Starting a New Life After Years in Prison

[Music] brought to you by the every dooll app start budgeting for free today so recently I just got out of prison um I have no debt I have no kids so I'm just trying to find out um where I can direct my life to a better to a better path good for you how long were you in prison for uh two years what'd you do um instead of being a businessman and and other things I became a businessman in there and started selling drugs um I got I got caught with like a a legal Enterprise just a bunch of stuff that I should have never uh should have never done it in the first place Okay cool so you had an entrepreneurial spirit and used it in the wrong place in the wrong place yes yeah well that's good news cuz you can you're right you can use those same set of skills in a legal not an illegal Enterprise and um probably Prosper how old are you I'm 24 okay good for you cool so are you working at all uh they now I'm working as a tow trk driver but this is like my first real job so I I do like it but it's not the same money where I was making but it gets me the the courage or the ambition to chase a better career good right now what are what are you making uh right now I'm making it's money uh I'm sorry for the language uh I'm making 30k a year okay and is that what's your living situation uh I have to go back with my mom and I'm happy to God I still have her or else I I don't know what else I would have done yeah okay all right how long have you been out when didd you get out uh I've been out for six months okay good good so so far you got a place to live and you got some money coming in and you have a a job that's legal that's a really good start that's a good start so um then then and like you said while you're doing this you start to think about what's the next step what's the next step what's the next step and by the way you're probably going to be thinking that for the rest of your life we all do what's the Next Step what's the next thing what you got next for me God where are we going from here and so um who you running around with these days I have no friends okay uh other than friends I say I mean it like I have zero like true friends yeah like I'm just I just have my girlfriend I've been been together for eight years but I mean I mean you're starting fresh cuz you know you know better than to go hanging around with the folks you were hanging around before so you're starting fresh um I I listen I love that to Dave's point you know you've got a place to live you've got a a job that's paying you something I like the fact that you're going okay I'm not going to be a tow truck driver forever what's the next step what are you interested in that's the thing I don't know um I sit down and I really think about it M I know I really don't have family that has prospered like in life like as in um like a business anything like that um honestly I'm like the first person that graduated from high school and and I have five five I have two sisters and three brothers so I mean I'm just the only one that that really that really did so you're looking life but you're looking for a mentor you need somebody that you can look to yeah somebody yeah tell you what I'm going to hook you up with a friend of mine that's I'm going to hook you up with a friend of mine that's a pastor there his name's Cal and he's a pastor of a big church there in Phoenix and I'm gon to hook you up with him and he's going to get some guys around you because here's what I know Jesse and you already know this too you become who you hang around with and so you got to be very selective about who you put around you particularly at this time in your life and so plugging you you into a good church Community with some good men who can show you a direction to go and some next steps I don't think we can do everything you need to do in one radio call you got a lot of things you you got a lot of potential a lot of wonderful things can happen in your future and I don't think we're going to be able to line up everything for you to do in one call right but uh we got to get first thing we got to get or the next thing is get some Community around you and then I want you to continue to do what Jade just challenged you to do and that's think about all right what is something that I see out there what's a problem that people in Phoenix have that I can help them with their problem cuz as an entrepreneur Jesse I'll tell you when you help someone with their problem they give you money okay I mean if the uh if it's lawn care you solve their problem if it's pressure washing you solve their problem if it's fixing their car you solve their problem in your case right now the company you're working for is removing cars from place as they shouldn't be you solved a problem or taking someone's broken car somewhere you solved a problem so when you solve a problem as an entrepreneur people pay you money for that and it's amazing what you can do to create income when you see something and you go gosh if I helped people with that problem I could probably charge for that and they would let me do that and I want you to start thinking along those lines because I do think I wasn't joking around I think your entrepreneurial spirit that got you into trouble could also when applied right be the biggest blessing that ever happened to you I agree 100% yeah so I'm gonna I'm gonna hook you up with Cal I'm gonna put you on hold and Christian's going to pick up our phone screener and I'll get you uh he's going to get your information and we're going to get you hooked up with that community and the other thing I want you to do is I'm going to give you a code to take Ken Coleman's uh assessment his career assessment and it's a it's it's a free it's a it's going to be free to you cuz I'm going to pay for it test for you to start to say okay these are my strengths and that could maybe spark some ideas of some next things to do and then patiently saying God thank you for this tow truck job even though it doesn't pay much cuz at least I got one and then patiently while being grateful for where you are start making the steps to be where to never be there again and to move to a better place and then to a better place and into a better place don't jump don't don't try to get to moving too fast um there's no there's no easy money out there it's all hard money I want you to get hooked up with better help too because you've your life has changed greatly over the past two and a half years and that's a lot to work through you you don't you know your family the way you interact with your family is different you said you didn't have any friends and so I think it would be good not only to get plugged in with the church but really to be talking to somebody on a normal basis about how to navigate this yeah that's a good plan it's a good plan so hold on we're going to take care of all that for you we want to be part of this next chapter of your life that's a good chapter and uh we're going to help you solve a problem there you go that's how this works hang on Jesse we'll take care of you create your free every dooll budget today the simplest way to budget for your life