March 10, 2026 • 17 mins
On this episode of Our American Stories, across the United States, many young people labeled “at risk” struggle to find stable work and long-term career opportunities. In Colorado, one electrical contracting company decided to confront that challenge directly.
Weifield Group began hiring and training individuals who might otherwise be overlooked in traditional hiring processes.
Karla Nugent and Curt Andersen share the story of Weifield Group’s approach to hiring at-risk individuals and explain why investing in people has become a central part of the company’s success.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is Lee Habib and this is our American Stories,
and we tell stories about everything here on this show,
from the arts to sports, and from business to history
and everything in between, including your story. Send them to
our American Stories dot com. There's some of our favorites.
And today we bring you the story of Kurt Anderson,
a man whose life was turned around by a company
(00:32):
and Carla Nugent, one of the founding partners of that company.
Here's Robbie with the story.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Kurt Anderson's childhood was pretty normal until tragedy struck.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Nineteen eighty seven, lost my brother Brian to a morecycle accident,
and then started getting involved with some alcohol and marijuana.
Was just uh, instead of turning it into something positive,
(01:06):
I took it the wrong way and just went downhill
from there. And uh I did manage to stay in
school and get my ged though just from there, you know,
the the alcohol got worse and worse, and twenty one
years old and you.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Know, cocaine and produced to meth embeta. Meanes was in
and out of.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Jail, didn't really have a good job or anything like
that or a career. I was just in and out
of restaurants doing short order cook type of work.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I had met a girl, we had some kids together,
and I was pretty much a knucklehead all through my thirties.
She actually ended up leaving me because I was just
out of control. I would pay the bills or whatever,
but other than that, it was I was just in
my addiction, started getting felonies and.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Getting in trouble with the law.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I caught my first felony and two thousand and two,
two thousand and three somewhere in there, and was given
a chance to do probation. Didn't do so well with that,
did it for about two months, and then kind of
went a wall, so to speak. Ended up catching another
felony case on felony probation and they gave me five
(02:23):
years isp intense supervised probation. I did okay with that
for about not quite a year. I ended up catching
another case, which was my third felony, so they sent
me to doc on that Department of Corrections. Two thousand
(02:44):
and five. I went to prison three year sentence. I
was denied for a parole. Pretty much did the whole time,
so I was released in late two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
In Colorado, you have a mandatory parole.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So I did good on that, completed my parole, was
doing okay. It was pretty much clean off a meth
for my whole time on parole. And then once I
got off parole, dove right back into my addiction again
and caught another felony twenty ten from my fourth, fifth
(03:23):
and sixth felony. They were trying to make it an
habitual crime that enhances your sentence, so I was looking
at like twenty years doc. I was lucky enough to
get the opportunity to go to Peer one. It's a
therapeutic community. I got to Pier one on nine eleven twelve.
(03:46):
They call it your clean.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Day is what they call it. When the day you
enter the program.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The graduation percent is only like eleven or twelve percent
of the people that go to that program actually complete it.
They pretty much try to reprogram your whole way of thinking.
You know, the first six months you don't have any
contact with your family.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
It's pretty intense. They kind of want you to get
really in touch with yourself.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Bad decisions that you've made, be done with them, get
them out there, talk about it, because see that was me.
I never talked about my problems and oh I don't
have a drug problem. I'm not an alcoholic. You know,
I'm okay. And where I'm at, you know, I mean,
the rent's paid, there's the foods, foods in the fridge,
but I'm not home for four or five days because
(04:33):
I'm out ripping and running, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So yeah, they just they.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Want you to really be okay with who you are
and where you want to go in your life. After
I progressed through the program, I got to the part
where I could go out and find a job. Immediately
went back to the restaurant and I was.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Just like, I don't I don't want to do this anymore.
I just I don't like it. It reminded me of
the old me.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And then I was blessed enough to meet somebody in
the program that had got hired on at Wayfield and said.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Why don't you go try to be an electrician.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
They put you through school, it's a great company. And
I said, that sounds like a good idea. I think
I'll go do that. And that's what I went and did.
In twenty fourteen February is when I got hired at Wayfield.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Carlin Nugent is one of the founders and Chief Business
development officer at Wayfield Group, one of the top electrical
contracting companies in Colorado. At Wayfield, they believe that just
because you have a past doesn't mean you can't have
a future.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Parents come up to me at some of these different
events we do and just start crying and thank you
for giving my son an opportunity, like it made these
bad decisions, hanging around the wrong people, a good kid.
