ADVERSITY + RESILIENCE & DETERMINATION = OPPORTUNITY –THIS IS MY STORY by CHRIS BERRYMAN

Here is the story of me, Chris Berryman from the day that I was born till today. It was August 28, 1971, in a small town on the St. Johns River called Sanford, Florida. I was born to Wally Wallace and Marjorie Christine Doston.

My childhood wasn’t your typical childhood. From what I can remember my natural mother and father fought a lot. I remember at the age of 3 on my birthday, my mother got so upset with me because I licked my birthday cake before my party, that she picked me up and threw me into a wall as punishment for licking the cake. And that is where my troubles started.

My mother then left or divorced my natural father soon after that. I do remember one afternoon at a relatives house that my father (Wally Wallace) came up to the door and asked me if I wanted to come to California with him. And that was the last time that I saw my father ever again! So fast forward a few short months and my mother met my stepfather Clarence “Chip” Berryman and soon after they met they got married. He was from the great city of Kingsport, Tennessee. He went to a military school when he was young. Then he went on to the University Of Tennessee. He stayed until he was in his junior year at Tennessee. Then set out on a journey to Florida. He worked in some hotels when he was young. Then he got a job with Red Lobster.

So at one point at school, I had my first incident at the elementary school that I was attending. This is where my learning and emotional disabilities surfaced.

I believe that is when and where my mother and Chip met each other and got married. I in my earliest memories of being a new family is when I got to my first school in Sanford. Chip wasn’t living with us since he was training at different stores early in his time at Red Lobster. So at one point at school, I had my first incident at the elementary school that I was attending. This is where my learning and emotional disabilities surfaced. I was taking my pencils in class and got into a pencil fight with another student. I don’t remember why the fight occurred, But I completely lost control. That was at age 4. So fast forward 1 short year and I had to be institutionalized at Shands hospital in Gainesville, Florida for 6 months because my mother and stepfather couldn’t connect or control me.

And for me, the journey with these disabilities would haunt me for a very long time.

My time at Shands ended and I was going live in Kissimmee, Florida with my parents. There is where I met my future teacher and mentor Patty Harville (At the time she was Patty Henderson). She was my psychologist helping me deal with all the demons and all the issues that I had with my disabilities. I was under her care for only six months until I had to move to West Palm Beach, Florida for Chip’s next store with Red Lobster. The year was 1976. There while I lived in West Palm Beach, I had to be hospitalized for triple pneumonia and that was the 1st winter that it snowed in Florida !! Wow, the creek behind my house actually froze over. I had overcome triple pneumonia and had to move again this time I was moving to Merritt Island, Florida and it was the spring of 1977. I loved living there. There too was my elementary school right across from where I lived in West Palm Beach. I didn’t have to go far for school. But that was the beginning of the end for my parents. They were always fighting and drinking a lot. At one time that I remember that my Dad had come home drunk from driving his motorcycle and he was trapped underneath the bike. I had to help lift up the bike and bring my father inside.

My speech impediment was so bad that my counselors were saying it was on the line with the Great Mel Tillis.

So I was in Merritt Island for only 6 months then it was off to Louisville, Kentucky for the next store assignment for my father from Red Lobster. Now I have to tell you that from the time I was living in West Palm Beach to Merritt Island some of my teachers informed my parents that I had a very bad speech impediment that needed to be addressed. I was going under counseling for my speech impediment between Merritt Island and when I got to Louisville. My speech impediment was so bad that my counselors were saying it was on the line with the Great Mel Tillis. So I had to undergo speech therapy for close to two years. And that was an experience that I will never forget. I still to this day have to calm my mind before I talk. Living in Louisville was awesome. I had the opportunity to see the U-Boat races on the Ohio River and it was a blast.

My 1st official winter was just as amazing. I never lived in snow for a long time. When I had visited my grandparents’ house in Kingsport from time to time I loved playing in it. But the thing I will remember the most is when my Dad told me don’t run out of the front door because I will slip on the ice. Well, I didn’t listen and landed on my rear end in a very short time. And boy did it hurt.

