From addiction to advocacy: How the mortgage industry gave me a second chance

Homeownership is one of the most powerful wealth-building tools this country offers, and my path into the mortgage lending industry is an unlikely story that I could not be prouder to tell. In 2006, I was a methamphetamine addict living in an abandoned house, likely due for demolition, in Akron, Ohio. I had burned practically every bridge available to me. The mortgage industry was not on my radar; only survival.