Helping Individuals Get Back On Their Feet with Rich Haws | Serendipitous Encounters with Fortuosity

We are here today with a fairly new friend of ours, Rich Haws, who has an organization called Red Barn Academy, an organization that reinvents lives broken from addiction and crime. He has been through some pretty interesting experiences in his life and we are excited to share those with you today. We talk about Rich’s book, Connecting The Dots, which talks about SEFs, or Serendipitous Encounters with Fortuosity, which are significant events that take place in people’s lives. When discovered, they give hope, purpose, and meaning. Rich talks about the concept of being a team, teamwork, and what it means to be part of a larger body of individuals that all work together to achieve something greater than what any one individual can achieve. He tells us how he is able to help the individuals he works with to get back into society as a stand-up citizen of society. Where everything started that shaped Rich 3:00Connecting The Dots 6:53The Red Barn Way 10:54How early mindfulness started affecting Rich 16:05The vision he had for many projects and seeing someone that no one else could 18:00Stealing Fire 22:12Defining moment of heartache and what he learned 28:14Leaving an impression on the world 37:00Helping these individuals get back on their feet 40:48The promises that are made for this program and giving people a 2nd chance 42:37When someone leaves 50:03Some serendipitous events that happened in reserving the land for their space 51:19How to find them and become part of this community 59:30“I saw [a past city manager] the other day that was a real opponent and a hurdle for me to get through, and yet as I looked at him I gave him a hug. I saw him here just a couple of weeks ago, and he was one of my most ardent opponents as we were trying to do a project here in Farmington, yet today I look at him totally differently now because of this experience that we’d been through.” 25:58redbarnfarms.org