But then when he got out of you know, his sentencing,
nobody would give him a job and believe in him.
Maybe fast food, maybe lawn service, but nobody would look
(06:09):
at him as far as a career. And you guys
treated him as anyone else that you would hire, you know,
and weren't cautious about his background, looked at it as
that's a bad decision. All let's move forward and make
good decisions. And so those stories are like, Wow, we're
making a systemic change, right and sharing those stories I
think is powerful and important. And the thing I've been
(06:33):
surprised is when we started to do this years ago,
we thought it's the right thing to do. We didn't
know that we'd have high success rate. Right we bring
somebody in, we didn't know what to expect with that,
we're going to believe the best in them, set up
a program, move forward and quickly. These individuals were at
a point of like I've made bad decisions. I'm at
a point of accountability and I'm ready to go and
(06:56):
start a career.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And you were just listening to carl Nugent and she
is one of the founding partners of the Wayfield Group
and again one of Colorado's largest electrical contracting companies. When
we come back, more from Carla and Kurt Anderson here
on now American Stories Liehabib here and I'd like to
(07:32):
encourage you to subscribe to Our American Stories on Apple Podcasts,
the iHeartRadio app, Spotify, or wherever you get our podcasts.
Any story you missed or want to hear again can
be found there daily Again, please subscribe to the Our
American Stories podcast on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or
(07:53):
anywhere you get your podcasts. It helps us keep these
great American stories coming. And we continue here with our
American Stories and the story of Wayfield Group, the Colorado
(08:14):
electrical contracting company that finds much of its success in
treating people well like people. Here's more from carl and Nugent,
the woman who helped start Wavefield Group, and Kurt Anderson,
a man whose life Wavefield changed for the good.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
My passion for nonprofit community, you know, for Christ and
starting Wayfield Group, and that no matter what we did,
I wanted to figure out how we could get back
to the community. And it was nice because we were all
on the same page on the partnership side that that's
the right thing to do. When we started, none of
my partners knew Christ, did not have that faith, have
(08:53):
different stories, and so it was neat how they still
trusted my dreams and my vision and my faith and
doing the right thing and play it forward. Now eighteen
years later, two of them do know the Lord. But
it's just neat to see how gods use that I
think soften their hearts and how we care for people
here at work. And it's become part of our culture
(09:15):
now right where we have our values or are packed
pact people, advanced processes, community and trusted relationships. Everything we
do we make very simple to bring back to that
we want our employees, we want to be known for
that through our employees, but also on the customer side
that we're all about our people and we build really
cool projects, but it's our experiences with people that we
(09:38):
share our time with. Yeah, I'm not the typical person
you've probably run into. In our industry. We're probably eight
percent of construction would be made up of women. I
appreciate I think being a woman in our industry, and
(09:58):
I think I can pull off things that maybe some can't,
and I can push some of the values people that
heart piece that maybe other construction companies when you think
about and for me, I want our employees to know
that we care about them and value them. And again
it's not about the job, but we're praying for their
(10:19):
safety aity. I pray for the jobs we're pursuing or
not just to go get a new, big, shiny project
and take care of this customer. These are jobs for
our families. You know, we provide now for over six
hundred employees and families. Sometimes in construction you can get
very in an execution mode. We have all these activities
to do on this deadline has to happen, and sometimes
(10:42):
the pleasantries can come out of that. And so how
do you keep the human element that we have all
these things to execute? But how can I do it?
Where you are valued and you are heard, and we're
working as a team and we're collaborating instead of just
you know, yell and scream, and that's going to motivate
you, you know, looking at it in a different way, like
you know, how to be on our employees and we're
(11:04):
thoughtful on how we treat them and respect them and
build them up, train them, invest in them, believe in them.
