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About The Coaches
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"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We're afraid."
"Come to the edge."
We can't. We will fall."
"Come to the edge."
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
--Guillaume Apollinaire
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Head Coach:
Rich “Pilgrim” Pellegrino Atlanta, GA
52; Father of and still raising Eight, Multi-Racial Children, in 25 yrs. of marriage to one Spouse.
- Professional Fields & Positions include: Counseling & Psychology, Business Management & Development, Sales & Marketing, Education, Accounting, Entrepreneur.
- Creative endeavors include: Author and Editor of numerous professional and faith-based articles, newspaper series, training materials, courses, and booklets; Producer and on air personality for faith based self-help radio & TV programs and series; Musician, talent promoter and marketer in entertainment industry; portion of life story was portrayed in a made for TV movie.
- Traveled extensively in Europe and Caribbean and lived in Caribbean for six years. Have lived and served in Native American Reservations, Urban and rural ghettos,
- Community service endeavors include: Founder and Director of several non-profit human service organizations, including Crisis & Referral Centers, Community Food Pantries, Women’s Shelter & Resource Center, Peer Counseling Programs in Schools and Colleges, Addiction Prevention and Treatment Clinics, Big Brother/Big Sister Program, Economic Development Cooperative, Faith-based Initiatives. Service on the boards of Homeless Shelter, Family Life Center, Community Associations, United Way Committees, Immigrant Assistance Agencies.
- Owned and operated various businesses, including consulting, manufacturing, HVAC, & high-tech. (Some are still ongoing.)
- Spiritual endeavors include: Taught Comparative Religion courses at Community College; Studied and embraced all of the world’s major religions and traditional native religions; Life-long study of all spiritual paths (ongoing); Unconditional Service to all people; Conducted workshops on many topics, teaching and learning.
- Major problem overcome: Substance Abuse Addictions.
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Coach: J. Richard Hoff , New Mexico
The great miracle in Richard's life was the transformation that Faith and using the Power of Attraction brought. He was born on an Iowa farm in 1930; his father was an alcoholic and his mother was in church 8 days per week. He got caught in the middle of these two extremes. Richard recalls: "I remember when I was in pre-school that I would spread my legs apart and slam my head into the floor time after time. I had been given a toy truck with a metal rack on the back, and when I was acting in one of my fits of violence I banged my head into the truck and blood was all over the room. That was a real blessing as it cured my head banging. I continued being a very violent child and even today I have to work at controlling it. When my mother died very unexpectedly when I was 11 years old, I started having Narcoleptic attacks that continue even today. No medication worked. I was told I could never drive a car because when one of these seizures
hits, it is as if I am asleep. When these attacks began I was 11, but I still decided that I would drive. I had been driving tractors and farm equipment plus cars since I was 8 on the farm. It seemed to me that not to drive would make me a cripple. The doctors say it is impossible to have driven all these years without an accident. Once my eyes close I drive with my subconscious mind. Then after time I gain consciousness while driving, and have never had an accident because of this. I believe in guardian angels. Still today I function well only 1/2 the time at best." In spite of all this Richard went on to set a world sales record in a company that had over 100,000 salesmen. He earned trips all over the world for his family, was designated by the Jay Douglas motivation organization as a "World Sales Giant", and was also recognized by Zig Ziglar. He became president of Kiwanis, is presently a Rotarian, and earned many other honors.
Richard recalls, "When I became a believer I shared my faith with everyone that I sold anything to. The sixth month that I was with Saladmaster, I was their top salesperson and earned a world trip to Paris and London. My manager's wife told me I could have done so much better if I would not spend so much time talking about my Faith. I asked, "You mean to say even though I was number one out of the USA and 14 foreign countries that I could have done better if I had not shared my Faith?" She replied yes. I guess she just didn’t understand the Power of Attraction and Faith.
