No Coaster Needed With Jacob Mccourt

On this episode of No Coaster Needed, we travel to Toronto to talk with Foad Karimian. Foad is a Community Capacity Builder - Youth Leadership at the Yonge Street Mission. Foad has dedicated his life to helping youth. He started this journey through an initiative he started called the Odette High School Leadership Initiative. The program created at the University of Windsor's Odette School of Business helps high school students develop key leadership skills. He now leads a similar program at the Yonge Street Mission called Our Voice Out Loud. Foad is a recipient of the Ontario Volunteer Service Award for continuous years of commitment and dedicated service to an organization and the Mayor's Youth Leadership Award in Windsor. On the show, we walk through Foad's upbringing, his move to the University of Windsor, starting the Odette Leadership Initiative, his job with the Yonge Street Mission and all of the anecdotes in between. To see updates about the Odette High School Leadership Initiative, you can sear