Business Innovators Radio - Championing Youth Sports: How N- Zone Sports CenTex Is Empowering Kids with Roger Guerrero

Starting point is 00:00:02 Welcome to the Agents Lounge podcast, where we talk all things real estate with the industry's top performers. Join us as we dive into the inspiring journeys of successful agents and uncover the secrets to their success. Whether you're a seasoned agent or just starting out, we've got the tips and tricks to help you navigate the world of real estate. Brought to you by Eritectady Comfort Solutions. So grab a seat and join us in the Agents Lounge. Welcome back to another episode of the Agents Lounge podcast. my name is Marco Salinas and joining me today I have my co-host Francisco Bernoudes Jr. Say hello Francisco.

Starting point is 00:00:44 Hello, San Antonio. All right. We've also got a very special guest joining us today. Mr. Roger, what's your last name? Guerrero. Guerrero. Roger Guerrero. And you're officially here on behalf of Enzone sports.

Starting point is 00:00:56 End zone sports. Okay. End zone sports. And then joining us, we have a sub guest who is our main guest on the last episode. But he couldn't get enough of this place, man. He was like, can I hang on for one more? I want sound effects. Por favor?

Starting point is 00:01:10 So here we are. There it is. There it is. And that guest is Mr. Raymond Fuentes. Raymond Fuentes. There it is. But today's star of the show, though, is Mr. Roger.

Starting point is 00:01:23 Thank you. And end zone sports. And so we're going to be talking to Roger today a little bit about what he does. And, you know, on the surface level, this is kids. playing sports, but it goes, it goes deeper than that, right? It goes a little, there's a little bit more to it than just kids playing sports, right? Yes. So initially, this came to fruition right during COVID, you know, as we're all staying home,

Starting point is 00:01:49 I'm there with my kid, and we're kind of figure out, you know, besides kicking the ball around the house and, you know, just watching replays on TV, you know, what are some things we can do? As soon as the band was lifted, we joined. the league. You know, it was it was what I expected. You know, a lot of people, a lot of fun. Very disorganized, but, you know, what do you expect for just getting back out there? Right. But it went further than that. It brought back the spirit in me of sports.

Starting point is 00:02:25 So years ago, my family, we had a sports complex down in the southeast San Antonio. My parents bought it back in the 70s. It was called Guerrero's Sports Park. And it was one of the famous sports parks in San Antonio for years and years. We had that going on for all the way to the early 1990s, mid-1990s. Okay. And then it just kind of went away. I missed it.

Starting point is 00:02:55 When we started playing sports again with my son, I was like, man, I would love to do something like this. my own. I'm sure I can do it. I did it before with my parents. Yeah. And, you know, I had the spirit in them of my folks to do it. And that's how it just came about. It came about because I missed doing that with my parents. They had passed away. And now I had my kid. I wanted to get back in the sport. Dang, man. I didn't realize you had those roots like that in that same era. That's pretty awesome. Now, you told me you went to East Central. East Central High School. Right. So you guys grew up And kind of like, is that kind of like China Grove? So China Grove is one of the little sub towns in the East Central District.

Starting point is 00:03:36 There's, you know, you got Atkins, you got Omendorf. You have, I think there's a, like a lone oak, something like that. There's a bunch of little towns up there. Yeah, right, yeah. But you're basically, I mean, you're a San Antonio native. It's San Antonio born and bred. Yeah. I was at East Central most of my life.

Starting point is 00:03:54 Yeah. I did spend two years overall for the Days of All that area. go to Clark for a little bit. Okay. Not as to really say that I was... That that was your stomping ground? That was a stomping ground? You're really more of a southeast guy.

