During HVAC Technical Academy’s September 2026 workshop completion ceremony, Danny introduces Rhashaad Owens and talks about the person everyone has come to know and appreciate. Danny expresses his confidence in Rhashaad’s abilities and encourages him to keep believing in himself.
Rhashaad thanks Andrew, Danny, Robert, and Chris for challenging him throughout the workshop. He also recognizes the sacrifices his family made while he attended training, including his wife working extra hours.
He closes by thanking Felicia and Sasha from CareerSource for helping him take advantage of an opportunity he felt he could not pass up.
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Danny – introduces Rhashaad Owens - Transcript
00:00:00 — Danny
We have come to grow and appreciate, I have and I know everybody else has, a good person, good-hearted person. Is going to be ready for a great career. That I know he’s built for it. He’s got the mind for it. He is ready for this.
Don’t ever stop whatever it is that you’re doing. Don’t ever stop believing in yourself. But I believe in you, and I want you to come up here and say something wonderful, especially about me. Okay, maybe not.
00:00:00 — Rhashaad Owens
I don’t know what I’m doing. I ain’t
00:00:37 — Rhashaad Owens
going to preach too much. My wife ain’t going to let me preach to y’all, so, you know, I just want to give a major shoutout to HVAC Tech Cool Academy, Mr. Andrew, Mr. Danny, Mr. Robert for challenging me, definitely Mr. Chris. You know, teamwork make the dream work. If you know, you know. So, you know what I’m saying, and I want to also thank once again my family, man. You know, late nights, early mornings, man. You know, I’m missing out on money. Wifey had to go overtime, you know what I’m saying, work
00:01:07 — Rhashaad Owens
extra hard, you know what I’m saying. You know, so, you know, I’m paying, it’s going to pay off though, most definitely.
And once again, once again, man, thank Miss Felicia, thank Miss Sasha, you know, CareerSource. You know, major shoutout to y’all. You know, you know, it’s like last minute, last shot, final shot. I had to take it. I’m like, yeah, this is the one. You know, so I’m going to thank y’all, man. Thank y’all for coming. Thank you for giving me the opportunity, man.