Name: 從罪犯到典範 ► 毒販變頂級大廚的華麗轉身 - 主廚 Jeff Henderson （中英字幕） (從罪犯到典範 ► 毒販變頂級大廚的華麗轉身 - Chef Jeff Henderson （中英字幕）)
Uploaded: 2025-07-15T07:59:01.000Z
Duration: 6 min 49 s

Indicted by the federal government in 1988.

Served 10 years in prison. 10 years in prison that I served. 10 years walking on concrete every single day.

服刑 10 年。我坐了 10 年牢每天在水泥地上行走的 10 年

Sitting on a stainless steel toilet with toilet paper as hard as a brown paper bag.

坐在不鏽鋼馬桶上，廁紙硬得像牛皮紙袋。

So it was in 1984 that I embraced a criminal lifestyle.

就這樣，我在 1984 年開始了犯罪生活。

My criminal lifestyle was shaped by my mentors.

我的犯罪生活方式是由我的導師們塑造的。

And I decided that this was the way for me, which was the meal ticket for tens of thousands of young men of color in inner city communities across America.

我決定，這是我的出路，也是全美內城社區數以萬計的有色人種青年的飯票。

And it's not something that I'm proud of, but you always have to go back to the beginning of how it began.

這並不是我引以為豪的事情，但你總得回到事情開始的起點。

I made up to $35,000 a week in my heyday.

在我的鼎盛時期，我的週薪高達 35,000 美元。

But one thing that I wasn't able to see because I had the blinders on.

但有一件事我沒有看到，因為我戴著眼罩。

When you grow up in poverty, the front lobe that many of these intellectuals talk about that goes undeveloped, it doesn't allow you to see the world through the eyes of people who have been exposed, who have had access to the American dream.

當你在貧困中長大時，許多知識分子所說的前葉會變得不發達，這讓你無法通過那些接觸過美國夢的人的眼睛來看待世界。

So we see one thing, that's how to hustle, how to put food on the table.

是以，我們看到了一件事，那就是如何艱苦奮鬥，如何讓餐桌上有食物。

And one of the biggest mistakes that many of our mothers in our community put on the burden of young boys is for a mother to say that you are the man of the house.

我們社區的許多母親給小男孩造成的最大錯誤之一，就是母親說你是家裡的男子漢。

When a mother tells you that you are the man of the house at seven to eight years old, every boy wants to help his mother.

七八歲時，當母親告訴你，你是家裡的男子漢時，每個男孩都想幫助母親。

Every boy doesn't like to see his mother abused, doesn't like to see his mother going through various challenges in life.

每個男孩都不願意看到自己的母親受到虐待，不願意看到自己的母親經歷生活中的各種挑戰。

So they called me a hustler back in the day.

When I was on the street, I understood marketing.

當我在街上行走時，我瞭解了市場營銷。

I knew how to manage a diverse workforce.

我知道如何管理一支多元化的員工隊伍。

I had gang members following me like any CEO, any leader or great manager of a company.

我有幫派成員追隨我，就像任何公司的首席執行官、任何領導者或偉大的管理者一樣。

When you're a great leader, you have vision.

如果你是一位偉大的領導者，你就會有遠見。

And when you have vision, it becomes very addictive.

當你有了遠見，就會非常上癮。

Like tens of thousands of young people on the street.

就像街上數以萬計的年輕人一樣。

The one thing that no one ever saw in me, they didn't know how to flip my gift again.

沒有人看中我的一點，他們不知道如何再次翻轉我的天賦。

They didn't know how to flip the ability that I was a number one newspaper boy when I was eight.

我八歲時就成了頭號報童，但他們卻不知道該如何翻轉我的能力。

I had the number one candy seller route when I was a little boy.

在我還是個小男孩的時候，我有一條賣糖果的頭號路線。

But no one saw that because my mother was blind.

但沒人看到，因為我母親是個盲人。

It's not that she was uneducated, she was miseducated.

她不是沒受過教育，而是被誤導了。

So no one was able to say, Jeffrey, what do you want to be when you grow up?

是以，沒有人能夠說，傑弗裡，你長大後想做什麼？

So as a drug dealer, I became very successful.

