The Lion's Roundtable (Guests: Stephanie Fendlason & Trea Coxen)
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Todd Delaney:Discussing topics of interest to the university, Hammond and the surrounding communities. This is the Lions Roundtable. Now, here's your host, Doctor. Amber Narrow.
Dr. Amber Narro:Good day. Good day. This is Amber Narro on KSLU's ninety point nine FM, the Lion. I'm here at the Lions Roundtable today with two friends. I've got two great friends here with Leadership
Dr. Amber Narro:They're gonna tell us what's going on with leadership, what they did, what how they participated in the program this month. I've got with me Stephanie Fendlason from North Shore Broadcasting and Trea Coxen from Tangi Tourism. They're going to chat with me about things, all things, Leadership Welcome. So glad to have y'all.
Dr. Amber Narro:The information that was told to you, but we're gonna talk a little bit about you first this time, and where are you from, who's your mama, what's going on. Trey, this is our first meeting. I've never seen your face before.
Trea Coxen:Yes.
Dr. Amber Narro:Who you is?
Trea Coxen:So I am Trea Coxen from Amite. I work with Tangi Tourism, like you said. I've been there for about six months now and absolutely love it. Love representing the best parish in the state.
Dr. Amber Narro:There you go. Yeah. Alright. So what is your job at Tangi Tourism?
Trea Coxen:So I am the sports development manager.
Dr. Amber Narro:The sports development manager. Yes.
Trea Coxen:So, we're trying to build Tangie Tourism. Build sports in the parish, helping all the local parks. We work with Southeastern and all the high schools. So.
Dr. Amber Narro:Love it. Love it. Well, we're so glad to have you. So what what's your background that that gets you into that area of
Trea Coxen:So I previously worked at Oak Forest in Amy. Nice. And I was a coach and the events coordinator there, so it kinda all balanced out to what we do at Tangie Tourism and then on the sports side, it was it kinda worked out great and blessed to be a part of the the family over there.
Dr. Amber Narro:Well, we've got some sports trading going on, I think, from Southeastern to Oak Forest and what not. Drew Mesita's over there. Just doing some excellent work.
Trea Coxen:Yes. So, we have two current alumni on the football team. Yeah. One on the basketball team and then one signed, a senior signed to come next year.
Dr. Amber Narro:So, it's I love it. I love it. I love it. Alright. So, tell me about Tangie Tourism and how we are kind of growing that sports industry in Tangie Po Parish, working with people.
Dr. Amber Narro:You know, you're talking about working with high schools and and Southeastern, but I'm betting some of those, like, traveling sports things
Trea Coxen:coming through here as well. We have unbelievable parks in our parish from the North End to the South End, and we are trying to come together and make sure that all the parks know we are here to support them. Some people just say, oh, we have Chappapilla. We have Chappapilla. We have Ham in America.
Trea Coxen:We have Pards. That's all local here in the South End.
Dr. Amber Narro:Right.
Trea Coxen:We have Neola Sports Park. We have Kentwood The League Park up there.
Dr. Amber Narro:Tell me about it.
Trea Coxen:It's just so many things we have in the parish and not only for baseball and softball, we have the racetracks for motocross. We have all of the basketball. We have we have tons of stuff here in parish that people now see and they're coming in in droves. So, it's it's awesome.
Dr. Amber Narro:You just spoke to my heart. You know, a long time ago, my dad was a dirt car racer. Did y'all have no any idea? No. Okay.
Dr. Amber Narro:So, my dad has Acorn Transmission in in Amy.
Trea Coxen:Really. Know that.
Dr. Amber Narro:That's my daddy. Know that. Okay. That's my daddy. And little English guy, right?
Dr. Amber Narro:And he had TJs. It was a box racing car and we we did that in LaRanger for years and years. I mean, I grew up at the racetrack. Yeah. So, so fun.
