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I'm your host, Vance Bradford, and our special guest is John Hartsfield. How're you doing, sir?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  0:13  \r\nI'm doing fine. And yourself?\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  0:14  \r\nI'm pretty good. Welcome. Glad to have you here.\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  0:17  \r\nGlad to be here.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  0:18  \r\nThank you sir. I tell you, we're gonna jump right into it, John, Okay? \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield 0:22\r\nYes, sir. \r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford 0:23\r\nAll right. Where were you born? \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  0:24  \r\nI was born originally in El Paso, Texas. And after high school, I went to Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. I played college basketball. Majored in criminal justice and health and physical education. I redshirted so I was there for five [years] so I double majored. And after that I graduated and I came here. Been here since 2005, and San Antonio is home for me now. \r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  0:49  \r\nOkay, good. Good deal. Okay, let's– let's back up before we get to San Antonio and talk about this college. So What position you played– you said basketball, right? \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  0:59  \r\nYeah, I was the point guard. \r\n\r\n\r\nUnknown Speaker  1:01  \r\nOkay, ran the team, huh?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  1:03  \r\nRan the team. “Extension of the coach on the floor.” That's what they like to say about the point guard.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  1:08  \r\nOkay, but let's talk– did you have handles?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  1:11  \r\nHad handles and I can– I can shoot the ball. \r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford 1:15\r\nYou can shoot?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield 1:16\r\nI can shoot the lights out the ball.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  1:17  \r\nOh, okay. Okay, like a Isaiah Thomas, you know, kind of point guards or–\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield 1:21\r\nMore of like a Chauncey Billups type. \r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford 1:24\r\nI like Chauncey. Very good. Yeah. Good choice, man. Good choice of pattern. Great deal. Okay. So, okay, you had a double– you double majored and everything. Okay. And then you got here to San Antonio. I'll tell you what. So, when you get here– what do you do now? \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  1:41  \r\nRight now, I have a non for profit, and a for profit. So the non for profit is called Icon to Ican. I'm one of the founding members. There's three other partners. John Burns, he's an entertainment attorney. He's from here, locally. Michael Burns, he's in the financial space in New York. And then also Dr. Rudyard Hilliard. So we started the nonprofit because we truly come from the fabric of this community, and we truly want to give back. And we truly feel to whom much is given much is required. And we have a responsibility, as young men that have achieved– achieved a level of success, to pay it forward and be mentors for the next generation. So we started Icon to I Can to create mentorship and empowerment programs for underserved youth and underserved community. And within that we have different initiatives from our mentorship program, we're going into our third year, sixth, seventh and eighth grade at MLK Academy, where we bring in what we call everyday icons. Different people from different levels of success, different backgrounds, different jobs. And what they do is they all come in every Monday, we'll bring in a different icon, someone like yourself, talk about your current profession, obstacles that you may have overcame in your life, and the opportunities that are readily available. Because we want those kids to know that, you know, outside of what they teach you in school, there's so many other opportunities. I didn't know growing up that you can be in advertising or you can be in construction, or you can be in custom home building. I mean, what they teach you in school is you can be a doctor or lawyer, professional athlete, entertainer, which is not likely, or a school teacher. But they don't teach you about the many different opportunities that are available. So we just try to expose them to that at a early age.