hello and welcome to the place of soul or where our motto is step out and redesign and the focus is always on you i'm your host anita russell and this handsome gentleman that you see right here is my guest his name is mr algernon halter but i'm just going to call him out as i'm going to start off as i usually do by reading my guest bio so how is the founder and visionary of jubilee children's entertainment and the dream catcher program al is a graduate of west westside high school in newark new jersey algernon's relies early on that education positive surroundings and face would serve as a vehicle for success and would help him escape the daily dysfunction he was exposed to while growing up in east orange and newark new jersey some sure is probably some people out there in the audience who can kind of relate to some of that he earned a bachelor's bachelor science degree in criminal justice from new jersey city university in two thousand and one and shortly thereafter in two thousand and four acquired an m b a from dowling college and oakdale new york the educational experiences inspired him to launch character education and empowerment programs with jubilee children's entertainment and the dream catchers he employs his talents and faith to create a children's character called jubilee the character has grown to be the face of character education throughout new jersey and pennsylvania the programs have impacted over two hundred and fifty thousand children in various school districts from grades pre k through five and two thousand and one he launched the dream catchers program which provides empowerment and mentorship for students in grades six to twelve that's a lot of stuff that you've got going on so i'd like you to just kind of start off and give us your own version of who you are i'm just a man of great faith and a man is passionate about drains and and just really passion about inspire people to do the same that's how i live my life daily every single day actually so how did you move to getting to the focus on children because that's the piece that i find particularly interesting it started when i was in the graduate program adela college initially when it's a program w aspirations and career advancement in the company i was working for but soon as i entered the program and i started going through taking classes i realize and identified that i was an entrepreneur and i started off you know dabbling in for the wrong reasons because this person was making money in it for this particular industry you make money but i wasn't doing anything that was tied into my gifts my talents and abilities so what happens when people do that you know a lot and you know i just i wanted to find something that i was called to do i knew i wasn't really following what i was called to do it i just got up and i just prayed consistently for days at a time and god spoke to clear i want you to have a character that's unique not a lion not a tiger something that's unique that people will see every day so that's when we created jubilee which is a koala bear  n no exaggeration within the two day period two to three day period had this little red notebook and he gave me the entire business plan oh wow how to start to leave children the same so that's how it started and i always had a love for kids i'm very i'm a big kid at heart very silly connect with kids and i just believe that it's important to impact kids that the sea level because they're supposed to so much dysfunction that early a i think that if you catch them early you have a good start so can you talk a little bit about the fact that you focus on character education can't occasions be particularly well from any stores in newark new jersey and there's a lot of dysfunction still a lot of dysfunction that kids are exposed to and repetition daily television what they see on television with the hear on the radio what they see on the porch every day and when i was growing up coming up in the stores and in law there was no outlets of vehicles that really just were really coming to reinforce positive character trades so i wanted to create something that could impact in that area because it was a need that's one thing about being an entrepreneur i believe is a problem solvers so i had a gift and i saw that i felt like god was lead me into that direction so character was something that was vital to impact that's really i like that because when i met you and of course i met you as my mover drive lot that's packed in there and i had the opportunity actually to go onto your you tube channel and look at some of the dream catchers dream can dream series or can you talk a little bit about the dream catchers program  i didn't have anything i'm the type of person that would have a conversation with somebody i'm always listening to them and i'm always looking to find out if i could be a resource for them who cannot connect them with who i know and it was a part of that i had  call i don't call customers or clients i don't call them they're calling partners because we have the same goal and that's to impact our children so one of the partners i was working with dr mitchell was the executive director of response in camden every year she put on this program a mentoring program for kids and she had a million things on our plate so i'm list into another and i just said to one as a doctor michel i said why don't you allow me to help organize a facilitate this mentoring program i said i have access to a plethora of successful individuals from inner city areas and i would love to do that so she said let's do it so that was the first year that i did a lot to drink at this program i had seven speakers it was  tonight but it was powerful i had seven speakers and then it took off from there as i began to move forward and in the interface i mean i mean you know it's a proven fact that a lot of people dreams people feel like it's too late for them people feel like they're not good inept or not smart enough they don't have the resources and some say so my passion is to strike that fire ignite a fire in individuals put a hard deadline of myself that i'm a star this dream since i started promoting it on social media and new year's eve that's when i did the first episode and we completed thirty episodes with the season one and now we are just completed dream suze is just a series for anybody but it's mainly for anybody and me this parade needs that that motivation that push to overcome the despair and dysfunction and adversity to pursue their dreams so you mention the program where you had the speakers come in so what are some of the topics that you when you have the big are coming what are some of the topics that they will talk about in the program really any topic but what i do is when i sit down and i kind of give them i'm in the ministry to directors menus i mean my in a sprint everybody know that the familiar track and the sprint the start is very important given that the blocks bulling the dream killer their sole any topics so many topics said a really what i do is when i go into schools or