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Beverly Broadus-Green has been a lot of things to a lot of people. A lifelong resident of Long Beach, California, she spent 42 years as a church choir director, she was a loving wife to Howard Green until his death in 2005, and before retirement, she earned a living as a head chef. She said her specialty dish is cheese and macaroni (not macaroni and cheese), because her four sons and six grandchildren never seem to get enough of it — especially her son Cordozar Calvin Broadus, better known as Snoop Dogg.

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But after serving so many people, on Easter Sunday 2005, Broadus-Green accepted the calling to serve the Lord. Now she’s an ordained evangelist who travels the country doing her part to build the Kingdom of God. Broadus-Green’s first passion is helping battered women.

“I’m blessed with the discernment to pick up on abusive relationships,” says Broadus-Green, adding that helping women and young girls is a way for her to help others avoid some of the issues she endured in her own past relationships.

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When Broadus-Green’s children were younger, her home was the ”open house” of the neighborhood, so she’s spent a lot of time trying to keep her sons – and other young men – out of gangs and away from drugs. So what does she think of Snoop’s music videos depicting a blunt-smoking rapper who degrades and parties with scantily clad women? “I told him I was embarrassed by it, and he told me his lyrics were not about me or all women, but ‘certain women. And they know who they are,’” says Broadus-Green.

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That’s why her latest project, YouthBloc, has such great meaning for her. YouthBloc.com is a non-profit 501-c3 designed to teach youth how to start successful businesses, solve problems, and apply for business loans. That means understanding the importance of having good credit and good communication skills.

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According to Broadus-Green, it’s not enough to tell youth just to say “no” to drugs and gangs. “They have to have something to say ‘yes’ to and focus on,” she remarks.

Marvin Fredlaw, a self-employed computer programmer who is Broadus-Green’s business partner and confidante, says YouthBloc.com is a much-needed program in urban areas, because public schools do little to nothing to teach students how to become entrepreneurs.

“In this economy, learning to start your own business instead of depending on a job is important,” says Fredlaw. Because parents are a child’s first teachers, Broadus-Green and Fredlaw encourage parents to partner with their children to bring their entrepreneurial dreams to reality.

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For youth who already have a viable business, YouthBloc.com promotes their service or products through its e-commerce website, such as Steven Brooks, Jr. This budding chemist creates and sells signature body oils. Although YouthBloc.com is in its infancy, the duo plans to take it across the country by partnering with well-known celebrities such as Snoop, his protégé rapper Wiz Khalifa, and local politicians.

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In the future, if Broadus-Green is not on the road fulfilling speaking engagements as an evangelist or doing community service work, she plans to promote her second book, Real Love II.  Together with part one of Real Love released in 2004, her books chronicle her personal experiences about recognizing true love and grieving the loss of a loved one.