Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show. I'm the announcer and I've known Eric

since he was a big nobody. In fact, I'm one of the people he stepped on as he climbed

the ladder of success. And now my former friend,

Eric Mataxis. Hey, folks, welcome to the program. This is the Eric Mataxis show. I just happened to be

Eric Mataxis. I consider that an amazing coincidence. Ignore what Todd Wilkerson just said always,

because he's just, he's the best we could get on short notice in terms of

you know announcers he's a friend I thought I'd help him out but um usually my guests

make up for our lack uh in other ways today I've got a humdinger folks I'm speaking to the

author of a book.

The book is called Narco Mindset.

And the subtitle is The Life Principles that a Cocaine Drug Lord learned on his journey to find meaning in his life.

The former cocaine drug lord is my guest, Jorge Valdez. Welcome. Thank you, Eric. It's

really a pleasure to be on the show with you. It's my pleasure to have you. You have an amazing

story. And one of the things I want to do on this program is I want to get stories like yours

out because people do not know how lives, how dramatically lives can be changed by the God who loves

us. And I say this particularly for people maybe who don't believe in God or don't know.

Listen to this story, folks. Listen to these stories because it gives you a different

perspective. So Jorge, the bottom line, I guess, is that at age 21, which is some years ago,

you were a drug lord and a millionaire playboy. So obviously, you are not that now. Your life has changed dramatically.

But what I like to do is go to the beginning of how you got into that lifestyle. You were

working with the Medellin cartel, am I right? Yeah, I was part of the group that was the original

group that eventually became the Medellín

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