301: Chad Houser—Give the Children Knives and Fire
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, you found it. |
| 0:05.3 | Episode number 301 of the way I heard it entitled Give the Children Knives and Fire. |
| 0:13.6 | Another direct quote, Chuck, from another fantastic guest. |
| 0:17.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.1 | Chad Hauser runs a foundation, Cafe Momentum. It's a foundation and it's also a restaurant. |
| 0:24.5 | An awarding restaurant. One of the best restaurants in Dallas. And he's one of the top chefs in Dallas. |
| 0:30.6 | So here's the deal. I met this guy, what, seven months ago at a stand-together event. |
| 0:36.0 | Stand-together, if you haven't heard, is an organization that supports my foundation, |
| 0:40.9 | micro-works, and lots and lots and lots of other organizations that try and work in bottom-up |
| 0:47.2 | solutions. |
| 0:48.4 | And this is a really good one. |
| 0:50.2 | Chad uses food. |
| 0:52.2 | I mean, he's an award-winning chef. |
| 0:54.0 | He had the number one restaurant in Dallas, |
| 0:56.7 | and he basically wakes up one morning and says, |
| 0:58.9 | look, I want to run a different kind of restaurant. |
| 1:01.7 | I want to hire juvenile delinquents. |
| 1:05.2 | I want to hire kids who are basically in the justice system code for in jail, basically, starts going into these detention halls and cooking with them. |
| 1:21.1 | And then he starts doing these pop-up dinners with them. |
| 1:24.9 | And then he eventually takes a giant breath and opens up this whole new |
| 1:29.1 | restaurant and starts hiring them. And then, and now he literally is on track to do this in like |
| 1:36.9 | 30 different cities. He's got serious financial backing. He's got an amazing track record. I mean, I don't know, Chuck, if people |
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