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  3:41  \r\nWow, sounds great. Good. So do you have programs out– in like San Antonio, any– any, you said MLK [Academy]--\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  3:49  \r\nYeah, so we have our mentorship program at MLK Academy. And then we have haircuts for the homeless where every third Sunday of each month, we cut anywhere from sixty five to a hundred homeless. We provide them a free hot meal, medical attention. We've been doing that for the past eighteen months. In addition to that we have a annual Thanksgiving drive where we feed about a thousand families, we’ll provide them with a Thanksgiving meal. Christmas time we– we do annual toy drives, where we provide toys for underse– underserved kids. Kids that are in children's home shelters that don't have opportunities to open a gift, we'll provide that for them as well. And then just recently, we started an initiative where we're raising each August, from August fifteenth to September fifteenth of each year, we raise a thousand shoes and we give them to the underserved kids in Senegal because they're playing sports and they're walking around barefoot. So we just raise a thousand sneakers and we give it back to the underserved in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\nUnknown Speaker  5:03  \r\nOkay, is there a particular reason you chose Senegal? \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  5:07  \r\nUm, yes. One of my good friends, Timothy Cabaret [Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot], he's from Senegal, and he's here in this community now. And he was just telling me one day about, you know, the kids that are playing sports, and they're walking around barefooted, and they don't have a opportunity– really, they're at a disadvantage, because they're, they're playing sports, and they're trying to be engaged, but they don't have, you know, things that we take for granted– sneakers. You know, we have, you know, a plethora of sneakers that we don't even use. So he was like, you know, “Can we just go ahead and use the platform that we've been blessed with to raise some shoes to give back to the underserved?” And that's what we've done. \r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  5:49  \r\nWow, that's impressive. \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield 5:51\r\nThank you. \r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford 5:52\r\nYes, sir. Changing up a little bit. Let me ask you this: So why did you, you know, feel to– choose this path, to go down this path? \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  6:02  \r\nYeah, so truly, I've– I've been, since I've graduated college, I've been in the philanthropic space. I sit on various different boards from the Ferrari Kids, the kids battling cancer. Breaking down walls, we use the power of– of sports to help the mind, body, and soul of the under– underprivileged kids that don't have a opportunity to come to a athletic sports camp. And then we tap into our relationships and bring in a celebrity professional athlete that will cheer them on, be a part of the camp and, you know– Everyday celebrities that they look up to see on TV, they're– they're able to be a part of these camps, and really reach out and touch, you know, their– their celebrity or hero that– somebody that they look up to. So I truly felt that God was calling me to do so much more than start my own. And so then my partner, John Burns, he's an entertainment attorney in DC. So I remember two years ago, his grandmother passed away. And we were just sitting down having dinner after the funeral, and he was like, “You've helped, you know, have camps for the underserved, used your relationships with some of the biggest names in the NBA, NFL, I've represented some of the biggest names in hip hop, what if we were to come together and do something special and create a speaker series, an empowerment inspiring speaker series to really give back?” And I said, “Yeah, no, that– that has legs to it, but at the same time, I feel that you know, we have a responsibility as being people of– of success to to really give back to the youth, because truly the youth are our future.” And so I've told them that there has to be a philanthropic and nonprofit component to that and so then we started Icon to Ican around our speaker series Icon Talks.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  8:06  \r\nWow, that's impressive. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, John, very good. Well, let's let's do some lighter stuff here, man, because there's a lot of information and you threw out a lot of good nuggets. I've been calling them nuggets. [laughs] Let’s– let’s lighten up a little bit and– since you play ball, you know. Spurs fan now? Since you've been here since 2005. \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield 8:30\r\nAbsolutely. I'm a Spurs fan, a diehard.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford 8:33 \r\nDiehard, huh?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield 8:34\r\nDiehard Spurs fan.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford 8:35\r\nWell, you look like you're still in shape. Do you still play? \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  8:37  \r\nYes, I do, occasionally. I mean, it’s– it’s one of the great ways to stay in shape. You know, great cardio. So I play about three to four times a week.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  8:48  \r\nOkay. Okay. Okay, good. Good. Now tell me something: what do you like about San Antonio?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  8:56  \r\nI truly tell people it's the greatest city in the world. I'm biased, but I truly believe it's– it's an incredible city in terms of the cost of living. You can live great here. It's a great place to raise a family. There's not a lot of crime, so on and so forth. It’s really family-oriented. Everybody's friendly. And being a business owner, there's so much opportunity and growth here in San Antonio. And it's not really like a big city like a metropolitan city, like a Dallas or a Houston to where you will get lost, but at the same time, it's not a small city as well. There's– there's just enough to do and it’s– it’s truly one of the hidden gems, I call it, in the world. It’s the greatest city in the world to me.