You're listening to the Impact Theory podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable

techniques from the world's highest achievers. Join host Tom Bill You, serial entrepreneur and co-founder

of the billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition on a journey to unlock your potential and realize

your vision of success. Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to another episode of Impact Theory.

You are here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless.

But you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas

that are going to help you actually execute on your dreams.

All right.

Today's guest was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault at the age of 17 and sentenced to 28 years in a maximum security prison. This miscarriage of justice robbed him of

nearly 10 years of his life, and while most people would have been lost to hopelessness or swallowed

by blinding rage, after a chance encounter with a fellow inmate snapped him out of his

passive approach to his situation, he decided he was going to fight for his freedom, armed with a fellow inmate snapped him out of his passive approach to a situation, he decided

he was going to fight for his freedom. Armed with a radical new enthusiasm, he threw himself

headlong into the prison's library, beginning the long and arduous process of teaching himself

law. Realizing the need for help, he launched a tireless outreach campaign that saw him

writing upwards of 50 letters per week, and this onslaught finally got the Wisconsin Innocence

Project to come to his aid and help him secure the legal team that would ultimately assist him

in winning his freedom in 2007. But hell bent to do more than simply get out of prison,

despite being broke, having no credit history and a 10-year gap on his resume, he decided to

double down on his education. Living on his mother's couch, he first attended community college,

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