And now the time is the winter of 1979 when I was in Louisville and my Dad got the call again from Red Lobster to move once again. So it was going to be moving to Lakeland, Florida was our next stop. So what happened in the spring of 1980 I and my mother moved to Lakeland ahead of my dad so he could finish up getting his things and his replacement ready for taking over the stores in Louisville. At this point in time with my dad, Red Lobster promoted him to the area supervisor. So his next assignment was to be covering Lakeland, Winter Haven, and all Tampa area stores. Even at one time in his supervisor’s career he even had the St.Petersburg store as well.

So let’s talk about all my educational experiences from Sanford to Lakeland. It was really hard for me to fit in at any elementary school. I was always in a special education classroom with other special education students and was only in one classroom setting. Remember Patty Harville the psychologist from when I lived in Kissimmee? She was my special education teacher when started the 3rd grade at Medulla Elementary. See when I was in Louisville the special educational system thought it was in my best interest when moving to Lakeland that I needed to be put in the 3rd grade again. So she was my teacher from 3rd grade till 10 grade. And even at one point, she was a counselor at summer camp that was by an organization called Peace River.

So here it is, I have moved to Lakeland and had to start all over again. My 3rd grade at Medulla was like I was invisible to everyone and I was constantly being picked on. So at this point, my mother and father were doing somewhat ok in their marriage. So the 4th grade was starting in the fall of 1981 and I had to wait to take a test to see if I could move up to the 4th grade. Now the one thing I forgot to tell you about is when I was in kindergarten, I was there twice because I moved so much in one school year so I was technically 2 years behind the other kids at Medulla. So the school board said I could not be moved up because my test scores needed to be improved, but if I did well in the spring semester, I could be transferred to the 4th grade in spring. But that never came to pass.

I was so out of control at home and at school that my parents yet again committed me to a mental health institution in Winter Haven, Fl. I almost committed suicide twice.

In January of 1983, I was officially adopted by my stepfather Chip Berryman. But this event was very short-lived. My hardest year was in the 5th and 6th grades. I was in 3 elementary schools in less than 2 years. The year was 1982 and it was a very dark time in my life. I was so out of control at home and at school that my parents yet again committed me to a mental health institution in Winter Haven, Fl. I almost committed suicide twice. I was going to run away from Medulla at one point. I never saw that through. But that put a halt to my education for at least 3 months. So I had to be in a mental health program for 3 months and was so agonizing for me. I saw people who were actually in worse shape than me and I was thinking, Why was I here? But what I didn’t know was while I was in the mental hospital wing at Winter Haven, my parents’ marriage was getting worse.

So here it is, the spring of 1983, and my mother and father had gotten a divorce. This will plunge me in greater depths of darkness during this time. My mother was abusing so much alcohol and marijuana at this point she was getting in some really bad relationships with some very bad people. There was this group of bikers that at one point came to my house while I was home alone and stole all of my food from the freezer that was located in the garage. She would come home at all times of the day.

My mother and father had equal rights of shared custody of me on weekends. I remember one weekend when my stepfather and I came back to drop me off from his visitation in where he lived in Tampa. He just stayed in the car and said his goodbyes and he drove off. My mother was inside. But this next 24 hours will turn very tragic for me and plunge even deeper into darkness. When I went in to see where my mother was, I saw her laying upside down on the bed and turned over onto the pillow that she was laying on. She asked me where was my father, and I told her that he was gone already. But when she lifted up the pillow, the thing I saw will forever be ingrained in my head. She had a 32 caliber revolver under the pillow and if my stepfather set foot in that very bedroom to drop me off, he would have been dead. I ran to my room and cried !! Remember this date September 9, 1983. This is the afternoon that my father dropped me off back home and my mother was waiting to kill him and maybe even me. But she was so high on marijuana and alcohol that thank God that she never pulled the trigger!

