At 20, I was sentenced to 11-and-a-half years in one of America's most notorious federal prisons, the infamous United States Penitentiary Leavenworth. I lost everything: my freedom, my future, my identity.
But while others counted down days, I invested in the only asset that mattered: my mindset.
I earned college degrees. Transformed my body. Designed and taught over 25 programs. Worked with thousands of inmates. But the real work was internal; rewiring every thought pattern that led me there.
Prison didn't break me. It forged me into something unbreakable.