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Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Bill Courtney again with an army of

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Speaker 1: normal folks. Let's continue with part three of our conversation

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Speaker 1: with Sherry Garcia of corn Bread Hustle. Right after these

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Speaker 1: brief messages from our generous sponsors, we now returned to

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Speaker 1: Sherry on our volunteer work that led to corn Bread Hustle.

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Speaker 2: So I became Oprah and I was going from transitional

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Speaker 2: health to transition house. You get a job, you get

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Speaker 2: a job, you get a job.

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Speaker 1: So you just were going to transition houses making people

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Speaker 1: get jobs. Yeah, but you're not being paid for this?

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Speaker 2: No, because it was so fun.

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Speaker 1: But what are you getting paid to do at this time?

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Speaker 2: At that time, I was just doing pr and barely

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Speaker 2: making it.

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Speaker 1: So you're basically starving and spending all your time, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: helping all these And.

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Speaker 2: At this point I was a true alcoholic at this.

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Speaker 1: Point, this time, you're drinking all day.

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Speaker 2: Every day, but giving people jobs. I was very function

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Speaker 2: I was still like, do.

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Speaker 1: You think these guys smelled alcoholic?

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Speaker 2: Oh, they knew I was drinking. They didn't care I

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Speaker 2: was helping them.

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Speaker 1: Uh, I guess not.

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Speaker 2: They thought I was a funny girl, you know, so

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Speaker 2: they didn't care.

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Speaker 1: Plus I was sick of the sushi, like anybody would be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I will tell you, well, you know what both

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Speaker 2: of them, both guys that I'm thinking of right now,

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Speaker 2: that we had sushi, they still to this day do

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Speaker 2: love sushi. Manjie and Bennie. I'm talking to you. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: they grew to like it. But yeah, at first it.

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Speaker 1: Was Benny, you can tell her the truth. Now Benny

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Speaker 1: hates sushi, trust me. So you start going to Halfway

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Speaker 1: House just helping people.

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Speaker 2: I was like, so, what's your dream? What's your dream?

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Speaker 2: What's your dream? Google? And so one morning I woke

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Speaker 2: up and I was just laying in my bed hungover,

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Speaker 2: which was every morning, and I was just like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I don't have money. I'm broke. And I was like,

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Speaker 2: I need a job. And I was like, why don't

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Speaker 2: I give myself. I could give myself a job if

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Speaker 2: I can give all these other people their dream jobs.

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Speaker 2: And so, since I was so fulfilled by it and

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Speaker 2: so passionate, I was like this, I need to figure

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Speaker 2: out a way to monetize this. Now A lot of

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Speaker 2: people ask why didn't you make it a nonprofit? I

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Speaker 2: would not know how to run a nonprofit. I can sell,

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Speaker 2: it's just it's not I can sell ketchup to a

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Speaker 2: lady wearing.

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Speaker 1: But what's wrong with having a profitable entity that also

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Speaker 1: helps people? Nothing?

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Speaker 2: Nothing, nothing at all.

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Speaker 1: I would be completely unapologetic about that. That's just how

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Speaker 2: So fine. I couldn't, like, I don't know how to

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Speaker 2: ask somebody for money and not say here's something in return.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean you did. You made the tako and

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Speaker 1: that made no money, so true, maybe you learn from that.

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Speaker 1: So you're laying in bed, you're broke, You've been helping

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Speaker 1: all these people, and you say, I guess where your

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Speaker 1: head is? A staff come?

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Speaker 2: So I said, what how do I monetize this? And

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Speaker 2: I went to Google, just like I suggested to all

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Speaker 2: these other guys and girls, and I typed in how

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Speaker 2: to start a staffing agency? And I literally read the

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Speaker 2: steps that wiki how said that's it, And I started there.

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Speaker 1: And you start a staffing company from what the top

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Speaker 1: Google search told you to do?

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Speaker 2: Wiki how week how?

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Speaker 1: Of course?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, literatting me right, No I'm not. And everybody that

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Speaker 2: Or how do I do this? And I tell them

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Speaker 2: the wiki how, and I'm sure that they're like, that's rude. No,

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Speaker 2: I did it, you can do it. Read the wiki?

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Speaker 2: How is that how you even say it?

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Speaker 1: We can? When? What now? I? You need? This is

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Speaker 2: And every step on the wiki how. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I had to google again, like it said step one,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna need a factoring company. You can't afford this,

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Speaker 2: And I was like, Google, what's a factoring company? And

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Speaker 2: then I was reading blogs on what factory and even means?

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, so they front you money, you know,

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Speaker 2: get paid and can pay it back. Okay, so how

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Speaker 2: this is six years That was six years ago?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so six years ago? You start a staffing company

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Speaker 1: for I guess specifically to help people that have been.

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Speaker 2: Incarcerating second chance staffing AGENTSY a.

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Speaker 1: Second chance staffing agency that you wiki howed to get started?

