Be a Coffee Bean: A Journey To Redemption (feat. Damon West)
Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this week's episode of Unlocked! Join host Savannah Chrisley as she welcomes Damon West, a former inmate turned inspirational speaker and author. Damon shares his incredible journey from a life of crime and addiction to finding hope and purpose behind bars.
Savannah and Damon discuss what led to his 65 year life sentence and the profound lesson he learned from a fellow inmate about being a "coffee bean", symbolizing the ability to change one's environment rather than being changed by it. Plus, Damon tells his life-changing encounter with Dabo Swinney. Damon's story is a testament to resilience, redemption, and the power of hope. Whether you're interested in true crime, personal growth, or the human capacity for change, this episode is sure to inspire.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to this week's episode of Unlocked. I am so excited. If you guys have been listening to the podcast, then you've seen some faces on that, you know, that have stories behind them. Some being, I try to connect with people who have met my parents. I had a woman on that was incarcerated with mom. And it honestly helps me in a way to come in contact with people who have had contact with my parents. |
| 0:27.4 | So I'm super excited to share the story of Damon West. |
| 0:30.7 | Welcome. |
| 0:31.6 | Savannah, thanks a lot for having me. |
| 0:33.0 | It's so good to be here. |
| 0:33.9 | And yes, about a year and a half after I met your mom in a federal prison where I was speaking, here we are today. Isn't that crazy? I remember I would never forget her calling me and saying like, this guy, you know, it was what, November you said? November 23. Yeah. So it was hard because that's around the holidays. It's, and you came in and spoke and she like called and told me about it and was like, you, this guy |
| 0:57.0 | is awesome. |
| 0:57.5 | You've got to have them on your podcast. |
| 0:59.1 | And then now a year and a half later, here we are. |
| 1:01.5 | It's so wild. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah, because, I mean, you meet people in prison and you hear their stories. |
| 1:05.8 | And your mom came up to me and I didn't recognize her at first. |
| 1:09.0 | But then she told me who she was like, okay, I remember hearing the story. |
| 1:11.5 | Then she told me about you. |
| 1:13.4 | And I told her, I promised, yeah, at some point, I'll definitely do her podcast when the time's |
| 1:18.0 | right. |
| 1:18.4 | And here we are today. |
| 1:19.9 | And it couldn't be a better time, right? |
| 1:21.3 | With everything going on and how your platforms grow, I love what your platform. |
| 1:24.8 | I love your show, especially your episode with Alice. That was so good. |
| 1:28.0 | She's awesome. Just like, but you're awesome. You've done a good job with this. |
| 1:31.4 | Thank you. More people need to hear the stories truly from the inside. I say we don't have enough |
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