Today we’d like to introduce you to Tyress Cunningham
Hi Tyress, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I left home at 14 years old chasing the street life. In doing so I almost lost my life more than twice. I hustled drugs, small time pimping, became an alcoholic and homeless, I was on the streets for 25 years been in jail about 20 times been to prison twice been in a mental illness intuition twice tried to commit suicide twice and overall was done for. I had a really bad car accident under the influence of alcohol and hit a light pole and was ejected almost through the windshield my face pushed the window out and fracture my neck almost braking it. I was induce in a Coma but woke up out of in three days pulling the breathing tube out my throat and I asked did I hurt anybody. When my mother said no. That was my first blessing on my journey of change. I went to jail in a wheelchair and was in the Infirmary That’s where and when I began writing my first book on my second time around to prison. I did 3 years and wrote three books I was released and was put on house arrest. I got a job and began to invest in myself. I got my business Mirror Affect going it’s a car wash. I invested in publishing my books I wrote in prison with the book publishing company AHTRAE PUBLISHING. LLC. We are currently working on our 3rd project. We have my first book Conflict of Intere$t and My second book No Hope on Amazon and other online stores. I am still working at my job going on 5 years now and running the business for about 4 years now. Right now I’m currently working on an audio book project for my second book No Hope and it’s going to be really good.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Being in jail so many times I began to stop doing jail things. I didn’t watch TV to much because I began to write more. I didn’t get involved with negative conversations. I didn’t want to know what was happening in the streets. So I started moving around by myself in a place full of people and started to learn how to set my own structure. When I was released from prison I was put on house arrest for a 120 days. And had to keep up with my discharge requirements and face the same things in the same environment. Although I changed, people didn’t change their precipitation of me because I had done the same thing for 25 years. So I stayed to myself and work.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
I’m only good as the last car I wash.
This is my belief. I take pride in putting a reflection shine on my customers vehicles. The smile on their face is the ultimate prize in my eyes. I bring my best every time I touch someone car and if there’s something I can’t do, then I recommend you to someone who I trust that can
What makes you happy?
I haven’t focused much on happiness but more on setting the example for my sons .That you can live a good life without hustling in the streets. But I’m happy that my mother and father got to see me move the right way as a man
Image Credits
April from Addicted Photos