So her biker boyfriend came over to pick her up. He never came in. But in an alcohol and drug-fueled rage she asked me to come out of my room and she was saying some nasty things, then she proceeded to throw a glass at me while I was standing at my bedroom door and said that I won’t see her in the morning. That was at 5 pm on September 9, 1983. At 2 am on September 10, 1983, she took that very same 32 caliber pistol and put it to her right side of her head below the right ear and committed suicide. My worst days were yet to come. Somehow my father found out and came straight over. The sheriff was already there at the house with me, but they couldn’t really tell me anything until my father got there. So I was in a state of shock.

By this time my father was dating someone that will soon become my stepmother. She was there with my father when he got the call from the sheriff’s office to back to Lakeland. So this week was going to be the worst week of my life. I was thinking about just in January I was adopted and now my mother had just gotten a divorce and then just committed suicide.

My head was pulled in every direction. I was trying to put on a brave face, but I was torn up inside so badly.

I had to go through my mother’s viewing and funeral at this early age of my life. I told my father because I was in the Boy Scouts at the time that the best way to honor my mother was to go through the viewing and the funeral was to wear my Boy Scout uniform during both services. Seeing my mother laying in a casket and seeing where the bullet hole in her right side of her head haunted me for many years. I saw many family members that never knew that I had during this time. The funeral was done and I went back home with my father.

So in this same month, September of 1983 on the 20th, my father got married again to Mary E. Mayfield. She was also divorced and was seeing my father for some time. They had a wedding in a friend’s home in Tampa. So the big question came to pass, what do we do now as a new blended family? Well, the 1st step was moving into my stepmother’s condo in Tampa. She lived with her two daughters Marissa and Pam. So we didn’t put the house up for sale, we just packed up my things and moved to Tampa.

Tampa was very different for me. Within the very first weeks I was living there I remember a painting that hung in my bedroom and it was a picture of a woman. But this woman in this picture was in one night was going to terrorize my very soul. When I was going to sleep one night, this picture of this woman was turning herself into my mother’s face, and the terror began when her face was running bloodied and melting the picture I screamed bloody murder in the middle of the night. And this was only the start of my terror.

When I was going to elementary school in Tampa, none of the special education teachers could connect with me on a human level. They told my parents that they could see that something very traumatic happened in my life. My parents did tell the teachers that my mother had just committed suicide just a few weeks ago. The teachers truly tried to help me. But six months into living in Tampa, I said it would be best if we all moved to Lakeland. Both Marissa and Pam didn’t like the idea but understood it. So I only was in Tampa for six months and was moving back to Lakeland. So here I was going into the real tough time in my life.

Remember what I said about going to three different elementary schools in less than two years —this is where this part of my life is starting to take shape. And remember Patty Harville? She was going to be my special education teacher at all of these schools, Medulla, Scott Lake, Sikes Elementary. And she would go on to be my teacher at a special education school called Roosevelt Vo-Tech in Lake Wales, FL. So I bounced around from one school to the next. Each year was harder than the last year. I was really trying to fit into society so I tried my hand in soccer one year. I loved it!! But we lost every game that year. I was 11 at the time. So here I was going into my middle school career. I was going to go from Scott Lake elementary to Southwest Junior High School. This would be a defining time for me.

This is where the school board was going to let me what is called mainstreamed into other classes. So I was going to be in my special education class for 5 periods day starting out in my 7th-grade year. This year I was going try my hand into football. I tried out and didn’t succeed. But times in 7th grade for me were very tough. There was this one time I remember that another kid came up behind me in the classroom before class started and put a chokehold on me and made me pass out. My parents were furious and the school board never expelled or prosecuted the kid for what he did to me. This led me into the darkness once again.

That year came went quickly for me. I was fighting a battle for my very soul at home in this critical moment of my life. I was getting more emotionally unstable at home.

