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“There’s more to you than you can see,” said Gus, the man who started the turnaround in Joe Roberts life.
At the time Roberts was living on the streets of Vancouver. He was a drug user. He was struggling with mental health problems. He was in and out of the criminal justice system.
“I had lost the belief in possibility, I only saw failure ahead of me, until Gus,” Roberts said recently.
Over the course of the next five years Joe entered rehab. He returned to school and studied business and marketing. He graduated on the dean’s list and won the Laurie H. Cameron Memorial Award for academic excellence, with a combined GPA of 3.94. It seems improbable, but it wasn’t, because of his faith in God and his renewed belief in a better future.
Roberts entered the business world and co-founded Mindware Design Communications in 1997. In 2016, Joe walked across Canada pushing a shopping cart, a symbol of homelessness for the Push For Change. His goal, to raise money and awareness about youth homelessness. He walked 24 kilometres a day through all four seasons.
Roberts joined a Conversation That Matters about belief in the possible and the power it has to change your life. See the video at vancouversun.com/tag/conversations-that-matter. Learn More about our guests career at careersthatmatter.ca