Guest Bio:

Damon West was sentenced to sixty-five years in a Texas prison maximum-security prison after being taken down by a SWAT team in 2008. After receiving some powerful advice from another inmate on how to survive prision, he learned how to positivley change the lives of others.

Damon is now a college professor, nationally known keynote speaker and best-selling author (with best-selling author and motivational speaker Jon Gordon) of The Coffee Bean: A simple Lesson to Create Positive Change. His first book and autobiography, The Change Agent: How a Former College QB Sentenced to Life in Prison Transformed His World, was published just three years after his release prison.