Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
“There’s more to you than you can see,” said Gus, the man who started the turnaround in Joe Roberts' life. At the time, Joe was living on the streets of Vancouver. He was a drug user, he was struggling with mental health, and he was in and out of the criminal justice system. “I had lost the belief in possibility; I only saw failure ahead of me, until Gus.” From there, the journey to recovery began.
Over the course of the next five years, Joe entered rehab. He returned to school and studied business and marketing, where he graduated on the Dean’s list and won the Laurie H. Cameron Memorial Award for academic excellence with a combined GPA of 3.94. It seems improbable, but it wasn’t, because of his faith in God and his renewed belief in a better future.
Joe Roberts entered the business world and co-founded Mindware Design Communications in 1997. Then in 2016, Joe walked across Canada pushing a shopping cart, a symbol of homelessness that eventually became an icon for his Push For Change Foundation. His goal: to raise money and awareness about youth homelessness. He walked 24 kilometres a day through all four seasons and more.
We invited Joe Roberts to join us for a Conversation That Matters about belief in the possible and the power it has to change your life.
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“There’s more to you than you can see,” said Gus, the man who started the turnaround in Joe Roberts' life. At the time, Joe was living on the streets of Vancouver. He was a drug user, he was struggling with mental health, and he was in and out of the criminal justice system. “I had lost the belief in possibility; I only saw failure ahead of me, until Gus.” From there, the journey to recovery began.
Over the course of the next five years, Joe entered rehab. He returned to school and studied business and marketing, where he graduated on the Dean’s list and won the Laurie H. Cameron Memorial Award for academic excellence with a combined GPA of 3.94. It seems improbable, but it wasn’t, because of his faith in God and his renewed belief in a better future.
Joe Roberts entered the business world and co-founded Mindware Design Communications in 1997. Then in 2016, Joe walked across Canada pushing a shopping cart, a symbol of homelessness that eventually became an icon for his Push For Change Foundation. His goal: to raise money and awareness about youth homelessness. He walked 24 kilometres a day through all four seasons and more.
We invited Joe Roberts to join us for a Conversation That Matters about belief in the possible and the power it has to change your life.
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Your support matters! Become a patron and subscribe: goo.gl/ypXyDs
The views discussed in this video are the opinions of our guests and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Oh Boy Productions or this show. Any images in this video are for fair use only, as we are a journalism outlet that seeks to illustrate the topic or guest involved.
ctm597 #homelessness #mentalhealth #vancouver