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Speaker 1: And you first year, how many people do you place?

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Speaker 2: So I don't remember how many people I placed my

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Speaker 2: first year. I know I made several placements, but it

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Speaker 2: was kind of like the luminous envy thing I was

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Speaker 2: out and be like, Hey, you want to hire somebody

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Speaker 2: with a felony conviction and pay me money? People were like,

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Speaker 2: how about I just do you a favor and hire

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Speaker 2: somebody with a felony conviction. Isn't that enough? So I

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Speaker 2: was doing it for free for the first year and

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Speaker 2: trying to prove the model work. Yeah, prove it out

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Speaker 2: and try to like and you remember, I'm a pr person,

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Speaker 2: so I had to get some people working to use

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Speaker 2: those success stories to get on the news.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's seed money. I don't know what you call

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Speaker 1: it in meth world, but you're I get it.

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Speaker 2: But basically, my first few years of growing corn bread hustle,

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Speaker 2: I didn't make a dime because I was spending it

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Speaker 2: on alcohol. Even if I did make the money, and

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Speaker 2: I wasn't running the business the way I wasn't. And

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever struggled with anything that

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Speaker 2: had you in its grips, I know you're a business

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Speaker 2: really difficult in your life and you're just like I

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Speaker 2: just you're just not at I was operating at like

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Speaker 2: twenty percent, Sherry, I get it.

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Speaker 1: I'm what were some staffing agencies provide workers at a

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Speaker 1: forty percent markup? Yes, I do that, okay, and some

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Speaker 1: provide people for a fee to hire.

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Speaker 2: I do both of those.

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Speaker 1: So and I show you're both a headhunter and a

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Speaker 1: staffing agency. Yes, right, yes, So at first were you

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Speaker 1: headhunting or staffing or both both? And you were proving

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Speaker 1: were you had to get you had to have story to.

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Speaker 2: Tell, and it was so hard because workmen's think about

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Speaker 2: the insurance on business.

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Speaker 1: Kidding, That's why I was asking head hunting, you don't

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Speaker 2: Here's another big I wish we could have like a

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Speaker 2: Dan tip for entrepreneurs. My mistakes here. It is my ego,

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Speaker 2: I go big or go home. I wanted to do

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Speaker 2: the big staffing agency. So I tell anybody wanting to

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Speaker 2: get into this business, be a headhunter, have no overhead,

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Speaker 2: get some money in the bank, have anest.

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Speaker 1: Can then do the staffing.

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Speaker 2: Come on, but no, my ego every single time. So

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Speaker 2: I was in debt to my Workmen's comp insurance just

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Speaker 2: about every month. Imagine going and.

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Speaker 1: What kind of markup were you putting on the staffing?

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Speaker 2: At first it's forty.

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Speaker 1: You were doing forty forty makes sense. Why weren't you

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Speaker 2: I didn't have enough volume. You gotta have enough volume

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Speaker 2: to all the cost. Yeah, and now looking so I

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Speaker 2: did it my very first go at it, my first

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Speaker 2: couple of hires, now that you're reminding me, I bet

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Speaker 2: the guys that said yes and signed the contractor, but

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Speaker 2: they were like, what a steal? I was just charging

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Speaker 2: a couple of dollars more, Yeah, an hour, and then.

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Speaker 1: It really covered your expenses on workers car.

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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't even have workmen's comp yet. So I

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Speaker 2: ended up learning that I could end up losing everything

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Speaker 2: Well I got to get Workmen's Comp.

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Speaker 1: And then after literally rolling the dice.

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Speaker 2: I was I didn't know, I know, I get it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it happened to wiki whatever it's called. They didn't

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Speaker 2: That part they probably did, and I probably said, well,

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Speaker 2: it's not Uh, it wasn't against the law in Texas

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Speaker 2: not to have workmen's comp So I was like, live

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Speaker 2: on the edge. I'm a wild child right now, I

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Speaker 1: So I get the first year, yep, tell me about

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Speaker 1: the growth.

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Speaker 2: So I end up in twenty seventeen getting that DWI

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Speaker 2: as the founder and CEO of Cornbread Hustle.

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Speaker 1: That is second year in business.

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Speaker 2: Third that would be the second year in business.

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Speaker 1: And that's not good for your business plan.

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Speaker 2: You know. I was in the backseat of the cop

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Speaker 2: car and I was like, bad PR, this isn't good.

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Speaker 2: Like I don't know how to spend.

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Speaker 1: This night what I would have been thinking about. But

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Speaker 1: I get that now having been with you for an hour,

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Speaker 1: bad PR. Yeah, what about the fact that you are

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Speaker 2: Oh I've been so many times. I knew the process well.

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Speaker 1: And you might be able to recruit while you're there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And honestly I would. I felt invincible. I felt

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Speaker 2: to trial and I won. So I just had it

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Speaker 1: It was probably a bad thing. Frankly, it emboldened you.

