ABOUT BRIAN
My Mission
I render a continuum of services across the mental empowerment, financial literacy, and business development spaces to help them break the chains holding them back from their greatness.
My mission is to use a percentage of the revenue from my services to fund the development and sustainability of educational, entrepreneurial, and mentorship programming for transitional-aged adolescents to help circumvent the dependency on state and federal funds.
When you use my services, you’re helping to support the positive development of our next generation.
Brian A. Street, MSW
Brian A. Street, MSW was born and raised in Lucedale, MS. He grew up in a lower middle-class household where his father worked as a ship insulation supervisor making a decent income but doing extremely tough manual labor. His mother worked various blue-collar jobs throughout the years to help support Brian and his three siblings; Zenita, Dwarin, and Kimberley. Life was not always a walk in the park for Brian’s family but they made the best of everything that they had. Brian’s father always encouraged him to study hard so that he could grow up to get a good job in an office someday and not have to work years of back-breaking manual labor like his father does. Brian graduated high school in 2004 after numerous years of successful athletic participation and balancing good grades, finishing with a 3.89 GPA and intentions of enrolling at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) the following semester. All went as planned and he became the first male of his generation on his paternal side of the family to graduate high school and move on to college, The University of Southern Mississippi in the city of Hattiesburg. The first couple of years of Brian’s college career were not ideal at all. He was overrun with an abundance of freedom, which he never had before, and his prioritization skills and time management were horrible.
He spent all of his time in the on-campus athletic facility and always procrastinated on his schoolwork. His GPA dropped to 1.76 after 5 semesters which initiated academic suspension. He sat out of school starting the summer of 2007 and went out into the working world. Life really hit him hard during this time, which included the birth of a baby boy with his girlfriend whom he met just over a year earlier. By the summer of 2010, he had gotten his act together and re-enrolled to the University with a newly focused mind. He now maintained between a 3.5 and 4.0 GPA nearly every semester, even after getting married to the mother of his child. Early in 2012 Brian connected with some very successful and influential businesspeople who made a huge impact on his life, (to be addressed later). He finally graduated in December of 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in the Foreign Language of Spanish and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He left to relocate to Miami, FL only days after graduation due to a decent-paying transitional job waiting for him. This was an extremely exciting time for Brian but that excitement didn’t last for long. That initial job fell through rather quickly which put Brian in a pretty bad financial bind less than 3 months from his arrival in Miami, and this was even worse than before because his wife was now pregnant with their daughter.
Life really hit hard and Brian hit an all-time low shortly after that job fell through. (Some of his struggles are so depressing that they will be reserved for one of his soon-to-be-released books.) Thankful to the people that he connected with in 2012, Brian soon realized that he had within him, the necessary ingredients for a comeback. He utilized self-taught skills to quickly land a couple of jobs to get back on his feet financially while working his Home-based business on the side. Eventually, he landed a job in a field related to his studies and was on the road to a successful career. Throughout the next couple of years, Brian connected with more influential and affluent individuals while continuously self-educating and studying the art of entrepreneurship. After nearly three years in Miami, Brian had finally developed himself into a respected professional in the South Florida area but soon realized a few things about the area of work that he was doing and the limitations placed upon him which caused him to be unsatisfied. The opportunity to return to USM in Hattiesburg, Mississippi arose and he took full advantage. This was the opportunity he needed to be able to make an impact larger than he had ever imagined.
After returning to USM to obtain a Master’s degree, Brian quickly became highly active and was able to make a substantial impact on both local and state levels by competing in and winning business challenges leading to the co-development of a State of Mississippi Incorporated Business (Blueprint Health), a non-profit organization on campus called The Eagle’s Nest Food Pantry, and a Nutrition and Mentorship Program for the Mississippi Delta (where he developed the mentorship curriculum), as well as many other opportunities delivering youth empowerment speeches, public school faculty trainings, a keynote delivery at an economic education luncheon, and many other engagements around the state as well as at a Mobile, AL youth leadership summer academy and a Baton Rouge, LA business workshop.
Prior to COVID, Brian served as a life coach and an international personal enrichment coaching
facilitator, while also pursuing a Ph.D. in Social Entrepreneurship at Louisiana State University where he is focused on utilizing social entrepreneurship projects to address the financial deficits in funding social issues in the areas of adolescent mentorship and he has become a regular guest lecturer and guest speaker for bachelors and masters level students across the South. More recently, he also has begun financially educating the masses through multiple ways as well as helping develop minority business owners. You can currently find Brian serving as a guest and keynote speaker for youth empowerment-related events across the nation.
Brian has experienced a decent amount of accomplishments over the past few years but has plans to have a much larger impact throughout the coming years.
Feel free to reach out to Brian with any questions, or comments.
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