Redemption with John McAvoy: Part Two

Power Hour

Adrienne Herbert

Society & Culture

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today we have a very special episode, as Adrienne talks with John Mcavoy.

John Mcavoy is currently a Nike athlete, however he was previously a high profile armed robber who found redemption through the power of sport. Having broken both British and World records whilst in prison he is now forging a new life as an endurance athlete and speaker who is committed to using his story of rehabilitation to help and inspire others to change their lives for the better. Below are the team who support him in these pursuits.

This episode does contain themes of violence.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. Let's dive straight in to part two of my conversation
0:12.6	with John McAvoy.
0:26.7	Hello. Josh, honestly, I'm sweating, John.
0:30.0	I'm sweating to you, we call this story.
0:32.5	And also before, you know, when you mentioned the part where you said,
0:35.4	okay, I've come out and I've gone to Spain and I'm with my friend.
0:40.1	And again, as you tell it, it does sound like you can imagine for a young person who,
0:44.6	you know, maybe friends who are, you know, working in a 9 to 5 job that they hate and, you know, they haven't got a lot of money and you're thinking, I'm sitting on the beach, I'm living the high life.
0:48.6	You know, you can understand why it sounds, again, glamorized it sounds I don't know aspirational to some people hearing that you're thinking
0:56.0	you can you can see why you know it would be appealing but then I think that part that was missing for me
1:01.6	as I mentioned before was the fear you know I was just like where's the fear because you know when you
1:05.8	said then okay I'd been to prison before so this time I knew what to expect and then I suppose yeah that realization so when they when they handcuffed you this time I knew what to expect. And then I suppose, yeah, that realization.
1:12.2	So when they, when they handcuffed you this time, I don't know, you know, before you said you
1:16.2	laughing, you feel arrogant, you feel cocky. What did it feel like this time, knowing that you were
1:22.3	going back there? And actually, I know that, you know, it's a lot different this time, right, in terms of the sentence, in terms of how long you were going to be in prison?
1:29.8	Yeah, so when they arrested me, one of the police officers that arrested me the first time
1:34.4	got on the arrest squad to arrest me the second time because he felt it was unfinished
1:39.0	business.
1:39.5	And when I was in the back of the unmarked police car, I remember straight off the back, like, I was thinking, how am I going to get out of this?
1:46.5	And I was thinking, if I pretend I got a concussion from, like, the car crash and then getting arrested, they're going to have to take me to hospital if I pretend I got a head injury.
1:54.8	And if they take me there, there might be a chink of light, an opportunity to get out. When I was in that car, someone got into the driver's seat
2:01.6	and he looked round and I was looking down at the floor pretending I was concussed.
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