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Sponsors & Partners Freedom Scholars Academy (FSM) My Story Matters / Captain Your Story - mystorymatters.org The Other Side Academy (TOSA) - theothersideacademy.com 00:00 - Ryan 01:30 - Sponsors 02:44 - Younglife 04:40 - Didn’t Fit In 07:20 - Sexual Trauma 10:20 - The Substance Spiral 12:50 - Broke His Dad’s Ribs 14:00 - 20 Years of Relapse 19:40 - A New Kind of Addiction 22:00 - Mapping Out a New World 22:50 - My Story Matters 25:50 - Finding Vision 29:35 - We Attract What We Are 33:00 - Your Opinions are a Reflection of Yourself 46:30 - Continued use of the My Story Matters tools 48:50 - Final piece of advice “My Story Matters Will Change Your Life”

A Double Lifetime Sentence Sponsors & Partners The Other Side Academy - theothersideacademy.com My Story Matters / Captain Your Story - mystorymatters.org Freedom Scholars Academy Timestamps 00:00:00 George Smith 00:01:38 Sponsors 00:02:39 Young Life 00:08:38 Back to Compton at 16 00:15:08 Filling a Need 00:23:00 Double Life Sentence at 18 years old 00:30:35 A Moment of Reflection 00:47:40 Discovering Miracles 00:50:30 Being an Agent for Change 01:01:50 From Life-Sentence to Free 01:08:34 Advice for Young Self “Ask for help… It’s okay…” - George Smith

Sponsors & Partners Freedom Scholars Academy (FSM) My Story Matters / Captain Your Story - mystorymatters.org The Other Side Academy (TOSA) - theothersideacademy.com 00:00 - Travis Richey 01:39 - Sponsors 03:17 - Positive Adolesence 03:40 - Working in Finance 09:40 - “You should’ve known better.” 11:00 - No Smoking Gun in His Case 13:45 - A 2 Year Sentence for an Oversight 16:10 - A Bizzare Disparity in the Judicial System 22:00 - “jail was the worst part of the experience” 27:18 - Finding Opportunity in the System 30:35 - Power in Brokenness 41:30 - Establishing a New Program 49:50- Writing a New Story

Sierra’s Story & The Other Side AcademySponsors & Partners Freedom Scholars Academy (FSM) My Story Matters / Captain Your Story - mystorymatters.org The Other Side Academy (TOSA) - theothersideacademy.com Time Stamps 00:35 - Sponsors! 01:50 - Her Story 03:50 - High School 05:00 - DUI at 15 07:16 - Heroine & the Domino 09:40 - Running from Withdrawls 12:00 - Losing Trust 13:00 - Jail at 18 19:00 - Trying to Get Back on Her Feet 26:50 - Moving into a Trap House 28:40 - Starting to Wake Up 30:50 - The Other Side Academy 35:00 - Sincere Desire for Change 39:00 - Finding Purpose & Sharing Her Story 41:00 - Choose Your Hard 43:30 - Finding Power in her Story

Manny Lopez LevelupIOP.com Levelup Instensive Outpatient ProgramsYoutube & Tik Tok: SL Manny Boy Sponsors & Partners Freedom Scholars Academy (FSM) My Story Matters / Captain Your Story - mystorymatters.org The Other Side Academy (TOSA) - theothersideacademy.com Time Stamps 01:45 - Sponsors! 03:38 - Manny’s Story 09:15 - A Bad Deal 11:00 - Learned Love 18:00 - Bonnie & Clyde 23:40 - The Hail Mary 25:40 - The Eleventh Time 13:00 - Self Elevating 35:00 - “Don’t give up on people.” 50:00 - Going Back to Prison in a New Way 51:00 - Mysti Lopez

Sponsors & Partners Freedom Scholars Academy (FSM) My Story Matters / Captain Your Story - mystorymatters.org The Other Side Academy (TOSA) - theothersideacademy.com 00:00 - Andrew Lewis 01:37 - Sponsors 2:50 - Younglife 5:30 - Early Influences 11:00 - Young Kid Under Pressure 13:31 - Diagnosed with Cancer 14:30 - Drug Store Candy Shop 15:15 - “I wanted to die.” 22:45 - The Other Side Academy 33:15 - Growing with the Company 42:15 - Healing with His Family

