Best of: Redemption and Reinvention After a Life Sentence with Andy Dixon Pt 1
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In one of our most fascinating interviews we've had, Andy Dixon tells us his transformation story. Andy Dixon’s life has been anything but conventional. Born into a life of crime, he grew up imprinted with the notion that violence translated to love. In this amazing story, Andy talks about a journey of redemption and reinvention after a life sentence. Listen to Part One now!
Andy Dixon spent 27 years in Tennessee prisons, and has since committed himself to altering the generational conviction cycle, particularly with America’s youth. Through an open dialogue and open heart, he has changed the lives of hundreds, facilitating rehabilitation and hope rather than continued violence and sigma.
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| 0:00.0 | In this amazing two-part episode of the unmistakable creative, I speak with Andy Dixon, who talks to me all about |
| 0:06.8 | redemption and reinvention after serving a 27-year prison sentence in the Tennessee prison system. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative |
| 0:20.0 | podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative |
| 0:24.2 | and creative minds who've started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling |
| 0:28.8 | books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 0:31.2 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable creative. |
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| 1:05.7 | Andy welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:08.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:09.1 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, so you know I came across your story by way of one of our listeners who heard our |
| 1:15.8 | interview with Joe Loya and he said you've got to talk to Andy he has a story |
| 1:19.8 | that's just as insane, if not more insane. |
| 1:23.4 | And so when I got the brief from him, |
| 1:26.2 | I said, oh yeah, I said, I think this is a story we have to tell. |
| 1:29.0 | Although the ongoing joke, I think with our listeners |
| 1:31.8 | is gonna be that you have to either serve time |
| 1:34.0 | or you know commit some sort of crime in order to get on this show since we've had a |
| 1:38.3 | steady stream of them but tell us a bit about yourself your, your story, and how that has led you to doing the work that you're doing today. |
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