Charles Lomu

But it wasn't until this one other inmate said to Jack, I love what I'm learning and I love these things that you're sharing.

But, you know, my wife's not going to have me except me doing this stuff.

And I was just there relaxing, laying down, just daydreaming.

And Jack turns around and says to him, well, you can learn as much as you want of this stuff and take in as much knowledge as you want, but if you're not willing to do any of it, then it all means nothing.

And I sat there thinking to myself, wow.

All these years I've been acquiring knowledge and I haven't put it to use.

And so when I finished my sentence then, I ended up really committing to my spiritual journey and it became a life-changing experience for me.

Absolutely.

I learned that anything in life, if you have good ideas and you don't put it into action, then they just remain good ideas and means nothing to anybody.

And it helped me in all areas of my life, even with my wife when I'm dealing with my children.

I might have good intentions for my kids, but if it comes out in a way that's just interpreted to my child as anger and fear, those good ideas don't mean anything until they're interpreted and translated across in the same way.

So once you got out of periodic detention, what did you do?

I just focused on my family.

We ended up moving out of the area.

We were living with family.

And we decided for the first time in me and the mother of my kids' experience, it was the first time ever we decided we're going to up, move into an area we've never lived in before, and we're going to start our own journey.

And so we moved to Blacktown, trying to focus on, you know, just the simple things, family routine at home.

It was a huge game changer for us.

Yeah, well, I started cutting hair, I think, in 1992.

So I was about 12, 13 years old.