"Today I have a wonderful wife of 42+ years who has been my mentor and salvation from my anger, three fantastic children, and spiritual children all over the world."
Richard concludes: "I share this personal information because some beautiful souls have said that it helps them to know that even after all these years and successes I still have to struggle and push myself to arise and teach and motivate others.
Richard still travels periodically to give his "Effective Teaching Workshop". His training has also inspired the development of a training course on effective teaching which has been facilitated around the country by trained tutors.
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Coach: Bransford "Brande" Watson, Dayton, OH
Some of the following biographical information was taken from "The International Who's Who of Professionals" and "Ebony Magazine":
Brande was born in 1933 in Richmond, VA, and raised in Marshall, TX. Much of his professional career and services were patterned after those of his spiritual guide, Mr. Louis G. Gregory, a distinguished member of the “Talented Tenth”, or the top 10% of African American society in the early 1900’s. Like Louis Gregory, Brande was deterred from pursuing a distinguished career in law and academia to audaciously promote the cause of the unity of the races and has traveled widely to spread his Faith and to promote racial amity--an activist in the truest sense of the word. Not coincidentally, he was the first Dean of the Louis Gregory Baha’i Institute in Hemingway, S. Carolina.
Professionally, some of Brande's accomplishments and positions have included: Adjunct Professor at Antioch College in Ohio (where he has also initiated and facilitated the "Healing the Races" dialogues); Professor @ Central State University; Regional Board Member of the National Conference of Community & Justice (formerly Nat. Conference of Christian and Jews); U.S. Dept. of Justice Community Relations Assistant in Texas during racial unrest and school integration; EEO Investigator in the Air Force; U.S. Army Paratrooper; N.A.I.A. Double Sprint Champion and National Record holder; Private Pilot; developer of an innovative new ethnic- heritage-centered history curriculum for public schools; voted one of the "Most Eligible Bachelors" in the U.S. by Ebony Magazine in 1966 (the caption under his picture in Ebony, which was next to pictures of such rising stars as Arthur Ashe and William "Willy" Williams, read : "Bransford Watson--Oklahoman, 32, is civilian employee at Tinker Air Force Base, managing worldwide distribution of Air Force material. He pilots a small plane, mostly in the service of his religious faith.")
Brande still travels extensively promoting his Faith and the oneness of humanity, including a trip through Russia and Siberia not long after the Iron Curtain came down.
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Coach: Howard Menking, West Virginia
Howard was born in 1925 of German-Lutheran parents in Indiana. He entered the U.S. Navy Air Cadet program in 1943 and was assigned to USS Vulcan AR5, serving in the Pacific during WWII. He was on the first U.S. ship to arrive in Hiroshima, Japan after end of WWII –and was in one of the first groups to set foot in the atomic bomb devastation, witnessing first hand the massive destruction associated with war. This greatly influenced him to undertake what became his life’s passion and work: promoting peace and oneness among all nations and peoples. Upon returning home Howard began a career in sales and business ownership and management. Throughout this career he has owned many businesses in various industries, including insurance and HVAC. 'Just as each of his enterprises was about to generate great wealth, Howard and his family would sacrifice everything in order to promote his Cause and Faith in humanity and move to a less developed country to assist in its development.
He has traveled around the world extensively and has lived in the Cape Verde Islands off Western Africa and Brazil, in both of which he aided the indigenous peoples to develop themselves.Howard still travels extensively and does teacher training workshops on how to communicate effectively through the heart and develop emotional intelligence.
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Coach: Alice Mahomes, Detroit, Michigan
- BS Occupational Therapy1980
- BA In Biblical Studies 2004
- Chaplain for Saint John/Providence and two other hospitals in Michigan 2002-2007
- Weekly radio program host on Forgiveness (WMKM 1440 @(8:00PM -8:30PM)2005-2007
- Conducts regular Forgiveness & Goal setting workshops with a touch of Intention.1995-2007
- Raised six children (now grown).
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