I was trying so hard to fit in at school but nothing seemed to work. So my mother put me on a little league football team since I didn’t make my middle school team. It was the Lakeland Gators. I loved it, I played running back, wide receiver, safety, and quarterback. I played one season only. So 8th grade was starting and it was going to be different for me. I was told that this year I was going to be mainstreamed even more by taking fewer special education classes this year. I was going to be 4 periods this year mainstreamed into regular classes. That year came went quickly for me. I was fighting a battle for my very soul at home in this critical moment of my life. I was getting more emotionally unstable at home. My parents didn’t know it, but I was considering taking my life because I felt so alone and isolated from my family and friends. So the year was 1988, I was going into my last year at Southwest. And I was working at my first job. I was working at McDonald’s! I was hired to work the cash register, drive-thru, and maintenance. So I worked at McDonald’s after school. I was doing better in society as a whole at this point in time. I was making money and learning how to understand the business world. I would go on to work for McDonald’s for 3 and a half years.

So it is now the fall of 1989, I was going to go to the school that I mentioned earlier, Roosevelt Vo-Tech. This was my 9th-grade year. And yes Patty Harville was at Roosevelt with me again as my teacher at Roosevelt. I had to get up at 5 am to be ready for the bus to pick me up at 6:00-6:15 am. My first year was ok. I wasn’t in any regular classes and going to a regular school. But it was ok. I tried out for the track and cross country teams and basketball while I was at Roosevelt. I was only allowed to be in track and cross country because I was going to be too old for basketball.

My sophomore year was pretty good. I was nominated by the school to take part in a drug conference in Atlanta, Ga. I was there for a week. And did I love it. And now it is my junior year and before it even started I was faced with a choice. The school board said that if I did complete a pre-requirement of my high school credits to have math done by this year, I was not going to graduate from school in my senior year. So here comes summer school !!! It was done at Roosevelt and it was only six weeks. And can you believe that I passed summer school?

So going into my junior year I was allowed to go to 4 periods and then do a program that was called On The Job Training (OTJT) and they offered many different companies in which to work for. I chose Publix Supermarket. While I was doing this I was of course involved with my track and cross country activities. Plus I was also going to be in my high school play for that year too. This was also the year that I have to take summer school in June to have the hopes of passing with all 24 credits when I graduate from school as a senior for the class of 1991.

Being in track and cross country was great for me. It taught me a lot about perseverance and dedication. For me cross country was definitely a unique experience for me. The biggest race for me was running around the biggest lake in Lakeland. Lake Hollingsworth is massive. It is a 3.2-mile wide lake. Just try to imagine running around this lake three times. That is close to 10 miles. Just going around one time all most took me an hour to run.

Going through summer school was for me was easy. All I had to do was to take my math and PE classes and all I had to do was pass my summer school and in my senior year, I could work the entire year and graduate from school with all 24 credits. So it is now August of 1990, and school was about to start and all I had to do was go work at McDonald’s for the rest of the school year and graduate !! And that was exactly what I did. I worked at McDonald’s full time as a crew trainer by this time. I was working mornings just to be sure that every semester I was able to at least go to school one day in the semester to show that I was indeed at school. But the school never asked me to do that. So in May of 1991, I was going to be a graduate from Roosevelt Vo-Tech with a 3.5 GPA.

Wow !! So soon after graduation, I took the $3,000 in savings bonds that I had saved up for many years and moved into my first apartment, close not only to my parents but also to McDonald’s as well !! So I was riding my bike to and from work every day. Flash forward six months later and my mom asked me if my sister Marissa could live with me. And I said that she could. For about six more months I had my sister living with me. Then my little niece Cayleigh was born. Then my sister had to move back to my mother’s house to raise her daughter. And then I come to find out at McDonald’s I was being let go due to lack of business and with new management coming into the store. Thankfully, an opportunity came about for me at Outback Steakhouse to open their very first Lakeland location I was on the opening crew. The store manager at the time was Ed Talman. I worked as a dishwasher, prep, working the truck, and busser in my almost 2 years there.

