Episode 126: Building Friendships and Changing Lives-Because Baseball with Kemp Gouldin

Episode 126 of The Hitstreak, a podcast where we talk about anything and everything!  This week we are joined by Kemp Gouldin, the Founder of Because Baseball! Let us know in the comments what YOU want to hear about next!About our guest: Kemp Gouldin is President and Founder of Because Baseball, a non-profit that is bringing youth baseball to the greater Middle East region. Starting with Egypt, where thousands of young people have begun playing under its auspices since 2017, the organization is building bridges of understanding with the Middle East across families, communities, and cultures - building connectivity across society. Back on this side of the Atlantic, Kemp spearheaded Because Baseball’s partnership with the Washinton Nationals to create Major League Baseball’s first ever Arab Heritage Night in 2019, building bridges of understanding through baseball in our own backyard.  With more than 15 years of experience at the crossroads of business, policy, and diplomacy in the region, he is a consensus builder who regularly advises key U.S. and world officials working on international issues.  Prior to his work in the region, he was a fellow at the United States Small Business Administration. He is a US Spain Council Young Leader, a Gabr Fellow, an American Council on Germany Young Leader and was a delegate in the Atlantic Council’s Young Turkey Young America program. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.  Follow and contact:  Instagram: @becausebaseball becausebaseball.org About Our Sponsors:Hitlab: We specialize in the creation, marketing, and promotion of Podcasts and other serial content. http://hitlabstudio.com/Team Hiter: Our mission is to protect our customers from financial hardship due to unforeseen illness or injury. Simply stated, we provide peace of mind in keeping the promise of financial protection afforded by our health coverages. https://teamhiter.com/RAC Financial has the integration of partner solutions that every business owner needs to be successful. They help make payment processing simple, secure, and reliable by using state-of-the-art tokenization standards that are required of all businesses. RAC Financial cares about you and your business, and they will do their very best to serve you. Your success is RAC Financial’s success. They've processed over $3B annually in transactions in less than three years!Get a FREE RAC Financial Cost Savings Analysis for your business here.<