So we do believe. We invest in our people. We
care for our people, they care for our customers, they
make happy clients. It's this whole cycle and it's neat
to see how God to just bless those decisions when
you look at financially of what are all the things
(11:25):
we want to have better benefits than our competition and
pay for full health insurance for employees, pay for all
of their training, and invest in all these things that
we celebrate and giveaways and fun. We're always there's some
employee of the month and we give a ton of
stuff away and we want it to be fun to
work here. And figure out how we connect individuals and
challenge them to give back to their community and get
(11:47):
enrolled in our different kind of programs we do with
charities and make it fun, but have folks think about like, Gosh,
God's bless me. I'm electrician at this company and I
can get back to my community. There's a charity. I
can get passionate about it. I can give up my time,
not just many. And if everybody felt that way, right,
what a better community that we'd have, better city that
(12:08):
we'd have.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I'm so thankful for them for hiring me and putting
me through school and teaching me the way, the way
to go.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I've been blessed to have the people in my life
at Wayfield that I.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Have, especially Carla, Brad and James Pete, just a bunch
of great human beings here. They're like family. If I
ever had any problem with anything, that'd be the first
people IVER call, so I know I can rely on
them for anything.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Since day one, Brad told me I don't care what
you've done.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I care about what you want to do, where you
want to go with your life from this moment forward,
And I was like, wow, you know you get judged
a lot, I'm based on what you do and whether
it's negative or positive. You know, you just have to
make the right choice. So you know, I was I
(13:12):
was blessed to to get the interview and get hired,
and just I said, I'm gonna take this one all
the way. You know, being a recovering addict, you know,
I was just miserable for years and years and was
always unhappy. And just after I got into Pier one,
and then I decided, I'm not gonna be miserable no more.
(13:34):
I'm gonna I'm gonna live life. I feel that God
wants me to be happy and just enjoy life, but
it's easy to.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Be miserable and negative and grumpy, and just I don't
want that no more.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So I wake up every day and I'm happy just
to wake up and have a great future. Wayfield, it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I actually have.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Seven years clean, and it's over most I've ever had
in my life.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
And so I begin my in my path down that road.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So I'm grateful of Wayfield. I'm going to give them
one hundred and ten percent every day that I go
to work. And my dad once told me, if if
you're not early or late, so I show up early
to work. If they need me to stay late, I
stay late. You need me to come in Saturday, I'm
coming in Saturday. And that's just how it is. You know,
(14:28):
I was blessed to give this opportunity to come and
have a career here, and I'm going to give it
my all. So yeah, I'm going to stay with Wayfield
until I retire and then probably until I die. I'm
so happy where I'm at in my life. And you
(14:51):
know there's other companies that are out there, and you know,
you hear that a lot when when you're in this trade,
you know, you see so many faces in construction and oh,
you're still at Wayfield.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
That's cool, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You should come on. I'm like, I'm okay. I'm making
the most money I've ever made in my life. If
I have a four to oh one, K, I'm good.
I'm buying my house. I don't need more money. I'm
happy where I'm at. They pay me perfect.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I'm okay, So.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I have no desire to go anywhere else. You could
offer me twice as much money and I would. That's
not about the money. I'm comfortable in life where I'm at.
And that's thanks to Wayfield Group.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And great job to Robbie and to Alex for putting
this piece together. And my goodness, it has so many
of the elements that we care about here on this show,
that authentic voice of the small business owner, her faith,
well there it is for all to hear and what
she does and all the good that got done because
of her faith. And also we heard from Kurt Anderson
(15:58):
in his voice and my goodness, his honesty, his stic
honesty about his life and how he lived it. And
we love when people can come clean like that and
talk about the turnaround in their lives. And there is
hope in his story like this, and my goodness, it
comes from so many different avenues. That Peer one program
(16:19):
was essential. Without it, well, Kurt couldn't have taken the
next step. But then came well, then came Carla and
that hand, that helping hand and offering this man a job.
And by the way, Carla and Wayfield Group have done
this in the low hundreds of times, lending a helping
hand and a job to these at risk individuals. And
(16:41):
my goodness, a job at this company isn't just a job.
It's hope, it's love, and my goodness, it's so much more.
And what a thing for Kurt Anderson to experience was
that kind of hope at a time when he needed
it most, and last, but not least, there was just
a couple of things that Kurt said that really really
(17:01):
moved me. I've been blessed to have these people in
my lives, he said of Wayfield Group. They're a bunch
of great human beings. And for anybody listening who owns
a company, runs a business, or runs anything, you gotta
be asking yourself, is that what your people are saying
about you? He also said, I'm grateful to be here.
