Route 7 Orlando<\/a>, giving men an opportunity to network, be accountability partners, and give back to their community.<\/p>\nMartin started Route 7 Orlando 10 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to network with intention. So, brought people together from different walks of life, and then later that\u2019s how Route 7 was founded. Making sure that we were providing dialog and atmospheres where men can come together, share personal and professional goals with the intention of helping each other achieve those goals,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n
The group hosts financial workshops, career-building opportunities, and even works to build confidence in youth within Central Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a public speaking mentorship program called Well Said. One of our board members founded it \u2014 Aquanza Cadogan,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know when I was younger, I struggled with communication,\u201d Cadogan said.<\/p>\n
Cadogan is a board member with Route 7 Orlando and heads up the mentorship initiative. He says he was happy to jump in and help inspire the next generation, especially by helping with speech confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now in our seventh year. We\u2019ve had over 30 young men kind of go through our program right here in the Parramore area between the Boys and Girls Club and now we\u2019re at the Grand Avenue,\u201d Cadogan said.<\/p>\n
Making a difference in the lives of each of these young men. Cadogan says he is grateful for Martin, who brought everyone together a decade ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the world needs more people like Gene and I\u2019m just super honored that he\u2019s leading the charge for us,\u201d Cadogan said.<\/p>\n
Martin will continue providing opportunities and helping open doors for professionals and students throughout Central Florida communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the beauty of what it is that we do is we provide that safe space each and every month, and we\u2019ve been able to do so for the last 10 years to elevate to the number that we have today,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Gene Martin is turning brotherhood into action, creating a networking and accountability service that\u2019s also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,3076,770,28293,2296,54687,1548,115,1335,139,141,140,835],"class_list":["post-420047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-community","tag-app-good-news","tag-community-news","tag-curtis-mccloud","tag-everyday-hero","tag-everyday-heroes","tag-good-news","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420047","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=420047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}