Episode 3: Ex-Con

Sincerely, X

TED

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A remorseful insider brings us a hard-earned truth: prison is effective. While his years behind bars helped him see where his life went off the rails, it also helped him create a system for how former inmates can get back on track. Season 2 of Sincerely, X is available exclusively on the Luminary podcast app. Sign up for your free trial and start listening at luminary.link/ted.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	Hey listener, a quick favor.
0:09.0	We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond.
0:14.4	Please visit survey.PRX.org slash Ted to take the survey today.
0:19.8	That's survey dot PRX.org. Thanks.
0:24.0	Our most intimate experience can be our greatest inspiration.
0:31.0	The place where ideas are born.
0:36.5	But what if those ideas stay in hiding?
0:39.8	What if they never have the chance to be shared?
0:46.3	This show creates a safe space for giving talks anonymously. We value ideas over identity, substance, over style.
0:53.0	You cannot talk publicly about it.
0:55.0	We've impacted my whole life.
0:56.0	I just don't have the Constitution to get up on the stage.
0:58.0	It's just isn't something you talk about.
1:02.0	Just not why are there?
1:03.0	Not if you want people to take you serious the secrets we can't tell.
1:07.0	From Ted and Audible, this is Sincerely X. X.
1:13.0	It was the first day of my sentence.
1:20.0	It was the first day of my sentence.
1:22.0	I would spend the next two weeks in solitary.
1:25.0	I laid there like a mummy.
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