How I Made My Move To Grenada With Children - Island Life in Grenada

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[@Microxxd]

I am Jahbari Johnson and am one of Mr Browne student, am so grateful and honored for the opportunity to develop and improve my skills I am already learning so much and I am very grateful I think anything is possible with passion and opportunity you can be anything and accomplish any life goal and I have the passion and I am very honored for the opportunity provided by Mr Browne and for being an amazing mentor i wish every person hand mentors like Mr Browne to help the grow and develop there dreams.

[@ExodusCollective]

Thanks for the glowing recommendation Jhabari. The academy is a great asset for the island and deserves more support in my opinion. Look forward to sending my son there some time soon.

[@dwaynestrachan9527]

This is absolutely inspiring and literally moving myself as a second generation Grenadian British to reconnecting to my roots

[@ExodusCollective]

Glad to hear the conversations are working their magic 🙌🏾

[@rendelx]

Excellent conversation. Love the focus on the tech side of things. That is the present and the future!

[@ExodusCollective]

You two should talk 😊

[@rendelx]

@@ExodusCollective for sure :)

[@m.slinger4606]

I was so delighted to listen to this discussion. I remember when you just came back and was curious as to how you progressed. You are so right Clifford in encouraging a balanced perspective and being sure about your objective of why one is returning home. Just today I was speaking to a friend about the challenges that the diaspora experiences in reconciling their image of Grenada, which usually is an impression displaced in time marked by the time of their departure from the island, their narrative of them live they are currently living, in whichever other county, and the current reality of what life in Grenada has evolved to. In trying to reconcile these three 'realities ' members in the diaspora can get confused and frustrated because they are trying to merge the three into making a satisfactory resolution for their own psychological comfort. As someone who have lived in o the countries yet chose NOT to leave Grenada I recognize this struggle. And am glad that You Clifford Brown have so eloquently and simply placed an explaination of how you addressed it and made it work for you. Am excited about the work you are doing with the youth. Your are right, to better survive global economic shocks we have ti, HAVE TO! Diversify our economy and training, in the direction of where the world is going, even while we much as we value our legacy economic activities. I also really appreciate how you laid out the core needs in areas of support for national development. ....yes it can be in areas of single large scale business development, but Grenada, and I will say much of the OECS are ripe and fertile ground for the development of SMES which usually are the businesses that are flexible enough to sustain large economic shocks. And that fertility that we have really needs the watering of mentoring and partnering. Thank you and I hope some day we get to chat more.

[@ExodusCollective]

Thanks so much more for your comment. You've hit the nail on the head when it comes to the challenge for the diaspora when it comes to considerations on returning to the island - my father definitely falls into that category! Hopefully there are ways in which support and exchange of ideas can be provided from afar, especially in this age in which so much of lives is virtual.

[@gg13308]

i just found your channel, you were a speaker at the Exodus summit...I never had Grenada on my radar. I am going to visit for sure.

[@darke-minecraft]

Great talk. I can’t wait to meet Clifford.

[@joanbourne1493]

Love listening to you lots of great information ❤️

[@ExodusCollective]

I'm glad you found it useful 😊

[@marcellemcdonald7762]

*Fantastic Interview* *Thank you sir* 🙌

[@ExodusCollective]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@wilsonsmanz]

I laughed when he mentioned getting beaten for reaching late in Palmer school. I am many years younger than Mr Browne but I went to St George's SDA Primary School which is at the top of the hill to Palmer and I used to see boys lined up outside to get licks for reaching late. This was from 95 - 00.

[@ExodusCollective]

I wonder if it's changed now?

[@arnoldroderique5034]

Well done. Excellent. Keep it going.

