Diesel Works, LLC

My hopes and dreams were to create a fire art center, a space where I could use the medi Ten years later, here I am, bringing young folks in, men that have been incarcerated in part of the department of youth services programs, and I'm able to bring you in and give you that experience. But I tend to call it a safe space where young men and young women can leave the t I got into more commercial work doing hair salons, bars, restaurants, tables to entryway desks to chandelier sconces, sculptural t But by the time I'm done, you say I could have never imagined that, but thank you for running with it. So I would almost say I bring your vision to life. Tom and Capital gave me the drive and the means to provide myself with some of the funding to cover a little bit of rent here and there, or if it wasn't rent, now I had, because I wasn't buying a tool, I bought a tool through that and then was able to cover. And it just helped me navigate and understand what lending was about and to carry my business forward. My job is never the same. Each day differs. So one day it's a giraffe, the next day it's a coffee table, the day after that it's a group of desks, and then it's a horse made out of bike parts. We're generating young folks through a hands-on approach to get out into the world and affect our economy with steelworkers, with artists essentially, because when they leave t And that's huge.