237: Trash Bags to Backpacks with Rob Scheer

FINE is a 4-Letter Word · Jul 16, 2026 · 36m

Content Note: This episode includes discussion of childhood abuse, foster care, and homelessness.

Rob Scheer was thrown out at 18 with a trash bag. He spent his senior year of high school homeless, sleeping in the bathroom of the taco restaurant where he worked and on library beanbag chairs after closing. He joined the Navy to have somewhere to go, and was medically discharged after years of childhood abuse caught up with his body.

He spent 28 years building mortgage companies before he looked at his four children in designer clothes and realized he had never taught them empathy. That…