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A bakery in New York City is serving up cookies and second chances

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Janie Deegan started Janie's Life Changing Baked Goods about a decade ago after emerging² from a struggle with addiction³ and homelessness. She's offering employees a chance to start over.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

OK, here's one of those stories that makes me want sweets. A bakery in New York is serving up cookies and second chances. And the woman behind it is Janie Deegan.

JANIE DEEGAN: We have an open-door hiring policy, meaning that, you know, no matter what your life situation is right now or has been in the past, we look at the person you show up as today at the interview as the candidate, the whole candidate and the whole picture.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Deegan started Janie's Life-Changing Baked Goods about a decade ago after emerging from a struggle with addiction and homelessness. Now she's offering a new start to employees like Jane Hensley, who was trying to find work after almost three years in prison.

JANE HENSLEY: She was the first person to offer me a job, and that was a miracle to me, that someone would be willing to hire me and trust me, considering that I was basically unhirable (ph).

FADEL: Hensley says she's rebuilding her life at the bakery and at Columbia University, where she's studying film.

HENSLEY: I'm in Janie's shoes right now, and I'm still kind of starting off completely from scratch. And she's the first person to advocate for anyone that's made a mistake and given them the same opportunity that she was given.

FADEL: Janie Deegan understands. She says her own sobriety didn't come easy, but her love of baking helped her reconnect.

DEEGAN: I started bringing baked goods everywhere I went because I had nothing else to contribute, I felt. You know, I really credit people eating my baked goods and seeing their reactions with helping⁴ me build self-esteem and self-love.

INSKEEP: Something to contribute - wow. Deegan started her business in a tiny apartment with a minifridge full of butter, but today her bakery has two locations in New York City, and she is working on getting her signature pie crust cookies - wow - into grocery stores.

DEEGAN: I really think that people giving me, like, a billion second chances, despite my background and despite what I was up against, is what helped me get to where I am today.

FADEL: Customers are giving people a second chance when they go ahead and have a second cookie.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 emerging   

adj.正在不断出现的

参考例句：

• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
• I saw the woman emerging out of a shop. 我看见那个妇女从商店里走出来。

3 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。

4 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。