Garet McLendon

18 months inside this place of learning how to, uh, learning how to, uh, of course I worked in the kitchen just like I did in a penitentiary.

I still sold burritos just like I, to make a living.

Right.

I need some shoes.

Uh, and, and what I did is I learned a new way to live as in, as in, uh, um,

got me a job making four bucks an hour through a temp agency.

I couldn't get a driver's license, so I wrote a bite to that temp agency every single day to get it to work.

I come back to that place, and I participate in the groups they have done, and I got involved in a 12-step program.

And, um, and then as I met people in the 12 step program, I, I met a guy who called my sponsor who, who like was an example of what like life had to charge is another concept that sort of went down the same path.

And like each one teach one, just like no different than a, than a, than a, a guy coming into prison.

And like, and if it was like, Hey, cool, this is a cool guy that I'm going to show you the ropes.

And there's no different.

I came into, I came into recovery and I met a guy and he showed me the ropes.

And he was just a great example of what to do.

And I didn't know, man, I didn't know how to live on the streets.

I didn't know nothing about, like I was, at the end of it, I was running fraud in my own bank account.

So I couldn't have a bank account now.

And I went in to try to get a driver's license.

And that was so far, I didn't get a driver's license until I was three years clean and sober.

Because all the stuff, all the stuff that wreckage of the past that I had to clean up.