Starting point is 00:04:08 Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, yeah, East Central all the way out there. So then right now you're running in-zone sports. You've been doing it since basically COVID, right? Correct. Tell us what the mission is behind that. So our mission is to get kids back to playing sports. get them off of the computers, the laptops, watching TV, getting back to roots,

Starting point is 00:04:34 teaching them values through sports, getting them conditioned, you know, trying to try to fight this childhood diabetes that's going on and all the ailments that comes with just not being mobile. Active enough. Yeah. So that's the main mission. Get them off of the device. Get them back out there running around, interacting like we used to do.

Starting point is 00:04:56 That's right. before we, because we grew up, not him because he's pretty young, but we grew up without internet, we grew up without, you know, I mean, yeah, I had, you know, Nintendo, but thank God that thing wasn't connected to the internet because I probably wouldn't have left the house, you know? You know what I'm saying? Or did you play Atari? Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm giving my age away, but yeah, back when the little pong came out. The ping pong back and forth? Look at those graphics. Yeah, remember how exciting that was, man? It was amazing, yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:23 Dude, that was some life-changing stuff. But, you know, all things in moderation, right? It's okay to do video games, okay, to have some fun. But we've gotten to a point where maybe the kids are doing it. Like, that's all they want to do, right? And so you guys are trying to get them out. I think I've read some studies about the brain and its formation. It does a lot better when it's actually out doing play.

Starting point is 00:05:44 You know what I mean? When it's interacting with other kids and when you're doing those physical tasks like that, not to say that there's not some smart little, you know, computer whiz kids. we all know that, right? But maybe it's a different part of the brain that that affects, you know? So there's the health benefits, there's being more active. You're trying to get, you know, make a dent in the whole childhood diabetes thing, right? How bad is that?

Starting point is 00:06:09 Is that really bad? Is it worse than what we realize? It's worse than what we realize. I don't have the statistics on me, but the numbers are pretty mind-boggling. You know, especially after COVID, you know, it's, you know, people, you know, jokingly say that COVID-19 pounds is what it represents, but, you know, it just gave more and more people excuses just to kind of lay around. The other thing that is part of our mission is teaching kids values.

Starting point is 00:06:38 Yeah. That's probably the main one that I started out with. And that's what I really like about what we do is because we are absolutely 100% teaching values through sports. Yeah. Every week we discuss a different one. it can start with sportsmanship, teamwork, leadership, effort. You know, it goes on and on.

Starting point is 00:06:59 We just kind of add them as we go. Yep. And, you know, what I love about that is that when we're discussing it during the training, we also have parents around or grandparents around listening to us. So the other thing that I wasn't intended of doing, but it just kind of happened is that you kind of teach young parents, you know, how to, how to deal with the kids. Yep.

Starting point is 00:07:26 How to get them social and active. That's what I love about what we're doing is that we're teaching these little guys how to be the next leader, the next, you know, commander, the next CEO, the next, you know, teacher or whatever they want to be. Yeah. We're giving them all that confidence to do what they want to do. And when we started the podcast, I had mentioned there's more than meets the eye here than just kids playing sports. and that's kind of what I was talking about was that you guys are reinforcing values. That's right. Right. Within, and character building things within the youth.

Starting point is 00:08:00 And Rogers, this is also kind of like one of these ideas like, let's get the kids involved here so that they don't end up on the streets and getting it into trouble and stuff like that? Is that part of it as well? So a big part of it is getting them active. Now, I guess when you think about it, it's not the initial motivation. I'm a motivation to do that, but it turns out that it does do that. That's part of it. Some of these schools that I go into lower income areas, when you're having the kids involved, I'm having parents telling me that I feel more comfortable that they're at your after-school program

Starting point is 00:08:34 than them doing things with people out in the streets, you know, and we're out in the east side, southeast, sanitary. I mean, the problems everywhere. You can't just target it's saying, oh, it's not a north side problem. It sure is. There's these little segments in all over San Antonio. That's right. That's right.