Dr. Amber Narro:That is so fun. Is. We got in so much trouble. You know, our parents were like in in the pit, in the bike bike behind the scenes and whatnot and we were like, you know, throwing mud in the stands and all
Trea Coxen:kinds. Gotta have fun with it, you
Dr. Amber Narro:know? Yeah, it was great. It was unbelievable. So, they've got a lot of that stuff going on still in the north end of the parish though because I'm I like especially with kind of ATV kind of stuff going on
Trea Coxen:as well. Yeah. Motorbikes and stuff like that. It is there's a track in Kentwood. There's a track in Roseland.
Trea Coxen:There's a track. LaRonja. LaRonja.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. Yeah.
Trea Coxen:Very good. It's not. Well, LaRonja Hammond, I don't. Yeah. It's kinda in the middle of LaRonja and Hammond.
Dr. Amber Narro:Kinda in that Robert. Is it is that where
Trea Coxen:it? Well. Remembering? It's that way. I don't know.
Trea Coxen:Some people call it Hammond, some people call it Oranja, and you could probably call it Robert too. So. Yeah. Just, it's a great location because they have the South End, easy to get there, the North End, easy to get there. Yeah.
Trea Coxen:And then, you've our visiting parish from Saint Sam's. Could get there easy. So, it's a great location.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed. Love that. Alright. So Stephanie. Fendelson.
Dr. Amber Narro:My Stephanie. From North Shore Broadcasting. North Shore Broadcasting, just to remind our audience, hosted this show for about three three years, for us to continue to go live and be able to talk to people kinda on the spot while D. Vickers was, getting rebuilt and and reimagined for this beautiful space that it is now. Stephanie, you are with North Shore Broadcasting. I got the pleasure of seeing you every Thursday and Friday morning for about three years.
Dr. Amber Narro:So tell me about your job, what you do there, and why you're experiencing leadership change for how long?
Stephanie Fendlason:Well, I've been with North Shore Broadcasting fixing to be eight years next Girl. Eight years. Yeah. I went and recalculated to make sure I was right. I do the bookkeeping, the billing, traffic, that kind of stuff.
Stephanie Fendlason:Brian was the one who recommended me for doing Leadership Tangipahoa, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. We go place to place. Leadership Tangible Ho is a great opportunity to find out more behind the scenes stuff, I think, that you think you know your parish but really
Trea Coxen:You don't.
Stephanie Fendlason:You don't know your parish, am I right?
Dr. Amber Narro:So you're a local girl then.
Stephanie Fendlason:I actually am a Mississippi girl. I've been over
Dr. Amber Narro:What here time and for ten probably years? As yours.
Stephanie Fendlason:Yeah, but I've been here long enough to say Tangipahoa is mine. I've been here about thirty six years. Yeah. Long time. We're not gonna say my age.
Stephanie Fendlason:We're gonna leave it at that.
Dr. Amber Narro:Well, you're one of those folks I always like to say though. Tangipahoa Parish is really good about about putting up the prison walls when we get good people and saying y'all need to stay, you know? We're very welcoming bunch Welcoming folks who are awesome.
Trea Coxen:Exactly. We hold on to you.
Dr. Amber Narro:Hold on. Yeah. We say, they look good. We're gonna keep them here. So That's right.
Dr. Amber Narro:We're gonna try to keep our smart people pinned in. Right? Nice and smart people. We like them in Tanishville Parish, so glad we're having you here.
Stephanie Fendlason:Thank you. Thank you.
Dr. Amber Narro:Excellent. Excellent. Stephanie, why do you think it's so important for you? You're kind of a behind the scenes person. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:Right. People come to you and see why is it important for you to make that network for for your organization when you are so behind the scenes with your bookkeeping and and and management and you are a wonderful you are so good. People love you so much at North Shore Broadcasting. And and it it you know, obviously, you're you're the keeper of the paychecks and the and the whole thing. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:Why is it important The gatekeeper. Yeah. Absolutely. Why is it important for you to network?
