From the Foster Children:
"I think the Embrace the Game Program is really good for helping people find out who they really are."
"It has helped me in school to focus because every time I feel like I can’t focus I say to myself “What’s Important Now” and that motivates me."
"It has helped me a lot. It even helped me achieve my goals. It let me be who I am and nobody else."
"ETG makes you think about how you live your life."
"It helped me think about the choices I have made and how I live my life."
"I think it is powerful. It made me challenge my integrity."
"ETG gives great self empowerment."
"It ensured me to always have integrity and be hard working."
"Encouraging."
"Empowering. It helped me in my life view."
"It made me successful."
"I learned to be faithful."
"I think it is good. It helped me in my relationship with integrity."
"It encouraged me to do the right thing."
"It made me be good."
the seven plays of success curriculum:
"The Seven Plays helped me think of different ways to accomplish goals and to fix problems."
"Now every time I am going to do something I compare it to the Plays."
"I learned that failure in the long run builds you up."
"The Plays changed me because I just need to syop doing most of the things that I did."
"It has taught me to look at ways to improve my life and ever since these classes I have been doing better in school."
"It has changed me in so many ways. I look at the world in a positive way; in a way I never thought I would look at before."
"It has helped me to be a stronger more independent person."
"The Plays make me take life more seriously. Now I put effort into any and everything I do."
"The Plays of Success has made me look at the world as a big opportunity to do something with my life. I no longer see the world as a place full of deceit, hatred and inhumanity."
"I feel that I can do what I want to do if I just work hard and strive to be my best."
"The Plays have made me have more confidence in all the work I do and much more determined to achieve my goals."
what people say about the embrace the game presenters:
"Tish is such a wonderful presenter and is great at what she does. She is inspirational!"
"She showed she cared, was really fun and down to earth."
"She was great, was encouraging and was a great presence in our class."
"I think she was awesome and presented well. I felt she was a part of our AVID family!!"
"I feel that Tish is a great speaker. She really is devoted to her work and I liked it."
"I loved Tish because she stayed involved and related her life to ours. She understood what we all were going through."
"Tish was very nice and explained success in the easiest way possible."
"She's great. She helps us learn and makes it fun at the same time."
"She was great 100%. She knew what she was doing!"
"She was very great. She is very bright and I can relate to her examples."
"She was excellant and she opened my eyes to realize that education should be my number 1!"
"I love Tish. She is very friendly and welcoming. I really enjoyed her presence. She is kind and so lovable."
"Tish was very outgoing and taught me things I never thought about."
"Tish always made my day whenever she came into the class. She changed my outlook on life."
From the Foster Kids:
"She is amazing. I like how she runs the presentation."
"I loved her it was a beautiful speech."
"Awesome!"
"She had energy and was passionate."
"She had great energy and she made it all the more interesting."
"Enthusiastic!"
"Really good, understandable."
"I love her. She was awesome."
what people say about the individual lessons:
"They were all great lessons and I cannot just pick one because they would be incomplete without all seven."
"I learned to use integrity no matter what the situation."
"I loved "'It's your Game' because it tells us that it is our life and our success depends on our choices."
"I learned from lesson 6 to push myself to the limit in my sport."
"I liked the Michael Jordan video where people depended on him to make the winning shot."
"Choose Perseverance. I liked this because it taught me to never give up."
"I loved the quote where I will not be ashamed to shine."
"Choosing to sacrifice. You have to give up things in life to get where you want to be."
"What changed my life is learning in lesson 1 that this life is my game and no one elses."
"I loved lesson 7 about Choosing Integrity. We do not know how to use the power we have for good to change the world."
"I learned a lot from the roadblocks...that I can be stronger when hard times come."
"I will always remember WIN- What's Important Now when it comes to everything I do."
"I loved the Rocky video and I am trying hard not to play the Blame Game!"
"Lesson 3 stands out because I would always play the Blame Game. Now I don't and things are a lot better."
"Carrying the softball player around the bases stood out to me the most because although they had dedication to their team and wanted to win, they chose to do what was right."