Join me and a very special guest, Josh Puckett, and the TARP (The Adolescent Redemption Project) as we talk about Josh's personal mission to help others and himself fight for a second chance. Since we are speaking from Prison, you will be able to hear the recording when our allotted time is up as well as the poorer audio quality.
Much like Josh, I believe that Transformation comes from the Small & Mighty Steps that reap the Mighty Rewards and even through the most dyer of circumstances we each hold the most valuable resource we have, Our Choice to focus on the things we can control and go All In on that. While in prison, Josh wrote a workbook called The Power of the Grind, to help others grow and transform in a way more beneficial to themselves and to other’s around them.
The Power of the Grind resonated with me deeply in a powerful way. The books multiple lessons aligned with all that I try to Teach & Reflect through the service in my life for others. It is a simple, effective pocket guide to build a better foundation on Value, Principles & Heart vs. fear, doubt & ego as so many of us has been taught.
Undeniably, it hurts my heart to think that people, actual human beings like Josh and so many others are sentenced to Life with no opportunity for redemption. In my opinion, the Personal Growth that Josh has Risen through should be Honored and Appreciated as he is setting a new standard for someone in his circumstance. Where so many choose to give up, he chooses Empower, Educate & Entertain a new way of thinking, feeling and behaving for those who are not being given a second chance.
Josh and I have had countless conversations and every time I walk away from them a better person for having met Josh and so often just left with one major question of why are we keeping him behind bars? Why can we not see that by doing so we are actually robbing so many others of what Josh has to offer others who are on the verge of giving up? How many others like Josh, have we locked away to be forgotten about, with no hope, with no future? Are we truly honoring the lives lost from these horrendous circumstances?
Josh rarely speaks about his own freedom, but more so fights for the freedom of others when it has come down to how can he become a service to others. Rarely has he asked for anything for himself, although I know his fight to become a free man is still a very real cause, one that I can only hope that somehow through these words can give his story some justice.
I am in awe of his strength, determination and dedication to helping others fight for something that I can only imagine can feel very hopeless at times and hope is something that I believe that we should all fight for because when hope is gone, so leaves our desire and our will to fight for the value of our lives. Without feeling hopeful, we feel helpless and when we feel helpless, we get caught up in disempowering thoughts, feelings & actions that only continue the victim mentality cycle which only breeds more fear and destruction. Isn’t this the exact thing that we are trying to prevent and avoid by locking up these people and throwing away the keys for life?
Where we can go one, we can go all!
To Support Josh and his Mission and start practicing a model of Service where No Lives Get Left Behind, please go to:
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adolescentredemptionproject.org
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