The Mindset Makes the Man + Choosing Your Path Past Prison 

In this episode, you'll hear:

• The path that led Drakkar to prison

Drakkar Wright grew up with six sisters, a single mother, and the pressure to be the man of the house as the only boy. Drakkar’s father tried his best to be present but wasn’t always around like Drakkar needed him to be. Drakkar used to blame his shortcomings on his upbringing. He wished he had the kind of dad who played football with him or taught him how to fish, but his father was an addict, in and out of prison. Eventually, those generational patterns caught up with Drakkar, and he found himself in a detox center. Drakkar recognizes that his father was dealing with his own traumas and expresses a kindred understanding of those struggles to this day.

Drakkar began wrestling at age 6 and tells us it was a great outlet for him, but around age 12 he began losing interest in the sport. This is about the same time he started failing school and spending most of his time with a group of friends that were selling drugs, carrying guns, and robbing people. Eventually, his best friend was sent to a juvenile detention center, and Drakkar was skipping class and spending most of his time on in-school suspension when he did show up.

A few years later, Drakkar got into a high-speed police chase in a stolen vehicle. He was sentenced to 2 years in the job corps, and from age 16 to 18, he worked on getting his high school diploma and learning a trade in carpentry in Lexington, Kentucky. Before he could find a union carpentry job, he found out one of his sisters was pregnant, so he left Lexington and went home. As soon as he returned, he found his old friends doing the same things they were doing when he left. Drakkar fell back into the old pattern, and not even 10 months after arriving home, the police were raiding his mother’s home looking for drugs and guns. Drakkar, his sister, his aunt, his mother, and his friend were all arrested. This arrest caused Drakkar and his family to lose their Section 8 account and required him to come up with $50,000 for bail. This is where his prison story begins.

Drakkar hopes his story reaches young people who are at a crossroads in life and helps them understand they have a decision to make. He tells us he chose the streets and sees now that was the wrong choice. He wants people who hear his story to know that their time, friendships, family, and all the things life has to offer hang in the balance of each good or bad decision made. Drakkar is on a mission to encourage young people to continue to try their best every day, no matter what they are going through at the moment.

"It's not what you go through. It's what you grow through."

In this episode, you'll hear:

• The path that led Drakkar to prison

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