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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

755: From Convicted Felon to Community Activist and Mentor

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0619 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Will Little grew up in the inner city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a broken home. Growing up poor and fatherless he ventured out onto the streets as a teenager—robbing, stealing, selling drugs and carrying guns until he killed a young man in a shootout. Now 19, Will was charged and sentenced to 20 years in prison. During his incarceration, he made a conscious choice to change his life around. After 10 years, he was released to the same Philly community where he became a community activist and mentor.

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0:00.0

Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 755. I'm your host,

0:17.9

Don Hutchison. Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone around the world

0:22.9

who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction,

0:29.1

and freedom. On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business

0:34.6

development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners

0:39.0

along their journeys.

0:40.9

We become products of our environment and our culture and not really living up to our true

0:46.4

expectations of who we are.

0:48.6

And a lot of us don't look at that.

0:50.8

And that's some of the things that I found out about myself when I was in prison, just trying to meditate and this focus on who did I become, why I became that person,

0:59.4

and what potentials I may have to become even better.

1:02.5

I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Will Little.

1:06.1

Welcome, Will.

1:07.4

Thanks for having me.

1:08.8

Will, it's our pleasure.

1:09.9

Will, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

1:13.1

Yes, I am.

1:14.4

All righty.

1:15.2

Well, we want to hear the entire story.

1:17.4

Will Little grew up in the inner city of Philadelphia, in a broken family home with a mother and four sisters.

1:23.6

Growing up poor and fatherless, he ventured out into the streets as a teenager, robbing, stealing, selling drugs, and carrying guns, until he killed a young man in a shootout.

1:33.4

At 19, he was charged and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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