(17:21):
I'll give one hundred and ten percent every day. I'll
show up early to work, I'll stay late if they
need me. On Saturday, I'm there. That's just the way
it is, and that's just the way it is. Wayfield Group.
Their story, Carla Nugent's story here on our American Story
This is Lee Habib and this is our American Stories,
and we tell stories about everything here on this show,
from the arts to sports, and from business to history
and everything in between, including your story. Send them to
our American Stories dot com. There's some of our favorites.
And today we bring you the story of Kurt Anderson,
a man whose life was turned around by a company
(00:32):
and Carla Nugent, one of the founding partners of that company.
Here's Robbie with the story.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Kurt Anderson's childhood was pretty normal until tragedy struck.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Nineteen eighty seven, lost my brother Brian to a morecycle accident,
and then started getting involved with some alcohol and marijuana.
Was just uh, instead of turning it into something positive,
(01:06):
I took it the wrong way and just went downhill
from there. And uh I did manage to stay in
school and get my ged though just from there, you know,
the the alcohol got worse and worse, and twenty one
years old and you.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Know, cocaine and produced to meth embeta. Meanes was in
and out of.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Jail, didn't really have a good job or anything like
that or a career. I was just in and out
of restaurants doing short order cook type of work.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I had met a girl, we had some kids together,
and I was pretty much a knucklehead all through my thirties.
She actually ended up leaving me because I was just
out of control. I would pay the bills or whatever,
but other than that, it was I was just in
my addiction, started getting felonies and.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Getting in trouble with the law.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I caught my first felony and two thousand and two,
two thousand and three somewhere in there, and was given
a chance to do probation. Didn't do so well with that,
did it for about two months, and then kind of
went a wall, so to speak. Ended up catching another
felony case on felony probation and they gave me five
(02:23):
years isp intense supervised probation. I did okay with that
for about not quite a year. I ended up catching
another case, which was my third felony, so they sent
me to doc on that Department of Corrections. Two thousand
(02:44):
and five. I went to prison three year sentence. I
was denied for a parole. Pretty much did the whole time,
so I was released in late two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
In Colorado, you have a mandatory parole.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So I did good on that, completed my parole, was
doing okay. It was pretty much clean off a meth
for my whole time on parole. And then once I
got off parole, dove right back into my addiction again
and caught another felony twenty ten from my fourth, fifth
(03:23):
and sixth felony. They were trying to make it an
habitual crime that enhances your sentence, so I was looking
at like twenty years doc. I was lucky enough to
get the opportunity to go to Peer one. It's a
therapeutic community. I got to Pier one on nine eleven twelve.
(03:46):
They call it your clean.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Day is what they call it. When the day you
enter the program.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
The graduation percent is only like eleven or twelve percent
of the people that go to that program actually complete it.
They pretty much try to reprogram your whole way of thinking.
You know, the first six months you don't have any
contact with your family.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
It's pretty intense. They kind of want you to get
really in touch with yourself.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Bad decisions that you've made, be done with them, get
them out there, talk about it, because see that was me.
I never talked about my problems and oh I don't
have a drug problem. I'm not an alcoholic. You know,
I'm okay. And where I'm at, you know, I mean,
the rent's paid, there's the foods, foods in the fridge,
but I'm not home for four or five days because
(04:33):
I'm out ripping and running, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So yeah, they just they.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Want you to really be okay with who you are
and where you want to go in your life. After
I progressed through the program, I got to the part
where I could go out and find a job. Immediately
went back to the restaurant and I was.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Just like, I don't I don't want to do this anymore.
I just I don't like it. It reminded me of
the old me.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And then I was blessed enough to meet somebody in
the program that had got hired on at Wayfield and said.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Why don't you go try to be an electrician.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
They put you through school, it's a great company. And
I said, that sounds like a good idea. I think
I'll go do that. And that's what I went and did.
In twenty fourteen February is when I got hired at Wayfield.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Carlin Nugent is one of the founders and Chief Business
development officer at Wayfield Group, one of the top electrical
contracting companies in Colorado. At Wayfield, they believe that just
because you have a past doesn't mean you can't have
a future.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Parents come up to me at some of these different
events we do and just start crying and thank you
for giving my son an opportunity, like it made these
bad decisions, hanging around the wrong people, a good kid.
