Lesson 10

Entrepreneur Journal – Week 10

The semester is almost over. There have been many things I have learned from this course. Some of them I would like to remember and I decided to keep those assignments in here. One this week was our Acton Hero named Catherine Rohr. What a woman she is. I am just going to paste my assignment here as I want to make sure I remember what I wrote.

Another fantastic woman we hear about, so amazing I had to look her up online and find out more about the story. Here we have a Wall Street investor who decided to start a prison entrepreneur program, even though at the time she felt those behind bars were animals and not human. Catherine was invited to go to the Texas prison, and while there she saw something she did not expect, and that was real humans. She soon realized that many of those men had the same qualities as those who become entrepreneurs. Catherine decided to start a program called Prison Entrepreneurship program. She would commute from New York to Texas every weekend for six weeks. After six weeks of travel her and her husband decided to use all their money and move to Texas. While in Texas the U-Haul that they had everything in was broken into and they took everything. All they had left was the clothes on their back. Catherine said she became a professional beggar. She raised money for the program, and within a week she earned $40.000, the first year she raised $230,000, the second year $680,000 and the third year was $1.7 million. Catherine overcame a lot of hurdles to get this program started. She has seen men wearing a cap and gown for the first time. Again, what a fantastic woman to take these men who did wrong, sometimes very terrible things and gave them a new lease on life. Catherine is my hero.

See what I mean? Catherine is amazing.

For my $100 challenge this week I made up fliers and gave them to my friends and posted it up on Facebook. Here is what I came up with.