Sponsors & Partners Freedom Scholars Academy (FSM) My Story Matters / Captain Your Story - mystorymatters.org The Other Side Academy (TOSA) - theothersideacademy.com 00:00 - Jeff Allred 01:36 - Sponsors! 02:40 - His Young Life 05:10 - The Rebellious Kick 10:38 - Married at 18 13:20 - Cut Off at 21 18:29 - Arrested for Domestic Violence 20:20 - “All About Me” 24:00 - “Functional Family Man” 26:40 - Losing the Function 29:50 - Losing the Family 32:00 - Rock Bottom 34:15 - The Other Side Academy 41:00 - Shifting the Paradigm

Double Lifetime Sentence + George SmithSponsors & Partners The Other Side Academy - theothersideacademy.com My Story Matters / Captain Your Story - mystorymatters.org Freedom Scholars Academy Timestamps 00:00:00 George Smith 00:01:38 Sponsors 00:02:39 Young Life 00:08:38 Back to Compton at 16 00:15:08 Filling a Need 00:23:00 Double Life Sentence at 18 years old 00:30:35 A Moment of Reflection 00:47:40 Discovering Miracles 00:50:30 Being an Agent for Change 01:01:50 From Life-Sentence to Free 01:08:34 Advice for Young Self “Ask for help… It’s okay…” - George Smith

Born to an addict mom, Savannah Bushman spent her early life living with her aunt and uncle and in spite of their care, she was molested by her cousin over several years. Returning to live with her mother for a short time, she couldn’t fathom how her mom could choose drugs over her own daughter, but even so, her mom had her try meth at age 14. Savannah was immediately addicted. In and out of juvenile detention and several foster homes, she found herself in kiddie prison first, and then at age 18 in the state prison and pregnant. Listen in as she tells her story of giving birth as an inmate and being separated from her newborn son. When released from prison, she did all she could to make ends meet and to stay sober for her child. Working several jobs and unable to pay the bills, she decided to start selling drugs again without using; a stint that didn't last long. Finding herself back in jail and pregnant once again, she tells how she turned to God, something she had never been taught nor had she ever done before, and how those feelings propelled her to get out, stay clean, and do incredibly hard things to make her life work for herself and for her kids. Now 12 years clean, listen to how she is living the American dream. Hers is a powerful story of coming from nothing and with God’s help, making a great life. Where it all began 2:20 Dating 35 year old Utah’s most wanted man at 14 years old 10:00 Using again 23:00 Pregnant again and praying for 30 straight days 26:45 It’s often a PO who cares that makes a difference 30:40 The man who was there for her 37:30 “On my 13th birthday…she was off the hook and had people there, and I was like ‘Ya know mom, I never understood why you chose drugs over your kids.’ and she’s like ‘Well soon you’ll learn. Here–’ And I smoked meth for the first time with my mother.” 7:00

Welcome to Part 2 of Dave Duroucher's episode of the All My Friends Are Felons Podcast. Dave describes his childhood self as "Dennis the Mennis on steroids." He came from a solid home but by age 12, he started committing crimes which led him down the path of drug addiction and time behind bars. In prison, he became a shot caller for his gang, but eventually realized that his life was on a horrible trajectory. Through hard work and self-reform, Dave sought therapy and was able to turn his life around with the help of Delancey Street. Tune in to hear the rest of his incredible story of transformation and hope. Becoming the shot caller and an animal 1:40Cop chase and going back to prison for life 10:50Pleading for another path 14:50Treatment centers: “The size of the solution does not match the size of the problem” 20:00Dave’s story is not unique and few understand the truth 35:05Therapeutic communities are working miracles 38:00Adderall 40:55Our understanding of the system is wrong 51:00Advice to help someone on a similar path 63:40The Other Side Academy 66:30Changing our prisons 72:00“Mark, listen to me when I say this. I was a liar, a cheater, a thief, a manipulator, a violent, self-centered, self seeking–I had become an animal in a human body. I had become an animal, and we live in a world today where we’re like ‘*Gasp* You can’t say that to people!’ Why? Why can’t we tell people the truth? It wasn’t until I got to Delancey Street that my peers told me who I was that I was able to change. We are so deathly afraid to tell people the truth. I wouldn’t be here today if people didn’t point out who I had become. That is who I’d become!” 4:10