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Speaker 2: I know, but the judge was trying to do a

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Speaker 2: good thing. He didn't want to He knew I wanted

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Speaker 2: to hold me back. I wasn't even twenty one yet,

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Speaker 2: and he was like, all right, so.

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Speaker 1: This one then your second year of cornbrad hustle. You're

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Speaker 1: in the back of a cop car. Would you blow there?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I don't remember what exactly I blew, but it

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Speaker 2: was enough to make it a misdemeanor A instead of

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Speaker 2: a misdemeanor B meaning bad bad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So did you spend time in jail?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I was out pretty quick. Just I got bailed

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Speaker 1: But what was you to the penalty?

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Speaker 2: I did get convicted, even though I was just sure

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Speaker 2: that I wouldn't. Until I saw the video. I was

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Speaker 2: like my even my attorney was like, yeah, we're not

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Speaker 2: is that bad? Yeah, you're wasted. Yeah. So I was like, okay,

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Speaker 2: let's take a plea, So I ended up taking a

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Speaker 2: made the punishment less which were able to drive anymore? Breathalyzer?

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Speaker 1: What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: The thing I had to blow into my car?

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Speaker 1: Just don't act like everybody listening to us has any

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Speaker 2: I was successful. I'm using air quotes because you know,

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Speaker 1: A Cadillac had this quo breath liser in it special

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Speaker 2: That sucked. Yeah, but yes, you know what really sucked

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 2: What happened is I just I was on probation, trying

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Speaker 2: because I didn't understand worship, just didn't get it. I

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00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 2: knew that there was probably a god. Really, there was

436
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 2: a God for me if it was convenient for me.

437
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,360
Speaker 2: If I was hanging out with an atheist, I'd be like, yeah,

438
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 2: probably not. If I'm hanging out with a believer, I'm

439
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 2: like yeah probably. That's how I was about the God thing,

440
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 2: indifferent unless I was desperate. So a song comes on though,

441
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 2: and it was come Alive, Dry Bones, and it was

442
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,719
Speaker 2: talking about dry bones. And I always hear I always

443
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 2: heard people talk about the Holy Spirit, but I experienced it.

444
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 2: Tears just came down my face and I felt this

445
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,360
Speaker 2: feeling inside like I'm dead inside, I'm I have dry bones,

446
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 2: like I didn't even realize it. And just something happened

447
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 2: that night and the pastor gets up and he was like, hey, everyone,

448
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 2: this is really random, and my wife is gonna kill me,

449
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 2: and my staff is going to kill me. But the

450
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit just led me to say something crazy, Let's

451
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 2: have church every day for the next seven days to

452
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 2: really set the year off right. And so I was like,

453
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 2: that is crazy, that's a bit much. But I said

454
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,919
Speaker 2: to myself, but that's seven more days sober. And so

455
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 2: I went to church every day for seven days, and

456
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 2: somebody gifted me a Bible, and I guess there was

457
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 2: another holy spirit moment where I was up doing my

458
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 2: hair getting ready for work, and something told me to

459
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: go look in my Bible. And it was like a

460
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 2: serious tug to go look in the Bible. And I

461
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 2: was like, I literally I was about to start like googling,

462
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 2: like hearing things after alcoholism. It was very powerful. And

463
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 2: I walked into my bedroom and saw that my Bible

464
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,719
Speaker 2: wasn't there, and then I walked back into the bathroom

465
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 2: because I was like, I'm not going downstairs. But the

466
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 2: voice got louder and it was more aggressive, and so

467
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 2: I was like fine. I walked downstairs, literally in my towel,

468
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 2: my hair half wet, and I said, God, if you're there,

469
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 2: because I felt like I felt like a crazy person.

470
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 2: I said, if I I did the whole New Christian thing.

471
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,239
Speaker 2: If I open up this Bible and whatever I point to,

472
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 2: if you're talking to me, I'm gonna know it. And

473
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 2: let's just settle this once and for all. Show me

474
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 2: that you're real. And so I opened up the Bible

475
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 2: and I closed my eyes and I pointed my finger,

476
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,959
Speaker 2: and I looked down and it was Proverbs twenty and

477
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 2: it said wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler,

478
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 2: and whoever is led by it is astray. And I

479
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 2: was so angry. I threw my Bible at the wall

480
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 2: and I started crying and almost like help me, then,

481
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 2: help me, just help me then, because I was crying

482
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 2: in gas station parking lots, trying not to go in

483
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 2: and drink. And of course it was hard, it was

484
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 2: hard to stay sober. But God carried me since then,

485
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 2: and I never missed a Sunday of church unless I'm sick,

486
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 2: of course or whatever. But I never missed a Sunday

487
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 2: of church since then. I've been in the Word every

488
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 2: morning since then. And God, just like it says in

489
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 2: Romans twelve, completely transformed my mind and my heart. Like

490
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 2: in my sleep every single night would go in and

491
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 2: like do surgery in my heart and my brain, and

492
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,239
Speaker 2: I'd wake up a different person every single day, and

493
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,719
Speaker 2: it's unexplainable. And I started leading people the way I

494
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 2: needed to be led what I needed, and I kept

495
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 2: I was telling people sorry, and I've I've set the

496
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 2: path the wrong way. Like, it's not about success, it's

497
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 2: not about money. It's about the inside. It's about who

498
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 2: you are on the inside. It's about finding that peace.

