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Cheri C. Garcia

Business Owner, Investor & Inventor and Recovery Advocate

Cheri C. Garcia
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Dallas, TX, USA
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Live Event: $10,000 - $20,000
Virtual Event: $5,000 - $10,000
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Addiction & Recovery, Business, Business Leadership, Female Leadership, Finance, Health, Influential Women, Inspirational, Inventors, Mental Health, Motivational, TED, Women
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Cheri C. Garcia Biography

Cheri Garcia is a nationally-recognized recovery advocate, investor, and expert in second-chance hiring. She consults with companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations on second-chance hiring and diversity initiatives.

For more than a decade, Garcia has worked to help formerly incarcerated people and those in recovery find meaningful full-time jobs. In 2016, she launched Cornbread Hustle, Inc., the first staffing agency focused on second-chance job opportunities. Cornbread Hustle has placed more than 2,500 eager workers in jobs around North Texas and the U.S.

In 2021, Garcia was recognized as Social Innovator of the Year by United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. She was named to the D CEO 40 Under 40 list that year. Other honors include a 2017 Resolution in the Texas House of Representatives, honoring Cheri for her work with formerly-incarcerated people.

In 2022, Garcia created the 12-Week Starting Over Program, an interactive video series available to inmates in prisons nationwide.

Garcia unashamedly shares her struggles with addiction to methamphetamine and alcohol, and how she overcame these challenges to serve and inspire others. She is also an investor in recovery-focused businesses owned by people who have overcome their own addiction issues.

Garcia's additional experience includes work as an inventor, marketer, and public relations specialist.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/05/2024.

Cheri C. Garcia Speaking Topics

  • Recovery in the Workplace

    As an executive and working professional, I encountered many struggles in my sobriety journey. With this presentation, I speak openly and frankly about how I became addicted to drugs and alcohol; how addiction harmed my family and work life; and how I started on the road to recovery.

    I will share my observations about ways employers and organizations can help employees and members of the public who are in recovery, and offer compassion and hope to those who may be suffering in silence.

  • Empathy is Essential to Second-Chance Hiring

    My company, Cornbread Hustle, provides job opportunities for people returning from incarceration, those with criminal records, and people in recovery from substance use disorder.

    One of the obstacles we often face when talking with employers is the fear they have over offering jobs to people who are formerly incarcerated or recovering from addiction. In this talk, I share my own deeply personal experiences with drugs and alcohol, and the surprising things I've learned from employing convicted murderers, sex offenders, and former gang members.

    This presentation is aimed at business owners, executives, and HR professionals. My audience will learn:

    • How to create a background-friendly hiring policy, customized to your workplace
    • Management techniques for justice-impacted individuals and people in recovery
    • How to create more inclusive employee events for those suffering in silence

  • Success is Not Linear

    After I quit using meth, I tried to find personal success and fulfillment through a series of increasingly complex adventures. I literally talked my way into not one but two TV news jobs, without a college degree. I invented, manufactured, and sold a self-tanning product. I worked for billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank producer Mark Cuban. I ran a PR agency. I started my own staffing agency. But I was doing all of this without confronting my own traumas, and while self-medicating with alcohol and other substances.

    It wasn't until I learned to let go of the bottle and rely on myself and my faith that I discovered success is not a linear progression of steps to be followed and achieved. Only once I came to these realizations and learned to love myself did I find true happiness, health, and financial success. In this presentation, my audience will learn:

    • The importance of reconnecting with your inner child
    • How discomfort leads to growth
    • Defining Core Values as a part of recovery and growth
    • Confronting our traumas through Shadow Work
    • Identifying healthy coping mechanisms
    • Reverse-engineering goals and achieving them, through my Sticky Note
    • Method and Burpee Method

Cheri C. Garcia Videos

  • The hustle | Cheri Garcia | TEDxSanQuentin
    The hustle | Cheri Garcia | TEDxSanQuentin
    NOTE FROM TED: Cheri Garcia knows exactly what "second chances" mean, and she has used her life experience to help thousands of others get a fresh...
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Cheri C. Garcia is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Recovery in the Workplace, Empathy is Essential to Second-Chance Hiring and Success is Not Linear. The estimated speaking fee range to book Cheri C. Garcia for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Cheri C. Garcia generally travels from Dallas, TX, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Ashley Judd, Jenn Lim, Tania Haigh, Vance Johnson and Cassandra Worthy. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Cheri C. Garcia for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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