Jelly Roll

Jason DeFord spent his teens and twenties cycling through addiction and jail. The world knows him now as Jelly Roll, and as one of the few famous people willing to say on the record that recovery isn’t a reward for the deserving — it’s a road almost anyone can be helped back onto. He is turning that belief into a place: a free recovery campus on his own land.

Glen Kerby, Founder — I Drink Living Water

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Glen Kerby

Founder, I Drink Living Water

I trust this one because he never asks to be called a hero. He says he was part of the problem, and then he gets to work on the repair. That move — confession into responsibility — is the whole reason the Recovery vertical exists.

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