Unprecedented Challenges!

After retiring from professional football, John positioned himself to become a thriving entrepreneur, especially in the petroleum business. In less than three years, he rose to become a Congressionally Acclaimed Top Rated Minority Businessman. Nonetheless, he began noticing indifferent actions from the US Small Business Administration's certified investor who funded John's company. After denials from government officials in John's home state of Tennessee, he contacted an attorney for Vice President Al Gore who was motivated and enforced actions to occur through the SBA's Office of Inspector General. This start began an over three-decade series of activism that John has put into action regarding the stoppage of billions of government-funded programs designed to aid and assist women, minorities, military veterans, and disabled veterans as well as to support LGBTQ small business owners. On different occasions, John has been invited to Washington, DC to testify in which both Congressmen and Senators have all proclaimed that he is "An American Hero, A True Patriot, and an Expert in the Minority Small Business Development Programs. In spite of John's actions, both he and his wife, Vicki helped to raise their family for nearly forty years. They now have grandchildren.