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“I once was blind, but now I see.” The transformation of DeRay Hannah

AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK

AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.7527 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Your Man, Monk with Monk Coleman – Rather than allowing prison to harden him, DeRay chose to use that time to rebuild himself mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. He committed to personal growth, examined the beliefs and decisions that had shaped his life, and developed a new vision for his future. He realized that while he could not rewrite his past, he had complete control over the choices he...

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0:00.0

Hello, you are listening to America Out Loud News Radio.

0:23.5

This is your man, Monk.

0:25.2

And we are here with a very special guest, D. Ray, Hannah.

0:31.5

Yeah.

0:32.4

But before we get into your story. I got a question for you.

0:38.5

All right.

0:39.6

Do you believe us as human beings have the ability to choose or something or someone is choosing for us?

1:01.1

Both things are happening simultaneously at all times both things are happening simultaneously at all times please explain this is the process of life

1:07.3

if you don't choose something or someone will choose for you but this isn't

1:14.5

widely accepted so most of us run around life thinking we're making choices

1:22.6

or forfeiting our power to choose over to somebody else, something else, and they're making

1:31.5

choices for us.

1:33.1

Right.

1:33.7

So we're hands up like, man, look at life, man.

1:36.1

Look at how you're doing me, man.

1:38.3

They don't know they chose it.

1:40.5

Well, let the listeners know a little bit about your backstory, your childhood, and how you got to the point where you can answer that question, because you didn't know that question was coming.

1:51.5

The way you can answer that question is so easily and so confidently.

1:57.7

Okay.

1:58.8

Because I know it wasn't always like that.

2:00.4

Never. Okay. Because I know it wasn't always like that. Never. Never. So I would say the understanding of the

2:08.1

answer is recent, but the answer is somehow always been there. Like I've always been the person

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