How to Overcome Addiction, Homelessness & Life After Prison | Victor the Good Boss
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Victor went from prison to running a successful business and a nonprofit that changes lives. With over 6 million followers across platforms, he’s using his story to show no one is too far gone to be saved. In this powerful chat with Brad Lea, Victor shares how he helps homeless people get off the streets, into rehab, and back on their feet — and how you can help too.
Victor's links
https://www.instagram.com/victorthegoodboss
https://www.tiktok.com/@victorthegoodboss
https://thegoodproject.us/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | went to court and they said lock him up throw away the key and that's when i realized like |
| 0:03.6 | shit this is real i went to state prison it was definitely scary at first and i said to myself when i get out i'm going to do something better and that's what i did there's so many people that i met in there that were reoffenders a lot of it is because when you get out you have no support here i am today i have a very successful business to help people have a non-profit no one is too far gone to be saved |
| 0:21.3 | what do you think is causing homeless to be homeless a lot of why people call you the good boss |
| 0:29.7 | simply because i'm the good boss um to my employees i have my own business and uh i'm just i treat |
| 0:36.1 | them well um why do you have 939 000 followers because i do |
| 0:42.8 | all good things there's no negative with what i do um i love helping people i love inspiring other |
| 0:49.9 | people um showing them that anything's possible if you put your mind to it you can do anything so so |
| 0:56.9 | i know you got a whole story we're going to get into that story a little bit but um you know when |
| 1:01.1 | when i first look victor the good boss 939000 followers especially nowadays it's not easy to get |
| 1:07.3 | a bunch of followers no there's a lot of noise out there. Why do you think people are following you? |
| 1:13.6 | I think there's people out there that like to see good stuff. |
| 1:17.6 | There are some people that like to see the funny jokes or stuff like that. |
| 1:23.6 | But there are good people out there that have a heart and they like to see other people helping |
| 1:28.3 | others. It inspires them. Not everyone can help someone. So I think that's why they like to watch. |
| 1:35.2 | What do you do? I do. So my biggest thing is I like to take homeless people off the streets. |
| 1:41.9 | Take them where? Take them to rehab. Housing um housing get them a job do you pay for |
| 1:47.1 | it so i do go fund me's uh i have a non-profit that i started and i do everything i can to |
| 1:52.6 | get someone from the streets to a job living in a house normally i say like i'm i'm interested in like having the listeners learn something on |
| 2:06.2 | this show to either get them past a challenge or a situation i don't know if i have any |
| 2:11.1 | homeless looking or watching to the podcast so it's kind of like well where, where do I position this? And I thought to myself, |
| 2:18.6 | first of all, how do you stop from getting in that situation? Like, there's a lot of people |
| 2:24.9 | watching that could end up homeless. That's right. So like, what do you think is causing |
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