499
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 2: It's about healing these wounds. It's about recognizing your triggers

500
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 2: and toxic relationships and so cornbread hustle. I was about

501
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 2: a year sober, a hard year, Like just because you

502
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 2: get sober doesn't mean the consequences go away. One day

503
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 2: I walked out in the church parking lot and I

504
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 2: was so I started crying so hard because I was like,

505
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,959
Speaker 2: how is my car gonna get repolled from church?

506
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: Like I was so upset and I get repaid from church?

507
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 2: Dude. I got on the phone, I'm crying to my friend.

508
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, my car from church? How do I get?

509
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 2: I get? This is how God thanks me. My car

510
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,239
Speaker 2: gets repolled. And then I walked around the corner. I

511
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 2: just forgot where I part.

512
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: That's funny.

513
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 2: So I was like hard, but yeah, I still had

514
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 2: to face the consequences of not having money and getting

515
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: my life together while trying to get sober, while navigating

516
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 2: all these feelings.

517
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: While trying to get this SPECIs going.

518
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 2: While trying to keep the business alive and get it going. Yes,

519
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 2: horrible again, Like would I change anything? No? Would I

520
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 2: go live it again? Kill me? I don't want to

521
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 2: live it again.

522
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.

523
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 2: So I was one year sober, and it was let's

524
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 2: see twenty nineteen, because I got sober Christmas Day. I

525
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 2: got sober Christmas Day of twenty eighteen, so it was

526
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. I was one year sober. Remember what happened

527
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty.

528
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:22,239
Speaker 1: Covid uh huh? So where everybody's sitting around in their

529
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: house drinking because I got nothing else to do.

530
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet that was fun for you, so much fun.

531
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 2: But it actually I got to use my thriving chaos

532
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 2: resilience skills and traits that I have because when I

533
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: kept hearing on the news that everyone's going to lose

534
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 2: their jobs and I just finally made it to break even.

535
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: I probably had twenty employees. I just made it to

536
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 2: break even. I was like, there's no way. The disease

537
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 2: of alcoholism and addiction almost took me out. I'm not

538
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 2: letting a virus take me out. Uh uh not? After

539
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,959
Speaker 2: I got one year sober, So I went to Google,

540
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 2: you know, my friend Google, and I looked up every

541
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 2: single thing that I possibly could about killing the coronavirus

542
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 2: and what type of disinfectant. I know everything about disinfectant.

543
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 2: It's wild, like which like if you you should get

544
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 2: lysol instead of chlorox And I got electro what was

545
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 2: it electrostatic?

546
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, electrostatic machines.

547
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 2: I bought those like I was in a hurry to

548
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,719
Speaker 2: get everything that I needed. I bought hazmat suits and

549
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 2: I put out an email blast to all twenty of

550
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 2: my employees and I was like, fear not, we are

551
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 2: gonna work. Are y'all in? And they're like yeah. I

552
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: was like, we have to. We gotta figure it out.

553
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 2: And I wasn't gonna turn.

554
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: Around if y'all don't work. My car is getting repoked

555
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: from church. We gotta work.

556
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 2: We're gonna work.

557
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: And so work or I'm can you all sushi?

558
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:05,239
Speaker 2: So well, yeah, we won't be able to. So I

559
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 2: created CBH disinfecting dot com and just use the people

560
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 2: that I was placing for the staffing agency to be available.

561
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 2: I trained them like everything. We had Osha come in.

562
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 2: We did everything to like really so.

563
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: Use your staffing agency. Did then go do disinfectant on companies?

564
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 2: Yes, And because because everybody was so afraid of coronavirus,

565
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 2: like deathly afraid of it, Like it's in the air

566
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 2: and if it touches you, you might like evaporate. Like

567
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 2: remember how scared people were of it. Yeah, we weren't.

568
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 2: We're like, oh, well, we're gonna die if we don't

569
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: have jobs. Like I had been through so much like whatever,

570
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 2: Like I'll wear the hazmat suit. I was literally cleaning

571
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 2: toilets in a hazmat suit to get corn bread hustle

572
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 2: to where it's at today.