Stephanie Fendlason:I think with networking like we're doing, you know, first of all, I've met so many amazing people. I didn't know Trey before all this
Trea Coxen:except See her sometimes when I go to the
Stephanie Fendlason:radio station to do interviews and stuff, would see them all. But I think it it gives you that connection as far as networking as far as I go, that then if I have to call on somebody for something or if somebody last minute needs something changed or added at the station, then that's always a plus too. And they're like, oh, well, let me just call Stephanie. Like, I call I sent you a text message. I didn't know where to go today.
Stephanie Fendlason:Mhmm. I'm like, Amber, where do I go?
Dr. Amber Narro:And she was in exactly the right spot. Thank you much. Yeah. Is that
Stephanie Fendlason:where you wanted us? Yeah.
Trea Coxen:And see, I'm glad I met her because she had your number, so I was in the right spot with her.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed. And that's what the network is all about.
Stephanie Fendlason:Right? I mean, the networking, the people that you're meeting, all of the new friendships you're building, I think, is a huge thing.
Trea Coxen:It is.
Stephanie Fendlason:You're building a lot of new friendships that if you think about something, oh, well let me call such and such for that, or let me reach out to such and such for that, which I think is a plus.
Trea Coxen:Just like this morning we were talking about a huge network is the Southeastern Police Department has a member in our class. Mhmm. So we're like, hey, we don't know where to go, and she told us, hey, go to the this and then park here, and so Southeastern's parking is not for the public to know. I mean
Stephanie Fendlason:Not for the faint outside people. Okay.
Dr. Amber Narro:Not for the faint of heart.
Trea Coxen:So having her as well.
Dr. Amber Narro:Visitor parking. We we do. Yeah.
Stephanie Fendlason:We have lovely visitor parking. There's visitor parking but I don't have that little thing on my windshield this morning.
Trea Coxen:I do.
Stephanie Fendlason:But Trey does, okay? He went and got his little parking pass. So, let's hope.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. If you're a visitor, we'll take care
Stephanie Fendlason:of it. Okay. Well, good. I'll go turn in my ticket if I should get one.
Dr. Amber Narro:We like people to visit Southeastern come and see us.
Stephanie Fendlason:It's beautiful. It is gorgeous, isn't it? This is unreal. Isn't it? It's beautiful.
Trea Coxen:This building is absolutely beautiful.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. I'll take you on a little back A tour? A little backstage tour in just a second to show you some of the other things that if you're impressed by this room, you just wait.
Trea Coxen:I got to tour it right before they opened it, so they were still doing construction. It is
Dr. Amber Narro:Oh, wow.
Trea Coxen:If if the public has not seen it and they have the opportunity, they need to come see it.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. Well, I'll let you take Stephanie on the tour then.
Trea Coxen:Oh, no. No. No. No. I wanna see your side of it.
Dr. Amber Narro:Cool. This this month, where did y'all go?
Trea Coxen:So we did criminal justice this month. We got to go
Stephanie Fendlason:We started out the the district attorney.
Trea Coxen:Correct. So we saw a lot and everybody's eyes were open to what actually happens. And like she said, we started out with Judge Abel's, DA, Scott Paralew, and then we started different tours and we started with the sheriff's department and they showed us everything they do from the dog trainings.
Dr. Amber Narro:Oh,
Trea Coxen:yeah. To the horse, the mounted division, and then the boated division. It's not called boated division but Maritime. Yeah. Maritime.
Trea Coxen:Maritime. And then, they had different officers come in and then we got to hear from the sheriff. It was eye It really was.
Dr. Amber Narro:And why? You can't use a word like eye opening and then tell not tell me why.
Trea Coxen:So I'm just gonna say people need to talk to people that work with the sheriff's department and hear their thoughts, their ideas, why they need help, why they need support, what do they actually need, not just hear from the public, go to the source and truly understand what they're dealing with, because we ended the day at the 911 office who is excelling, doing great things. Those people, number one, are lifesavers and work tirelessly through sixteen, seventeen hour shifts every day.