是以，作為一名毒販，我變得非常成功。

I had the ability to tap in to the talent and the strength of people on the streets.

我有能力挖掘街頭人們的才華和力量。

That's how I was able to move the product.

就這樣，我才得以將產品推向市場。

And I'm not putting praise on the fact that drug dealers are these great individuals.

我並不是在誇讚毒販都是偉大的人物。

Even though we victimized by selling drugs, we were also victims of our community and the people around us that shaped our thinking.

儘管我們因販賣毒品而受害，但我們也是社區和周圍人的受害者，是他們塑造了我們的思想。

我們什麼時候會做出錯誤的選擇？

Wrong choices are inspired by something that we see, something we hear, whether it's greed, whether it's poverty, whether it's just trying to beat the system or something like that.

錯誤的選擇是由我們看到的、聽到的東西激發的，無論是貪婪、貧窮，還是試圖戰勝制度或諸如此類的東西。

我在監獄裡讀了我的第一本書。

I was told for the first time in my life that I was smart in prison.

我有生以來第一次被告知，我在監獄裡很聰明。

An older man in prison taught me how to shave with a razor in prison.

監獄裡的一位老人教我如何在監獄裡用刮鬚刀刮鬍子。

The first time that I ever was told Carl's son was in prison.

我第一次被告知卡爾的兒子在監獄裡。

But not only did that begin to get me to see myself different, I became the same analyst that I was on the streets.

但這不僅讓我開始看到自己的不同，我還變成了和在街頭時一樣的分析師。

I was in prison with some of the brightest minds on the universe, stockbrokers, presidents and CEOs of corporations, judges, lawyers, former DA agents.

在監獄裡，我和宇宙中最聰明的人在一起，他們是股票經紀人、公司總裁和首席執行官、法官、律師、前地方檢察官。

I begin to build the relationships with them.

When I came home from prison in 1996, they told me I couldn't get a job and I wouldn't get a job.

1996 年我從監獄回家時，他們說我找不到工作，也不會找到工作。

When I first got my job, there were things I had to change about me when I got out of prison.

我剛找到工作時，有些事情是我出獄後必須改變的。

I had to rebuild my image, clean shave my face, took makeup to cover my earring hole up, no tattoos, quit lifting weights so I wasn't big and bulky.

我不得不重新塑造自己的形象，把臉颳得乾乾淨淨，化了妝把耳洞遮住，沒有紋身，放棄了舉重，這樣我就不會又大又笨重了。

Because I understood the importance of a smile.

And I knew in order to be the best chef in America, I had to go amongst the best chefs to learn, to study.

我知道，要想成為美國最好的廚師，我必須到最好的廚師中間去學習、去研究。

And when I came to Las Vegas in the year 2000, it was a challenge for me.

2000 年我來到拉斯維加斯，這對我來說是一個挑戰。

I wanted to work at the world famous Bellagio Hotel.

我想在世界聞名的 Bellagio 酒店工作。

It took me three and a half years to get a job at the Bellagio.

我花了三年半的時間才在百樂宮找到一份工作。

Well, I believe that everybody was born with a gift.

I believe that everybody was born with the abilities and the strength and the genius to become someone.

我相信，每個人與生俱來都有成為一個人的能力、力量和天賦。

The reason why we're successful in here because we discovered that.

我們之所以能在這裡取得成功，是因為我們發現了這一點。

There's so much individuals out there who are smart, who are forward thinkers, but they were using that intellect the wrong way.

有很多人都很聰明，有超前意識，但他們卻用錯了方法。

Geniuses just like us, but they've been untapped.

他們和我們一樣都是天才，但卻一直未被髮掘。

No one takes the time to develop their, develop that intellect.

沒有人會花時間去開發他們的智力。

So many of these young people have been impacted and influenced by negativity.

這些年輕人中有很多人都受到了負面情緒的影響和衝擊。

Why shouldn't we live the American dream?

It doesn't matter where you come from, what religion you are, what your story is.

無論你來自哪裡，信仰什麼宗教，有著怎樣的故事，這都無關緊要。

I believe that each and every one of them should have that opportunity to live the dream.

我相信，他們每個人都應該有實現夢想的機會。