573
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: The joys of ownership and if you are eighty five

574
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: percent of startups in the United States are bankrupt within

575
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: the first thirty six months. The success rate of businesses

576
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: is in the fifteen to twenty percent sustained businesses. And

577
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: in my book, I talk about the value of hard

578
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: work and the difficulty of starting a business. But what

579
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: you just said, I've done the same thing here in

580
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: my business. I have done whatever I had to do legally, morally, ethically,

581
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: but beyond that, whatever I had to do. And we're

582
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: going to find out in a second, how many people

583
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: you have on the payroll this year, but only two

584
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: years ago you were cleaning toilets and a hazmat suit

585
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: and somebody else's office just to keep your business afloat

586
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: two years ago. And how many people did you place

587
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: this year?

588
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 2: We're at about a thousand people a year now. Yeah.

589
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: Do you know how phenomenal that story is? Do you

590
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: really get it? I know you're living it.

591
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 2: I am.

592
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: You had twenty people and hasmat suit washing toilets two

593
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: years ago, and these thousand people are one hundred percent

594
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: x fos.

595
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 2: Most of them. We don't discriminate. We don't tell you

596
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 2: go rob a bank and come back and see.

597
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: It, okay, but the vast majority of them are. And

598
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: your entire start came.

599
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 2: From everything what I just told you, I laid it

600
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 2: all out.

601
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, came from helping Benny.

602
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Yeah. So guess what happened during the month

603
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 2: of like, during that first month of us doing disinfecting,

604
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 2: what we made one hundred thousand dollars because essential businesses

605
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 2: were so afraid to not be in production that they

606
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: were going to do whatever it took, and we were

607
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: in high demand, and nobody else was crazy enough to

608
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 2: risk their life like my family. They were like, Sherry,

609
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 2: you don't need to risk your damn life over money,

610
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 2: and I was like, it's not for money, it's for

611
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 2: my business. It's for the people that I gave hope

612
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 2: to and gave jobs to. I have to do this.

613
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 2: If I die, I die, I die doing what I love.

614
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 2: I'm gonna die regardless. Because if I knew that, if

615
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 2: COVID took me out after that hard first year of

616
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 2: getting sober, I don't know if I would have stayed sober,

617
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 2: I would have been like, you know what, this is

618
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 2: for the birds. So I just knew I had to

619
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 2: do what I had to do. So we made a

620
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 2: hundred k in how many months? In that one month?

621
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: One month?

622
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we generated one hundred k. So it was

623
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 2: an oil filled paid us a lot of money to

624
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: go all the way out to Midland to keep the

625
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 2: oil filled.

626
00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: Going because they were quote essential yeah yeah, and all

627
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: Field can afford to pay whatever to some people. And

628
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: ask my suits to clean the toilet. Yeah, and we

629
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: did it because everybody knows that COVID was living in

630
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: the toilets.

631
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 2: Well, the toilets were one of the areas we had

632
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 2: to clean. I got to clean desks too, but toilets

633
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 2: was the more traumatizing.

634
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: Imagine.

635
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 2: But that one hundred thousand dollars that did was allow

636
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 2: me to stop doing side pr gigs. I was straddling,

637
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 2: like I was trying to you.

638
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 1: You were able to walk away and put your whole

639
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: time and all my time.

640
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 2: And then corn Bread Hustle And then this is the

641
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: part that I wish I could take credit for and

642
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 2: that I wish that it was strategic on my part,

643
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 2: but I was just as surprised as anybody else in

644
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 2: my company. But our phone started ringing off the hook.

645
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 2: This is where I almost start to cry again, because

646
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 2: it's all God, our phones were ringing off the hook.

647
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 2: And corn Bread Hustle became the staffing agency that every

648
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 2: company needed to come to because everybody was on unemployment.

649
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: And guess who is not eligible for unemployment People coming

650
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 2: out of prison because they have no work history. Yeah,

651
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 2: so my company did a million dollars that year.

652
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now You're off to the races.

653
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,439
Speaker 2: And then five million the next year.

654
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:21,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a phenomenal story.

655
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 2: I'm not as profitable as I'd like to be, but

656
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 2: the profit margins are better than the taco.

657
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: Sherry it is. I mean, I am. I'm honestly. Every

658
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: single time I sit down across the table from someone

659
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: and we start talking about an army of normal folks

660
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: and we dive into people's lives and what they've done,

661
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: the stories are always phenomenal, but yours as crazy. You

662
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: were a I mean, it seems like a B movie

663
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: that was done for less than a million dollars, But

664
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:12,760
Speaker 1: like the meth cheerleader chick movie. I mean, you kicked meth,

665
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: you kicked alcohol. You overcame your demons about not going

666
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: to college and being successful in all of that, And

667
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: in the middle of all of it, you decided you

668
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: were going to volunteer to help some felons. And a

669
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: guy named Benny who you don't know from Adam. You

670
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: google it up. He now owns his own sign company

671
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: and is making six figures. And in the middle of

672
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: all of it, you found faith. You kicked a meth habit,

673
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: you kicked an alcohol habbit. And now you employ a

674
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 1: thousand people in a business doing five million dollars.

675
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 2: This year, I only did three. We had a bad year,

676
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 2: but just for transparency reasons.