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  9:45  \r\nOkay, okay. Now. What do you think is your greatest contribution you've– to San Antonio, that you've given to San Antonio?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  9:58  \r\nMy– truly my service. ‘Cause I truly feel the greatest gift one can give is that of oneself for the betterment of others. And that's truly what I, I live my life by. And, you know, reach a– reach a hand back to pull another up. And so I will truly say my biggest contribution, and what I would like to be remembered for, is, “He truly was one to serve, serve others.”\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  10:25  \r\nOkay, good, good. So I see you give back to the community with your– your programs, there's such, you know, tremendous– too many stories. Let me ask you this: why do you feel it’s important that we tell our stories as African Americans?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  10:47  \r\nBecause I truly believe that no matter your demographic success level, where you came from, everybody has a story. And I tell the kids all the time, it's not about when adversity hits, it's about how do you respond to adversity, in adverse situations. And a lot of times perception is not always reality. You know, you'll see people that have reached a level of success. And, you know, people say, “Oh, well, I wish I had their life.” And so on and so forth. But you don't know what they're going through behind closed doors. And you have to truly let your– let your story be your testimony. And that's truly why we bring in mentors every single week to speak to these kids and let them know, “Yes, they're successful people, and people you look up to, but they've been faced with adversity, adverse situation, and was able to overcome, and so too can you. Maybe your situation may be dim or bleak right now. But that's not your final destination. And you can overcome that to achieve great things.”\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  11:52  \r\nIf you had to throw out, say, one nugget. You said, a young– young kid out there that– that’s searching or– or, no, no, no, take that back. A parent, maybe. That's– that's in need? Or, you know, what would you say to them to get them started? Or– or– and also talk to the kids, how would you–? \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  12:13  \r\nYeah, you know, I would just say never, never give up faith and belief in God. With God, you know, if God is for you, nobody will be against you. And– and always believe in yourself. Because with those two components, if you have faith in God and belief in oneself, you truly can accomplish anything. And a lot of times in life, people will give up on themselves before they– they were able to get that big breakthrough. But if– and I tell everyone-- if you– if you have that component of belief in God, never waver in your faith, and belief in oneself and you put in the work, and you never quit, you can never fail. You’ll– you’ll eventually knock down that hurdle, get over that hurdle, walk through that door, and achieve your goals and dreams.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  13:04  \r\nOkay, what do you think would, you know, could take your nonprofit to another level?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  13:09  \r\nYeah, we're right now funding sponsorship dollars, we're in need of sponsorship dollars, because we have created these initiatives. And with that, takes money. And we are a nonprofit, so we're always in– in need of sponsorship dollars, volunteers for the initiatives. And you can go to our website, www.Icontalks.com, for more information on how to sponsor the various different events, and how to get involved with our initiatives.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  13:41  \r\nSo is that the website if you, you know, we want– people want to have their kids come being mentored or come, you know, be part of your program?\r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartsfield  13:49  \r\nAbsolute– Absolutely. There– there would– at that website, it’ll talk about our foundation as well, how to get involved. If– if you would like your kid to be mentored, all that information is on our website at www.Icontalks.com.\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  14:07  \r\nIcontalks.com. \r\n\r\n\r\nJohn Hartfield 14:09\r\nYes, sir. \r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford 14:10\r\nWell, John, it's been a great interview, man, you have dropped some– some serious nuggets for people. And then I wish you guys and your organization much success. \r\nJohn Hartsfield  14:24  \r\nDefinitely. And we are having our next Icon Talks event here locally in San Antonio, on November 12th. It will be at the Tobin Center within the next two weeks. Tickets will go on sale, you can get ‘em at www.tobincenter.org or www.Icontalks.com\r\n\r\n\r\nVance Bradford  14:45  \r\nOkay, well, well, there you have it. Another edition of 300 Voices in 300 Days. I'm your host, Vance Bradford, and our special guest, John Hartfield [sic]. 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