Stephanie Fendlason:Yeah. And you have the 911 call in center, and then right behind it, you've got the sheriff's department sitting there, that they have their call in center too.
Trea Coxen:So it's
Stephanie Fendlason:They work long shifts.
Trea Coxen:Yeah. It's cool. And then, of course, we went to the jail, and it's one place you never wanna go. Mhmm. No.
Trea Coxen:You don't?
Dr. Amber Narro:Mhmm. Well, you mentioned a couple you mentioned a name there, Scott Paraloop. First of all, thank you for your years and years of service Absolutely. To change Pope Parish. The things that this man has has seen as well as had to deal with as well as had to prosecute, but at the same time, some of the things that I don't think that that office gets credit for is is is helping people
Trea Coxen:Exactly.
Dr. Amber Narro:Repath Yes. With, you know, renavigate the system, make different decisions next time, and the resources that they provide so that people can get back on track is just it's phenomenal. It really is. And through talking to you guys, just kinda doing some other research, reading the newspaper, whatever, right, I I hear quotes from that office all the time saying we we, you know, have this service available or that service available. Did they talk about any of those things with you guys as well?
Dr. Amber Narro:Is that they're not just about making sure that people stay in jail, but they're also about, you know, allowing people an opportunity
Trea Coxen:So to come back in and be taxpayers? So different people talk about different things. The court systems try to help as much as they can. Legally, they can't really do much. Then you get to By the law.
Trea Coxen:And then mister Scott kind of mentioned how they process what comes to their office, and if they can help legally, they try to help. Everybody tries to help people get back on the the right path, but it's all legal. Hands are Yeah. Tied with that. But then we go to the juvenile detention center.
Stephanie Fendlason:That was unreal.
Trea Coxen:Unreal. This stuff. Resources they have. The stuff they're teaching these young young people is awesome. That's what I'm getting.
Trea Coxen:And it has to start there. Yeah. They can get their driver's license. They can get all of high school, not a GED. They can get a high
Stephanie Fendlason:school diploma. There. Mhmm. So.
Dr. Amber Narro:And look, let's talk. At the top of the hour, they always say, you know, KSLU is not responsible for the points of views on this show. I'm a have a point of view right here. I'm all for crime and punishment. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:I'm all for people having to pay their dues for the things that the decisions that they made. But there is another side to this. Right? And, you know, I've talked to lots of people. We've got Allison Pellegrin who is is here at Southeastern who is poet laureate for, State of Louisiana or was.
Dr. Amber Narro:I think she just she just left that post. But, someone else there's a there's a term to it. Right? She worked with the prisoners and and helped them develop, like, their creative aspects, and and one of the things that she talked a lot about when I was interviewing her about this is hope. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:Right. Is that people have to have hope so that when they come back out, if they are coming back out, they need to make sure that they are productive citizens and can be taxpayers. Right? Instead of us supporting them in Right. The prison system or in in jails that we need to make them productive citizens again so that they can support the community.
Dr. Amber Narro:Right? And that's what our all of us ultimately are born to do is to support the community. Right? Right. And and be active, responsible members of the community.
Dr. Amber Narro:And one of the things that the juvenile detention system, I think, does really well is gives hope to these young people Yes. So that when they come in and one of your cohort one of your members of your cohort was here a couple of months ago, and she was talking about when when people come in, a lot of times they are they're shackled by their past, meaning they just haven't had the opportunity. They haven't seen another way. Right.
Stephanie Fendlason:Right. You know? The only way they've seen and learned.
Dr. Amber Narro:Right. Absolutely. And if you haven't seen another opportunity for you to thrive and and have that feeling of of accomplishment in the as a member of your community that's giving back to your community and and getting filled up yourself.
Trea Coxen:Correct.