677
00:37:55,760 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It's still a phenomenal, amazing store. Worry

678
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: and how old are you?

679
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 2: Thirty six? So I just turned thirty six.

680
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. We can do next year. Please

681
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: don't say more tacos, because that's not no more tacos.

682
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: But I did develop a twelve week starting over program

683
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 2: where it's me talking directly across from a camera for

684
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 2: literally seven hours and I'm talking. It's like I am

685
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 2: sitting right there with you, sharing my pain and my vulnerability,

686
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 2: so you can work through your stuff at the same

687
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: time and right now sorright for.

688
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: A guy getting out of a lady or man getting

689
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: out of jail. This is a twelve step program to

690
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: get yourself employable.

691
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, twelve week program.

692
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 1: Sorry, twelve week not only.

693
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 2: To get yourself employable. That's the last week. That's like, oh,

694
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 2: by the way, you might need a job. Because I

695
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 2: wanted to undo everything that I had started with, which

696
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,720
Speaker 2: was here's a job. You'll find some worth in having

697
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 2: a job, and everything will follow that doesn't work. It

698
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 2: didn't work for me, So I do the whole first

699
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: nine weeks at least of learning how to love yourself

700
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 2: and recognize toxicity and recognize your own triggers and how

701
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: you can find your higher power. So that's kind of

702
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 2: how I I guess in my own way. It helped

703
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 2: me process a lot. And it's literally it's me saying, hey,

704
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 2: it's week two. I know it was really hard, Like

705
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 2: I tell them, I'm doing this with them. So it

706
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 2: is currently in nine different prisons right now on tablets,

707
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 2: and it's a pilot program and the results have been

708
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 2: so good that I'm flying out to Phoenix next week

709
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 2: to meet all the inmates who have completed it. So

710
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 2: that's I'm not selling it yet. I wanted to collect

711
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 2: all the data because I want to believe in what

712
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 2: I'm selling and set the price. And an inmate will

713
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 2: never pay for it, by the way, just like okay,

714
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 2: So there's there's plenty of organizations that can definitely afford

715
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 2: to put this program in prisons because I can't just

716
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:25,879
Speaker 2: sit around and make sure job.

717
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: As the government does quote rehabbing, maybe they can come

718
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: up with some funds for something like that. That's a

719
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 1: great story.

720
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 2: Thank you. So that yeah, it's in there. And just

721
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 2: last Monday, I did a three hour workshop for two

722
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: hundred men in a prison gym. So there's not like

723
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 2: that's where the future is taking me. A lot more

724
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 2: in prison stuff, a lot more twelve weeks starting Over program,

725
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 2: and it's really so. I have a client in Arizona

726
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 2: that hires from US direct hire, and our twelve week

727
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,760
Speaker 2: Starting Over program is in the Arizona prisons as a pilot.

728
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 2: Right now, we keep having people call us to get

729
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 2: a job that aren't in prison because of the word

730
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 2: of the word and mouth of everyone in prison calling

731
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 2: their friends outside of prison saying corn Bread Hustle has jobs.

732
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 2: So it's been like it's also a lead magnet for

733
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 2: us to bring us qualified applicants. So a lot of

734
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 2: staffing agencies have to use Indeed we don't because we're

735
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 2: literally inside all of the prisons helping them develop some

736
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 2: soft skills and love themselves and have hope before they

737
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 2: get out. They know who to call. Call corner. You

738
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 2: can call your drug dealer, you can call your dope

739
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 2: dealer and get back in the game, or you can

740
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 2: call corn Bread Hustle it's up to you, but you

741
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 2: will know about corn bread hustle before you get out

742
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 2: of prison. And if we don't have a job for you,

743
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 2: we can help you, just like I helped Binny. We

744
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 2: know how to help you find a job. We can

745
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 2: help you. It's hard to scale. That's been my biggest challenge,

746
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 2: and you know that growing the big company that you've grown.

747
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 2: I don't know what your biggest challenges have been, but

748
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 2: for me, I would starting up was the hardest thing ever.

749
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 2: I don't want to go back to that, but I would.

750
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 2: Starting it's so hard. It's so hard, but scaling second hardest.

751
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 2: Like I didn't realize, Like when I was starting up,

752
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: I dream of the day that I was doing a

753
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 2: million a year, Like I couldn't even fathom it. But

754
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 2: you know, it's more money, more problems, and I don't

755
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 2: have a problem getting business in the door. I have

756
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 2: to make sure I'm leading my internal team right and

757
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 2: that I'm scaling this right in operations and filing taxes

758
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 2: and you know all that stuff that a cheerleader meth

759
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 2: dealer probably doesn't have a lot of experience in, right.