Starting point is 00:08:55 So, yeah, so then there's a lot of good things that you guys are doing there. And I didn't actually realize that you're almost teaching like a little mini class within the thing. So does that happen at the beginning or is that on certain days or how does that go down with that educational aspect? So the educational moment typically happens when we're doing the stretching part. I personally like to do it in the beginning so people know what, what they're, trying to win a value medal that we give every week. Every child is going to get a medal. Yep.

Starting point is 00:09:28 So the value medal represents what we're doing that week. So if it happens to be leadership, we want to discuss what leadership is. We'll go around the whole team and say, you ask them what their interpretation, what leadership may mean. Yep. And then we'll let everyone answer. Okay. You know, there's not really a right or wrong answer. We just want to get their take on it.

Starting point is 00:09:50 and then we'll interject what we think is that can help them with that. We'll play the game and then we'll pick somebody who demonstrated the best value that day. Nice. But we do want to make sure that every kid gets one throughout the whole program. So that's what it's designed for. Okay, now let's take a little half stick back. Give me the basics. Okay, what are the age groups that you guys serve and what are the sports that y'all are playing?

Starting point is 00:10:16 Good question. So we have several age groups. The one I love the most is because they're so little and innocent is our end zone junior program. Okay. These are the ones where we can go in the daycares and do that, but we also bring them out to the leagues. And these are typically the two to four-year-olds where we're teaching them more like an academy style. Two to four? Oh, my gosh.

Starting point is 00:10:38 And we're showing these guys. Yes, they are so smart. That must be a blast. It is. It's, you know, if you can imagine keeping a bunch of cockroaches in a cup and then in the cup, that's what it looks like. It's just everywhere. But it's so much. No relation, though,

Starting point is 00:10:53 to do. No, no, no, no, no. It's just a visual. It's all. Yes.

Starting point is 00:10:57 Yes. But it's so much fun just playing with these little guys. And, you know, when you get them grouped up, they listen. And, you know,

Starting point is 00:11:07 when you instruct them to do something and they do it, you know, the parents just look at you, like, how are you doing that? It's like, well, because we're giving them the confidence.

Starting point is 00:11:16 We're talking to them like, like little adults, not baby talk. You know, we're talking them like, like, hey, I'm your coach. This is what I need you to do. Let's go. Blowing the whistle. You know, if they cry, if the ball goes out of bounce, well, it's out of bounce. Get back in here and let's go.

Starting point is 00:11:30 Yeah. So sometimes. Tough love. Little tough love. Yeah. Goes a long way. So that's the two to four year olds and that's our end zone junior. And then we'll have a five to six or five to seven.

Starting point is 00:11:42 Just depends on how many kids that are involved. Okay. Now you're going to see a lot of, travel clubs and all these other clubs call it 7 you, 8 you, 9 you. And it's kind of the same thing, but we just call it differently. You know, we just kind of designate it 5 to 7, 8 to 10, 11 to 13, and then you have your older kids all the way to 16. So that's typically how we do it. But once again, it really just depends how many kids in those age groups that we have.

Starting point is 00:12:14 Sometimes we have to mix and match. And it is co-ed. Okay. That's great. As far as the sports, we're going to have several sports. We started off with just soccer and cheerleading. Okay. And then we brought in flag football.

Starting point is 00:12:29 And those have been our core sports since the beginning. Now we introduced T-ball, coach pitch baseball. We now have volleyball and we have basketball. And this coming month in March, we started a cornhole. league for adults so we're going to be doing that to even the adults can get involved adults can get involved um that that's we don't have an adult sport yet but typically at the end of the season we like to have a parents versus kids game and i think francisco just signed up do you get medals too for yeah participations yeah yeah that's that's that's that's a blast and that's all over our face so that's kind

Starting point is 00:13:08 of an unofficial thing it's an unofficial thing but the parents love it it's one of the most popular thing oh the kids love it because they want to break ankles they're they're out there to to you know I mean, they're tough. They're tough. Dang, dude. Yeah, they're not playing around. My own kid tells me that. And I'm like, no, so I got a referee.

