LAS VEGAS — With determination and a dream, Christopher Gardner went from homelessness to president/CEO of Gardner Rich & Co., a stock brokerage, but that was not his most important success.
Gardner told attendees of CUNA's America's Credit Union Conference & Expo today that his primary goal was to be able to say he was always there for his son after he had grown up without a father. When his wife left after he became unemployed and went to jail for $1,200 in unpaid parking tickets that he got because of his scientific sales job, she also took their son.
He showed up for what he considered his last shot at becoming a stock broker in bellbottom jeans and a red Members Only jacket. Since he could not come up with a lie bizarre enough, he told the truth and was hired.
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