760
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's the I'm gonna do more of consulting

761
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 2: and just being inside the prisons. And God keeps changing

762
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 2: me every single day. One thing that really really God literally,

763
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 2: I know God didn't break my heart. My heart broke

764
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 2: and God made it softer. So my dad I did

765
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 2: get to. He was sober the last year of his

766
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 2: life because he had an open heart surgery and I

767
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 2: was taking care of him a lot, and I'd go

768
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 2: to my dad's house every single night and just talk

769
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 2: with him and sit with My dad was funny. He

770
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 2: was a funny guy and I loved him so much.

771
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 2: And his mom lived with him because she has some

772
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 2: special needs and she has dementia, and so I'd go

773
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 2: there and eat with them every evening. They did live

774
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 2: in a house hoarding pretty much, but I didn't care.

775
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 2: That's It's like Belle from Beauty and the Beast. All

776
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 2: she wanted to do was like hang out with her

777
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 2: crazy inventive dad. That was me. I want to read

778
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 2: books and hang out with my inventive dad. And just

779
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 2: one morning he died and I had to go and

780
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 2: do the whole deal. Like I showed up and the

781
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 2: cops were there to tell me that he's gone, and

782
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 2: I guess he had had a heart attack and wow,

783
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 2: like that was crazy because I had just I literally

784
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 2: because I didn't know how to face all that. I

785
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 2: worked harder that day than I ever worked. I was

786
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: doing a zoom call while my dad's body was willing

787
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 2: behind me, closing a deal. It was. I even went

788
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 2: and did a speech that night to people who had

789
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 2: just got out of prison, looking back, like come on why,

790
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 2: Like I could have canceled that speech, but I needed

791
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 2: to do something I didn't know how to. I mean,

792
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 2: my dad was my and I still cry all the

793
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 2: time over my dad's death. I always told people if

794
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 2: I ever relapse, it will be because my dad dies.

795
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 2: And then my dad died, and then I didn't relapse,

796
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 2: and it did make me stronger because I lost like

797
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 2: the love of my life, and so I know now

798
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 2: that I can do anything. But I became instantly a caregiver,

799
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 2: and I had this house now to make livable, and

800
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 2: so for a whole year I was a caregiver while

801
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 2: growing this business with my grandma. We have a whole

802
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 2: bunch of funny videos we made together, and I made

803
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 2: the best of it the best that I could. But

804
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 2: here's this hardened heart workaholic that doesn't know vulnerability put

805
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 2: in a caregiver, so that that was difficult, but it

806
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 2: really just it just changed my life even more. And

807
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 2: I know that God has a plan, and I started

808
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 2: I did start living, you know. I went to my

809
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 2: dad's house every single day after work like I wasn't.

810
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 2: I wasn't living my life because I was just wanted

811
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 2: to spend time with my dad and my dad wasn't

812
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 2: healthy mentally or physically. So I was holding on to

813
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 2: somebody that wasn't there anymore because he just it was,

814
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 2: he just changed. He just wasn't there anymore. But I

815
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 2: was hanging on And I always had this dream that

816
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 2: he'd hold a sign that said one year sober and

817
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 2: mine said like three years sober. But he just didn't

818
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 2: make it. But everything really worked out.

819
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: Are you Are you more proud of your company or.

820
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 2: Your sobriety my sobriety because it was harder, it is harder.

821
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: Is it still hard?

822
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 2: Mm hmm?

823
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 1: What do you say to people that are listening to

824
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: us today that are struggling with the grip?

825
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,800
Speaker 2: So I know a lot of people who are struggling

826
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 2: because they reach out to me for the past several

827
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 2: years and keep trying and trying and trying. I would say,

828
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 2: the common denominator of all of these people is not

829
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 2: willing to let strangers pour into their like the surrender

830
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 2: part like and I never like. I'm just now learning

831
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 2: to fully surrender and I still don't do it perfect.

832
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 2: But me so, I was six months sober with so

833
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 2: much pride. It took me to be in six months sober,

834
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 2: and I became suicidal. I almost killed my because too much.

835
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: It's up. You told me earlier. You were hearing voices.

836
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: I mean clearly the withdraws were killing you.

837
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 2: It was because I was unwilling to go into a

838
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 2: recovery group. Yeah, I thought that I was different, I

839
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 2: was unique. My situation is different. Every day is like

840
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 2: a recovery group. The job I work, I work with

841
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 2: addicts every day. Why do I need these people to

842
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 2: help me stay sober? So pride, I would say, is

843
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 2: the common denominator of people that I'm working with right

844
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 2: now that keep having a hard time getting it, not

845
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 2: just just And that's what I had to do was

846
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 2: get humble and sit down and listen to people and

847
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 2: take suggestions and the other thing that was very hard

848
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 2: when I first got sober, I couldn't hang out with

849
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 2: anybody I was hanging out with anymore.

850
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: Because you got to change your group.

851
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 2: I had zero interest in church people or people who

852
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 2: didn't drink or do drugs because they seem so boring.

853
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 2: So I was lonely for a long time. So it took.

