EP208: Weifield Group Hires “At Risk” Individuals and with Good Reason!, Comfort From Canine Companionship and A Boy Waits for His POW Father
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, It's hard to believe that a company who has hired over 100 “at risk” individuals would be competing for the title as the top electrical contracting company in Colorado AND also the U.S. Let Karla Nugent and Curt Andersen convince you otherwise. Stephen Rusiniak shares about his four legged son that helped him and his wife through their struggle with infertility. Retired US Navy Captain Mike McDaniel takes us back to when he was just a boy in the 3rd grade and about to learn that his dad was shot down on his 81st combat mission over Vietnam.
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00:00 - Weifield Group Hires “At Risk” Individuals and with Good Reason!
23:00 - Comfort From Canine Companionship
35:00 - A Boy Waits for His POW Father
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| 0:00.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, from the arts to sports and from business to history and everything in |
| 0:21.0 | between, including your story. Send them to Our American Stories.com. They're some of our favorites. |
| 0:27.5 | And today, we bring you the story of Kurt Anderson, a man whose life was turned around by a company, |
| 0:33.7 | and Carl Nugent, one of the founding partners of that company. |
| 0:39.7 | Here's Robbie with the story. |
| 0:45.2 | Kurt Anderson's childhood was pretty normal, until tragedy struck. |
| 0:50.5 | 1987, I lost my brother Brian to a motorcycle accident. |
| 1:02.0 | And then started getting involved with some alcohol and marijuana. It was just, uh, instead of turning it into something positive, I took it the wrong way. |
| 1:10.0 | I just went downhill from there and I did |
| 1:13.5 | manage to stay in school and get my GED though. Just from there you know the the |
| 1:19.7 | alcohol got worse and worse and 21 years old and you know cocaine and reduced to |
| 1:26.9 | meth amphetamines. |
| 1:29.3 | I was in and out of jail. |
| 1:30.3 | Didn't really have a good job or anything like that or a career. |
| 1:33.3 | I was just in and out of restaurants doing short order cook type work. |
| 1:38.3 | You know, I had met a girl. |
| 1:40.3 | We had some kids together and I was pretty much a knucklehead all through my 30s. |
| 1:45.0 | She actually ended up leaving me because I was just out of control. |
| 1:51.0 | I would pay the bills or whatever, but other than that, it was just in my addiction. |
| 1:56.0 | Started getting felonies and getting in trouble with the law. |
| 2:01.6 | I caught my first felony in 2002, 2003, somewhere in there, |
| 2:09.6 | and was given a chance to do probation. |
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