Jayden Crawford (Basketball, Georgia Southern University) grew up in Douglasville. HelloNation asks student athletes one question about the place that raised them and records the answer on camera. This is Jayden Crawford’s, in full.
The question
Name three small business owners in your community who have had a meaningful impact on others or inspired you personally. Who are they, and why do they stand out as a pillar of your community?
The answer, as recorded
Transcript. What follows is a transcript of the video above, in Jayden Crawford’s own words. It has not been rewritten, and no part of it was drafted for them.
Three small business owners in my community that has been a huge impact and has inspired me personally is Mr. Howard over construction, Mr. John over bait and tackle in Douglasville, and Mr. Sam over Boundary Waters gym. Those three stick out amongst the rest of my community because Mr. Sam, he always used to let me stay a little bit later than everybody else when everybody had to leave, and he just let me stay in the gym and just work out because he knew how bad I wanted it and wanted to go to the next level. So Mr. Sam is a big one. Mr. John over bait and tackle is another one just because when I used to go in there a lot because I fish a lot, he would always give me some good prices on certain jigs and different type of rods and stuff like that. So he was a major one. And Mr. Howard, he did a lot of business with my father and helped him with a lot of construction work and just going to the sites and seeing him work and just the man he is and the knowledge he has dropped on me amongst the years has made me a better businessman in the construction aspect.
Recorded by HelloNation as part of its athlete voices program and published by Hello Newswire, HelloNation’s good news newswire. The words are the speaker’s own.
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