When we first launched GetSchooled.com, we hosted a panel event along with New York Entrepreneur Week that featured speakers Marc Ecko, Kevin Powell, and Joel Human recounting their roads to success and offering inspiration to an audience of 200 at-risk NYC students.

Joel Human, a.k.a. “The Fashion Hustler,” is an artist, entrepreneur, and founder of Fashion Hustler (http://fashionhustler.ning.com/) and Hair Hustler (http://hairhustler.ning.com/). In this clip, Human recalls the story of how he found his way back to school after hitting rock bottom. While living with his mother, he made little money cutting hair at a local barbershop until one customer urged him to get a college education and make something better out of his life. Upon waking up from a vivid dream that told him college was the answer, he brought a portfolio of his graffiti art to Pratt Institute, where his talent was recognized and he was eventually accepted with a full ride scholarship.