Dave Goryca refused to give up hope of supporting his family after losing his job in the automotive industry and a chunk of his pension just one year before retirement.
"You can be angry," he said, "but that doesn't fix anything."
Over the past five years, Goryca has worked tirelessly to build an award-winning business that's turning a profit.
This is the story of two Michigan men — one forced to exit Ford Motor Co. and another who left a career at General Motors Co. by choice. Goryca and his brother-in-law, Paul Rooney of Troy, took most of their life savings and home equity to create Voyage Bloom, a top-shelf cannabis company based in Mount Morris.
"It was the only space we could afford," said Goryca, 61, of Livonia. "We negotiated a land contract on a three-building storage unit facility. We commuted two and a half hours per day for almost two years during construction. And we transformed one and a half of the buildings into a 4,500-square-foot grow facility."
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