This week Martin celebrates 2 years of freedom after serving 17.5 years in Prison for DUI.

Martin Lockett grows up in a tough neighborhood in Portland Oregon and by the time he's fifteen, his parents don't know what to do with him. He and his homies steal cars, drink, and smoke dope and even though Martin's bright, the only time he does well at school is when he gets kicked out and has to attend alternative classes. As soon as he's returned to his friends though, he's right back into trouble.

After Martin serves three years in prison for his part in a robbery, he finally seems to turn himself around. He gets a good job, moves up in the company, meets a nice girl, and he's proud to buy his first car. But his decision to get behind the wheel one drunken New Year's Eve, leaves two innocent people dead, several families destroyed... and puts the twenty-four-year-old Martin behind bars for nearly twenty years.

In what he realizes is a palpable irony, it is in prison that Martin finally finds meaning and direction in life. Devastated by the tragedy he has caused, he takes advantage of the educational opportunities offered to him. With his study of psychology, he begins to unravel the tangled threads of his life, gaining wisdom and insight that he puts to use in understanding his own youthful motivations and in counseling other young men, like him, who are headed straight for disaster. Penned within prison walls where the author still resides, Prison to Purpose Pipeline movingly chronicles a lost man's discovery of himself and his potential as an instrument for good.

While incarcerated, Martin earned a BS in sociology, MS in psychology, and got state certified as substance abuse counselor. Since his release, he has shared his powerful story at DUI victim impact panels, alcohol highway safety classes, conferences, and high schools across the country.  Currently, he works as a substance abuse counselor and speaks nationally to spread DUI prevention and awareness. 

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James Elliott is no stranger to poor mental health. After escaping an abusive childhood, he found himself homeless at the age of 16 and quickly falling into substance abuse. When he hit rock bottom, James discovered the transformative power of resilience, and it changed his life.

Landing on his feet to serve in the British Army, he developed his own brand of mental resilience, initiating and delivering the revolutionary Mental Resilience Training program (MRT) across the Armed Forces. 

James now brings together all his years of experience as an accredited psychotherapist, resilience coach, and ex-paratrooper in his new book Think Yourself Resilient, Harness your emotions, build your confidence, transform your life.

His groundbreaking and accessible model helps you develop your five pillars of mental resilience: confidence, emotional intelligence, physical health, goals, and relationships.

Think Yourself Resilient will help you tackle life’s daily challenges, overcome self-doubt, and turn surviving into thriving. IT’s Perfect for fans of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before, Atomic Habits, and Mindset.  

And we have the honor and privilege to sit down with James Elliott today for an inside peak into it all.

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Dallas grew up being shamed and embarrassed of who he was on the inside. He lived, according, to social norms, a normal life until, at the age of 36, he came out as gay and immediately left his wife.  

As a gay man the shame of his upbringing compounded and that’s when Dallas found crystal meth, a drug that numbed the shame and made him feel temporarily desirable. 

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Joel was born and raised in Milwaukee Wi, he’s 32 years old and started using oxycodone when he was 18. After 1 year he  switched to IV heroin and that became his drug of choice for 10 years. He also did crack and meth when he had extra money. 

Joel was in and out of jail, rehabs, and couldn’t stay sober if his life depended on it. He was charged with multiple felonies, had multiple overdoses and at this time there was no rock bottom that was too low…. nothing worked for him. 

Well… something must have because today Joel is just at 30 months sober, and works in the addiction and mental health field as a peer recovery coach helping others start their journey.

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Vanessa Gordon is the CEO and Publisher of East End Taste. She is also the Founder of the Hamptons Interactive Brunch event series.  Alcoholism has been part of Vanessa’s life since she was child. Her father owned a renowned nightclub in the Hamptons and she was surrounded by alcoholics and battled that cumbersome relationship. Vanessa had a very skewed reality and never truly understood the significant issues around her until 2018, when the drinking escalated to such an extreme she knew she had to take action. 

The most recent catalyst for Vanessa was in early June of 2022 when she finally reached out to a well-known addiction center in Manhattan regarding her qualifier.  Side Note: a Qualifier is the term used in Alanon to keep anonymity about the person in your life who is an addict. (ironically, at the time of this call, Vanessa was suffering a hangover while in London celebrating the Queen's jubilee!).

Her life has never been the same since that call. 

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