My name is Ian Bick and you're tuned in to Locked in with Ian Bick. On this week's episode,

I sit down with Brian Tamborino. Brian was facing 10 years in a Connecticut state prison

after selling cocaine to an undercover officer. We all make mistakes, experience failure,

and fall down in life. But if you decide to get back up and use it as fuel to your fire,

you can choose to not let it define you.

You can make it through to the other side and turn it into an opportunity.

I went from owning a popular nightclub when I was 19 years old

to becoming a federal inmate by the time I was 21.

Join me, Ian Bick, as I interview people from all over the country who have

experienced the rock bottom of the American justice system. Brian, my man, thanks for coming on today.

Thank you for having me. Really actually excited to have you. You're like our first guest

that is not like a major TikTok star, obviously besides my dad's episode. But I think it'll be good to hear your

story and have you on the show because your story is so relatable to the average person. And I

hope that's like something the audience will take away from this at the end of the episode. Now,

I like to jump in and start at the beginning of someone's story. I think it's

important to find out like where they come from. So what's your childhood like? How did you grow up?

How are you raised? And where you grew up to? Shelton. Connecticut. Yeah. And my childhood

was fine, right? And I tell people this oftentimes if they ask that,

like, there was no, like, big traumatic event. There was no, like, crazy chaos. It was just,

but the one thing that I found always kind of followed me was that I was always over-the-top

enthusiastic. My enthusiasm didn't really

translate well at certain situations because if people saw that like why is this guy

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