deion johnson is executive makai williams is 15 and a freshman at suitland high school, and he's now in the mentoring to manhood program. welcome all of you. >> thank you. >> makai, let me ask you -- how do you like it? >> i love the program. >> you've been in about six months or so? >> no -- >> sorry -- >> five years -- >> i got the timing -- what has it done for you in the years you've been there? you sort of grown up in it. >> yes. it's slowly turning me into a man literally. i grew up in it so i've been physically turning into a man. also mentally. so yeah. i like going there. >> you were going to grow up anyway, but you have extra help as you're growing up. >> yeah. >> deion, you work with middle and high school youngsters. tell us what makes mentoring 2 manhood so successful. >> just our ability to match like what we have here, a young man with another older man, and mentoring is so walk all of us through stages in life like we talk the about. so you know, i think that's what makes mentoring 2 man so successful is it just works. >> and you not only hold mentoring classes but on