrs. Jackson
THE MAAFA LEADERSHIP CIRCLE
The community can’t make a change, it’s the people in the community that’s gonna make the change. If the people in the community don’t make no change, ain’t nothing gonna really change. Everybody gotta come together, not just one person.
Squeakey
It’s not hard to get people’s attention, but it’s hard to keep people focused on the right path. Everybody needs somebody. We all need each other. We took the necessary steps, planned everything accordingly, we had set meetings. We didn’t rush it, we still stuck to it, made our plans out.
Rashaad
We met a lot of new people during this process, and that helps us better communicate... We ain’t felt like we ’ ve belonged in some of the spaces that we ’ ve been allowed to be in during this process.
Day Day
The people that we met, we were able to meet some good people to expand our network. I feel like we were some good young leaders. It helped me realize we are only as strong as our weakest link.
Ferrice
A N D R E A C O L E M A N
CREATING SANKOFA
The Enterprise of What Was brings forth the Black richness of truth, wisdom, and legacy
As the beginners of time and the creators of an era, the Black reincarnation of my kin through my works celebrates the intimacy and interconnectedness of love, laughter, and Black joy. The Black folks, especially the women in my life, are mystic creatures who are subtle, yet powerful with backbones of steel. They speak of omens and signs that teach us how to survive, thrive, and persevere through this life of artificial hierarchy. They are brazen matriarchal figures who cherish family and define the norm. They are royalty with skin of melanin gold.
Black Joy is the elixir, the resistance, and the flavor of our culture that ripples like honey. It’s family cookouts and music cuts that have you gyrating and steppin' into the night.
Memory is fragile, yet sacred. Electric, yet fragmented. Powerful, yet soft. As the years pass, there erupts a fear of loss a fear of lost stories, laughter, and the remaining residue of my familiars. I am afraid. In an effort to cope, I honor. I honor the Black celebration, the lives, and the stories of my ancestors. My ancestors are embedded within the very fabric of my skin, voice, and being. With this reminder, I find comfort. To embody the essence of Sankofa, which means "to go back and get it," is to learn from the past without becoming lost in the thickness of memory.
A N D R E A C O L E M A N
CREATING SANKOFA
It is to reclaim and utilize the wisdom of our origins to enrich the present and plan for the future. As I scramble for answers, I am determined to lavish in the now.
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WE DON'T DIE, WE MULTIPLY."
Through my practice I pledge to honor and demand space for the lost and unseen within my legacy and beyond. I pledge to listen to the divinity that casts protection over my soul and guides me through this life. I pledge to embrace the mystic light that brings forth truth and unfiltered wisdom. I pledge to continue searching and preserving the very fabrics of those who came before me.
About Andrea: Andrea Coleman is a Chicago-based visual artist, writer, and storyteller who channels the essence of her suburban roots and draws inspiration from animation art and mural concepts. She delicately explores the interplay of aura and narrative through mediums such as paint, fabric, and personal archives, offering a glimpse into the acts of reminiscing and honoring. Coleman graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago and has received notable recognition, including the A+T Seed Grant and the Make A Wave Grant from 3Arts. As a former artist-inresidence at the Chicago Artist Coalition, she was named one of the Breakout Artists for Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers in 2021. Her work has been featured at prominent fairs and galleries, including EXPO Chicago, Kavi Gupta Gallery, and Blanc Gallery, further establishing her presence in the art world.
CREATING SANKOFA
Real individuals and their narratives deeply influence my artistic endeavors. The Sankofa Story Garden resonated so profoundly with my current artistic process and values that no adjustments were necessary. Inspired by the garden's floral surroundings, my work prominently features nature and plants, symbolizing both internal and external growth. Choosing children as the subjects of my piece reflects their role as the future of our world and speaks to the enduring child within us all. By sharing stories from the past to guide our future, I aim to foster unity through our shared childhood experiences.
In my art, I coined the phrase "We Grow Here Too" to celebrate our community and acknowledge our intrinsic worth, inviting external observers to appreciate the beauty within us. My piece serves as a voice for us even in our absence, expressing pride in our identity and origins. "We Grow Here Too" transcends being just an artwork in the Sankofa Story Garden; it embodies each of us, living and thriving in this garden, continuing to pass down our stories to future generations.
About Kalief: A 26 year old self-taught visual artist from the Southside of Chicago, Kalief’s art expands across canvas paintings to fashion and murals as a voice for himself and his community. He shares, “Chicago’s not just a place to me. It’s home. Unless you ’ ve lived here, you can’t quite grasp its essence. My goal is to make Chicago proud and spotlight the sides that often get overlooked. Our city holds beauty that I want to share with the world, all while igniting that same inspiration in those right here in the city.”
