Shane Price

Back from Broken

Colorado Public Radio

Society & Culture

5 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

At an early age, Shane Price realized he could pour on the charm with women, and at 16 years old he started his career as a pimp. After a violent incident left him shaken, Shane made changes to his life. Today, he works in Black communities as a leading figure in advocating for prison reform. He’s also the director of Power of People Leadership Institute in Minnesota, which offers support to ex-offenders. This is the story of how his transformation came together.

Back From Broken is a show about how we are all broken sometimes, and how we need help from time to time. If you’re struggling, you can find a list of resources at BackFromBroken.org.

Host: Vic Vela
Lead producer: Jo Erickson
Editor: Erin Jones
Mixed by Matthew Simonson
Additional producers: Rebekah Romberg, Luis Antonio Perez
Music: Daniel Mescher, Brad Turner
Executive producers: Brad Turner, Rachel Estabrook

Thanks also to Kevin Dale, Hart van Denburg, Jodi Gersh, Clara Shelton, Matt Herz, Martin Skavish, Kim Nguyen.

BackFromBroken.org
On Twitter: @VicVela1

Transcript

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0:00.0	Just a quick note before we get started, this episode contains strong language and graphic descriptions.
0:07.7	In three, two, one.
0:11.8	I almost have to crawl into an old skin that doesn't fit this body that you're hearing from today.
0:19.2	So it's a transition, but I think that I'll be able to handle it.
0:25.0	It's hard to imagine that Shane Price, a 69-year-old, lovable grandfather-type figure,
0:30.7	could ever hurt or exploit anyone.
0:33.8	Folks in Minneapolis know him as pops, not just because of his white hair, but for his work with the group that he founded, the Power of People Leadership Institute.
0:42.3	From the days of crack wars, there has been some fallout from that that materialize in the population of young people that we see right now from these broken and destroyed families.
0:56.6	Over the last 25 years, he's helped thousands of people in prison.
1:01.8	Price believes people deserve a second chance, just like he got.
1:06.3	Shane's comfortable in his new skin, but that wasn't always the case.
1:10.8	Street life in the 1960s was too good for a teenager to pass up.
1:15.5	Just like you go on an adventure thinking, oh, I'm just going to try this out and I'm going
1:19.5	to go home here in a minute, but it just doesn't work out that way.
1:24.3	Life was exciting back then.
1:26.2	The music and the drugs made it a wild time, and Shane went all in.
1:32.2	But like all good things, there's a time when it stops being fun and reality kicks in. And you're
1:38.8	left with a choice. Keep doing what you're doing or change. This is a story of how one man's recovery gave him strength
1:47.5	to help thousands of ex-offenders stay sober. I'm Vic Vellin. I'm a journalist, a storyteller,
1:57.3	and a recovering drug addict. And this is back from broken, stories about the highest highs, the darkest moments, and what
2:05.1	it takes to make a comeback.
2:10.6	Shane Price grew up in 1950s and 60s segregated America, where many black men didn't have a lot of options for careers.
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