CEO StoryTelling Project

In my life... biggest influence. It would have to be my late brother, Kevin. When we were kids he was my older brother, four years older than I. He, uh, struggled with cancer for fifteen years a parapalegic and attended college, and, um, y'know, went through a lot and put up a good fight.

What I wanted to be vacillated between an ambulance driver and a garbage man. As I got a little bit older, um, just a garbage man. No. Uh, it was, I wanted to be a journalist—I had a gift of the gab and the gift of the pen and like to read, so.

 

Yeah, success. Uh, well, I think it’s, it’s in—it’s not anything tangible. Success for me is just being happy in what I do and I mean happiness is, um, truffles? Um, I don’t know. Uh, not having a plan. I-I mean, maybe that’s not right because I’m a big planner; I plan a lot. [Maybe] going somehwere without an agenda er—ya, that’s a good question. It’s hard to draw a circle around.

 

Um, I grew up Catholic so I had an idea of soul. And I, as a young man I developed an idea of a soul as this thing being back here and it was about the size of a fist, and everything bad you did took a peice off, but you could add a piece and put it back on there. So maintaining your soul has always been good.

 

I’ve been at CEO for three and half years; I’m the program director at the Resource Education Community Center. Ahh, I love it, I love it. I like who I work with, the clients that we have. I like all the agencies. I like how we’re trying to, uh, really improve our organization. I see it as really progressive. Ya know, besides my family, it’s my career that makes me happy.