Life, Death and Redemption In An American Prison - Shaka Senghor

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Mindvalley

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

‘I spent my time reading and writing, using books to free my mind and expand my thinking’

We’re honored to have a pioneering voice in American criminal justice reform, Shaka Senghor, on the Mindvalley Podcast. Tune in to hear the awe-inspiring journey of a man who used a 40-year prison sentence to expose the untold stories of life behind bars in his NYT bestselling book Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison.

Listen out for:

His harrowing journey of escaping an abusive household only to be lured in by the streets of Detroit.
How a promising medical student ended up spending his best years in prison.
The inhumane realities he faced over 7 years in solitary confinement.
How he found redemption and a higher calling through storytelling.
The shocking link between Slavery and the American Prison System.
The 30-day challenge Shaka took on to write his first book while in confinement.
5 Tips for anyone feeling isolated at home right now.

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0:00.0	Three years into growing up in the streets. I was standing on the corner on the west side of Detroit
0:05.2	March 8 1990 when I was shot multiple times after I got shot. I went to the hospital they extracted two of the bullets they left one of the bullets in which I still have to this day
0:16.6	Petz me up and within days I was right back in my neighborhood
0:20.3	No one talked to me not a you know not a doctor, not a social worker not a psychiatrist or
0:25.9	psychologist. I am Mission Laciani founder of Mind Valley the School for Human
0:30.6	Transformation. You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast
0:33.2	where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the
0:36.6	planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind,
0:41.3	body, spirit, and work.
0:44.0	Hi everyone and welcome to a special episode of the Mind Valley Podcasts while in quarantine.
0:49.0	Now speaking of quarantine, many of us are stuck in our homes.
0:52.0	We've been here for about a month and it's starting to get it's starting to give us some angst. We're starting to get impatient about this. I thought it would be amazing today to bring on to a podcast someone who can truly talk about that feeling of
1:08.1	isolation that feeling of helplessness and to give some perspective on what we might be going through.
1:14.0	His name is Shaka Singh Hoare.
1:16.0	And here's the unique thing about Shaka.
1:18.0	He was just on Oprah's new Apple TV show on COVID-19. You see, Shaka was imprisoned for 19 years for second-degree
1:27.9	murder. And when he was put in prison in Michigan, he spent seven of those 19 years in solitary confinement, four and a half
1:36.2	years of that, back to back. Imagine being in a cell, with no way to get out, with complete social isolation.
1:44.3	Now to most people it would break them.
1:46.6	Now Shaka has atoned for his past.
1:49.6	He has now been released from prison,
1:51.9	but his story has become truly powerful because he spoke about how even being in that sense of isolation, there is so much that we can do to heal ourselves, to grow ourselves, and to emerge stronger. This is why in 2016,
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