Starting point is 00:13:24 You know, we'll go break somebody else's ankle. Not your dad. Right. So maybe Raymond or Francisco can chime in on this, but I know you're very involved with soccer. That was a big part of your life, right? Did you do any sports or anything like that growing up? Were you part of anything like that? Well, mine was on the playground.

Starting point is 00:13:41 You know, you know, back growing up, man, we were out until 8 o'clock and you didn't come in. until you heard your mom screaming, you know, that was, that was our league. The glory days, man. You know, obviously times of change, you can't do that anymore. Right, right. You know, I learned how to play basketball at a church, you know, basketball hoop that we all would go out until, like, we hours of the night, you know, weekends, man. We would go and meet up at elementary school and play tackle football. You know, that's how we learned, you know, in the rain. I miss that world.

Starting point is 00:14:16 Oh, man. Yeah, man. I myself, I had like, we almost had like our own legit little sandlot, man. You know, there was a baseball field down the street from where I grew up, and we were just, we practically lived there, man. So, you know, those memories you don't forget. It's a big part of our childhood. And it's getting harder to just make those memories kind of organically, so to speak, like the way we kind of did in our era, right? And so it's good that there's a structured, official.

Starting point is 00:14:46 place or opportunity for stuff like that like there is with Roger's group. I mean back then growing up it was organic right you know you go hang out with all the kids in the neighborhood and go do whatever you know and you didn't have your parents watching you know hovering obviously again you know times have changed you know you can't just go run around anymore so this this you know these leagues I mean I think is a good thing to help kids get out. You mentioned a big part of that because it does give them a very safe

Starting point is 00:15:15 element and environment. You know, we, we, we have the, the coaches that are, they get background check, you know, for that, you know, there's normally a lot of security running around, you know, you have the park patrol out there, plus other parents that are just watching that. So, you know, we, we create almost like a, like a village feel, and we're taking care of one another and parenting other kids, but, but yeah, you're right. Our medals back then were. where the bruises and cuts and missing teeth and black eyes and stuff, you know,

Starting point is 00:15:51 getting back home afterwards. Yeah. So those medals, I mean, they are just, you know, for that. We do still try to keep a little competitive aspect to it. So at the final week, we do play for a championship trophy. So, you know, we're not trying to create everybody gets a trophy type of thing. Well, that was going to be my next question. They do get achievement medal for completing the season.

Starting point is 00:16:19 But that's not the one that they all want. The ones that win first place, they do get a nice trophy. So it's earned. So, you know, we're, you know, loss is part of life. That's right. And, you know, you got to teach these kids as well as that, look, you're not going to win every single time. That's right. And if you do, you got to get better.

Starting point is 00:16:40 That's right. And if you're going to get better, you got to work harder. So, you know, that is one of the. The core values right there is learning how to live with defeat, but get yourself up and go on. And that's a weekly value pretty much because you're always having to deal with kids that get pretty upset about losing the game. It happens every week, and you've got to talk to them

Starting point is 00:17:06 and get with the parents. Sometimes these parents are asking, you know, I mean, we were talking about being refereeing the other day and how people can get a little bit out of line with that. Yeah, that's right. You know, in our organization, you know, we do ask the families to look at an ethics form in the beginning. Read it, sign it with your coach and your kid.

Starting point is 00:17:32 And it's going to talk about all that. You know, we don't want to have the profanity. We don't want you yelling at the coaches. I mean, yeah, we understand, hey, you know, we understand a little bit of... Do you have a special section for people that grew up in Corpus? No, not necessarily, but yeah, I might consider that if... Or like the Wercco from the Valley that tackled the ref, man?

