Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM CST
7:45 am - Registration and Networking open
8:00 am - Networking and Breakfast
8:20 am - Welcome and Introduction
8:30 am - 9:30 am - Guest Speaker
John Deere Room at
Stoney Creek Hotel
5291 Stoney Creek Ct, Johnston, IA 50131
Members - $20
Non-Members - $25
Tiffany Menke
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The IMPACT Breakfast is designed to inspire and inform. Stories that have IMPACTED our community, our world, or our business. Join us as we spend the morning learning from each other and our special guest speakers.
Love, Zac is a small-town football and the life and death of an American Boy from Indianola. In December 2015, Zac Easter, a twenty-four-year-old from small-town Iowa, decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against the traumatic brain injuries he had sustained as a no-holds-barred high school football player.
For this deeply reported and powerfully moving true story, award-winning writer Reid Forgrave was given access to Zac?s own diaries and was able to speak with Zac?s family, friends, and coaches. He explores Zac?s tight-knit, football-obsessed Midwestern community; he interviews leading brain scientists, psychologists, and sports historians; and he takes a deep dive into the triumphs and sins of the sports entertainment industry.
Forgrave shows us how football mirrors America, from the fighting spirit the game has helped inscribe in our national character to the side effects of the traditional notions of manhood that it affirms. But above all, Love, Zac is a warning to parents and those entrusted with the care of our kids not to ignore concussions and warning signs of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). For parents struggling to decide whether to allow their kids to play football, this eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and ultimately inspiring story may be one of the most important books they will read.
Brenda Easter is our guest speaker and is Zac's mom.
Brenda Easter - Love, Zac
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