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From Behind Bars to Business Owners: How 3 Former Inmates Became Entrepreneurs

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Supporting his family—and doing so legally—motivated him. He founded Breaking Free Industries in February 2020 using $400 gifted from a member of his synagogue. They’ve just gone from hustling on the streets to hustling legally. The only way to go forward was to kind of do my own thing. It was almost by necessity.” I’m a felon.

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From Behind Bars to Business Owners: How 3 Former Inmates Became Entrepreneurs

Success

Supporting his family—and doing so legally—motivated him. He founded Breaking Free Industries in February 2020 using $400 gifted from a member of his synagogue. They’ve just gone from hustling on the streets to hustling legally. The only way to go forward was to kind of do my own thing. It was almost by necessity.” I’m a felon.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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In this book, she presents evidence that while large philanthropic donations and headline-making policy changes may get most of our media attention, they are not the only tools to achieve peace. asks Suleika Jaouad, who had to face her own mortality in 2011. The world really can be changed one person at a time.

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