S A L E E M H
CREATING SANKOFA
As a Black, disabled artist I believe in the non-linearity of time. My creative journey only exists because generations of other Black, disabled artists and culture-bearers transcended scores of in/visible barriers to allow me to time travel. I draw humility and patience from the lineage of Black disabled blues singers, with their public expressions of struggle and sadness—vulnerabilities rarely afforded our people. I am blessed with adaptability and improvisation from hip-hoppers, be-boppers, and can’t/won’t-stoppers. I endure because of sharecroppers' self-determination, Elders’ ring shouts, and home-going celebrations.
My Sankofa journey is embodied as but one in a flock–rather a murmuration–that formation of starlings, typified by three simple rules:
1. Move to the center
2. Follow your neighbor
3. Don’t collide
There has never been a sole leader on this project. We recommit (again, & again, then again) to pivot as we (learn to) fly.
About Saleem: Saleem Hue Penny (him/friend) is a Black, disabled, “rural hip-hop blues" poet who punctuates his hybrid/mixed-media work with drum loops, Jim Crow artifacts, and birch bark. A member of O| Sessions' Black Listening cohort and a proud Cave Canem Fellow, his Southside Chicago mutual aid advocacy is rooted in Disability Justice.
E R R Y H O L I D A Y
CREATING SANKOFA
This project has been a growing experience. My work is dedicated to serving the community and uplifting public art. Receiving feedback on this project has really informed my work and the development of my mural concepts in a way that reflects collaboration rather than treating art as something transactional. Creating with local visions at the forefront is necessary to respect the established community environment. We have all come together with great enthusiasm and vision to bring this initiative to life.
About Gerry: As an artist I discovered my passion as a teen in After School Matters programs in Chicago. The core of my work is centered on prioritizing community perspective. I strive to extend artist networks and be a mentor/teacher to young artists. My work encompasses the many communities of Chicago. I set out to weave into the fabric of the communities through art making and participation. I work to reflect a cultural vision specific to the environment and members of the community which I am immersed in rather than to take space and impose a personal vision and message as commercial art often does.
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CREATING SANKOFA
The Sankofa bird was introduced to me by Baba Ronald Kwesi Harris. The Sankofa bird was created by the Ikhän tribe in Ghana as one of the Adinkra symbols (Adinkras are symbols from Ghana that represent concepts or aphorisms). Sankofa, a Twi word from the Akan Tribe of Ghana that loosely translates to " go back and get it."
In this piece, I attempt to capture the essence of the youth, reaching back to learn from the elders what is needed to move forward. The soft, bright ambience around the arms of the human subjects represent the interconnectedness of generations. This to me is a concept that must involve elders being willing to pass the torch, while the youth hold themselves accountable to learning about the experiences of those who came before them.
About EWRKS: Dave Ellis Flynn, also known as EWRKS, is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist creating with the goal of making “honest art.” He’s taken a journal styled approach to conveying his experience as a black man existing in the western world.
A graduate of Chicago State University, EWRKS has been part of the activist and artist community for years, using his art and voice as a means to challenge and question the world around him.
S P A N K E Y D A V I S
Are leaders born or made? Are the talents, gifts and skillset of a leader determined by innate qualities at birth or are they the function of the accidents of history? Is leadership an art or a science? These are some of the questions the Leadership Authors and I explored during our Author Circle sessions when we began this journey nearly one year ago to date. To be sure, we never came up with any definitive answers. I’m not sure if we came up with any answers at all. What I am sure about is that the questions led us on a journey that would change us all forever in a number of different ways.
I was appointed lead project manager of the Sankofa Story Garden initiative. I felt honored that my team gave me the chance to do what I think I do best: build meaningful, significant and lasting relationships with the communities I serve. I’m a people’s person at heart so it comes easy to me. What doesn’t come so easy is the process of professional development and planning. Because of this, I was in way over my head! Not only did I not know the first thing about how to build a garden, but I had no clue as to what it would take to figure it out. I wasn’t fazed by it, though. I had enough confidence in myself to know that I would figure it all out. What I didn’t have an appreciation for was all that could get lost and go wrong without a workable and effective plan.
Taking on an initiative like this without adequate planning is like trying to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro with just your bare hands.
S P A N K E Y D A V I S
You may be able to pull it off, but it’ll be extremely difficult, perhaps nearly impossible. Don’t get me wrong, even the best of planning is subject to real world realities that don't always cooperate. What I learned throughout this process is that planning is not necessarily about ensuring that things always go as imagined; planning is about being able to respond with a well thought out strategy for when it doesn’t. And trust me when I tell you that things won’t always go as planned! In the words of the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, “there are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns.” Planning helps to lay the foundation for how to pivot to any state of the known and unknown.
Throughout this experience, I saw the loss of two garden designers, a community liaison organization and a sculptor. I oversaw the near collapse of the Sankofa Story Garden initiative as a result of lack of communication with primary stakeholders. I watched the Leadership Authors struggle, grow and evolve. I saw them embrace the disappointments of personal and organizational mistakes, take ownership of their shortcomings and press on towards the calling of opportunities they deemed beneficial. In all of this, I also saw the power of communication restoring trust and resolve. I saw my team rally around me to restore my confidence by providing resourceful agencies and guidance to bring this initiative to fruition. Equally important, I saw myself grow into a better manager, community servant, leader and person.
