Faith, Grit & Second Chances
They came home from prison or the hardest starts imaginable — and built businesses that hire people just like them.
Every list is published in Top 10, Top 12 and Top 15 installments. Every profile is fact-checked against its sources, and every person appears exactly once in this edition.
Ten profiles of people who came home from prison, or from the hardest starts imaginable, and built businesses — businesses that deliberately hire people carrying the same past.
The ten include Chris Wilson, Tracey Syphax and Trent Griffin-Braaf. Their list's premise is stated on its face: a prison cell is where their stories were supposed to end; instead it is where the business plan started.
Every profile is fact-checked, every source linked, and every person appears once in this edition. The list does not ask the reader to forget the first half of these stories. It asks the reader to finish them.
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Questions & Answers
What kind of business can someone start after prison?
Every list is published in Top 10, Top 12 and Top 15 installments. Every profile is fact-checked against its sources, and every person appears exactly once in this edition. They came home from prison or the hardest starts imaginable — and built businesses that hire people just like them. It links to 1 story page — open any card to read the full piece.
How do second-chance entrepreneurs find support and funding?
They came home from prison or the hardest starts imaginable — and built businesses that hire people just like them. Every list is published in Top 10, Top 12 and Top 15 installments. Every profile is fact-checked against its sources, and every person appears exactly once in this edition.
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