The Prison Break Podcast

Teri Woods has been undisputedly a game changer and paved the way for many authors. While working as a legal secretary for a law firm and juggling motherhood in Philadelphia, PA, Teri Woods completed her first novel, True to the Game. Teri Woods submitted her story over a period of six years to more than 20 different publishers, all of whom rejected her. When major publishing houses refused to embrace True to the Game she wasn't discouraged. In 1998 instead of giving up, Teri Woods printed, bound, self-published and began selling hand to hand her first book True to the Game. . . . Her grassroots tactic paid off; Teri Woods became a self-made millionaire in just three years selling her novel, True to the Game and right to the New York Times Best Sellers list!  She landed a major motion picture deal for the book as well. With the release of True to the Game, Teri Woods has reinvigorated the urban fiction market and created a growing trend in publishing when there was no INTERNET presence.  Hear how her titles have impacted lives and learn about whats to come! If you have ever thought of giving up, think again.

Coss Marte,  former inmate,  developed CONBODY, a prison style fitness bootcamp that hires formerly incarcerated individuals to teach fitness classes. It's the ultimate no-equipment, hardcore workout program using military-style bodyweight training techniques that he learned in prison. Coss was able to lose 70 pounds in six months with nothing but the walls and floor of his 9-by-6 prison cell. In this episode Coss reveals his 'spiritual awakening'' while locked in solitary confinement just weeks before he was scheduled to be released (after an altercation with a prison guard), and being faced with additional time to his sentence. He explains how his real message is about prison reform and changing the stigma between young professionals and formerly incarcerated individuals.

Porscha, Celebrity Stylist, shares her path to success which seemed overnight, but in actuality was years of isolation and in a mental prison of her own making. The Frontal Queen takes us on a journey telling her account of the breakdown that led to her breakthrough. Hear her story of a new chapter; getting from ‘behind the chair' to step out on faith and do what God has called her to do.

Christine Beatty~Author, Public Speaker, and cast member of ‘BET's' From The Bottom Up, shares her journey to Reclaim Restore & Recover her life after the affair with former Detroit Mayor and how not being a “Daddy's Girl” (which she craved) affected her as an adult. In this candid conversation she expresses how the need for second chances are real and require vulnerability and AUTHENTICITY.

Explore how traumatic events of your past (I Was) may block you from being who you were created to be (I Am). Allison shares her personal account of defining moments in childhood that shaped her behavior and how she viewed and operated in the world eventually leading to her success.

Lets talk about "when a parent goes to prison the child pays the price" from a mother and son's account: How childhood trauma impacts us as adults.