Andre Norman | An Extraordinary Journey from Prison to Harvard
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
After Andre Norman was sentenced to over 100 years in prison and spent 2 years in solitary confinement, he decided to turn his life around. He spent the next 8 years working 20 hours per day on his dream to attend Harvard University. Find out how he went from prisoner to Harvard professor and became known to many as “The Ambassador Of Hope.”
Andre Norman is the author of The Ambassador of Hope: Turning Poverty and Prison into a Purpose-Driven Life, available now.
Visit Andre's website to find out more about his work or to get in touch | https://andrenorman.com
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| 0:00.0 | But my first night in prison, Salem, jail, back with H to hang the witches, literally. |
| 0:07.8 | They took me in blue tear cell 10. |
| 0:10.5 | They put me in the room with this 350 pound white guy and I was scared to death. |
| 0:14.6 | I was terrified. |
| 0:15.6 | I'd never been in the jail before my life and I was scared to death. |
| 0:19.9 | And the guy, me and the guys I talked in, and we started playing Cogs and I beat him |
| 0:24.9 | like out of a six pack of soda and I was feeling cool. |
| 0:27.0 | I was a car player as a kid and then he said, I'm not paying you. |
| 0:30.3 | I said on my bunk, I was like, wow, this guy is jumping me. |
| 0:32.8 | But I don't know anybody, I don't know anything. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm just gonna shut up. |
| 0:36.0 | That's like three or four hours I sit on my bunk. |
| 0:38.2 | I took the one soda candy gave me. |
| 0:40.0 | I ripped it, I bent it to a ripped in half. |
| 0:42.3 | I jumped off the bunk, kicked him in the head, I put the soda candy to his neck. |
| 0:46.0 | I said, if you don't pay me, I will kill you. |
| 0:48.0 | I said, you got me totally confused. |
| 0:50.2 | I said, I will kill you. |
| 0:51.6 | You will pay me or I will kill you. |
| 0:53.4 | Flat out. |
| 0:54.4 | And this couldn't take being robbed. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm Streny Rowe and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into |
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