We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Corey A a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Corey, we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?
I became a drug addict at a very young age. But it was always one of my dream to own my own businesses. After going to prison multiple time I know I need to get it together. I have been sober now for 11 yr. When I first got sober i went to work in behavioral health and substance abuse. Quickly started working my way up after many yr I realized that the behavioral health system was changing so I decided to go back to my child hood dream and open a food truck (Biggie Boy BBQ ) what bring people together better than family and the food they make.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
I gain my enjoyment from smoking meat and learning how the different woods act compared to different meat. There is nothing better that coming up with a my recipe and idles for making fun food. I started by smoking meat for the game night we would have at our home for friend and family and that led in to friend asking me to smoking and cooking for their friends and family’s
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
For me 1 Learning to live a sober life and managing my behavioral health issue
2 research I would set and do at least one hour a day or research and how to / need to/ and have to
3 follow your dream
see working in behavioral health was a job a career it was not my dream it has been my dream to own a food truck even through my addiction prisons terms learning about my mental health dealing with life lol
We’ve all got limited resources, time, energy, focus etc – so if you had to choose between going all in on your strengths or working on areas where you aren’t as strong, what would you choose?
All in (Why) see you make a plan A people alway ask what if you plan A doesn’t work what your plan B?I don’t have a plan B I put all my efforts into my plan A. I have to focus on the mane goal and work on the obstacles in my plan A. And if that fails you start another plan A.
When I decide to buy a food truck we didn’t have the money but I knew if I just kept putting it out there in the universe or what ever people my believe in that my higher power your make a way. I made an everyday part of my conversation. Stayed focus I know I couldn’t afford a $50000 food truck so I started look for fixer upper and it happened we treated that truck like it was the only $50000 food truck out there. I trusted my supports and excepted the bad time and the unexpected the same as the good time. There were some very rough time that made me want to say ok I can’t or want to do this no more my wife would tell me stop your doing this and here we are now little over a year and we own that $50000 food truck booking bigger event see I was in an accident shortly after starting and my supports came through like a champ and it thought me to trust that everything is going to be ok
Contact Info:
- Instagram: Biggieboybbq520
- Facebook: Biggieboybbq
- Other: Tictok Biggieboybbq
