Episode 14: Commit To Investing In Your Personal Development with Guest Travis Parker

I am excited to speak with Travis Parker. Travis is the Founder of Coach P, LLC, and the Director of Camp Community College Upward Bound. Coach P, LLC is an organization whose mission is “to inspire, influence, and instruct people to locate their potential, and be positive, process-oriented, and purposeful.” Within the company, Travis is a John Maxwell Team certified coach, speaker, and leadership trainer. He facilitates a basketball Referee College and started “The Game Changer Program” for adults and youth who are serious about “changing the game” within their life, family, and community. Upward Bound is a program that is dedicated to assisting high school students who would be among the first generation of their family to “GRADUATE from high school, ENROLL into college, and GRADUATE from college”. Travis is a proud 1985 graduate of Southampton High School, Courtland, VA, a 1989 bachelor’s degree graduate of Howard University, Washington, DC, a 2007 master's degree and a 2010 certificate of advanced graduate studies degree graduate of Cambridge College, Chesapeake, VA. 

From 1989 to 1996 he worked in corporate America in banking, loan services, and sales. In 1996 Travis returned home and transitioned to the education field as a Life Science teacher at Southampton Middle School, and coached JV and Varsity football, softball, basketball, and baseball. Travis started as the Director of School Counseling at Southampton Middle School in July 2007. He was hired to his current position as Upward Bound Director in July 2009 at Camp Community College, where he was also a math adjunct instructor. And in March of 2017, Coach P, LLC was birthed. Coach P is a deacon and former church treasurer at New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Franklin, VA, and a member of the Board of Directors at Bronco Federal Credit Union and the Franklin/Southampton United Way. 

He has been a basketball official at the high school and collegiate level, and commissioner of the Tri-City Basketball Officials Association. Travis has been an assistant football coach for 22 years (12 years at Southampton & 10 years at Franklin) under the leadership of 2 of the best high school football coaches in Virginia, Littleton Parker and Darren Parker (brother) respectively. In 2019 Coach P was called to be the Head Football Coach at his alma mater, Southampton High School. Travis is the eldest son of Oliver & Alice Parker and is married to the former Deborah Taylor, who is the proud business owner of Deb’s Hair Studio, LLC in Franklin, VA. They have 2 children, Jade and Eric. Travis simply believes that “You MUST grow yourself in order to grow others. Therefore, personal growth and developing into an effective leader in life is paramount.”

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