From homeless to $70 million, Bob Schober’s $400,000 generosity challenge
AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton. |
| 0:13.4 | Well, I have a really cool story, and it's a rags to riches story. |
| 0:19.6 | And it's not so much about the story of homelessness to riches. |
| 0:25.8 | But it's about what this gentleman is doing with his riches. |
| 0:30.6 | It's a really cool story. |
| 0:32.4 | And the guy's name is Bob Schober. |
| 0:35.7 | Bob Schober is a roofer in Mesa, Arizona. And he recently started doing a big |
| 0:45.3 | giveaway. In fact, I think he just started this in December. And he began with $30,000 and encouraged other wealthy people to kick in, |
| 0:58.0 | and he wanted this to spread, and by the year's end, |
| 1:01.3 | he wanted to give away $400,000 to people. |
| 1:06.2 | And this was to celebrate his move from homelessness to $70 million in sales. Last year was his |
| 1:17.6 | roofing company's largest year ever, their most productive year. It's a really cool story, |
| 1:23.8 | and I celebrate this story because this is what America is all about and I I can't |
| 1:33.1 | overemphasize how much opportunity is sitting right at our fingertips here in America and it really |
| 1:41.6 | truly is unlike any other nation in the world. |
| 1:45.5 | I know plenty of people. |
| 1:48.4 | I'm friends with people who live in third world nations. |
| 1:53.8 | They have talents and abilities and different gifts, different spiritual gifts, |
| 2:01.8 | and they just don't have the opportunity to make money |
| 2:05.2 | and to monetize that like we do here in America. |
| 2:09.2 | And we really do have a built-in exceptionalism |
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