[@ExodusCollective]

Thank you

[@mariancounsellor]

I really learnt a lot from listening to this guy. Thanks Zoe 💕

[@ExodusCollective]

You're most welcome - thanks for taking the time to watch and comment 🙏🏾

[@rachealcobby1805]

Hi Zoe, Thank you for interviewing Mr Brown he was so engaging and very informative. I am looking at relocating to Grenada but having bought land and wanting to start building. I was happy to hear him say building can be cheap, bcause my researches so far says different sourcing good but reasonable price builders in Grenada is difficult. can I please have Mr Brown's email to discuss building and business ideas in Gremada with him if possible.

[@ExodusCollective]

Hi Rachel, congratulations on purchasing land in Grenada! Send me an email [e-mail] and I'll forward your details to him.

[@wendyhestick8514]

Very smart and wise family!

[@nickysunshine8734]

Great interview…. I agree that children are more disciplined in the Caribbean, because it’s a standard for most.

[@raymondsmith7693]

That's the scariest thing about moving back home u have to adapt the past so slow back in grenada and the people are so out of the way sometimes God bless America

[@davidwlanclos]

love and blessings

[@raymondsmith7693]

U can say that I guess u lucky lots of people from nyc came and it was a nightmare getting anything done the costomerservice is so Damm bad they need to go back to school and teach them how to talk to people

[@lady.J3962]

People let him tell his story and stop focusing on the betting that he got as a child maybe that little betting made him the man that he is today. Let give thanks💔👍

[@diacandi]

I just saw a few of your videos. I'm looking to move my family there. A Canadian with greek heritage. Looking to leave the madness here in Québec

[@raymondsmith7693]

The cold don't bother me at all

[@wendyhestick8514]

Sorry, I had and have an aversion to beatings of any sort. Hated it then and despise it even more now. I consider it a remnant of slavery and colonialism.

[@ExodusCollective]

You and I both. I acknowledge that most folks here see things very differently though.

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

I've never liked it, but I'm not sure that it's a remnant of slavery or colonialism though. I heard that children who were disobedient in West Africa were sold into slavery as punishment.

[@raymondsmith7693]

Mr I never hear u thank new york for all that u achieve u making no sense grenada can never have all the stuff America have not in a million years

[@ExodusCollective]

If you listen closely, I think you'll find that Clifford doesn't once state that Grenada offers all that America does. What does come across quite clearly is that he feels each one of us gets to choose to live in a place that best suits our needs and where we can make a meaningful difference. Given that there are +8 billion people in the world would be rather strange if we all perceived things the same way wouldn't it. Each to their own.

[@calijencalivigny5958]

Shameful, to have a person talking about receiving beatings as a child, and acting like this is a positive thing. If you beat an adult, they can call the police, but a defenseless child, somehow to act violently towards them is normal and acceptable. I couldn't even hear anything this person had to say after that...that was terrible

[@estherherry974]

I don't know where you grew up, but his experience made him the man he is... I dont know how old he is but the society we now live in has the young ppl the way they are.. No respect for their parents or adults... He spoke much about discipline and respect for abults, and how the village raised the children.. Because if someone saw you doing something your parents would be told and everyone knew one another.. So it may of been your loss that you did not hear anything else he was saying...

[@calijencalivigny5958]

@@estherherry974 I grew up in the Caribbean, and we don't have to continue/promote these methods of disciplining children. I thought it was despicable then, and it's despicable now. Violence against children, women, men, all over the world, is wrong

[@ExodusCollective]

I hear you. Clifford was sharing his experiences. I understand that you don't take the same stance as he does but to dismiss everything he had to say after that is a real shame. I don't believe in beating kids but respect that there are cultural and generational differences which lead people to view things differently. Thanks for taking the time to share your point of view though - I still think the interview is full of gems that are worth a listen and, overall, I found Clifford to be pretty inspiring. 🙂

[@calijencalivigny5958]

@@ExodusCollective No thank you. I could not continue to watch, because this notion of children being beaten, without an immediate disclaimer that such actions are not ok, is not for my viewership, no matter how accepted it is in a culture. Not all persons from the Caribbean see this as positive parenting.

[@ExodusCollective]

@@calijencalivigny5958 I hear you 🙂