I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

now.

Think for a minute about the worst mistake you've ever made. And imagine if you were forever

defined by it. I'm joined by Shaka Senkord. Shaka was raised as James White, one of six

children in a blended family. His parents separated when he was 11 years old. Shaka says that's

when everything changed. He lost interest in school, gave up his dream of becoming a doctor.

He started acting out and by the time he was 14, he ran away from home. He was soon recruited

by an older drug dealer. When he was 19 years old, Shaka was convicted of second degree

murder and spent 19 years in prison, seven of those years in solitary confinement. Shaka

says he takes full responsibility for pulling the trigger and taking a life. Shaka's riveting

new memoir, writing, My Wrongs, paints a heartbreaking picture of how vulnerable he truly

was.

So what I would like to do is actually hear how it came to be that you a 19 year old young

man ended up in prison. So what was your life like growing up?

So growing up on the outside looking in, I always say we had that ideal looking family,

my father who worked, my father was an Air Force, reserves, and he also worked for the

state. My mother was a stay-home mother.

And middle-class family. Middle-class family.

And Detroit.

And Detroit.

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