when i  wonderful so what else do you do i mean that's like the so that's it it is there but you know it all of it all ties and you know what you know when you talk about character that ties into your juries when you talk about dreams that are then not into the performance for kids in school but it also ties into adults because everything is connected right i mean what we do in high school you know i talk about that we're kids all the time which we do today man you know we talked about choices the last speaker we have she talked about choices and you know everything that we do connects what we do now connects in our twenty's what we do you know in the twenty's i you know there's repercussions to some of the actions that we have positive or negative impacts our lives so they're all connected  but i'm writing a book awaken to drain i have a goal to be one of the top motivational speakers in the country i said i'm not afraid of it i want to have a strong online presence my goal is to travel the   everything that you're saying is the fact that this isn't just stuff that you put out there that you embody this that you live your life the way you're describing and i would imagine that some of the when you talk about the character education that those are so that you draw a lot from your own experiences in names like that so you can you talk a little bit about how your own personal experiences kind of play into this you do so look every topic that i talk about every topic that i talk about it was inspired by god or through an experience so particularly with the dream series every single topic i talk about i'm really to just share what guy share with me fear is what is real adversity is real and but i just made a decision in my thirty's that i was sick and tired of being sick and tired like i don't want to die for i want to die empty everything that god has put in me i want to get it out everything i don't want to be a free i want to live i don't want i don't want to exist you know and existing is walking around being fearful full of doubt i wish i would've could've know you can you know so those topics are inspired by that you know they're inspired by that they're a spy about conversations that i have because it's crazy because i call you know i've been given the name the dream coach you know because i'm like the dream coach the radu man because i'm so passionate about drains you know i talk to people all the time and it's like a draw from their expertise i can have a conversation with jude and you could be sharing a situation or some adversity and it breaks my heart to hear it but it's something that i know somebody else is going through somebody else needs to hear something positive knowing the person i'm talking to you but somebody else is going to that same experience the same situation this is hendren you know the last episode i did at thirteen it was caught hang ups and setbacks there's so many things that we hold onto in our lives that's preventing us from moving forward from relationships for starting that business from going back to school writing that book you know what we experience that somebody says something paying for her food to us and we just keep meditating the keeper herson it or maybe we've seen somebody go to something very very difficult and we made a valid pakistan out never put myself through that we  were not meant to operate in to live in that way so that's what really what expires the topics that i talk about excellence one of the sort of values that you selected was creativity so can you tell our audience a little bit early in the morning or my face i identify i had no idea how creative i was i mean i created through him a character you hear my voice now this is not how jubilee talks julie's voice is my voice everything that program a system that i created with my voice i create a system that i'm marketing in schools are interested in created the character i'm writing i'm writing a book now i write poetry i'm great a spoken word i'm gifted a duck to write a poem in five seconds oh wow i'm the father of five minutes of always been a creative person i have a i have a an imagination imagination is limitless so i was able to look at that topic and identify because i'm like a flower this blossom every single day i'm creative i'm gifted a lot of things i could sing i could dance  around i can act god gave me there for a reason and i walked the earth for twenty something years not knowing what i was called to do what the purpose of life is and i'm just a static right now that i walk in every day i'm to discover something more  she would describe her life and so i actually saw a video of her where she was describing her life decade by decade by decade and what was phenomenal about her description of each decade is that each decade was getting better and better and better and i think it was a kind of a an awakening moment for me because a lot of times people look at aging as winding down but she looked at it as whining  o if you were right now if you were eighty years old how would you look back on your life in some of the decades and what do you think are some of the things that you would see if you feel like think about like i've lived my life and now eighty years old and now i'm sort of you know thinking of a lot about some of the things that i've done in my life some of the things that i've accomplished maybe some of the things that i didn't accomplish that i set out to do  how would you see yourself if you were eighty years old right now i was see myself as a man in this crazy course crazy when i say this i think about my funeral when i see myself impacting millions of people or the course of my life you know every time i go in front of them we go in front of an assembly in this four hundred kids that's four hundred simly at a school that's not fifty the guarantees so i'm going to push as hard as i can so i think i will look back at that and say i was a man that was committed to inspire others so excellent so this flipside of that question is what do you think people are going to say about you this is that i had a big heart huge heart an amazing person i have a big heart i do have a big heart sometimes you know it fearless at a young age and it's my hope and it's my desire that it's going to rubble and as my son and my daughter grows older they would have been exposed to much pollution they would have been exposed to their father being educated they w well everything that you said kind of like everything that you said when i look at those values because i defined those things very specifically he thought about it and and so i like it when people make a on my cell and talk to me and all that good stuff so to the audience make sure you go and check him out this is an incredible man of god one of a father just a person that just pour of other individuals i consider myself to have been blessed that i have gotten to know him and i'm hoping we have the opportunity to work together absolutely as something like that so we're signing off now i want to thank you very very much for joining