Starting point is 00:17:55 That's crazy, man. Hey, I'm from the Valley, man. I know, you guys are wild. But it happened at my alma mater, too. John Jay High School, it made the news and these guys went on Good Morning America. The guy had a mullet before the mullet was popular anyway. but yeah you know so we're we didn't used to see that that was that that never happened man it's lack of respect though man it's right you know that's right which he's addressing with his group absolutely

Starting point is 00:18:19 and the thing is is you know the parents man you know it's it's right always unfortunately that's where it happens it happens right there so you have to address it right away yeah you you have to if you just let it go it's going to not only is it going to besters not only is it just going to uh what you said, Pester, but now you've got other parents thinking like, wow, it's happening right in front of Coach Roger. Nothing's happening. You know, we don't want to be part of that. I'd rather address it right then and there and have the, you know, the potential loss of that one person, but gain the respect out of everybody else saying that's why we're here. I like it.

Starting point is 00:19:01 One of the things that I noticed is that youth sports is super expensive. Yeah, tell me about it. I mean, it's almost like a mortgage payment. Yeah. And what are some of the things that you're doing to kind of help those kids that? Man, that's, you hit a very, very good question and one that I would love to address. So we are for most part a very inexpensive organization for what you get. So it's a nine-week program.

Starting point is 00:19:35 And typically for most sports, except for cheerleaders, because cheerleading would provide the whole get-up. They're going to run 160. Now, that's for the full nine weeks. The first week is a meet and greet. And then the other eight weeks is all competitive play. Now, when you think about that, what does that really encompass? That's really more like, you know, a cheeseburger and fries and a Coke.

Starting point is 00:20:00 Right. You think about it per day. But you're creating all that entertainment and those values, and you can take your grandma, grandpa, everybody out there just for that one thing. Now, for those that think that $160's a lot, well, you know what, I get it. Some people, that is. That is a lot of money. So for those that are on Wixnet Medicaid, we have programs for that.

Starting point is 00:20:22 We look for scholarships for them. Nice. And, you know, we found a couple organizations that have assisted a little bit. They can't help everybody, but it's minimal assistance. But a little bit more than long. It's minimal scholarships. So that was an issue that I wanted to address from the beginning. Because where I grew up, you know, the household income isn't like it is off of Stone Oak or the north side.

Starting point is 00:20:50 You know, that household income might be $120, $150,000. Isn't that where you live, Francisco? Yeah. No, he's in the Dominions. Oh, Dominions. No, no. Stop spreading rumors. So business-wise, it makes a lot of sense.

Starting point is 00:21:06 And that's why you see all these other. organizations up there because it business sense it makes sense right um whereas i do need to make money that's 100% i can't do this without without it but you know i i i thought that you know what let's see if we can figure out a way to get more kids involved let's look at at our mission again and let's see what it's going to take to get a nonprofit of our own so So we decided to work on it, work on it. And in early 20, 23, we were able to form a nonprofit. Nice.

Starting point is 00:21:48 Now, the goal on that is to try to assist these kids with the funds that are coming in with the nonprofit and to assist them. So year to date, we've probably helped out about, I would say, at least 30 to 40 kids. Okay. How many are typically registered in a season for end zone? So kids in general, we've had about 550 to 600. Wow. For one season? For one season. Okay.

Starting point is 00:22:22 And you're able to financially support about, how many did you say about 40 to 50? So we were able to do about 40, 40 kids. And it wasn't full scholarships. We weren't able to do that, but we were able to do partial scholars. ship, which is a big part. But that's an extra 40 that may not have done it otherwise. That's right. That's right.

Starting point is 00:22:43 And we assist them. We help them out. We create payment plans. There's different ways to do that. And they're not having to nearly come up with the amount. Let me ask you. So if somebody wanted to help, what, you know, what do they? That was going to be my next question.

