Tahlia Isaac

And then I started to talk to people and started realizing there was some real –

Like, wild stuff going on in the sector that I just didn't like, it didn't sit well with me, and the more I spoke to people, the more I realized I had to do something.

And then setting up a charity was kind of just an accident, really.

Like, it was, you know, my good friend Carla Raines, I was talking to her when I first met her, and she's like, well, you need to, I don't tell everyone this, like, not everyone should have a not-for-profit, but you need to have a not-for-profit.

This needs to be a legit thing.

Yeah.

And so, you know, the more support that was galvanized behind me from different organizations, the more I realized I've got, and the more I started to say stuff and people started to pay attention, the more I realized that I have something worthy to say.

And I have, this is kind of who I am now.

Yeah, it is.

Yeah.

And rather than living my life, like, and there's nothing wrong with this.

Like so many women want to get out of prison and never want to speak about that experience again.

And that's not part of their identity.

They fucking just want to be totally different.

And that's so valid and fine.

But for me, I didn't want to walk around with the shame that I had about being in prison.

And so I needed to find language about how I could talk about that and how I could make other people feel comfortable if they wanted to, to talk about it.

And that's the whole point of this.

Yeah.

And there's nothing that anyone can say about me that I've never said about myself.