Billy Vaughn Starting a Sanctuary Farm and Rest House
b"Billy Vaughn has been involved with helping people in crisis his whole life. His family was involved in outreach ministry when he was growing up Arkansas, and as a United States Marine for 21 years he helped people in crisis all over the world. For the last nine years he has been involved in multiple recovery contexts in churches, rescue mission, and prisons and specializes in helping people recover from the effects of trauma. For five years Billy served as a Chaplain and Director of Guest Services at the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. There he managed a staff of over 50 people and provided services and resources for over 700 guests per night experiencing homelessness. \\n\\nBilly Vaughn- Unique Perspective\\n\\nPresently Billy and his wife own a farm in northeast Arkansas and started a non-profit called Sanctuary Farm & Rest House (www.sanctuaryfarm.org). They plan to grow and sell organic farm products, have therapy animals, and help rehabilitate men and women who have experienced trauma, to include veterans, by teaching them organic farming and other self-supportive skills. They hope to welcome their first guests in 2019.\\n\\nBilly served as an infantry Marine for 21 years, 11 of those enlisted and 10 as an officer.\\n\\n\\u201cIt gives you a unique perspective.\\u201d \\u2013 Billy Vaughn\\nTransitioning \\nDuring Billy\\u2019s last year in the Marine Corps, he decided he would retire. \\xa0After retirement, he wanted to go to Seminary. His transition was pretty easy with little idle time between retirement and Seminary training.\\n\\n\\u201cIt was kind of like trading one identity for another. \\xa0I put being a Marine behind me and my new identity was being a Chaplain.\\u201d \\u2013 Billy Vaughn\\n\\nSanctuary Farm and Rest House\\n\\nBilly and his wife purchased farmland that was in their family and started the non-profit Sanctuary Farm and Rest House. \\xa0They wanted to help people in a different and simple way. His wife\\u2019s background is in horticulture and they paired that with the recovery experience.\\n\\n\\u201cSo we started this nonprofit that centered on the farm and bringing people, \\xa0veterans, people who've experienced different forms of trauma, to include people with addiction issues. \\xa0Maybe they'd been incarcerated, maybe they just have a hard time working or maybe they have a hard time transitioning from the military to do something else that it can be kind of like a soft place for them to land while they come here and spend time on the farm with us working with the animals, working with the land.\\u201d \\u2013 Billy Vaughn\\n\\nTo hear more from Billy Vaughn and Sanctuary Farm and Rest House, download this episode.\\n\\nDon\\u2019t forget to leave us a 5-star rating and review if you enjoyed the show. We would love to hear from you!\\n\\nBilly Vaughn links:\\n\\nWebsite\\n\\nDownload Joe Crane\\u2019s\\xa0Top 7 Paths to Freedom\\xa0or get it on your mobile device. Text VETERAN to 38470. \\xa0\\nSponsor\\nBench Bookkeeping is this episodes sponsor. \\xa0Being an entrepreneur, bookkeeping is a necessary evil. \\xa0To put your bookkeeping needs on autopilot check out Bench Bookkeeping and get one month free at veteranonthemove.com/bench.\\nJoin the Veteran on the Move on Facebook!\\nCheck out\\xa0Veteran on the Move on Facebook\\xa0to connect with our guests! It\\u2019s a great place where you can stay in touch with other veterans who are transitioning to entrepreneurship.\\xa0 Get updates and free gouge on the people, programs and resources to help you in your transition to entrepreneurship.\\n\\nVeteran On the Move\\xa0podcast has published over 250 episodes. Our listeners have the opportunity to hear in-depth interviews conducted by host\\xa0Joe Crane\\xa0. The podcast features people, programs and resources to assist veterans in their transition to entrepreneurship.\\xa0 As a result,\\xa0Veteran On the Move\\xa0has over 1,000,000 verified downloads through\\xa0Stitcher Radio,\\xa0SoundCloud,\\xa0itunes\\xa0and RSS Feed Syndication making it one of the most popular Military Entrepreneur Shows on the Internet Today."