We fight monsters
From addiction and homelessness to leading a movement: this mission reverses overdoses, turns drug houses into homes for people in recovery, and takes back neighborhoods block by block. The store exists to fund that fight.
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Ben and Jessica Owen — founders
Safer streets for kids
Your purchase helps fund real outcomes on real streets.
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777 South Main — brewery turned treatment center
Safer streets for kids
Your purchase helps fund real outcomes on real streets.
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Sparrow House residents rebuilding their lives
Safer streets for kids
Your purchase helps fund real outcomes on real streets.
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BuyBackTheBlock, South Memphis
Safer streets for kids
Your purchase helps fund real outcomes on real streets.
The founder's story
Recovering Ben Owen
How one man's fight out of addiction became a movement to change the hood.
The story so far
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The bottom
Addiction and homelessness
Ben's story starts where most stories end — on the street, written off, fighting monsters of his own.
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The turn
Recovery and a promise
Getting clean came with a promise: go back for the people still out there.
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The movement
We Fight Monsters is born
Overdose reversals, Sparrow Houses, BuyBackTheBlock — a movement to take back Memphis streets and bring hope to the broken.
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Today
The fight continues
A book, a national platform, and a store where every purchase funds the mission. This is where you come in.