Cooper Brunner Podcast

Host of the "Extraordinary Thoughts For the Ordinary Mind" Podcast, 10+ years involved in the Marine Corps, and now recent Author, "MEECH" is someone you need to hear speak.“If you don’t make a path for yourself, your environment will do that job for you”.This was an early lesson Demetrius “Meech” Thigpen would learn, if he didn’t invocate change within himself.His story is no different than many youth, born in a metropolitan area riddle with drugs, crime, and plagued with addiction. Demetrius, the middle child of three siblings was raised by a single mother due to the absence of his father. Demetrius had to experience at an early age just how detrimental addiction was and the damage it can do to a family. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, drugs, crime, addiction, and violence were the norm; and it was a life expected for most. With the lack of jobs and the poverty this city had to offer; Demetrius’s mother did the best she could in raising her two young children all on her own. With t