{"id":3950,"date":"2016-11-01T19:50:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:43:11","slug":"lemerand-entrepreneurial-speaker-inspires-audience-with-life-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/lemerand-entrepreneurial-speaker-inspires-audience-with-life-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemerand Entrepreneurial speaker inspires audience with life story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cynde Puckett
\nIn Motion Staff Writer
\nFormer NBA executive, author and motivational speaker Lucas Boyce inspired Daytona State College students, faculty and staff as part of the L. Gale Lemerand Entrepreneurial Speaker Series, which awards scholarships to students and promotes an entrepreneurial spirit.
\nThe Speaker Series was held Oct. 18 at the Mori Hosseini Center and was hosted by the Small Business Development Center and DSC.<\/p>\n

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Lucas Boyce speaking to a packed house at DSC\u2019s Mori Hoseinni Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DSC President, Dr. Thomas LoBasso, introduced Lemerand as \u201cone of the nation\u2019s leading entrepreneurs, he has founded more than 100 successful companies. He\u2019s a philanthropist to many colleges and civic programs in the area.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m really the story of the American dream. I came from very humble beginnings. As time went on, I became a very successful salesman. I surrounded myself with some great people and I think that\u2019s the name of the game,\u201d said Lemerand.
\nTwo students, Kalisha Alston and Michael Jefferson, were awarded $1000 scholarships based on professors\u2019 recommendations, class performance, financial need and interest in entrepreneurship.
\nAlston is an AA student who maintains a 3.5 GPA and has a passion for working with the elderly. She wants to become a registered nurse, so she can open her own senior care facility.
\nJefferson is in DSC\u2019s Hospitality Management program and maintains a 3.7 GPA. His dream is to own a bed and breakfast. After 17 years of thinking about his dream he decided to take the steps to make it come true and enrolled at DSC.
\nHe expressed his gratitude for the scholarship, commenting that it is very helpful to receive financial assistance aside from loans. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to pay back scholarships,\u201d he said.
\nFeatured speaker, Boyce, spent a portion of his life in poverty and foster care, of which he wrote a book, \u201cLiving Proof: From Foster Care to the White House and the NBA.\u201d In addition to his time with the Orlando Magic, Boyce served at the White House in the Office of Political Affairs. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in political science from the University of Central Missouri and graduated with his Executive MBA from Rollins College in 2013.
\nIn an introduction to his two moms, his adoptive mother and his birth mother, he touched the hearts of audience members. His birth mother got on the wrong path as a young girl, into a life of drugs and selling her body. He is the result of that lifestyle. He does not know his biological father and he has not seen his birth mother since he was three.
\nHe described his adoptive mother as courageous. \u201cShe believes that all of us are built for something more,\u201d he said, adding that she took in 40 foster care children over the course of 15 years. She adopted six of those children and had four of her own. At one time, she was a single mom with 11 kids.
\n\u201cEvery single one of us is living proof,\u201d Boyce said, describing family members with disabilities who his mother adopted. Quoting Psalm 139, he told the audience that everyone is \u201cfearfully and wonderfully made,\u201d which, he said, means they are built for something more.
\nWhen his mother pressed him for answers as to what he wanted to do when he graduated he had four answers. He wanted to share his faith anywhere and wherever he could \u2013 to be a missionary. He wanted to fly on Air Force One, work at the White House and work for an NBA team. Boyce credited the \u201cGod of the Universe\u201d with helping him achieve his list of goals.
\nHe ended his speech where he began, with a poetic reading about us all being \u201cliving proof\u201d that we are sons and daughters of a King, perfectly created, living proof of grace.
\nTo learn more about the L. Gale Lemerand Entrepreneurial Speaker Series, future speakers and scholarship opportunities visit: https:\/\/www.daytonastate.edu\/entrepreneurship\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cynde Puckett In Motion Staff Writer Former NBA executive, author and motivational speaker Lucas Boyce inspired Daytona State College students, faculty and staff as part of the L. Gale Lemerand Entrepreneurial Speaker Series, which awards scholarships to students and promotes an entrepreneurial spirit. The Speaker Series was held Oct. 18 Continue reading Lemerand Entrepreneurial speaker inspires audience with life story<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}