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“A Relentless Drive To Make Things Better For Others” with Pat Lawler
My guest this week is Pat Lawler. Pat is the CEO of Youth Villages. Founded in 1986 with the merger of two Memphis-based residential campuses, Youth Villages is now a nationally recognized leader in the field of children’s mental and behavioral health. From the early days of serving just 80 children a year, we’ve since grown to help tens of thousands of children, families and young people annually, with a complete continuum of programs and services across 24 states and 100 locations.
RECAP
3:00 My Father, where did this come from?
4:56 What drew me in?
6:39 You don’t want to sell tools do you?-- intro?
7:35 Gone back to school
8:13 Drawn to the kids with the biggest problems
8:50 Driven to get to the root
9:15 How to help people with the biggest problems
9:49 What caused these conditions?
13:37 Generational change. Always sticking up
15:27 Learning to be a good parent. Ups and Downs
19:07 Commitment to overcome what comes your way
19:56 Persistent until we get your support
20:50 Research, data, exhaust all options- no turning back
21:20 Not be deterred
21:38 The hardest thing is to change the way people think
22:25 Obsessive compulsive gene
23:05 Thousands of kids and families
24:18 The burden- the passion, the drive, the momentum, the enthusiasm, and the excitement
25:00 Clearly defined and measurable goals, hold accountable, talk experts and data
25:42 Relentless drive to make things better for other people
27:09 Horrible abuse, neglect that scars young people
28:20 Your passionate
29:28 Not now, maybe later. Failure with young people, what did we learn and do it differently learning and experience
31:30 We all need a support system- family is critical and data
32:50 They asked me to quietly close it down-- intro? 33:06
36:20 Pivot, change to support families
39:30 Peer group is key creating change
41:00 I couldn’t do other work
41:20 For the bad there is a thousand more good. Balance work and personal life
42:50 Be open to change, open to where other people are coming from, bring people along slowly, engaged in the process
48:45 The courage to try it
49:05 Committed and passionate- small steps impact their life
50:41 I don’t want to hear about your successes, I want to hear about your failures
57:29 Scaling that problem
56:14 Memphis, TN Murder rate is a serious problem
58:53 Data collecting around the country and scale. Meet needs and replicate it
1:00:13 Make it a safe place for people to live
1:00:55 Deaths across the country are overwhelming/ safe place for kids to grow up in
1:01:43 If people don’t have the opportunity to earn money they turn to crime
1:02:15 Very few cities have put together a comprehensive plan
1:03:55 I know we can do it. We will learn lessons align the way
1:04:51 Giving people hope and meaning into their life
1:07:40 we had passion but no expertise. We needed advice and counsel. These supports could read a balance sheet, help organizational chart, forecast a budget, could help us solve that specific problem and raised money before
1:10:14 Just excited today as I was 41 years ago and I still have that passion and commitment
1:11:00 Moving the organization forward. We need to identify the people that need us
1:12:18 We need to understand the capacity of the problem and scale it to meet the needs
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