Felony Friday Ep. 018 - John Thomas: The Felon Entrepreneur

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

4.6 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode Felony Friday host John Odermatt is joined by John Thomas. John is a successful entrepreneur, but his path to success has been anything but ordinary. First, John Thomas shares the many mistakes that led to him serving three separate stints in prison, totaling fifteen years behind bars. Then John Thomas reveals what helped him to break that cycle of recidivism and turn his life around. And finally Mr. Thomas discusses his path to becoming a successful entrepreneur. John Thomas’ story and entrepreneurial spirit is incredibly inspiring. If you’re an ex-felon or just an average Joe and have been putting off starting your own business or entrepreneurial venture, then you better be prepared for John Thomas to annihilate the false barriers that have be keeping you from your dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers employees up to £8,000 for education and training, like Juliet.
0:07.0	She's now a trained technician.
0:10.0	And to her, the sound of machinery in need of repair, reminds her of how far she's come.
0:18.0	In two years, she's landed her dream job, providing her with valuable skills. That's up to
0:24.8	£8,000 for education and training at Amazon. Eligibility conditions apply.
0:35.2	Welcome to Phyllity Friday, a presentation of the Lions of Liberty podcast. Here is your host, John Otermat.
0:45.1	Felons, friends, and freedom lovers, thank you for joining me once again for another episode of
0:50.1	Felony Friday on the Lions of Liberty Podcast. For our first time listeners, this show really has
0:56.0	two missions. First mission would be we're striving to expose injustice in the broken criminal
1:01.7	justice system. And our second mission is to interview successful individuals who have experienced
1:08.8	the broken criminal justice system firsthand and have come out on the other side to find success.
1:14.2	Today we have a guest who will be sharing his story about the latter.
1:17.9	Now, before I introduce my guest, I just want to let you all know where you can find the show notes for today's show.
1:23.0	So you can check out everything that we talk about and I'll link to anything that we need to link to.
1:28.0	You can find that at Lions of Liberty.com slash FF1.8.
1:33.2	My guest today is John Thomas.
1:35.7	John is a successful entrepreneur, but his path to success has been anything but ordinary.
1:41.5	Today I'll ask John about the mistakes that he made that led him to serving
1:45.0	three separate stints in prison. Then we'll talk about how he broke from that cycle of recidivism
1:51.3	to turn his life around and finally how he found success as an entrepreneur. I first heard of John
1:57.9	when he was interviewed on the Earning Freedom podcast with host Michael Santos, who has been a previous guest on this show.
2:04.8	And his story of entrepreneurship really inspired me.
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