How Damon West Went From Ex-Convict To Living His 1% Life
The Kelly Roach Show
Kelly Roach
4.9 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I invite Damon West on the show to share his story of how he went from being a promising quarterback to becoming dependent on methamphetamines, being sent to jail, and then transforming his life to become a college professor and best-selling author. On May 18th, 2009, a judge sentenced Damon West to 65 years in a Texas prison. Back then, Damon was known as the Uptown Burglar: the ring leader of a group of addicts responsible for the uptown burglaries. Now he has evolved from being behind bars to being a global inspiration.
Also in this episode:
- There is no such thing as overnight success
- Getting up every day and becoming a servant leader
- The story of the coffee
- The power of sharing your story and the opportunities to which it can lead
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Kelly Roach Show, the place for no fluff easy to implement 20 minute or |
| 0:10.8 | less business and leadership lessons to help you build a sustainable business that scales. |
| 0:17.6 | Lead with integrity and create a lasting legacy. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Kelly Roach, former NFL cheerleader and Fortune 500 executive turned to 8 figure |
| 0:26.5 | entrepreneur. |
| 0:27.8 | Let's get started. |
| 0:30.5 | Welcome back to the Kelly Roach Show. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm super excited to have one of our first guests of 2023 here with me today, |
| 0:37.9 | Damon West. And he is going to teach you all how to be a coffee bean. |
| 0:42.4 | And if you don't know what that means, we're going to walk you through this story so that it |
| 0:46.3 | has meaning for your life and helps you to elevate your vision, your goals, your dreams, |
| 0:51.0 | and how you're going to get there. So Damon, welcome to the show. |
| 0:54.6 | Ellie, thanks a lot. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being your time with me. |
| 0:57.2 | You said one of your first shows. I mean, this is like early, did you already do a show in 2023? |
| 1:02.2 | Well, this is my first get you are my first guest of 2020. |
| 1:05.4 | Oh, okay. Let's say you're my first guest of my punch and I thought I got here first. |
| 1:09.7 | Okay. You are my first guest. You are my first guest of 2023. |
| 1:14.6 | You stole the spotlight. Absolutely. |
| 1:17.9 | Well, I'm excited. No, I'm excited to talk so look. I mean, the coffee bean message, |
| 1:21.2 | you know, it's been catching on one of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten. |
| 1:26.6 | It was from John Gordon. John Gordon is my best friends, my co-author. He's my mentor in life. |
| 1:31.8 | And he and I wrote a book a few years ago called the coffee bean. |
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