My name is Ian Bick and you are locked in with Ian Bick. On today's episode, I interview Lewis L.

Reed from the Reform Alliance who spent over a decade in federal prison and now advocates for

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Locked in with Ian Bick.

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 could choose to not

let it define you.

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

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

the rock bottom of the American justice system and find out what they did to overcome it. These are the stories that will motivate you and inspire you to change your life. Lewis Reed. Lewis L. Reed. Louis L. Reed. Yeah. Welcome to Lockton with Ian Bick. Yeah. What's up, man? It's good to be here. Yeah, it's great to have you. You know, I stumbled across your Instagram one day and, you know,, you know, I noticed you by the blue check marks. I did a little digging and I was like, wow, this guy's story. I had a blue check mark before. I know. You got the free one. Yeah. Yeah. I got the free one. I'm not paying for mine. Yeah. I had to pay for mine. But I, you're part of the family now. But you deserve it though. You verified in real life. Thank you. But I deep dive into your store.

I was like, wow, this is insane. So I'm happy we got to connect and have you come out here today. Yeah. You live like this crazy life and you do so much good in the world now. And, you know, I'm very curious about how you got to the point you're at now. So,

you know, starting at your childhood, what was it like growing up? What's your family like?

Yeah. Great question. And I really get asked that question. I'm from Bridgeport, Connecticut.

And contrary to like the public notion about Connecticut, Connecticut is not full of manicured lawns and white picking fences like

how you see in Westport and Greenwich. I'm from the grime and dirt of Connecticut. So I'm from

Bridgeport. Incidentally, both my parents were incarcerated when I was five years old. And I was raised

by my maternal grandmother. And so when our own or around the time when my mom came home, when I was

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