56. The ultimate story of second chances
All The Wiser
Kimi Culp
4.8 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Angalia Bianca has been arrested more times than she can count. By the age of 17 she was a full-blown heroin addict. She had five kids while in and out of prison for 12 years. Those were the headlines over decades of Bianca’s life. But at the age of 50, Bianca changed the narrative, when a chance encounter would lead her to a new career as a violence interrupter working with at-risk youth. She is saving lives every day serving the invisible population to which she once belonged.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Becoming addicted to heroin by age 17.
- Being initiated into the Latin Kings gang.
- Her experience of being in and out of prison.
- Entering a halfway house, second chances and becoming a violence interrupter.
Author of "In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter"
Episode benefitting Acclivus Inc. Chicago
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| 1:00.6 | hustling, ripping, running, stealing, all types of different crimes are going on because |
| 1:05.6 | you need money. I don't consider myself a prostitute, that I was a prostitute, but that was the last resort |
| 1:12.0 | of how I had to get money if I was sick, then it didn't matter. |
| 1:16.1 | I was okay with that. |
| 1:18.7 | The way that Angelia Bianca describes this time in her life is that the music was gone. |
| 1:25.7 | There was no music in her life. |
| 1:28.4 | And in its place was 20 years of addiction, incarceration, |
| 1:33.8 | loneliness, darkness, and despair. |
| 1:38.8 | I remember my day-to-day towards like the last, say, 20 years, |
| 1:44.1 | where hour by hour, and I don't know how many |
| 1:48.0 | people know what it's like to live hour by hour, but I do. So how does a former Chicago gang member |
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| 2:03.1 | Today, a story of second chances after decades of heartbreaking struggle. |
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