Arianna appeared on Fox 5's Good Day Atlanta this morning with Brenda Carter, whose story was featured in Third World America.
Carter shared her experience of re-inventing herself after an unexpected layoff from an office job. Carter, a grandmother, went on to launch a praline business online.
"What was great about Brenda is that after she cried and was upset...she started trying to rebuild her life. It's important for everyone out there to know that we can rebuild our lives," Arianna said.
Carter says the praline business idea came from her mother, a hard-working single mother in New Orleans who also made and sold homemade pralines in the neighborhood and at a local school to help make ends meet.
"People would knock on our doors at all times of night asking to purchase these pralines," she recalled. "So as I was sitting at home I thought 'Hey I can do this too! This is something I can do and am comfortable doing.'"
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For millions of hard-working, middle-class families, life under the Bush presidency grew less affordable and less secure. Gdubya’s record of fiscal incompetence and mismanagement, and Republicans' close ties with special interests, have helped lead to both lower wages on the one hand and skyrocketing costs for basic necessities like gas, health care, and college tuition on the other. Unfortunately, instead of producing solutions to the problems facing the middle class, the republicans have ignored them and are pushing for policies that would make matters even worse.
however, not all people are capable of making the necessary change. in fact, most people aren't capable. it boils down to problem solving skills and nerve in tandem. most people have poor problem solving skills hindered by lack of perspective and don't have the nerve to move outside their comfort zones which is why there are many former professionals and degreed people working at menial jobs.
what can be done? unfortunately, not much. young people have a longer timeline to recover. old people(over 50) are more desperate and most will end up working way below their skill level for the rest of their lives.
my advice, realize you have nothing to lose and a lot to gain by taking a chance on yourself. now is your chance to do what you really want to do for a living. you don't have to be a walmart greeter. take the time you have collecting your unemployment check and take control of your life.
I am quitting my job at the end of this year and am launching a healthy and natural food product line, featuring wild edibles, wild mushrooms, oils, pestos, meat and poultry rubs, tapenades and seasonal specialties. My friend and I are avid organic gardeners and food lovers... so we figured, why not? Why not feed the world with the healthy things WE enjoy.
I will have natural beef AND venison jerkey, fresh ricotta stuffing made with spinach and wild mushrooms and oils infused with only the best herbs. Going to look for some land to see where I can grow my ingredients.
We are so excited and I'm starting production as soon as my venison comes in this hunting season.
I think the decade of healthy eating is coming if it hasn't arrived already, and from what I've been figuring, it doesn't have to be expensive. Why should only Californian's enjoy farm market fresh food?
This is really an inspirational story!
he just may be on the side of good
now bail out main street and lets party
I had a good run up until 2008, and then the wheels came off the tracks. My career came to stop when the industry I was in basically stopped spending money the winter of 08/09. I scratched and clawed to put food on the table in 2009, then I decided, I'm getting no where fast and I need to retool. And believe me, this was going on when the mortgage default notices were piling up, the old cans of food were being eaten, and my atm card was being rejected in the supermarket line, warrant for my arrest for unpaid tickets (and I have multiple college degrees). Rock bottom for me was went I went out of state for tech training that I had bartered for. Ran out of money the last week, and basically lived on water and coffee at the training center the last 3 days. But I parlayed that bartered-for training, sat for an exam, got a state license, and I'm working for myself 7 days a week now. Mortgage is caught up, working on the last 2 credit cards, and by spring I should be saving again. People, you need to get up, shake it off, and retool yourselves. But I know from experience that it's easier said than done. It took the absolute bottom to get me going.