Starting point is 00:22:55 So those are the best questions because this type of business organization, you know, you need. need all the help you can get. There's not enough people that you can say no, we're good. You know, you just, you're never there. It changes weekly. So the first requests I would like would be the personnel help. The people to help out volunteer. The volunteer. Their time. The,

Starting point is 00:23:28 set up, the breakdown. The, you know, we can always use coach. Even there's a coach, having a second coach out there, that helps. We talked about referees For a while there I was having a lot of trouble finding good referees There was a moment where referees didn't want to go Or you couldn't find them

Starting point is 00:23:47 They were tired of dealing with the parents Not our group We never had them there But other organizations yelling at them It's like it's not worth it Why do we want to Why do we want to be there Volunteer their time?

Starting point is 00:23:59 In some cases Meet them in the parking lot And trying to beat them up You know and that's happened And those people from Corpus That's happened. in the in baseball fields, the basketballs, courts. It's unfortunate, but it does happen.

Starting point is 00:24:15 Yeah. We just had a conversation about the Francisco on the golf cart, and, you know, it's sad. Yeah. So, you know, we typically put one of our coaches out there to referee, and then for the championship games, you know, we try to look for actual refs. If not, I'll go ref. You know, I'm pretty, pretty good with the calls. or we'll get one of the main head coaches out there in a zebra uniform and refting.

Starting point is 00:24:41 Yep. And then just having, you know, somebody there for the, for Enzov to do whatever. It might be like, hey, I need you to go this, go, you know, go take this equipment over there. Can you assist over there, take a bag of ice? I mean, you know, people get bruises all the time. Yep. Just anything. Or we need pennies.

Starting point is 00:25:01 I mean, anything can pop up. Sure. And then the other thing is the is the financial help. Monetary. The monetary part is, to me, that's the easier part. You know, there's a lot of companies out there that are looking for ways to, you know, lower their tax burden. Yep. So, you know, you have a decision.

Starting point is 00:25:24 You can either send that money to Uncle Sam and not know what's going on with it. Or you can do something that's in your community and send it to. to someplace that's an actual 501 3C and see it how it can, it can, you know, help. That's right. You get to see the fruit of it. And, you know, my goodness, you know, go to the game. Set up shop over there, put a tin up, talk about your business. I invite businesses all the time to come out and, you know, pass out a water bottle or, you know, talk to the parents about whatever your business is.

Starting point is 00:26:00 So that would be the second way. The third way is individual, you know, sponsorships. We do sell different types of sponsorships. We have field sponsorships, metal sponsorships, trophy sponsorships. We can put your name on it. You can put your name on the shirt. There's all kinds of things. We have a menu for that.

Starting point is 00:26:19 It's not real expensive, but, you know, they average around $500 to do some of those. So there's a little bit of something. Do you have anywhere online that someone can go and see these? lists of ways to contribute? So that I had on the website at one time. Now, right now under the nonprofit, which is called Go Play Sports, the other thing you can do is

Starting point is 00:26:48 get into one of our golf tournaments that we're doing. We're going to have our first one, but that's going to be in... It's actually September 27th is the date. September 27th. Are you still with us on the podcast? He's over there. I'm enjoying it.

Starting point is 00:27:04 Hey. September 27. And that one, what you're asking, is the one that has the drop-down boxes where you can get the sponsorship. I want to do something with being able to sponsor us on the league level. But I'm not in charge of that website. So it's hard for me to do anything on there. Best I can do right now is maybe put it like on a page and then people can. call and say, hey, I want to, I want to do that, but you wouldn't be able to go, like,

Starting point is 00:27:35 with the credit card and do it on a website. You would have to get with me and do that. Okay, so, Roger, you sponsor the golf tournament. You show up, you golf, you have a good time. It's for a good cause. The funds that you receive from that, is that pretty much going exclusively towards those scholarships? That's right.

Starting point is 00:27:51 It's going 100% to the scholarships, and it allows us to not only say yes to more kids, but now we can look at different areas of town to get into. Yeah. You know, I think athletic-wise, we're not even tapping the best resources that we have in town, athletic-wise, in the city. Yeah. But that's just on that part. You know, there's also the academic part of it.

