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SPOTLIGHTS
The Bradleys:
Story by: Samantha Chery
one and the same W
orking as a consultant in
also participated in. For Winston,
of his father, he said he learned that
Atlanta, Greg Bradley was
helping the community he was born
honesty, integrity and respect are
living the life he always
and raised in came naturally.
necessary to succeed in business.
wanted — until he recognized the
Both father and son also loved the
“I respect him more than I respect
different life that he needed.
historically black institutions they
any other person,” he said.
He said God urged him to leave the
attended; Winston graduated from
While a lot of his affiliations mirror
corporate world and buy the local
Bethune-Cookman and Greg graduated
his father’s, the pair had different life
Gainesville Allstate agency that his
from Florida A&M. At their respective
experiences as well. Winston Bradley
father, the Rev. Winston Bradley,
schools, they said they proudly pledged
spent most of his life in Gainesville.
retired from about 20 years ago.
to the same fraternity, Omega Psi Phi.
He briefly lived in Cocoa, Florida,
Greg’s fate has resembled his
Out of all their commonalities, Greg
and a friend’s offer to become an
father’s many times throughout his
said their Christ-like values were
Allstate agent brought him back to his
life. Winston was a member of multiple
the most important. Because of his
hometown. In contrast, Greg Bradley
boards at Santa Fe College that Greg
Christian upbringing and the example
traveled nationally and internationally
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