Best of: Confessions of a Bank Robber with Joe Loya
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2017
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Joe Loya’s life trajectory of rising up and moving forward took a radically different turn after losing his mother at an an early age, and stabbing his father in the neck at the age of 16. This was beginning of of a life of crime, and 14 month bank robbing spree in which he robbed 30 banks. In this amazing chat about his life, we discuss the amazing power of innovating with your story.
Joe Loya is an essayist and playwright, as well as a contributing editor with the Pacific News Service. His essays have appeared in several national newspapers and magazines, including the San Francisco Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, and El Andar magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | As you probably notice, this month we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting |
| 0:04.6 | some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical |
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| 0:24.7 | What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. But most people, for the most people, when they come from fear, they back off, especially of fear that is so radical that it makes you afraid that if you die. |
| 0:39.1 | If you keep going forward, you might be extinct. And that's your possibility, bankrupt. You walk out and there's a bunch of cops when they shoot you dead. |
| 0:45.6 | Your body understands this. So once you go down, get a headache, my jaw clenching, sweaty, my hands are just camping off, you know, jumping off the steering wheel. |
| 0:55.9 | I want a wave of fatigue |
| 0:57.9 | goes over me, so I can almost pass |
| 0:59.8 | on the side of the road. Pretty intense, |
| 1:02.0 | very intense experience. |
| 1:03.8 | What I needed to do is I needed to get angry. |
| 1:05.7 | I needed to summon my rage by thinking of things |
| 1:07.7 | that have humiliated me in the past, |
| 1:10.0 | you know, from bullies from childhood |
| 1:11.3 | all the way to my dad and, you know, the stabbing. And then this monster would rise up in me. |
| 1:15.9 | And a level of peace, you know, struck me, you know, came over me that was was transcendental, man. |
| 1:25.9 | It was spiritual practically. I was no longer afraid in fact i felt i could |
| 1:31.2 | just hand i could it was endorphine high or something it was something i just felt like i could |
| 1:36.6 | handle anything i the giant i felt a giant like a giant and and i would go and direct that rage |
| 1:42.3 | with great efficiency and make it through those banks. |
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