Welcome back to the Locked In with Ian Bick podcast. On today's episode, I have Andrew Hager here to tell

his story of addiction, of crime, of prison, to hear everything he's been through in his life.

Guys, you guys are going to love this episode. I had the honor and the pleasure of meeting Andrew

when I was giving a speech in

Pensacola, Florida. I sit with him on the National Reentry Association for Professionals Board,

and this guy, he's enthusiastic, he's energetic, and he's here to inspire change in the world.

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Andrew Hager, welcome to the show, man.

I'm putting you on the hot seat right now.

I just want you to know, I've been hyping you up to the guys for weeks.

Bryce met you in Pensacola when I was there for the first time meeting you.

But now you're on the show and I hyped you up to the audience in the intro we did earlier,

saying how much energy you're going to bring to the show, how great you are, you know,

all that love and energy pour out.

I mean, you've accumulated like almost a million followers on Facebook because of that energy. So I'm excited to see it on the show today. Don't overthink it, man. Definitely not overthinking. But no, it's a privilege and honor to be here with you, Ian, just see what you're doing. And, you know, letting people get their message out there, you know, that we can recover, that we do, we can turn things that we're around, reentry. Yeah, and you do it in such a great way. Like, I see you speak in Pensacola, I mean, like that was, we just met for the first time a few months ago and we really hit it off. And I remember you approached me, like, you didn't know if I'd like you or not, you're like, yeah, we followed you, but I don't know. You and Jimmy refer to me as like at a different level. I'm like, guys, I'm just like, what are you?

You know, you don't have to look at me any different, but we hit it off. We connected, and I promise you we'd have you on the show, and here we are. And here we are. And again, what a privilege and honor. But no, when I did that, because I don't have a problem get the pom- pom-poms ever, people were just seeing somebody, you know, prospering in life, a young man such as yourself, see, because, you know, that's what I'm supposed to do. Yeah. You know, haters going, hey, we need those haters. Oh, Lord. Stop it. I'm just saying, but no, man, what an honor and privilege once again to be here with you today to get a message out there because I was dealing with some stuff I didn't know I was dealing with. You know, growing up, chaos wasn't chaos. Yeah. Let's talk about that. Let's start at your childhood, man. Where are you from? What childhood like and what are those young Andrew Haker years look like for you man uh you know

and that that seemed to be the root of the problem the little boy issues you know I grew up my

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