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Change Your Brain Every Day

Lessons I Learned from Criminals - PT. 3 with James Ackerman

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of a series with Prison Fellowship CEO, James Ackerman shares some of the life lessons he's learned from rehabilitating inmates and changing lives, such as understanding the context of criminals' lives.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:52.6

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1:01.8

Welcome back. We continue our series with James Ackerman, CEO and President of Prison Fellowship.

1:10.0

We've talked about forgiveness. We've talked about the amazing work you guys are doing.

1:15.0

What I wanted to do with this podcast was talk about the major lessons you've learned

1:22.0

since you've been involved in prison fellowship. I mean you were

1:27.6

in the entertainment industry and had done a lot of high-level stuff, but this grabbed your heart and has kept it.

1:36.5

Yeah, what really grabbed my heart was the first time I went to prison with a prison

1:41.4

fellowship staffer and realize that these are people and they are

1:48.8

worthy of our love and our support and our mentorship and that was really the first lesson for me and I came out of that prison that

1:56.6

day realizing that I can't wait to go back I can't wait to commit myself to this work. And some of us have a passion for the homeless. Some of us have a passion for vets. Some of us have a passion for women who have been abused. I mean, different people end up having different passions,

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