One of the hardest things that I’ve come across as a parent is when, where and how to set boundaries. It is often very difficult because we love our children so much and even when they do crazy and sometimes illegal things we are the first to defend them. That is the primary reason I don’t get angry when a parent of a man in his mid 20s or 30s tells me I’m an asshole over the phone after this same man ends up in jail for committing illegal acts and not being compliant.

Unfortunately, whether a hospital or a halfway house; there is still a business side which conflicts with the medical side. Without one you don’t have the other. On top of that, medical care is a two way street that includes the person receiving the services having to follow direction or the care just doesn’t work. So when Mr. mid 20s mother calls me an asshole because of the son’s fuck up it’s long already been par for the course.

There is a reason why I was able to take an empty, unfurnished and disgusting floor of a building and turn it into PA State’s premier halfway house and the only one with private rooms and a staff consisting of veterans in the field with a combined experience totaling over 30 year within 11 months of starting… there is a reason why this is my third sustainable business and it is the one that has grown the most since opening. The reason is that I know what I’m talking about, work hard, research, care about the people receiving services, make changes when those aren’t 100%. That’s why I get paid primarily to make decisions.

There are those who can and will and those who won’t and make excuses. I know this because I can and have been called an asshole numerous times by people who “can’t and make excuses” for them and their children. The same reasons I’ve reach the level I am at today is the same reason my success will continue skyrocketing.

‘Nuff Said.