On the homefront, I was really up to my neck in bills. I had been trying to get a solid roommate to help me out in paying the bills and that turned out to be a true life lesson for me. Come to find out that the roommate that I had a warrant out for his arrest and he was stealing from me and was dealing in drugs. So my landlord found out about him and he told me that he needed to go. I did call the sheriff and he was evicted from the apartment. At that point in my life, I was going to lose my apartment. So what Ed Talman did for me was I could live with him and his family to get back on my feet.

While I was living with Ed, my mother reached out to a family member to see about me getting into U.S. Army reserves. In that year, the ASVAB scores were lowered to get more people into the reserves. I even took the trip Macdill Air Force Base in Tampa to start my training, But the Sargent said to me my ASVAB scores were too low for me to get in. So I had to get back on the bus headed back to Lakeland. At this point, Ed and his wife were expanding their family and they needed me to find another place to live. And I was no longer working at Outback. So I went to work at Chilis in Lakeland. And this is where I met my best friend Mike Temple !! He was a busboy like me.

And I by this time I was living from place to place and at one point I was homeless. I was working at the YMCA as a youth basketball and soccer coach and I was a janitor as well. So at this point, I was living with a person who also was working at the YMCA. So I was working at the south side Chili’s and the north side location as well. So the store manager at the South Chili’s restaurant was being replaced because he was retiring, so that meant that all the employees were going either stay or be let go. So I was thankful that I had the opportunity to open up the first Golden Corral in Lakeland later that year.

In fall 1995 I got married to my 1st wife, Melissa, and had only one daughter with her. The only things that Melissa wanted from me at the time was a wedding, to have her named changed, and to have a baby. The way that we met was very unusual. She at the time was already engaged to be married in October of that year. But broke it off when she met me. She was (come to find out later in the relationship) playing her current Fiance for the very same things with him that she would do to me. And he was paying on a car that he never owned. She couldn’t get pregnant from him. So I was so blinded by love that I thought that Melissa was truly in love with me. I was wrong, she was not. Even her best friends told me how badly she treated him.

I went to work for a great leader in David Carpenter who was the store manager. I was working 16 hours days for the first few weeks. I was at Golden Corral for 10 months. I and my best friend Mike Temple was keeping in touch after he left Chili’s and he had moved back to Lakeland after a stint in Tampa for an electronics company. Things were looking great. Mike and I were getting closer as friends. Then he and I went to Terror On Church Street in Orlando. And that is where Mike and I met two great women, Tracy and Susan. Tracy went on to marry Mike. This is where I moved to Orlando to be with Susan. Susan and I only dated for a few months and then separated. So after I separated from Susan I moved once again to a town north of Orlando called Orange City Florida. Mike had an apartment that was in his family so I was able to help him renovate the apartment and live there for free. Then I was there for about 5 months then the apartment was being put for sale and Mike was moving to Orlando to continue his work at CSX railroad. By this time he had put in 10 years with CSX. So I moved to a hotel in Orange City to start living and work at my new job at Chilis and Applebees. And I was working both for a little while.

I soon found a better job a local car wash in Orange City and left Applebees. I was working at Chili’s and the car wash a total of 5 days a week. So when Chili’s had to cut some labor one month I had gotten more hours at the car wash. Then the money was really flowing and I soon left Chilis. So the car wash was great. Until they were under new management and had to lay off some employees. I was one of them. So I went to apply at a restaurant called Beef O’ Brady’s to work for them and that didn’t pan out well. They were only going to work for me two days a week. So I had to turn them down and call my mother and ask her if I can come back home.

So by this time in my life, it was December of 1998 and I was living back at home with my parents and had to go back to work. So I went back to Golden Corral for about six months until I found out that K-Mart was hiring. So I went to work at K-Mart in the garden center and in receiving. This is where I was going to meet my future wife Melinda. Melinda was a pharmacy technician and she was downright special. She did take a liking to me as well and was interested in dating me. So I asked out one day and took her to the movies and that as they say was history! I told my parents that I was going to move and find a new place to live.