854
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 2: Now I don't have a single person I hang around

855
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 2: that drinks, and if they do, it's shocking. I'm like,

856
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:22,399
Speaker 2: oh wow, oh alcohol, that's weird. So my whole life

857
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 2: has changed, and it does get better. My life is

858
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,760
Speaker 2: the best it's ever been. Ever like, my life today

859
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 2: is the best it's ever been. I hear from other

860
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 2: people who have ten years sober that it keeps getting better.

861
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 2: So I hope it keeps getting better. But I have

862
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 2: peace that surpasses all understanding. I talk with God every

863
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 2: single mor I don't just talk with God. I listen

864
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 2: to God. That's how I've run my business. God gave

865
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 2: me the idea for the disinfecting thing. God gives me that.

866
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 2: God gave me every the twelve week Starting Over program,

867
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 2: I completely ad libbed every eight hours of it in

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Speaker 2: front of the camera. I didn't use a script, and

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Speaker 2: I didn't re edit anything. Is just straight from my heart,

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Speaker 2: straight from heaven, and so I run my business through

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Speaker 2: the Bible period and without Bible thumbing, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean. Like, I don't go to work every day

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Speaker 2: telling people's scripture. You know. I just let people.

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Speaker 1: See you telling anybody anything, you just let them see it,

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Speaker 1: isn't you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in the.

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Speaker 1: Way you operate.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's it. That's my story. And I've never

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Speaker 2: shared all of that, So I'm not gonna do well,

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Speaker 2: we got it on tape a single other podcast, because

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna tell anybody that wants to do a podcast,

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Speaker 2: just just go to this podcast, pull the audio, put

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Speaker 2: your voice in the front of it, and at the

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Speaker 2: end of it.

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Speaker 1: That's illegal. We won't let them do that. My contact

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Speaker 1: information Alex the producer's contact information, and every guest we

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Speaker 1: have have given our listeners contact information, because there may

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Speaker 1: be somebody out there that says, I would love to

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Speaker 1: be hired by Cornbread Hustle, or I would love to

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Speaker 1: work for Cornbread Hustle, or I would like to talk

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Speaker 1: about doing something in my community, or even tell me

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Speaker 1: about this prison entrepreneurship program, something that they've heard might

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Speaker 1: and sent them to get involved in their own unique way,

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Speaker 1: and if they want to understand more of that, what's

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Speaker 1: the best way to reach out to you and your

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Speaker 1: organization so you'll see it.

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Speaker 2: So obviously simple cornbread Hustle dot com. But I'm happy

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Speaker 2: to give my email It's Sherry C. H Ri I

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Speaker 2: at Cornbread Hustle dot com. Or if you want to

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Speaker 2: continue to see content or connect with me. LinkedIn is

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Speaker 2: where I share a lot a lot of videos weekly

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Speaker 2: and what is just your name? Yeah, just Sherry Garcia.

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Speaker 2: That we didn't get into that, but that whenever I

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Speaker 2: finally came out about my sobriety, I got on LinkedIn

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Speaker 2: and I shared with LinkedIn to professional people that I

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Speaker 2: had a breathalyiser in my car.

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Speaker 1: This from a PR person, whatever, it's not surprising at

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Speaker 1: all you did that. That's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so there it is. If you want to contact

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Speaker 1: her or her organization, that's how you get in touch

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Speaker 1: with share Garcia. Share Garcia from a metho addicted high

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Speaker 1: school cheerleader to a business owner, a born again Christian

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Speaker 1: and somebody who's found a way to make a living

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Speaker 1: while helping others. That is an amazing story and there's

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Speaker 1: no way that you cannot be included in the army

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Speaker 1: of normal folks. Just a normal girl with all kinds

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Speaker 1: of struggles who's overcome them to make an amazing life

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Speaker 1: for herself and those in our orbit. And I am

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Speaker 1: very impressed by you and I can't thank you enough

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Speaker 1: for sharing your story with us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I have one request, and what is it?

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Speaker 2: When y'all put all these ads out, can you not

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Speaker 2: make it so myth cheerleader?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not. We're not. We don't do this is

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Speaker 1: not dateline. We're not going to do the sensationalized your

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Speaker 1: So okay. We didn't name this Meth Cheerleader episode out

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Speaker 1: of respect for SHARE's request. But I had a blast

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Speaker 1: with her. She was a lot of fun and most importantly,

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Speaker 1: she is one incredible inspirational human being. And I hope

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Speaker 1: she's inspired you. And if she or another guest has

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Speaker 1: inspired you to take action, please let us know. I

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Speaker 1: want to hear about it. You can write me anytime

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Speaker 1: at Bill at normalfolks dot us. And if you enjoy

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Speaker 1: this episode, subscribe to the podcast, rate it, review it,

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Speaker 1: share of friends, and on social all the things that

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Speaker 1: will help us grow an army of normal folks. I'm

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Speaker 1: Bill Courtney. Look forward to seeing you next week.