Plus, Planned Parenthood sues to block Utah’s ‘trigger law’ abortion ban
How a Utah man took his addictive personality and focused it in the right direction |
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| | Jefferson Rogers went from an alcoholic to a workaholic. In a little more than four years, Jefferson has gone from working sporadically as a salesman for someone else, a $1,000-a-month alcohol habit and a bank account balance of zero to the proud owner of JKR Windows, Utah’s largest window replacement business. How did he do it? “I took all of that energy and those addictive traits that gave so much attention to drugs and alcohol, and I refocused them on building a business," he said. Besides his window company, he has a podcast and mentoring website called “All In” and no less than 65,000 followers on Instagram. |
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