Broke is an Economic Condition

John Hope Bryant was raised with a “Yes I can” attitude for earning money. His only problem was his inability to hold on to his money and by the time he turned 18 he was homeless. This ‘life lesson’ would be the catalyst for his future passion of providing financial literacy for low-wealth and underserved individuals. At the age of 25, seven years after being homeless, he turned his life around and started his own private banking business. In four years, it grew to a $24 million dollar company; he later founded Operation HOPE, a non-profit, public benefit organization dedicated to empowering underserved communities. According to Mr. Bryant “Broke is a temporary economic condition; poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of the spirit, and one must vow to never, ever be poor again.”