But then when he got out of you know, his sentencing,
nobody would give him a job and believe in him.
Maybe fast food, maybe lawn service, but nobody would look
(06:09):
at him as far as a career. And you guys
treated him as anyone else that you would hire, you know,
and weren't cautious about his background, looked at it as
that's a bad decision. All let's move forward and make
good decisions. And so those stories are like, Wow, we're
making a systemic change, right and sharing those stories I
think is powerful and important. And the thing I've been
(06:33):
surprised is when we started to do this years ago,
we thought it's the right thing to do. We didn't
know that we'd have high success rate. Right we bring
somebody in, we didn't know what to expect with that,
we're going to believe the best in them, set up
a program, move forward and quickly. These individuals were at
a point of like I've made bad decisions. I'm at
a point of accountability and I'm ready to go and
(06:56):
start a career.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And you were just listening to carl Nugent and she
is one of the founding partners of the Wayfield Group
and again one of Colorado's largest electrical contracting companies. When
we come back, more from Carla and Kurt Anderson here
on now American Stories Liehabib here and I'd like to
(07:32):
encourage you to subscribe to Our American Stories on Apple Podcasts,
the iHeartRadio app, Spotify, or wherever you get our podcasts.
Any story you missed or want to hear again can
be found there daily Again, please subscribe to the Our
American Stories podcast on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or
(07:53):
anywhere you get your podcasts. It helps us keep these
great American stories coming. And we continue here with our
American Stories and the story of Wayfield Group, the Colorado
(08:14):
electrical contracting company that finds much of its success in
treating people well like people. Here's more from carl and Nugent,
the woman who helped start Wavefield Group, and Kurt Anderson,
a man whose life Wavefield changed for the good.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
My passion for nonprofit community, you know, for Christ and
starting Wayfield Group, and that no matter what we did,
I wanted to figure out how we could get back
to the community. And it was nice because we were all
on the same page on the partnership side that that's
the right thing to do. When we started, none of
my partners knew Christ, did not have that faith, have
(08:53):
different stories, and so it was neat how they still
trusted my dreams and my vision and my faith and
doing the right thing and play it forward. Now eighteen
years later, two of them do know the Lord. But
it's just neat to see how gods use that I
think soften their hearts and how we care for people
here at work. And it's become part of our culture
(09:15):
now right where we have our values or are packed
pact people, advanced processes, community and trusted relationships. Everything we
do we make very simple to bring back to that
we want our employees, we want to be known for
that through our employees, but also on the customer side
that we're all about our people and we build really
cool projects, but it's our experiences with people that we
(09:38):
share our time with. Yeah, I'm not the typical person
you've probably run into. In our industry. We're probably eight
percent of construction would be made up of women. I
appreciate I think being a woman in our industry, and
(09:58):
I think I can pull off things that maybe some can't,
and I can push some of the values people that
heart piece that maybe other construction companies when you think
about and for me, I want our employees to know
that we care about them and value them. And again
it's not about the job, but we're praying for their
(10:19):
safety aity. I pray for the jobs we're pursuing or
not just to go get a new, big, shiny project
and take care of this customer. These are jobs for
our families. You know, we provide now for over six
hundred employees and families. Sometimes in construction you can get
very in an execution mode. We have all these activities
to do on this deadline has to happen, and sometimes
(10:42):
the pleasantries can come out of that. And so how
do you keep the human element that we have all
these things to execute? But how can I do it?
Where you are valued and you are heard, and we're
working as a team and we're collaborating instead of just
you know, yell and scream, and that's going to motivate
you, you know, looking at it in a different way, like
you know, how to be on our employees and we're
(11:04):
thoughtful on how we treat them and respect them and
build them up, train them, invest in them, believe in them.
