{"id":394521,"date":"2026-09-09T06:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394521\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:58:13","slug":"redemption-story-and-navigating-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394521\/","title":{"rendered":"Redemption story and navigating life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1542\" height=\"1548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/echo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-266247 size-266247 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Echoes of motivation: Annie Miles hosted Iris Thurman (center), Linda Maiben and Jerry Irvin at WMNF<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.wmnf.org\/sound\/2026\/wmnf_260908_120600_votb1_498.MP3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">September 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coach Jerry shares his personal story after incarceration became a turning point in his life. Now, he runs a mobile gym in a big green bus. He is a fitness trainer committed to community wellness and is a motivational figure with a focus on faith.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-266287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/coachjerry-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"Coach Jerry and his Go Gym is getting the community fit.\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\"  \/>Coach Jerry and the Go Gym is getting the community fit.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-266286 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mabjerry-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\"  \/>Go Mabili, Go Jerry, Go 88.5FM<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-266281 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jerrygym-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Coach Jerry get an Iris surprise.\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\"  \/>Coach Jerry gets an Iris surprise<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iris Thurman is the CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/echofl.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Echo FL<\/a>, a critical resource organization. Linda Maiben serves in Development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Echo FL offers tremendous resources to \u201cbridge the gap between crisis and stability.\u201d Serving the need with four Tampa Bay locations, Echo help with job coaching, resource navigation, emergency food and clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Critical voices in these times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Echoes of motivation: Annie Miles hosted Iris Thurman (center), Linda Maiben and Jerry Irvin at WMNF September 8,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-394521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}