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Felony Friday Ep. 007: Michael Santos Talks Success After Prison

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Lions of Liberty

Education, Business, Comedy, Self-improvement, News, Politics

4.6672 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today we welcome Michael Santos onto Felony Friday. When Michael was twenty-three years old he was sentenced to forty-five-years in prison for drug trafficking. With credit and good behavior he was released after serving twenty-six years. During his incarceration he published several books, earned his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and built a significant savings through publishing and trading stocks. Within three weeks after his release from prison he was hired as an adjunct professor at San Francisco State University. Since his release Michael has focused his energy on teaching lessons that empower the incarcerated to live a life of relevance before, during, and after confinement.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.8

Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,

0:07.4

who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.

0:10.0

Hello!

0:10.8

To him, this is the best sound in the world.

0:17.2

Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.

0:23.1

Now that's term time working.

0:24.5

Offered at Amazon.

0:26.8

Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.

0:29.0

Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.

0:29.8

Conditions apply.

0:40.6

Welcome to Felity Friday, a presentation of the Lions of Liberty podcast.

0:44.1

Here is your host, John Otermat.

0:49.4

Felons, friends, and freedom lovers, welcome back to the Felony Friday podcast.

0:54.7

This is the show where we focus on injustices in the broken criminal justice system.

0:57.6

We publish a new episode every single Friday.

1:02.2

Today we have another great show lined up with a very interesting guest.

1:04.6

But before we get started, before we start the interview,

1:08.0

I just want to remind everyone where they can find the show notes for this show.

1:11.6

You can find them at Lions of Liberty.com slash FF7. I'll link to everything that we talk about there. Lyonsofliberty.com

1:17.3

slash FF7. My guest today is Michael Santos. When Michael was 23 years old, he was sentenced to

1:26.4

45 years in prison for drug trafficking. With credit and good old, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking.

1:29.3

With credit and good behavior, he was released after serving 26 years. During his incarceration,

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