Starting point is 00:28:17 There's all the, you know, areas in town where, you know, sports, it's been proven that some of the most important leaders in the world, have a sports background. Whether it was the president or CEO company, probably all of us have been involved in sports and we're all owning business. So, you know, it's just important to at least... It's a foundational thing. To learn either the values of leadership

Starting point is 00:28:46 or social skills. Yeah. You know, it's going to teach you huge social skills on how to handle different kind of heated situations, you know, disagreements, how to do, you know, whatever it is that life. Me, I learned how bad I was. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:29:03 It was painful, man. I stayed away from baseball. Yeah. It helped to contribute to my humility, okay? Because, you know, you go in there thinking you're all good, and then, man, there's some good players in those leagues, man, and they'll humble you real quick. You get humbled very. You know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:29:19 Yep. So you're like, damn, not a hot shot after a dog. Very quickly. Shoot. So, yeah, you're teaching some really important things. No, and just a testimonial for Roger, like, we work golf buddies. Like, we play around a golf every week for the past, what, a couple of months, six months, a year or a couple years. And, I mean, this guy's 100% committed to the cost, to helping others to, like, he gives it all.

Starting point is 00:29:43 Yeah. So whenever he asks for help, like, I know for sure that, I mean, he's doing the right thing to help those kids. That's awesome. So that's good stuff, man. Yeah, I think you got a real good thing going here. What's the actual venue or, like, where are y'all doing the games right now? So I brought this flyer here and I don't know if we can show it, but I can tell you, I know it by heart. Yep, definitely.

Starting point is 00:30:05 We have two venues at the moment. We were up to four, but we scaled it down just so I could be involved a little bit more in it, give it a little bit better quality control. Sure. So our Saturday venue is at Copernicus Park. That's over off of the east side of San Antonio, southeast of you on Lord Road. and we have soccer and flag football at that venue. Okay.

Starting point is 00:30:29 The Sunday venue is at Lady Bird Johnson Park off of Nacadoches. That's going to be between 410 and Where's Parkway. Okay. There, that's where you're going to have the flag football, soccer, cheerleading, basketball, volleyball, baseball, baseball. Nice, nice. Yeah, and we'll make sure we add that website to the show notes for this episode, and we'll have it. It'll go on YouTube, and we distributed it all over. the place. So we'll make sure that that gets included in that way. If anybody happens to hear this or watch

Starting point is 00:30:59 this, they'll know how to follow up with you and everything you guys are doing. Awesome. So that's some good stuff, man. We really appreciate you being here, Roger. We're just about to wrap it up here. I just, I always like to ask before we finalize, you know, is there anything else that you're into besides sports and besides golf? You do anything else for fun? Yeah. So, you know, probably, probably one of the things I, like to do is, you know, I really like messing with outdoors, you know, at one point I was doing decorative outdoors, you know, so, you know, just throwing down concrete, stamping it. That kind of stuff.

Starting point is 00:31:42 Building barbecue. So you welds? I'm not a welder. No, I'm not a welder. How do you put it? Then how did you put it together? Well, the islands. Like with the barbecue stuff and all that.

Starting point is 00:31:54 So the barbecue islands, they're pretty simple. You can just make them to fit a particular barbecue pit. So let's say that you're fortunate enough to have a Viking gas grill. You know, you just build it around it. So you just get the dimension. And then you can just build a cantilever edge and just kind of sit it on there. But those are just kind of things that, you know, I learned how to do. I didn't learn how to weld.

Starting point is 00:32:16 But you don't really need to know how to do that whenever you're the boss. You get other people doing it. And you know what? Like, sometimes after we do a run of golf, I'm like, hey, I'm going to go home. I mean, he's still going out there dropping off flyers and networking with other daycares. I'm like, he doesn't stop. I don't know how you get so much energy. You know, that's probably my other thing I'd like to do is just being around with other people.