Dr. Amber Narro:You're gonna seek it somewhere else. Right. Right? What kind of things did you guys see at the juvenile detention center?
Trea Coxen:What I took away from it was the amount of people, the coworkers, the workers from every aspect was just happy. They they never showed a bad attitude. They never showed anything. Even the the kids that were there that we saw, we couldn't really interact with them legally and all that, but you could just see it. They didn't have a bad demeanor to It it was just uplifting to see the youth getting the help they need.
Dr. Amber Narro:Talk to me about your preconceived notions of a of a natural preconceived notions. Right? This is something that people would feel that had never been to this center before. When you think juvenile detention center and you hear of, like, you know, basic it's juvenile hall. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:So when you hear that, what do we picture?
Stephanie Fendlason:I think your first thought is usually they're locked up. They need they're where they need to be. They're paying a consequence. You know, that's a consequence for their actions. But then to go in and you look at it from the flip side and you go, okay, it's all they've ever learned.
Stephanie Fendlason:It's all they know. Maybe they didn't have a family just, you know, home life that was good or whatever but then you go in and you see that the the juvenile detention center wants them to see another side. Another path that they can take, but then they because they've only been on one path, they only see one way to do it, but then when they go in there, they offer them all of these opportunities and other choices that they have that they can make to better themselves. Yeah. I mean, and the thing that I take away from a lot of the places that we've been are are looking at Tangemoto Parish and they're modeling some of their facilities after the things that our facilities are doing.
Stephanie Fendlason:That was one of the things that Joey was talking about. I was impressed by that.
Trea Coxen:He said the main one that kind of stuck out to me was a department from LA came out and toured our detention center because they're trying to build something out there that models what we have right here in Tainesville Parish.
Dr. Amber Narro:Right. Just as a reminder, they work with North Shore Technical Community College. They work with other other organizations and agencies in this area to make sure that the students hear a different way. Right? There's volunteers who go in there and and read and work with these students and teach them how to read.
Trea Coxen:They also have teachers. They have teachers. Public teachers are there. Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:I am just. It is awesome. I mean. Love that. I didn't realize that.
Dr. Amber Narro:So, I'm gonna. They have that.
Trea Coxen:So, we got to walk a little bit through it and you could just see the classrooms. You did see the the areas where they could go, and I don't I don't know if they can mingle or I don't know the rules and but they had areas where they could just, and I hate to say this, but be a kid. Yeah. Like, experience being a kid, but also get that reform that they need.
Dr. Amber Narro:So It's amazing. It touches my heart. It really does.
Stephanie Fendlason:I think we all left there with a sense of hope for those peep for the kids that were there, you know, that there's life changing experiences happening there, and it seems like they all have high respect for the people that work there. Absolutely. Because like one of the people that's in our leadership class works there. Yeah. And one of the kids was like, what are
Dr. Amber Narro:you doing here with them?
Stephanie Fendlason:You know? So that was there was a love that was there. And everybody that you talk to, they have a passion for their job. Even at the jail. Yeah.
Stephanie Fendlason:Did you see that? Even at the jail, they had a passion for what they do.
Trea Coxen:We got to listen to the new warden. I don't know if you've got to meet him yet. No. He he is
Dr. Amber Narro:He's good.
Trea Coxen:He has great ideas and gonna move that facility in the right direction. But again, they're working tirelessly through Shorthanded. Yeah. And us being there for what? Twenty, twenty five minutes?
Trea Coxen:The only people that stood still were the three people that were talking to us.
Dr. Amber Narro:Everybody else
Trea Coxen:was constantly sitting at a computer, getting up, doing this. It's just I'm like, you're supposed to be watching inmates watching this, and you don't have time to just sit there and breathe. Right. Like, I don't know that I could do that and not go crazy.
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. But it's you talked about it though, is the passion to the job. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:That's the mic drop moment. Is that that is your that's your passion. That's their calling. That's your called. That's their call.
