Susan Burton

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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BONUS EPISODE with Susan Burton, the founder and executive director of A New Way of Life, a non-profit that provides sober housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. Susan chats with the Armchair Expert about her heartbreaking story – battling addiction, losing her son, and her time spent within the prison system. Dax and Susan discuss the control that prisons seek and how often prisoners are survivors of trauma. Susan talks about her road to recovery and how it introduced her to the concept of service. She discusses her journey to becoming a resource for women coming out of prison and all of the amazing work A New Way of Life is currently doing. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to armchair expert early and ad free right now.
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0:13.8	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.1	I'm Dan Shepard.
0:17.1	I'm joined by Monica Mansou.
0:19.3	Hello.
0:21.0	We have a really special guest today. Truly truly truly special. Someone I think that everyone will be in awe of.
0:28.0	Monica and I certainly were. The amount of growth this human being is accomplished. She is really an inspirational person
0:37.0	Her name is Susan Burton and she is the founder and executive director of a new way Life, which is a nonprofit that provides sober housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women.
0:48.0	Nationally known as an advocate for restoring basic civil and human rights to those who have served time.
0:53.6	Burton was a winner of AARP's prestigious purpose prize, a CNN top 10
0:59.3	hero. She has a book entitled Becoming Miss Burton from Prison to Recovery to
1:04.3	leading the fight for incarcerated women.
1:06.8	Susan was incarcerated six times.
1:09.7	You know, she was taking the brunt of a very flawed system, and what she has done in the wake of that
1:14.4	is just mind-blowing. Yeah, I've never met anyone like her.
1:18.8	Yeah, me either. So please, please enjoy Susan Burton.
1:23.2	So on these bonus Fridays, we love to give shout-outs to black-owned businesses that we are fans of.
1:29.8	So Monica, who do you have today?
1:31.6	I am going to talk about Red Bay Coffee today.
1:35.9	Red Bay was founded about six years ago in Oakland.
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