Welcome to the rewire podcast. I'm your host Ryan Stouman and I'm here to rewire your mind for success.

You were put on this planet for success. You were created to succeed, but the force of average is after you every single day my

brothers and sisters and this podcast is the one thing that's designed to help you

fight the force of average and excel in every area of your life. We're glad that you're here.

I remember like it was yesterday. I showed up in a suit and tie to the courtroom thinking that I was going to get

probation for five or ten years and I was going to be a good boy. I'd been a good boy

for years at this point and I walked in and I didn't meet a judge in person. I met him on video and this was way prior to COVID. This was like 2006, 2007.

And this judge appears on this little video box

inside a makeshift courtroom because he was actually

overseeing a case in another district.

And this federal judge, after pleading my case

and my lawyer speaking up, he says,

I sentence you to 15 months incarceration in a federal prison facility.

You have 60 days to get your affairs in order and turn yourself in on June 15th 2007.

Fuck! Really?

Damn it! All right.

So I guess I'm going to prison.

I remember leaving that courtroom that day, depressed as fuck.

You know, I was a millionaire, I was married,

and I had 60 days to get my shit in order,

60 days to assign all my bank accounts in my business over to my wife, who's now my ex-wife.

60 days to get my affairs in order that had taken me 27 years to get an order in the first place.

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