A workout program for you, from the formerly incarcerated

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News, News Commentary, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Are you working out for the body of a god? What about the body of a convict? Meet Coss Marte, our guest this week. After being arrested at 19 for running a multimillion dollar drug trade in New York City, Coss was sent to prison. There, doctors told him that his health problems and weight could kill him within a few years. After dropping 70 pounds in six months, and helping train other convicts to make dramatic changes, Coss also experienced a religious revival in a moment of desperation. Now Coss is the head of ConBody: a gym that offers prison-style bootcamp classes taught by formerly incarcerated trainers. We’ll be talking with Coss about how ConBody was developed, how his faith helped him while incarcerated and his prison reform activism. After, we’ve got consolations and desolations, where we tell you where we did or didn’t find God this week. (Originally released on July 28, 2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Jess Wyrical, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of American
0:14.9	Media.
0:15.9	That lay part means we aren't Jesuits, but we work with them.
0:19.0	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news,
0:22.7	often over drinks.
0:24.0	I'm Ashley McKinliss and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
0:27.6	Hello, venturing out in this brave new world.
0:31.9	So happy new year everyone. Yes, happy new year everyone.
0:33.0	I hope you had a good time.
0:36.0	We're we're technically sort of off this week but we wanted to bring back an interview
0:41.0	from one of our earlier, earlier episodes.
0:43.5	So this is what?
0:44.8	It's an old one but a good one.
0:46.2	Yeah, and like any good relationship breakup,
0:50.1	we're gonna, where we went back and listened to old recordings of Olga just so we could
0:54.0	remember what her voice sounds like and we wanted to share it with you too so I
0:57.0	know you just said goodbye to Olga in our Christmas farewell episode
0:59.8	but you're going to get to hear again in this one. This is an interview with Koss Marte.
1:04.4	He's the founder of Kondbody,
1:06.4	a gym that offers prison-style boot camp classes
1:09.5	taught by formerly incarcerated trainers.
1:11.8	Yeah, after being arrested at 19,
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