Joe Burrow Foundation secretary and treasurer Robin Burrow presented leadership principles at the Anthony Muñoz Foundation’s Youth Leadership Seminar at the Crossroads Complex in Mason, Ohio on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.

Mrs. Burrow, Joe’s mother, emphasized leading with positivity, determination, flexibility, and good intentions to the more than 1,000 high schoolers from over 80 Greater Cincinnati high schools in attendance.

“I absolutely believe that our schools are the heart of our communities,” explained Mrs. Burrow, a former elementary school teacher and principal. “It is our responsibility to invest our strengths into our schools.”

The theme of this year’s Youth Leadership Seminar was “Next Level”, inviting students to step into growth, push past obstacles, build new skills, and discover what they’re truly capable of.

To illustrate the leadership principles she highlighted, Mrs. Burrow shared challenges from Joe’s path from high school, through a college National Championship, and into Super Bowl LVI with the Cincinnati Bengals.

She explained, “Joe was not heavily recruited by big programs. He heard all of the reasons that the big time programs felt his weaknesses outweighed this strengths.”

She also shared her and Joe’s dad, Jimmy Burrow’s, roles as parents and mentors through the “long and winding road of ups and downs.”

“As a mom, the messages that I repeated to Joe over and over were to work hard to get better every day and to be in control of what you can control.”

Showing their appreciation for Mrs. Burrow’s powerful message, students sang “Happy Birthday” to her before she left the stage.