I’m Ferrice and I’m one of the Leadership Authors that was handpicked to lead the initiative of the Story Garden. This was an exciting opportunity for me and I was thrilled to be a part of a project that was being built in the community. I always viewed myself as a leader, but this initiative gave me a different aspect of being a leader. I’ve learned that a leader doesn’t boss someone around, but a leader has to be able to listen to and consider the viewpoint of others. This initiative also showed me that things aren’t always going to go as planned and that I have to be able to adjust.
Learning those things helped prepare me for my next transition because I’m in training to become a life coach within MAAFA. With being a life coach I must be able to listen to a person to see what’s their struggles and what they need help with. Being a Leadership Author helped with that because we had to listen to the opinions of others to put together the image they wanted to be portrayed within the garden. Also as a life coach we have to set plans for individuals to get them to reach a certain goal. This initiative showed me that a plan may not go the way you expect but it doesn’t mean that the goal still can’t be reached. That was big for me because I’m going to have to set goals for people and they may not go as planned, so seeing how things haven’t gone as planned for us but the garden is still being completed shows me that the goal can still be reached even if the plan doesn’t go as expected. So therefore, I appreciate the lessons learned from this opportunity given to me.
S Q U E A K E Y
I am Squeakey and I am a MAAFA/ConTextos Leadership Author. This was a good experience for me to learn how to be a leader in my community, to make a change for the youth. I was excited to build a garden in the community to make a change for the people and bring the community together. Becoming a Leadership Author has helped me become more active in my community and make a change in my community and help out more to get the community to come together to make the community better for everyone.
S H A A D
RAI'm Rashaad, another one of the Leadership Authors of MAAFA/ConTextos. This initiative of the Story Garden was an exciting experience. It was exciting because we got to work together to build something positive in the community and for the community as well. I was honored to be a part of something I helped plan. This initiative gave me different looks on leadership and different forms of it. I've always been a leader, not a follower. Being a leader doesn't just consist of you giving direction, but listening and following directions given to you as well. I was taught to lead by example for those who are watching. This initiative showed me that anything can happen at any time and everything isn't going to go as planned but that doesn't mean that's the end. This opened my eyes more because I see it from a different perspective. This has been a transition into what I'm doing because I'm learning to be a solar installer and I know I'm going to have to use those leadership skills in this work field, but overall my experience was great. I wish we could have done another but I'm grateful for the opportunity that was presented to me.
D A Y D A Y
I'm Day Day and I'm one out of five MAAFA/ConTextos Leadership Authors. Last summer we were informed of the plan of the Sankofa Peace Garden being designed and built on one of our spaces on the campus of our church home as well as presented the opportunity to be leaders of this assignment. I was eager, as we all were, first and foremost about the idea of the garden alone because it's going to be a beautiful and much needed addition to the neighborhood. But being able to be the leaders of something of such positivity was a major bonus. And so I remember two questions we all were asked to answer when we first started our mission: "What is a leader and what makes a good leader?" I have a clear idea of what a leader is and what makes a leader good, but something new that I learned about a leader was that " a good leader must be able to follow." It was imperative for us to understand exactly what makes a leader because without that clarification, we couldn't navigate our project correctly. Within getting that understanding, we had an understanding that the people of the community were the voices of choice and reason to this thing. We're the Leadership Authors and Community Outreach Leaders, but the way the garden would look depended on the choices and opinions of the people. So learning that leaders must follow changed the dynamic of my experience by having to be humble to the choices of others rather than feeling that the leaders have the final say so. Those few words, "A leader must be able to follow" was an important takeaway for me.
D A Y D A Y
Some things went bad, most went well, but this has definitely been an experience to say the least. A learning experience. Being Leadership Authors and Community Outreach Leaders, part of what we did required lots of communication. Those times came at our community dinners, on the streets when we presented surveys to the neighbors, and when we had team meetings with our other colleagues on this project. As a person who is shy to speak in front of people, these experiences have helped to break that shy shell and help me speak with confidence. I now know how to belong in a room when business is being conducted when at first I acted awkward. The outreach in the streets part didn't go so well because people just straight up didn't care enough to cast their opinions. That has prepared me to understand the next opportunity like this that things might not always go as planned and when the time comes that things go off track, I must be efficient to make up for any shortcomings. When things go downhill, efficiency can change the trajectory to rise up instead of continuously plummeting. I have also been prepared to be more stable, especially when working in groups. Your group is only as strong as the weakest link and we all had our times we were weak. One or two of us at a time lacking stability was always affecting the group as a whole and affecting our meetings in negative ways. This motivates me to always stand on business. To be prepared to work around changes because circumstances may change for my partners and I may have a void to fill. So even though things went off the rails for us, this experience is teaching me and my brothers some valuable lessons about being a leader that will always be useful and overall make us better leads.
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