From Foster Care To Founder: Bobby Jones' Second Chance Story
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Welcome to the shit show. Things are going to get weird. It's your fave villain, Kale Lowry. And you're listening to Barely Famous.
All right, y'all, welcome back to Barely Famous. I'm sitting with a local entrepreneur, Bobby Jones. So you're the owner of Brightside in Dover, Delaware? Yes, ma'am. Okay. And you reached out to me and told me about your story a little bit, and I didn't go too in-depth online about it because I wanted to talk to you about it.
Cool.
So I kind of want to just start from the beginning. You have a story about foster care and kind of struggling during your childhood, but then you became an entrepreneur. And I think this is a story that a lot of people can relate to. So at first you talk about growing up in poverty. What was that like? Where did you grow up?
Right in Magnolia, Delaware. We had a little single wide trailer. There were five of us in that house. And the main reason that I ended up in foster care was because my parents were um addicts they had struggles with addiction both of them yeah um and it's it's kind of interesting because they had separate drugs of choice which is kind of unique i think but um my mom um she actually spiraled because she ended up getting diagnosed with um cervical and ovarian cancer. And she had like 11 surgeries in a 12 month time span.
Oh, wow.
And the results of that was a lot of pain. So they just started throwing pain meds at her. And at that time, Oxycontin was this big new thing that was supposed to save everyone and, you know, live life without pain. And, um, so they prescribed her 160 milligram Oxycontin and that was only around for a couple of years before they literally outlawed that and discontinued it. Okay. Um,
But by then, I would imagine it was probably too late for her.
Well, it was. They still had her on like 80 milligram Oxycontins for a while. But again, like you said, at some point, they took her off the medicine. And once they took her off the medicine, she had to resort to alternative ways to fix that addiction. And unfortunately, that led her to heroin use, crack cocaine. But heroin and pain meds were her drug of choice. And my father, unfortunately, went more towards the crack cocaine side. So-
Did your dad also have sort of like a medical reason for getting started or it was just?
What challenges did Bobby Jones face growing up in foster care?
No, I think, and I want to be very clear. I have a great relationship with both of my parents today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure.
Because I really, you know, I want to emphasize that because the relationship with my mom is relatively new. We've rebuilt and my relationship with my dad has been pretty good for a while now. But once they separated, my dad was able to clean up pretty quickly. And I don't mean to blame my mom, but when you have just a toxic environment and And you have that drug use. I think he just got into it as a result of it being so close to him.
Did you have siblings growing up?
Yeah. I have an Irish twin. My younger sister is 10 months younger than me. My mom went in for her six-week checkup to find out she was pregnant. Been there. Yeah. I blame my dad on that one. And then I have a half-brother, Jason, who actually works with us at Brightside. And he's from your mom's side or your dad's side? Mom's side. And as he would say it, same hole, different pole. I'm dead.
How old were you when you sort of recognized that your parents were struggling?
Yeah, it's interesting. As a kid, you don't know what you don't know, right?
How did addiction impact Bobby's family dynamics?
So it's like you're growing up and you're just like rolling with the punches. You don't know that everybody's not experiencing the same thing. So, you know, I didn't even realize I was broke until like I got to school and they were like talking about like trailer park trash and stuff like this. And I didn't understand what that was until they were like, well, that's what you are. I was like, shit, all right. Um, and then, you know, like the, the stuff with the addiction again, like it really was kept from us enough that we weren't seeing what was causing, like, you know, like the things that would eventually be the red flags for the schools and the people to step in and start an investigation.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:27
2
What challenges did Bobby Jones face growing up in foster care?
2:27–3:33
3
How did addiction impact Bobby's family dynamics?
3:33–12:22
4
What mindset shifts helped Bobby break free from his past?
12:22–48:17
5
How did Bobby navigate his early experiences with crime?
48:17–1:00:15
6
What was Bobby's turning point during his time in prison?
1:00:15–1:27:24