Shaka Senghor

inner kid, because that's how you get to great outcomes is when you can be curious.

I also talk about a mentor who I had.

He worked in a prison.

I'm curious if you had this type of mentor, but he was a civilian employee.

And he asked me a question that literally changed the trajectory of my life.

He was outside of the prison.

He would come in and- Yeah, he came in and ran a recreation program.

What did he ask you?

He asked me, what else could I do with my mind?

And this was in relation to, he saw my organizational ability because I organized the man on the yard that I went to war with.

He saw my entrepreneurial skillset because I ran every hustle you could from the yard.

In the negative sense.

In the negative sense.

It was all illegal, but you know.

And then he saw my intellectual acumen because he would read things that I had written in a prison newspaper.

And that's when he just pulled me to the side and he was like,

Like you run a yard, like you're, you know, I wasn't a model.

Just to be clear, I wasn't like a model prisoner.

Like I was drug trafficking, ordering hits.

I was in full on wars on the yard.