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Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact.

Everybody, welcome to another episode of Impact Theory. You were here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless.

But you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it. So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that are going to help you actually execute on your dreams.

Alright, today's guest was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault at the age of 17 and sentenced to 28 years in a maximum security prison.

This miscarriage of justice robbed him of nearly 10 years of his life and while most people would have been lost to hopelessness or swallowed by blinding rage.

After a chance encounter with a fellow inmates snapped him out of his passive approach to a situation he decided he was going to fight for his freedom.

Armed with a radical new enthusiasm, he threw himself headlong into the prison's library beginning the long and arduous process of teaching himself law.

Realizing the need for help he launched a tireless outreach campaign that saw him riding upwards of 50 letters per week.

And this onslaught finally got the Wisconsin Innocence Project to come to his aid and help him secure the legal team that would ultimately assist him in winning his freedom in 2007.

But hell bent to do more than simply get out of prison despite being broke, having no credit history and a 10-year gap on his resume he decided to double down on his education.

Living on his mother's couch, he first attended community college and transferred to Roosevelt College where he graduated with high honors and obtained a BA in criminal justice.

In recognition of his extraordinary work in talents, he became the 2012 recipient of the Chicago Bar Association's Abraham Lincoln Maravitz Public Interest Scholarship which he used to attend law school.

After graduating in 2015 he went on to pass the New York State Bar when a coveted position to clerk for the seventh circuit court of appeals, the very court that overturned his conviction.

Guys, please help me in welcoming the co-founder of Life After Justice, the investigator of the year award recipient and relentless advocate for legal reform, Jared Adams.

Thank you.

Everybody, I'm sure every time this happens, freaks out about your story.

I mean it is, in fact it was two seconds before you came on, George, who you met, said literally if you were going to ask me to say what my nightmare is, my nightmare would be to be wrongfully convicted.

What is that moment like?

It's a hopeless feeling. You surround it around a bunch of hopelessness inside of the criminal justice system.

I quickly realized that it wasn't about the truth of my case because if it was, I never would have been tried convicted anything.

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