Cheri Garcia’s Post

God has been really showing up through the launch of our second chance junk hauling business in so many ways. One of our recent hires is a Veteran & to witness the way he respected a flag he found instead of just throwing out junk in a hurry really melted my heart. I’m glad I was on this job site to capture the moment. ❤️💙

Junk Hustlers 🙌🏼 part 4

Completed 1 year as a member of C12 Business Forums & I am feeling grateful. The best way I can describe being part of this group: it’s like AA, but for Christain business leaders. 😂 We meet once a month for an entire day to bring our issues and feelings to the table for discussion and hold each other accountable for putting God first in our businesses. Thank you so much Shawn Yates for being my mentor, pastor, therapist, and friend. Oh & for being our C12 chair. 🫠🙏🏻 I am blessed to have someone like you walk me through tough decisions and life changes.

Missing my dad. I will forever cherish all the voicemails he left me. I always encourage ppl to leave me voicemails & I leave voicemails from time to time, because you just never know how special they will be one day. Happy Father’s Day, dad. 🕊️ ❤️

Calculated risk or Leap of faith? Well I think it takes a whole bunch of both! 🫠😅

Over the last decade, we’ve worked hard to educate and consult employers about creating a second-chance hiring policy. We’ve worked with small to mid-sized companies to billion dollar publicly traded organizations. Our first meeting generally consists of discussing fears around hiring people with certain crimes and background screening for due diligence and risk mitigation. We started Cornbread Hustle because we wanted to help people coming from prison find meaningful employment. What I didn’t realize is how much I would have to learn about what’s legal and what’s not and how to navigate giving opportunity while keeping ourselves and our clients compliant. I wanted to share this PDF we created for our clients so anyone can use it to bring up discussions around second-chance hiring. It’s not as simple as wanting to help people. There are many risks involved & laws to follow. Having a process in place to ensure fair onboarding is essential for second chance hiring.

2,000 consecutive days without alcohol. It still blows my mind 🤯that I just needed to change ONE thing so I could change EVERYTHING. It’s the most complicated, yet simple thing I’ve done.

Junk Hustlers 🤷🏻♀️ Part 3

Posting LinkedIn selfie videos is much more in my comfort zone, but this video pretty much sums up all the efforts I'm very proud of. <3

Experiencing the sadness of grief has been the hardest thing I’ve dealt with in my recovery, but it also taught me so much about meaningful connections. I had the pleasure of finally meeting NFL Ref Bryan Neale in person this week. One thing I learned after my dad passed away is the power of the referee community. My dad was a referee my whole life. He even dressed me as a referee when I was baby :) He had a lot of mental health struggles but those zebra stripes always brought him to life. I was blown away by the amount of messages and support I received from referees on LinkedIn. Refs from Dallas All Sports Association & Texas Association of Sports Officials reached out pouring encouragement and support. (Shout out to Bernard Gray & Xavier V. ) My dad was too sick his last year of life to referee, but I will never forget he told me he believed he would live.. and sending in his payment for dues before football season was the only hope he was hanging onto. We cried together and mailed the check. One of the hardest days for me was when the refund check was mailed back to me. 😭BUT the referee community stepped in and continued the hope for me that my father was hanging on to. Now I’m bawling 😭 Love you dad & I love your referee community because they loved you and me. ❤️