A Mentor Saw The Teacher In Me Before I Did

Welcome From Myrtle Beach

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Welcome to Spotlight for Success by American Book Company. I am Devin Pentosi, your host. We're here in sunny Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at the Scabsey Conference. And we're here with our special guest, Taris Hoogie. How are you doing? Hey Taris, thank you for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Yes.

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Thank you for having me.

Why He Came To Scabsey

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Yes. Taris, tell me a bit about what brings you here to Scabsy.

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Mainly trying to find out a little more about what I can do and different ideas to to heighten what we call education, but making it a personal thing so I can add my influence rightfully. Yeah.

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Okay. Yes, sir. That's wonderful. Are there any specif uh specific uh sessions you're interested in? You're like, oh yeah, I want I want to find out more about this.

A Mentor’s Push Into Teaching

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I'm open. Yeah. I'm super open, and uh I just I just solidified my uh my registration so I was able to see all the different shops or whatever. So I hadn't really like sift through to see what I wanted to do or whatever, but it's a lot.

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Yeah, there sure is. It's a lot. What what brought you into deciding you were gonna go into education as a career?

Music Industry Lessons On Work Ethic

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I I can't even blame it all on me. Um Mr. Richie, Cedric Richie, he saw something in me and um he asked some questions that solidified that I need to be in education. So he's like, yo, we need you because you actually care, and that was the main thing.

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Oh, that's awesome. Yes, sir. Uh can you tell us a bit about your uh other career? I understand you've been working in music.

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Yeah, I've been working in music, working in music for roughly 20 some odd years. Wow. Uh to not give praise to anybody else's stuff. I'll say I learned what not to do. And when I learned it, I learned you don't really need a label per se. I think they're um they're necessary when it comes down to your stuff being in order, but if it's not in order, you can have a work ethic and get just as much done as a record maker. But you gotta have a work ethic.

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Oh yeah, work ethic is so important.

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Yes, sir.

Collaboration And Giving Back

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Uh that's great. Um I understand that you uh both write and sing, is that correct?

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Yes, sir. Um Bluegrass, uh what we call Southern Souls, soul music, uh gospel. I I have a very strong um, I have a very strong group of people around me or whatever, so I have so much when it comes down to different styles. So I was able to learn from every every color code of life what it is to express yourself.

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Oh, that is so great. Yeah, man. I bet you've worked with some uh great talents over the ages.

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I work with some dope people, man, and uh at the end of the day, I just think, you know what? I like I tell my kids, I tell the kids at school, you are the dopest. But you have to add that to somebody else's dopness to make it dope. Oh, okay.

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It's all about collaboration, yeah, working together.

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Reciprocation, and it's all good when you can uh share something that somebody's given. It's just hard when nobody's giving anything.

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Yes, yes, you have to give.

Mentoring Parents And Closing

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You have to, yes, sir.

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Uh Cedric, uh, do you have anything you'd like to share with the Scab C community?

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Uh Scab C, I'm here. Um, my name is Taurus UG. If I can do anything, uh advice, I uh I mentor kids as well. However, I mentor with the parents and not kids individually, and I try to make myself available. So, Taurus Uji, I'm at Excel Academy, uh a very um strong community of teachers and uh and staff that really care about the kids. Thank you. Thank you so much, Taurus. Great seeing you. Appreciate you, brother. Take care. Yes, sir. I'll see you again.

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Bye bye,