The Love for Detroit (#313DLove) Event was tremendous

Man, what a great day filled with rock solid people sharing wonderful stories about the change they're making in and around the D. 

Here is a lovely video put together by one of our sponsors, Blue Cross Blue Shield.

The videos of each of the talks are being "cut" right now and I will update this post with each presentation over time. In the meantime, here is a quick rundown. 

We had 11 people who mostly told their stories and why they choose to make a difference in our area. The order of speakers looked like this:

Hajj Flemings of Brand Camp University

Lisa Diggs of Buy Michigan Now

Yisreal Pinson of Chabbad Detroit

Chazz Miller of Public Art Workz

We took a break from the live action and showed an awesome video by the United Way entitled Much Love.

Menachem Kniespeck of Operation: Kid Equip

Rod Hairston of Envision U.

Then we took a little break to help make sure that we trended on Twitter. And trend we did. There were 1000's of tweets tagged #313DLove. They were so cool to read the next day. I spent a few hours reading them and retweeting them. I am going to make a separate blog post that showcases my favorites. I will link to that soon.

After the cookies and coffee we came back in to hear some great stories from:

Leslie Smith of TechTown

Scott Fader of Suits for Soldiers

Ricardo Bartlett of Greater St. Paul Baptist Church

Minesh Baxi of Minesh Baxi and Associates

John George of Blightbusters

Shawne Duperon of Shawne TV

Each of their stories were as unique as the people who shared them and yet they all seemed to follow a similar theme:

Follow Your Passion

Lead from Where You Are

Live for Something Greater Than You

Anyone Can Make a Difference

We learned a lot of valuable lessons and are super excited about the 2015 event. In the meantime, be on the lookout for some really exciting projects that support each of the Charities: Operation: Kid Equip, Suits for Soldiers, Blightbusters and Project: Forgive in the coming months.

Big thanks to all of our sponsors: Somerset Lending, Airfoil, RUB BBQ Pub, Charles Wright Museum, United Way, Minesh Baxi and Associates, Blue Cross and Blue Shield and of course, Click Click Car. Speaking of Click Click Car, check out the new intro video HERE. The audience loved it.

Special thanks to the team: Paul Funk, Colin McConnell, Mike Brennan, Stephanie Styron Bean, Sara Stawarz and Jeff Wegner.

Let's make some more magic happen folks!!

Be connected-

Terry Bean