What I learned from hiring hundreds of former inmates | Margo Walsh | TEDxPortsmouth

[Applause] [Music] In 2011, I had an idea for a business, so I sketched it on a napkin. My idea was to start a company and hire felons. Why.Because no one else would. So, I took a social problem and started a business to solve it. This all came about because of my own personal recovery story, which is not unique.It was filled with guilt and shame and remorse on repeat, and I drank every single day. So on December 13th, 1997, I crashed into rehab. Before that, I had it all.I had been working at a big investm ...