How Do I Get My Life Back

I want to warn you that the content of this episode, because of the detailed description of her kidnapping and both physical and mental abuse, may cause individuals with similar trauma to be triggered.

In this episode you will hear Nature's journey through the foster care system and being placed on a bus at age 16 to travel alone to Florida to reunite with her biological father.

This will be the first of a series of podcasts with Nature Medicine Song talking about her life in the foster care system, her involvement in illegal activities that led to prison and her subsequent release and how she is impacting other formerly incarcerated individuals today. This episode is an brief overview of the episodes to come.

This is Brandy Thompson's second episode on How Do I Get My Life Back. In this episode you will hear about the hurdles she faced in the first 20 days of her reentry and no matter how hard she tried, life just threw up one roadblock after another. You will also hear how her determination to change her life helped her push through.

Like many of my guests, Don Ross is formerly incarcerated. He has worked hard to place himself in a good job as a remote computer coder. He is also in the process of writing his first book dealing with the challenges of learning to do your own legal work in child custody cases.

Tim Walker is a former corrections officer with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Tim served 12 years with NDCS. Prior to that and since, he is a chef. Tim has his own catering business now.

Teresa Kai is formerly incarcerated, is a former dispatcher and jailer from the county from where she was incarcerated. She also has a criminal justice degree with a corrections minor. Now she advocates for those who are incarcerated and assists individuals with their reentry into society from incarceration.

This episode looks at a number of things, the first is my guest hitting a major milestone of being out of incarceration for over 5 years. Second, RISE's annual giving day. Third, Nebraska's attempt to charge 12 year old children as adults.

Irv Surber has spent over 20 years incarcerated and is now on life time parole. This is a look into his story and what he is doing now to contribute to society and assist others successfully returning to society.

This podcast originally aired its first episode on April 3, 2023 with Carla Walker as my first guest. Carla has been out of incarceration for just over 4 years and agreed to come back on for the two year anniversary episode. Recidivism rates are based on three years from the time of release, Carla has beat the odds and continues to do well.

On this podcast we explore what is like to return to society from prison. Statistics show that within 3 years most people will go back to prison unless they beat the odds. This podcast gives you a look at what it takes to beat those odds and get your life back.

Carla Walker and Fred Collins are guests on another episode as we talk about taking responsibility for our actions, remorse and what that might look like and victims. We talk about is there such a thing as a victimless crime.

Today we will have Fred Collins and Carla Walker as guests as we look at both situational ethics in felony convictions and integrity.

This episode is a recap of the last 50 episodes with a little look at the current events of the last few weeks. Let's call it Felony Apprentice.

Kevin Simnick has a college degree, has been in the military and has had a successful career all prior to his incarceration. Now, like so many others, Kevin works to put his life back together and overcome the obstacles that exist due to his felony record.

Here you have the rest of the story of Joe Tripodi and his journey to put his life back together after incarceration. Joe stands on the fact that two things got him through, God and his wife. His is a journey of faith and a wonderful relationship with a very strong and faithful spouse.

Joe Tripodi is a number if things. He is a Son, a Husband, a father, a grandfather, an ordained minister, a former correctional officer and he is formerly incarcerated. Most importantly, Joe is a success. He has taken what life and bad decisions have handed him and through his faith and the love of his wife has rebuilt his life.