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The Breakfast Club

INTERVIEW: Shaka Senghor Reveals Life's "Hidden Prisons", Finding Freedom, Forgiveness + More

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.414.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today on The Breakfast Club, Shaka Senghor Reveals Life's "Hidden Prisons", Finding Freedom, Forgiveness. Listen For More!

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0:00.0

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0:06.4

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0:07.9

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1:13.3

Hold on every day I wake up. The Breakfast Club. We're all finished or y'all's done. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. J. J. Jolari, Sholameen, the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. Shaka's Angkor. Welcome back, brother. How are you feeling? I'm I'm blessed. I'm blessed. Thank you all so much for having me back. Man, Chaka just put out an amazing new body of work, man. A new book, How to Be Free, a proven guide to escaping life's hidden prisons, man. What is a hidden prison? It's the things that you don't see that stand in the way of you living the best life for yourself, right?

1:22.2

So when I thought about this big idea and created this kind of blueprint to help people live the life that they're fully capable of and fully deserving of,

1:27.6

I recognize that we all had these hidden prisons, you know, self-doubt, negative self-talk.

1:30.2

You know, that's one of the big things that kind of stand in the way.

1:36.3

But it's also things like anger, grief, shame, things from our childhood that really doesn't allow us to show up fully and authentically in our full potential.

1:40.5

You know, I wanted to, I know you got the book out, but there's a lot that's been going on and I figured

1:45.2

you would be the the right person to ask some questions about so everything going on in

1:49.9

Atlanta it seems like people I wouldn't say glorify the street right glorify things that happen in

1:57.2

the street and I feel like sometimes people don't know how to get out of it, right?

2:01.0

You see what happened in Atlanta? Everybody's a snitch. This person's a rat. When do you get to an age or when do you tell those youngers that says, hey, it's not worth it? We see what's happening, but it seems like they don't learn their lessons. So what do you tell one of those little young brothers out there? That's a prison that's not hitting. put they in it.

2:17.9

I think one of the things with our culture

2:20.4

specifically like hip-hop. those little young brothers out there. Because that's a, that's a prison that's not hitting. Put day in it.

2:18.0

I think one of the things with our culture, specifically like hip-hop culture,

2:22.5

is we've kind of intermingled the idea that these guys are really street guys.

2:26.6

And really, they're artists, their kids who are trying to figure out how to make money

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