Dr. Amber Narro:To do that, that is just what you do when you wake up in the morning, isn't it? I love it. Stephanie, when where else did you guys go? I wanna make sure that we covered everything before we before we kinda dive into it.
Stephanie Fendlason:The 911 which that was that's another one. That's
Dr. Amber Narro:new one. There it's the new one. Quote unquote. It feel it still feels so new to us. Right?
Stephanie Fendlason:But they also have people modeling across the country after hour, 911 calls.
Trea Coxen:And we're fixing to get an upgrade, they told us.
Stephanie Fendlason:Oh, yeah.
Trea Coxen:Oh, my. It's huge. It's huge, and I can't wait for it to go public because we're gonna come back and talk to you about it.
Dr. Amber Narro:Go on. It's huge. Yeah. Please do. Anytime you wanna come on here, that mic is yours.
Dr. Amber Narro:Alright? Love it. Love it. When when y'all are thinking about Leadership Tanger Ho and what you can bring back to your organization, talk to me a little bit about that, Stephanie. What what are you how does that when you come back, what are you sharing with people in your in your orbit?
Stephanie Fendlason:Well, part of mine and what I'm seeing, because you know, I'm all about, we're about advertising, and I'm like, did y'all know such and such or did y'all see, you know, so I'm coming back and sharing things like that, and then when I saw Brian yesterday and we were talking, I said we went
Dr. Amber Narro:Brian Chiry, GM GM for
Stephanie Fendlason:North Yes. Shore Black Mister It, right?
Trea Coxen:North Shore Media.
Stephanie Fendlason:He, I think he didn't whenever they were supposed to do the criminal justice side last time was when we had the snowstorm. Oh.
Dr. Amber Narro:He said, oh, I wish I
Stephanie Fendlason:would have known because they missed that whole class. He said, I wanted to go on that one. But I go back and I share, you know, the places that we've gone and say, you know, you might go see such and such, they've got a great venue and I haven't heard them on the radio, or seen them in Tangie Lifestyles magazine. What was the venue we went to in La Ranger, it was in Kentwood actually. Went
Trea Coxen:Kbar, Kbar Farms.
Dr. Amber Narro:I had no clue it was there.
Stephanie Fendlason:I said, did y'all know that was there? And they're like, no, I'm like, need to go see them, they've got a great place, great place. So I go back and share things like that or I might share different people that I met that said, hey, you need to go talk to them, they're very interesting, they might have some positive feedback on certain things that we're doing.
Dr. Amber Narro:Love that. Love it. Love it. When, you're thinking about Leadership Change Mahalo, one of the things that I really recognize and I appreciate from all of you is that I learn something every time you come. You do.
Dr. Amber Narro:Right? And that is the responsibility that Nick Gagliano with He Gagliano goes group who organizes this, he realizes that when you come back and you share all of his and we talk to Leadership Tangeba Hoa every month here at KSLU and at North Shore Broadcasting as well, and our our partners in crime over there in Hammond, and thank you for all that they do to help keep KSLU moving. We appreciate everything from North Shore Media. When you are talking about coming back and sharing this information, that's part of your responsibility. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:Right. And and that's part of what you're supposed to do. And Nick Gagliano has brilliantly organized this so that he so that you guys participate in writing letters to the newspaper, that you do go on the media, that you share your story, and you teach the public what what's going on as well. But we need people for next year as well. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:Yes. In Leadership Tanjapahoa. Yes. So we need to keep these stories rolling. I'm telling you, every time you guys come, I get some more information.
Dr. Amber Narro:You you gave me some nuggets this morning, Trey. So, I mean, there's just thank you for enriching the media as well as the public with these stories. What do you say if somebody's considering going and doing this?
Trea Coxen:Do it.
Stephanie Fendlason:Do it. Don't even think about it.
Trea Coxen:If you have the opportunity, sign up, go through the process, it will open your eyes
Stephanie Fendlason:It's amazing.
Trea Coxen:To a lot.
