Steve Smith

So she was using an oven to heat the one bedroom.

And bro, it broke me.

It broke me that this landlord had reduced all these people to live in those conditions where they deserve more.

Just because they are receiving assistance doesn't mean you lessen

their respect of who they are as a human being.

And man, so from there, I was so pissed off and angry.

Man, I had a buddy, Mike Salamone, he came to my house.

We sat in the basement and I kind of talked to him about these things and laid it out to him like, this is what I want to do.

Man, out of my group of people, even my mentor, he was like, nah, I don't like it.

You're at the end of your career.

You shouldn't do this.

You shouldn't do that.

Bro, then another person said the same thing.

But this guy I knew, Mike Salamone, he was a home builder.

He was like, man, you know your numbers.

If your numbers are aligned, do it.

Man, I did it and ended up

having some good stuff happen, having some bad stuff happen.

But I rode the roller coaster and then went into COVID.

And that's when it showed me.