"Part 3: Listen to What the Heroes Think About the In Search Of Heroes Program and Its Impact On Youth, Parents and Business People" by Ralph Zuranski
Willie Crawford: I love the whole concept because the youth of today are going to be our leaders of tomorrow, and anything we can do to shape their minds to set positive examples is valuable. Television is too willing to provide negative examples and that is partly because of what people want.
There is this side of humanity that you know when you drive past an accident we rubberneck and gawk and try to see who was killed or whatever. There is a part of us that wants to see tragedy, but there is a part of us that wants to know that man is basically good and wants proof of that.
The greatest impact that I can have and most of us can have is to provide positive examples, positive role models, showing that a future spokesman focuses on helping others. If you help enough people get what they want you will get what you want. If we just focus on helping others, life will work out in your favor. It will.
Jeff Dedrick: I think it can have a huge impact. As I understand, you are going to be expanding this into other areas, or possibly people are listening to this it’s already expanded into a lot of different areas. If people can find a hero that they can relate to, be it outside of Internet marketing, in different businesses, if it’s in different areas, if they can relate be it, if it’s a female or a male of different races, that’s what’s going to be great.
To expand this to include more and more people it’s just a better chance that people are going to be able to relate. They are going to be able to realize that they can change or they can make a difference in their own lives.
They don’t realize that.
I don’t want to name celebrities but some of them are so messed up, but people are hanging on their every word or looking at "People Magazine" or "Us" or whatever the magazines are in the newsstand as though these guys are experts on anything. All they are doing is maybe singing songs or making movies and that’s it. Otherwise they are screwed up.
Joe Polish: Here’s the truth. I don’t know much about it. Although from the times that I’ve met with you and when I see what you’re doing, knowing very little about all you’re doing, I think it’s fabulous.
Whenever you can sit down and have conversations with people that can encourage others and give them direction and your motivation is to help children, to me, that’s very positive. I think everyone that would pursue anything along those lines is adding a lot of value to the world and is doing a lot of great things. I really hope that your "Heroes Program" does help a lot of people and gets a lot of messages out that, you know as well as I do, aren’t being broadcast by the news media.
to be continued...