Growing up is never easy…trying to navigate from being a boy to a man is an epic feat. Closing the chapter of childhood and embarking on the next stage of life as an adult comes with many physical, mental, and emotional challenges.

In today’s episode, Erika and Elliot interview Al Williams, whose own unbelievable shift and pivot led him from a life of crime to a level of success most can only dream of. Listen as Al describes his Growing Pains - Shift and Pivot from a young boy in Savannah, GA—enduring abuse and hustling; to being a misguided teen incarcerated and searching for his true purpose in life.

AL WILLIAMS WORDS OF WISDOM:

• “I should have been dead, man. I had a dude shoot me at point-blank range with a .357, and I heard a bullet slide by my head. He missed all seven times. He missed me. You can’t tell me that ain’t the hand of God on somebody’s life saying, ‘Man, I got something for you. Not today’.”
• “Failure is not an option. Even when you lose, you [got] to look at the fact you won. Because you just learned something from the fact that, whatever it is you [was] trying to do, it didn’t work that time. So you should have learned something from it.”
• “That’s what I’m doing. Being the best human being that I can be in life. Period.”

TIME STAMPS:

0:00 Intro

1:42 Who Is Al Williams?

12:50 Hustling As a Means of Survival

16:16 The Turning Point and Al’s First Arrest

26:14 The Worst Parts About Prison

30:47 Better Than This

34:16 Prison and Finding God

37:23 Life After Prison

42:45 Moving Forward

49:30 Reflection On Good Advice

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