3 Keys for Your Journey
Business and Community Leaders sharing key principles.
3 Keys for Your Journey
Discovering Three Keys: Inspiration for the podcast with Greg T. Jones
What significance do three mysterious keys found during a casual walk hold for our life's journey? This episode of "Three Keys for Your Journey" kicks off with a reflection on a personal experience that ignited a passion for community, integrity, and meaningful change. Host Greg T. Jones, celebrating both his birthday and the podcast's launch, invites listeners into a narrative that intertwines these principles with the stories of those who embody them. From everyday heroes to business and community leaders, the podcast sheds light on the powerful impact these values can have, not just in professional spheres but within families and neighborhoods too.
As a dedicated family man, Greg shares insights on how familial bonds and traditions form the cornerstone of our communities. He emphasizes the joy and fulfillment found in celebrating life with loved ones, drawing from his own experiences with his wife, children, and extended family. This episode promises inspiration through compelling stories and the recognition that success is often rooted in ordinary moments. Dive into heartfelt narratives that encourage listeners to find and cherish their own keys to a fulfilled life, whether at home, work, or beyond.
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Thank you. Business owners share invaluable insights and empowering strategies to guide you towards success. Based in Oklahoma City, our host, Greg T Jones, will inspire and motivate you every week. Get ready to join our conversation as we build community together.
Speaker 2:Hello everybody and welcome to Three Keys for your Journey podcast, and I'm your host, greg Jones man. It is a pleasure to be here and I just thought that today's a special day. We are launching our podcast. The day is December the 10th happens to be my birthday and I thought that it would be fitting just to give you a little bit of background about how Three Keys for your Journey kind of came about, a little bit about me, my background and what this podcast is really all about.
Speaker 2:This podcast is really centered around really three principles, and one of them is community that if you think about all shades of people, particularly BIPOC folks, what do we have in common? We've got to find that. We've got to find common ground. There's so many things that have been set in place to divide us. How do we find common ground? And so one of the things is community and on this podcast my hope is to interview business leaders, community leaders, people that are in the community doing the work. They stand for something, they have character, they have a level of integrity about themselves and really want to make a difference. And when I say make a difference, I'm not talking necessarily on a large scale, I'm talking about at home, in their families. I'm talking about in their church community, I'm talking about in their schools. I'm talking about just being a parent, being a coworker. I'm looking for those individuals and this podcast is really to highlight things that they deem key journeys in their own lives.
Speaker 2:Back in 2016, I had this habit of walking through the community and one day I was walking and found a key. It was very interesting. It stood out, it was a silver key and I picked it up. Is this somebody's house key? Is it a car key? I wasn't sure it was rusted. It was bent a little bit like it had been run over, but it was just intriguing to me what this key meant. I walked a little further and I know maybe it was another 50 or 75 yards, and there was another key, was another key? This one was gold, and I picked it up. Okay, lord has this way of kind of walk when I'm walking to kind of give me things. And then I found a third key over the bridge and I go man, what is it about these keys? Anyway, I held these keys in my hand, continued my walk, came home and I begin to think about three keys. What are these three keys mean.
Speaker 2:And for you out there listening to this podcast, hope is that you will be inspired. You'll be encouraged not only by the stories that you hear, but by the examples that people are and by their life and by their examples and by them sharing the stories. And so what I've learned is that over the years, I've been privileged to work in various areas of community and various organizations and have a sphere of influence. We call that Metron, a measure of rule, and so I want to leverage that and I want to create a platform for those that can hear and to learn to be encouraged. So that's the goal three keys for your journey.
Speaker 2:A couple of things I want to point out. Secondly, big family person. So when I think about my family not only my immediate family big family person. So when I think about my family, not only my immediate family, my wife and my wonderful three young adult children my extended family goes back to my parents and grandparents. It goes back to my mom's and my wife's parents and grandparents.
Speaker 2:And you know sitting around and enjoying holidays together and celebrating one another and celebrating accomplishments, joking and laughing and having a good time. And you know some annual traditions that we do Mother's Day, the fathers, dads, celebrate moms by serving dinner and treating them like the queens they are. And then Father's Day comes around and they return the favor and it's always a nice little competition, you know, whether it's the church, family and serving the local community and giving radically and giving of ourselves, and whether it's, you know, showing up for Youth Sunday or it's ushering on the door, or it's setting up for a specific service, or just participating in our praise and worship, whatever the case might be, in our praise and worship, whatever the case might be Just understanding what family and community actually means. Sharing a meal together, having Bible study together, all these things are so significant. You know, one of the other keys that I think about is our influence wherever we are. So, whether I'm on my job or I'm serving in an organization, being able to give someone an encouraging and uplifting word.
Speaker 2:It means so much because in my life I'll never forget when I was 13 years old, sitting in Channel 5 in a little seat and I'm looking at a lady at that time who is still here Beverly Glover. Bj Glover and she was a newscaster and had this show on Saturday mornings called the Saturday Review, and I raised my hand and asked a question and thought one day, what would it be like to be like her? Identified her immediately as one of my first mentors. You all go along and now I'm in college and still living today as well. Miss Dinaveta Davis and taking a library science class and I tell this story all the time where you know, walked in this is going to be an easy elective. And one of the first things she says I think this is going to be an easy class.
Speaker 2:It's not going to be an easy class and still get a chance to work alongside her just today, I mean and the wisdoms that I've been able to learn from someone like Ms Davis. So I just think you know, when I think about this podcast and the opportunity that we have with Three Keys for your Journey, I want you to be inspired, I want you to be encouraged, share your story, your wisdoms. This is not going to be a podcast. That's going to be, you know, 45 minutes to an hour. We're going to have segments that are going to be fairly short, somewhere between, you know, 15, maybe 20 minutes, where the story gets told, gets shared, it's digitized on a platform It'll be launching on our website, which is going to be ocfoinfo, and that's where the podcast will actually live. We will actually have fan mail so people can actually write us, let us know what they think, give us ideas how we can actually improve the show. So I just wanted to give you a little bit of background about Three Keys for your Journey. It started way back in 2016. I found these three keys and, you know, oftentimes in my church family I would have an opportunity to speak every once in a while and it was always three points and I would always say there's three keys. And here we are now, in 2024, seeing fit to launch this podcast is going to actually help to spread what good nuggets we have within our own communities and across this world and nation.
Speaker 2:And so, again, I hope that you are encouraged by this. I hope this gives you some life at the end of the tunnel. Remember, life is a journey. We only have one life to live and our life is short. I'm also reminded my first job was at 15 and a half years old, at Beechler's IGA, and I remember that I got a little tag, a little name tag, and it said here to help you. And I think about that. And you know, I think about years ago when I was thinking about I think it was at working with the Black Chamber and I wanted to start some kind of minority business resource network. And now there's such good work going on across our cities and our nations, but you got to be a part of it.
Speaker 2:And so I encourage you, see where you have interest, take some time out each and every day to talk to somebody, to encourage somebody, to lift someone up. Don't be afraid to go into your pocket, spend some money with a business that you know you can support, an organization that you can support, support. Spend some time doing the things that are meaningful within your community, because each one can teach one. And my last point would be make every moment count. And that just means that our life is short. We don't have control of when our life is going to end. We didn't have control when it started. We sure don't have control when it ends. So make every moment count. Again, I'm your host, greg Jones. I just look forward to this journey with you, so let's have some fun together.
Speaker 1:See you next time thanks for joining three keys for your journey. Tune in next time for another episode.
