Jason Gonzales is the CEO of Aqua Vida (www.aquavida.org), an international nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to training entrepreneurs and bringing clean water to the developing world. But no one would have guessed it from his youth. The son of an illiterate Latino father and a working class Anglo mother, Jason's youth was marked by chaos and abuse, abandonment and disappointment. After a stint in jail, it looked as if Jason's life would amount to little more than a tragic statistic. But God had other ideas.
After jail, Jason found work as a waiter at a posh Italian restaurant in Detroit where he had a chance encounter that changed the direction of his life. At the same time Jason experienced a powerful conversion, he met Lee Iacocca, then president and CEO of the Chrysler Corporation. Iacocca mentored Jason and inspired him to use the moment as a turning point. He went back to the same high school that previously flunked him and managed to graduate with honors....