During that time with Melinda, these are the businesses that I had the opportunity to work for; McDonald’s, Walmart, Sears, Dillards, Target (North and South Lakeland), Publix warehouse, Petco Pet Supermarket, Lowes, AMC Theater, Mister Car Wash, Regal Auto, A mobile video company call center, Verizon call center, Florida Southern College, Southeastern University, Universal Studios, Outback Steakhouse, Amazon, Solar Homes, Wag, Rover, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, And my business Bringing Humanity Together.

The first place that we moved into together was Autumnwood apartments in the summer of 1999. We were there for one year and six months. And then we move to a different apartment in south Lakeland. By this time it was early 2001. I was working as an off-campus lawn maintenance worker at Florida Southern College by this time and I loved it! I could be to myself and work. I worked Monday to Friday. I saw some beautiful buildings while I was working there. This college was built by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He even has a home here in Lakeland that was designed by him too.

September 11, 2001, was a day I will remember forever. I remember in the very place on the campus I was at when the school announced that the school had closed and sent all employees home. It was very surreal, I had to call my wife to come to pick me up and she was sent home early herself. I couldn’t believe what happened that day. Seeing the towers fall and seeing people jumping to their deaths has forever changed me.

We needed to find a better place to live. The place that we had been living at had new ownership and was reluctant to fix anything. Melinda fell twice in the driveway and we told the owners to fix it and they told us no. So we talked about it and was in agreement that we needed to move. So my mother in law was moving to north Florida and she needed us to look after her mobile home in Mulberry, so we did. We stayed there for about six months and took care of her three dogs as well. Their names were Smokey, Cocoa, and Littlebit. Smokey and Cocoa were poodles and Littlebit was a Chihuahua. By this time, it was September 2003, and we moved into Emerald Run apartments.

On November 11, 2005, I finally asked Melinda to be my wife. She said yes!! It was such a great time for me and Melinda. We had everything planned out. We were going to spend the night at the Hard Rock Hotel in Universal Studios Orlando and then head off for a six-day cruise to the Bahamas !! Now, mind you the day of the wedding had some hitches in it. I went to the nearest car wash to get it cleaned and the car locked itself in the car wash and we had to get a locksmith to come to unlock the car. Boy was I embarrassed!! The wedding was beautiful, it was held outside I the church’s garden gazebo and with a view of Lake Hollingsworth. Then after the wedding, it was off to Orlando. So the next morning we got up and traveled to Port Canaveral to board the Carnival cruise ship headed for the Bahamas. That 1st night on the top deck the wind was blowing so badly it was pushing Melinda and I back from time to time. We had a phenomenal time in the Bahamas. We saw Atlantis on Paradise Island.

That resort was amazing !!! We saw some of the old city in Nassau. Saw some lighthouses and scenic beaches and places on the islands in the Bahamas. And then the cruise has to come to a close, but I can’t wait to get another chance to take a cruise with Melinda. So can you believe that we stayed in one apartment community at this point in time for 16 years !!! That is how long we stayed there. And the only reason that we moved is that Melinda was no longer working at K-Mart —she was now working at Walmart. (She left K-Mart in 2004 and began at Walmart in late summer of that year.) During this time period, I had worked at Regal Automotive, Universal Studios, Lowe’s, Petco, Outback Steakhouse, Amazon, Solar Homes, Wag, Rover, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, and my business Bringing Humanity Together.

I had the opportunity to speak with a wide variety of people who had many different skillsets and many different outlooks on their career paths.

After we left Emerald Run in January of 2016 we decided to move to south-central Lakeland and move to Peppertree Village Apartments. And we have been here ever since then !! And this is the time I started looking into a new direction in my life. At the time I was working at Solar Homes as a Corporate Recruiter and this where I started to believe that can help make a difference in people’s lives. I loved being a corporate recruiter at Solar Homes. I had the opportunity to speak with a wide variety of people who had many different skillsets and many different outlooks on their career paths. So I would ask them questions like, Where do you see yourself in the next five years from now or What is your passion in business? And the answers I kept getting made me realize that I needed a dramatic change in my own life !!!