Dr. Amber Narro:And it's now is the time to start thinking about that because next year's class, they'll be starting to recruit for that if they aren't already doing it very soon. Fast. And they do fill up fast, and there is a small investment. You've gotta do a personal investment of about a $100, and then your organization's gotta do about a thousand dollars.
Trea Coxen:Correct?
Dr. Amber Narro:And so you you wanna get on that budget line with your organization if you're thinking about doing this and bringing it back. I mean, $1,100 and what you guys are talking about, the things that you've experienced that you can bring back to work, that's a very small investment for years worth of information, contacts, networks. You're not just networking with each other and everybody else who's in the group, but also the other people who you're going to visit. That you're visiting. And I know that they're giving you cell numbers every everywhere you go.
Dr. Amber Narro:So, we're all just expanding our network and that just makes Tange for Hollow that much more strong and and interdependent. Right? Yeah. That's what what we need for sure.
Stephanie Fendlason:I think it drives us all just to be better.
Trea Coxen:Mhmm. Oh, I love it. And it opens our eyes.
Dr. Amber Narro:Oh, Stephanie's taking that mic, throwing it up against It's the not even mic dropping You're
Stephanie Fendlason:seeing the backside of different things. I missed the one last month where y'all went to, like, the daily bread and all that. And that's the one I really wanted to go to.
Trea Coxen:And see, good thing with Leadership Tanjipoh, if you're in the class and you miss it, she can go with next year's group So to see year. Mhmm. So
Stephanie Fendlason:Yeah. I can't wait.
Trea Coxen:But you can only miss one class
Dr. Amber Narro:Yeah.
Stephanie Fendlason:I've missed my one.
Trea Coxen:To graduate.
Stephanie Fendlason:I've missed my one. Because they're expecting you to put an investment of yourself in, not just the $100. They want you to invest yourself in it and so.
Trea Coxen:They want you to see what we have to offer. It's a great program. I recommend it to anybody and everybody that can do it.
Stephanie Fendlason:On all levels of, you know, it's not just the business person, I mean, just anybody.
Trea Coxen:And that's what they do, they try to get a wide variety of different people so that we can all kind of mesh well together. So they don't have a class full of bankers, a class full of media, a class full of this. So it's people from all walks of life that are coming together to form a bond that
Stephanie Fendlason:To make a difference. Yeah. I mean, I think they're doing it to make a difference that to see us make a difference in our community too.
Dr. Amber Narro:Love it. Thank y'all for coming and sharing your experience. This was super fun talking to y'all this morning. I enjoyed it. I've been here with Stephanie Fendlason as well as Trea Coxen. Coxen. We just, he's my new friend this morning. Yes. So, y'all excuse me.
Dr. Amber Narro:I I flipped the page and I couldn't find his name. Thank you. So, Trea Coxen, he's with Tangipahoa Tourism. Stephanie is with North Shore Broadcast, North Shore Media and we definitely appreciate y'all coming and sharing about Leadership Tangipahoa today. Thank you so much.
Trea Coxen:Thank you having
Stephanie Fendlason:us this week.
Dr. Amber Narro:Where y'all going next time?
Trea Coxen:Oh, I'm.
Dr. Amber Narro:You're good. Oh, look. Put him on the economic development development. Next. Development.
Dr. Amber Narro:So, you can see ginger. Yeah. Think that's coming up. It's coming up. So, it doesn't matter.
Trea Coxen:Stay tuned. Education. Education. The Mardi Gras break threw us off because they moved us up and all that.
Stephanie Fendlason:So, y'all will come see me
Dr. Amber Narro:at Southeastern. I love it. I love it. Thank you all for being here.
Trea Coxen:Thank you
Stephanie Fendlason:for having us.
Dr. Amber Narro:And thank you for listening on Thursdays and Fridays here at ninety point nine, the Lion. This is the Lion's Roundtable. I'm Amber Narro, and y'all are gonna have a great day.
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