So we do believe. We invest in our people. We
care for our people, they care for our customers, they
make happy clients. It's this whole cycle and it's neat
to see how God to just bless those decisions when
you look at financially of what are all the things
(11:25):
we want to have better benefits than our competition and
pay for full health insurance for employees, pay for all
of their training, and invest in all these things that
we celebrate and giveaways and fun. We're always there's some
employee of the month and we give a ton of
stuff away and we want it to be fun to
work here. And figure out how we connect individuals and
challenge them to give back to their community and get
(11:47):
enrolled in our different kind of programs we do with
charities and make it fun, but have folks think about like, Gosh,
God's bless me. I'm electrician at this company and I
can get back to my community. There's a charity. I
can get passionate about it. I can give up my time,
not just many. And if everybody felt that way, right,
what a better community that we'd have, better city that
(12:08):
we'd have.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I'm so thankful for them for hiring me and putting
me through school and teaching me the way, the way
to go.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I've been blessed to have the people in my life
at Wayfield that I.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Have, especially Carla, Brad and James Pete, just a bunch
of great human beings here. They're like family. If I
ever had any problem with anything, that'd be the first
people IVER call, so I know I can rely on
them for anything.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Since day one, Brad told me I don't care what
you've done.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I care about what you want to do, where you
want to go with your life from this moment forward,
And I was like, wow, you know you get judged
a lot, I'm based on what you do and whether
it's negative or positive. You know, you just have to
make the right choice. So you know, I was I
(13:12):
was blessed to to get the interview and get hired,
and just I said, I'm gonna take this one all
the way. You know, being a recovering addict, you know,
I was just miserable for years and years and was
always unhappy. And just after I got into Pier one,
and then I decided, I'm not gonna be miserable no more.
(13:34):
I'm gonna I'm gonna live life. I feel that God
wants me to be happy and just enjoy life, but
it's easy to.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Be miserable and negative and grumpy, and just I don't
want that no more.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
So I wake up every day and I'm happy just
to wake up and have a great future. Wayfield, it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I actually have.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Seven years clean, and it's over most I've ever had
in my life.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
And so I begin my in my path down that road.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So I'm grateful of Wayfield. I'm going to give them
one hundred and ten percent every day that I go
to work. And my dad once told me, if if
you're not early or late, so I show up early
to work. If they need me to stay late, I
stay late. You need me to come in Saturday, I'm
coming in Saturday. And that's just how it is. You know,
(14:28):
I was blessed to give this opportunity to come and
have a career here, and I'm going to give it
my all. So yeah, I'm going to stay with Wayfield
until I retire and then probably until I die. I'm
so happy where I'm at in my life. And you
(14:51):
know there's other companies that are out there, and you know,
you hear that a lot when when you're in this trade,
you know, you see so many faces in construction and oh,
you're still at Wayfield.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
That's cool, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You should come on. I'm like, I'm okay. I'm making
the most money I've ever made in my life. If
I have a four to oh one, K, I'm good.
I'm buying my house. I don't need more money. I'm
happy where I'm at. They pay me perfect.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I'm okay, So.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I have no desire to go anywhere else. You could
offer me twice as much money and I would. That's
not about the money. I'm comfortable in life where I'm at.
And that's thanks to Wayfield Group.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And great job to Robbie and to Alex for putting
this piece together. And my goodness, it has so many
of the elements that we care about here on this show,
that authentic voice of the small business owner, her faith,
well there it is for all to hear and what
she does and all the good that got done because
of her faith. And also we heard from Kurt Anderson
(15:58):
in his voice and my goodness, his honesty, his stic
honesty about his life and how he lived it. And
we love when people can come clean like that and
talk about the turnaround in their lives. And there is
hope in his story like this, and my goodness, it
comes from so many different avenues. That Peer one program
(16:19):
was essential. Without it, well, Kurt couldn't have taken the
next step. But then came well, then came Carla and
that hand, that helping hand and offering this man a job.
And by the way, Carla and Wayfield Group have done
this in the low hundreds of times, lending a helping
hand and a job to these at risk individuals. And
(16:41):
my goodness, a job at this company isn't just a job.
It's hope, it's love, and my goodness, it's so much more.
And what a thing for Kurt Anderson to experience was
that kind of hope at a time when he needed
it most, and last, but not least, there was just
a couple of things that Kurt said that really really
(17:01):
moved me. I've been blessed to have these people in
my lives, he said of Wayfield Group. They're a bunch
of great human beings. And for anybody listening who owns
a company, runs a business, or runs anything, you gotta
be asking yourself, is that what your people are saying
about you? He also said, I'm grateful to be here.
(17:21):
I'll give one hundred and ten percent every day. I'll
show up early to work, I'll stay late if they
need me. On Saturday, I'm there. That's just the way
it is, and that's just the way it is. Wayfield Group.
Their story, Carla Nugent's story here on our American Story
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