This episode could be called “All in the Family” as co-host Dena Petty sits down with her son Bryce. Many sports fans will recognize the name Bryce Petty: retired NFL quarterback for the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins; and star player at Baylor University (including leading the team to its first-ever Big 12 championship).
Bryce tells the unusual series of events that led him to stay at home for a year in 2009 even though he had been highly recruited to play college football coming out of high school. It was a period of time in his life that Dena leveraged for Mentors Care. In addition to watching Bryce attend a local community college and mowing lawns around town for extra cash, Dena asked him for a favor.
She tapped Bryce to serve as one of the first mentors in the Mentors Care program. How could he say “no” to his own mother?
Using the mentoring tools provided, Bryce shares what happened to the young man he mentored for just several months before going off to college at Baylor. He also explains why he felt led to have a mentor himself during his college experience. He also describes the unique differences between parenting and mentoring, and why a parent isn’t always the best mentor at certain key seasons in a young person’s life.
Bryce and his wife Jordan are expecting their first child in July 2020. They live in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and Bryce works as Director of Capital Markets with AMR Capital in Dallas, Texas. For more information about AMR Capital, visit: https://amr.capital/
Mentors Care is a non-profit organization that implements a proven method of mentoring students at risk of not graduating high school. Its volunteers are trained to encourage action, hope and a future for every student who participates in Mentors Care.
For more information about how to support Mentors Care or how to become part of the Mentors Care family, contact us at info@mentors.care or visit https://mentors.care/