Nightmare Success In and Out

Homeless, prison, then builds National Co. Helping Justice Impacted- Harley Blakeman


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Could you go from homeless, to prison, to founder and CEO of a National Company? That is exactly what Harley Blakeman did with his life. I first saw Harley's story on a TEDX Talk a couple of years ago before this podcast started. Harley had tough childhood. His mom had a drug problem and left the family, and his dad died in a tragic motorcycle accident when Harley was 14. With the both parents being the black sheep of their family's, Harley had no connection or help with relatives. He became homeless just bouncing around doing whatever to survive. He has one heck of a story with how he goes to prison. In prison the relatives from Ohio reach out and the aunt says to come live with her when he was released. This was a game changer for Harley in his life. He enrolls in Community College and gains confidence and and gets good grades. He applies to Ohio St. and ends up graduating at the top of his class. He has a hard time finding a job because of his past. Harley decides he is going to help solve a problem by finding investors and creating the nation's largest fair chance employment platform named Honest Jobs. There are about 70 million people with some type of history. Honest Jobs works with over 1300 companies to help give these people a real second chance. I love it! I love the passion Harley has for creating a better space that we live in. Harley took a leap of faith leaving everything he knew, and moving to Ohio into the unknown. Look what happened when he changed his people, places, and things. A real life inspiring story!
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