Starting point is 00:32:41 I like surrounding myself with sharp people, getting their ideas. What are you doing with Francisco? It's the... Zing. No, I think this is probably the one, right, that we need the... Man, dude, that one doesn't affect the volume at all. It's always loud. Anyways, that's for the cuss words.

Starting point is 00:33:06 Yeah, you know, it's... I just like hanging out and just talking to people, man. Hearing different people's experiences and, you know, the... It's always been like this for me, but now that I'm the franchise owner of a sports franchise, guys, you can kind of attribute everything to sports. I mean, it really comes down to, you know, at your job, you're either competing for a bit if you're in the service industry, or you're trying to finalize a, you know, a project in time. You're trying to, you know, hit the wind.

Starting point is 00:33:47 I mean, everything just contributes to it, the game planning. Yeah. You know, it's just amazing on how I've come full circle to doing that. One of the things I wish I would have said in the beginning, but I'll say it now, when I thought about opening this franchise, I started recalling when I was the most happiest in my life. And honestly, guys, it was when I was playing sports, man. I can't tell you how happy that I was to get out there, go swing them back, go play football, go play just whatever it was and just getting out there and just testing myself,

Starting point is 00:34:25 giving the challenges, being with your teammates out there. I miss that so much. And now that I'm not actually playing, but I'm seeing all these other ones, I'm living through my son's eyes watching him do that. And although I let him do his own thing. I don't make him play anything. He wants to do it all. How old is he?

Starting point is 00:34:46 He's nine. And, you know, this was our first season to have Vol, volleyball. We have 14 kids sign up. 13 girls, the one boy. Your son. There's my son. Chip off the old blog. He wants to go check it out. And you know what? I'm like, man, why aren't more people, little boys playing volleyball? Right. You know, we're starting to see more, more little girls playing flag football, which is, which is cool because flag football just became an Olympic sport and it's going to be at the 2024 or 25 Olympic, 24 Olympics. I don't know. Yeah. He hasn't done the Olympics for a couple years.

Starting point is 00:35:22 It's going to be official sport now. I heard about them. I don't know when I lost track because I'm keeping track of the World Cup. Oh, I got you. If somebody wanted to get in touch with you about the golf tournament, what's the best way? So you can call me directly at the 210-962-2933. That's the end zone number. Is that the one on there?

Starting point is 00:35:43 Yeah. Or you can go to the website, which is called go playsports, inc, inc, dot, o. That's the nonprofit. That's the nonprofit. That's where we're going to hold it. You know, you can get a hold of Francisco if you know him. You can call me. You can go to the end zone website or to our Facebook page and you'll see it on there.

Starting point is 00:36:08 Okay. But really, it's really spreading more to mouth. You know, I'm letting the local groups. We talked about that at the place where we're at last time. Cigar shop. You know, I just want to not only just make it about trying to earn the monies for his kids, but when you ask me what are the things I like doing outside of sports, I like being with other business guys, connecting people.

Starting point is 00:36:37 I like being able to network and, you know, see how we can make each other better. I want to not just bring myself, I want to bring everybody. Iron sharpens iron. That's right. I love it. Roger, we're a little over, but that's all good because you had a lot of good things to share. But I got to thank you for coming on, man. And I think what I really like is how you're keeping this thing going, this legacy that your parents have started.

Starting point is 00:37:00 That's pretty amazing, man, because, you know, they had something in the 70s. And giving kids an outlet, you know. That's right. And you basically, you took the torch and you were like, let's keep this thing alive. I wouldn't be surprised if your son does the same. Yep. So thank you for your time today, Roger. We really appreciate you having on there.

Starting point is 00:37:16 Thank you so much for everything. My pleasure. My pleasure. And for our co-host. Thank you for having me, guys. Thanks for coming back with us. I'm not as cool as Francisco, but I will do my best. Thank you, guys.

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Business Innovators Radio - Championing Youth Sports: How N- Zone Sports CenTex Is Empowering Kids with Roger Guerrero

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