That was in August of 2017. In late September, the state of Florida had to brace for Hurricane Irma. And Irma was a powerful storm !! At our apartment, we were without any power for three whole days. A lot of businesses were affected by the storm. Solar Homes had a little window damage but that was all. So after Hurricane Irma was gone and we had power back. I was going back to work at Solar Homes and it wasn’t long before they were out of business. Solar Homes was not able to have enough money in the bank to pay any of the bills or the employees and had to close the business.

This was my opportunity to get on LinkedIn to promote a new outlook for both business and people alike. Bringing Humanity Into Business And Beyond. I knew that this was my calling in life. This is my passion and mission. I had a LinkedIn company page for Solar Homes and thought, why not make a personal page as well. So I did. In the months following my setup of a LinkedIn profile page, I was posting on a regular basis and engaging with other members of the LinkedIn community. And in the fall of 2017, I started to meet some great and wonderful people.

I truly like engaging with people on LinkedIn. There have been some wonderful people who have transformed me in ways that I never thought I could ever achieve by myself.

Evans Duren is just the beginning of the many people who have taken me in a whole new direction in my personal life as well as my entrepreneurial journey !!

Evans Duren has been with me on my entrepreneurial journey since December of 2017 and has been working with me ever since then. So too has Luke Williams, Darrel Frater , Toni Abraira and now many more other great people from all around the world. Me and Evans Duren, Luke Williams, Darrel Frater, and Toni Abraira had started forming a group that one day would start as a consulting firm. But that hit some snags along the way. I couldn’t get all the right pieces of the business to start the business. So in retrospect, I learned the hard lesson that you should always be patient and take all points of view from your friends who know the trials and tribulations of starting a business. I was hoping that with Evans, Luke’s, Darrel’s, and Toni’s help they would be able to give me some great advice and ideas on a new business.

I started the Bringing Humanity Into Business And Beyond podcast on Anchor (that is now called Bringing Humanity Together) in 2018. I interviewed and posted my thoughts on what mattered to me when it comes to Bringing Humanity Into Business and Beyond !! I had a great group of people in a community chatroom to get other great entrepreneurs to start talking about bringing humanity into business and what it means to them. Some members of the group were engaged to a certain point. But from my point of view, it just seemed that I was spinning my wheels. This had to change !! So now flash forward to today and I have started another great group of entrepreneurs and people who are now truly engaging with each other and the outlook now is brighter by the day. I am learning new things every day on my entrepreneurial journey.

If I help you, You help Me, Then we help We

I am getting some great help from Evans, Luke, Darrel, and Toni. I see that the future is going to be looking bright from here on out. I cannot wait to tell Melinda soon that she will be able to quit her job at Walmart and I can take care of her. She is the main reason why I want my business to take off and truly make an impact on others in business and in life itself !! Then when Melinda is home, I can find more great people and businesses who can use our help. Yes, you heard that right !! Our help! My consulting firm is going to have some great people who believe that we need to Bring Humanity Into Business and Beyond it! The mission statement of the company is, “If I help you, You help Me, Then we help We” !! That is the very quote that I came up with and it has been my belief from day one. My other goal is to have a human resources and staffing firm and a nonprofit organization. We will have everything at your disposal for all of your business needs under one roof. There is so much opportunity before me that I know that only good things are ahead.

So let's connect and talk soon about how we all can create environments?that people will love in our workplaces and in our communities.

This goes out to my great friends and partners here at Bringing Humanity Together

Carla Fedigan

Sandy Chernoff

Ano Chinogwenya

Christian Clark

Omar Reynoso

Christine Montelaro

Lisa McQuillin

Walid M. BOUKHARI

Gina Goff

Lady Myya

Here is some special shout outs to some other awesome great people that has truly changed my life forever.

Eileen Bild

Dennis J Pitocco

Monique Jozwiakowski

Graeme Thorpe

Brian Sommer

Plus there so many more great people that has truly changed my life forever.

I am so humbled and honored to have you all in my life today and I can also can be in your life as well.

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