00:09When I came home I was paroled to my mom's couch. I was not gonna go back to the streets.
00:17I promised
00:17her that. Five, six, come on, give me some love. Having a criminal history and starting up a business comes
00:33with a lot. You know, I'm a minority, three-time felon. So I went in for running one of the
00:41largest drug delivery services in the city. You need to know this cold, they're gonna eat you alive.
00:49I'm hiring formerly incarcerated individuals. Some people really change and they want to do something different. I remember one lady
01:00saying, you don't look like you're an ex-felon. What does an ex-felon look like? What does an ex
01:08-felon look like? From 13 years old to 33, I was in and out of the system. I was young,
01:14I wanted to be a gangster, that's what I wanted to be.
01:20Trainers join and I become attached to the success. I believe that once I slip and once the momentum stops,
01:28it's over. So I'll never get another chance.
01:32One of our trainers got locked up. He got arrested for traveling over there to work.
01:46People came, they sweated with us. We learned from each other. When I came home, I felt like I had
01:54to get back to my neighborhood. I couldn't destroy it the way I did before. I really want to rewrite
02:03that script.
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