WHO WE ARE

The BIG LIVE (Being Involved Greatly, Living in Various Environments/TBL) provides motivational speaking seminars as a service to public schools in New York City, primarily in Brooklyn and Queens. Each seminar is filmed and developed into an urban culture, web-based reality series and shared through www.thebiglive.com and social media outlets including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.

WHAT WE DO

TBL builds towards the development and cultivation of the urban community by educating the youth on relevant statistics and moral decision making. If the youth are aware of the statistics through a medium they can relate to, TBL can effectively reduce recidivism while encouraging youth achievement.
TBL uses a realistic approach aimed at creating awareness of the many challenges that face inner-city youth. Using credible messengers, TBL’s motivational speaking seminars offer testimonials to high school students and provide a pragmatic outlook on present-day issues that face them through this pivotal period in their lives.
TBL is actively developing a reality series which streams on the program’s website, THEBIGLIVE.COM. Documenting these motivational speaking seminars, TBL acquires video footage in order to produce individual web-episodes, documenting students’ reactions and feedback and the positive impact this program has on the community.

LOWDOWN ON LOCKDOWN

Lowdown on Lockdown (LDLD) tackles the issue of incarceration. The keynote motivational speaker for this campaign is the epitome of positive youth development. Tyshawn Boyce is a young African American male from South Queens who was formerly incarcerated for 5 years. Tyshawn offers credible testimonials of his day-to-day activities while being incarcerated and the effects his incarceration had on family and friends. With Tyshawn, TBL provides the LDLD campaign to middle schools, high schools, GED Equivalency schools and provides field assistance in several community programs.