Jeffrey Yarbrough Turns That Frown Upside Down

I don’t know what it is but I find myself going out of my way to find feel good stories to run here on Blabrmouth lately. I think I am watching too much CNBC and by the time they get to Maria, I want to jump in front of the A train.

Today is no exception, while perusing my feeds last night, I found a fantastic story! It was inspiring. In a crazy week of faceless corporations feeding off of each other like crabs in a basket, there was a bright spot, and it had a face, and it had a name, and that name was Jeffery Yarbrough.

Now, his story doesn’t start off so great. Jeffrey had three restaurants in the Dallas area that drug him into Chapter 13 bankruptcy in 2005. I don’t know enough about Jeff to know if he could have just filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy and walked away from it all, but he didn’t, and he is just about to make the last of the structured payments to the bankruptcy trustee and has nothing but good things to look forward to.

Jeffrey has a fantastic little PR firm called Big Ink, and a stable full of clients. The lessons Jeff learned from the ordeal will be everlasting and I doubt he will walk down this same road again.

As we watch Wall Street collapse under its own stupidity, there is a human element to Jeff’s story that is missing in all the headlines. And that is that bad things do happen to good people, and everyone deserves a second chance. That no matter how badly these guys on Wall Street ran these companies, all they can be blamed for is losing money. They didn’t kill anyone; they are just bad businesspeople who deserve another shot.

So, with that said, let’s get past this mess and move on with our lives. Help me look for the bottom to this market; it has to be around here somewhere. And all of you soon to be former CEO’s that killed my parent’s retirement accounts this week, you’re forgiven. And for the record, don’t confuse my kindness for weakness, if you eff it up again, I will come after you. All of you!