Courses OverVIew
We create self-directed courses to help people learn, regardless of where authorities confine them, or what access they have to classrooms. We encourage participants to memorialize their progress with personal profiles that we'll publish for them, helping them build a record to show how they're pursuing excellence and preparing for success upon release.
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Daily Journal, Volume 2
Transformation begins with disciplined daily action. In Daily Journal, Volume 2, I continue sharing the structured strategies that empowered me through 26 years in federal prison. Covering 28 insightful lessons from February 2025, this book blends personal experience with practical exercises, guided reflections, and self-directed prompts designed to help readers facing adversity take meaningful steps toward growth and success. Learn to harness the power of consistency, self-accountability, and clear goal-setting as you build your own path toward freedom and fulfillment.
Daily Journal, Volume 1
Every day presents an opportunity to sow seeds for success. In Daily Journal, Volume 1, I share 31 actionable lessons inspired by my personal journey through 26 years in federal prison. Each entry combines real-life experience with practical guidance, structured reflections, and self-directed questions to empower readers who face adversity. This journal demonstrates how daily accountability, disciplined decision-making, and intentional goal-setting lead to lasting transformation. Start each day with purpose, and build your pathway to freedom, meaning, and success.
Digital Economy
This introductory, self-directed course helps people in prison become more literate about the rapidly evolving digital economy. Drawing from my personal journey of learning about Bitcoin, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and alternative cryptocurrencies, this workbook simplifies complex topics, making them accessible even to those unfamiliar with the digital landscape. Participants will gain insights into decentralized finance and understand how cryptocurrency is reshaping economies worldwide. Additionally, I share practical strategies and personal experiences from building a Bitcoin portfolio that now exceeds $2 million in value.
Preparing for Success after Prison
This self-directed workbook introduces readers to the transformative principles of the Straight-A Guide. Participants learn how to define success clearly and create values-based, goal-oriented strategies. Rather than allowing external circumstances to dictate their lives, readers discover how intentional decision-making can empower them to grow stronger through adversity. By mastering these strategies, they'll prepare to add greater value to the world and accelerate their pathway to success upon release.
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Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Sentence
This memoir chronicles my journey, starting from the day of my arrest on August 11, 1987. Readers experience the judicial process—the trial, conviction, and the daunting reality of a 45-year prison sentence. Follow along as I navigate the challenges of confinement, moving from high-security penitentiaries to minimum-security camps. Discover the strategies I used to create an effective adjustment plan, earning academic credentials, cultivating a powerful support network, and building a substantial body of work. These efforts ultimately paved the path for a successful career upon release. Learn how you can also adopt the mindset to live as the CEO of your life.
Prison: My 8,344th Day
Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, this self-directed workbook highlights how each day's decisions shape our future. Drawing from my 8,344th day in prison, I emphasize the profound impact our daily choices have on life's outcomes. Through intentional exercises and reflective prompts, readers learn about the opportunity costs tied to every decision—learning how to plant seeds that grow into lasting success. Use this book as your guide to mindful living, making each day a stepping stone toward personal growth and fulfillment.
Success after Prison
This self-directed workbook shows how preparation opens the door to extraordinary results after incarceration. During my own journey, I developed a three-pronged approach: pursuing academic credentials, contributing meaningfully to society, and cultivating a strong support network. Inspired by lessons from remarkable leaders, this strategy led to millions in earnings and a successful transition into purposeful work—empowering others to achieve their fullest potential. Use these proven principles to create your pathway to lasting success, transforming adversity into opportunity.
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Earning Freedom
In this video, I share my intentions and inspiration behind writing Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term. Drawing from the decades I served in prison, I describe the strategies and mindset that empowered me to transform adversity into opportunity. My goal with this book—and everything I create—is to help others facing challenges see that deliberate choices and disciplined actions can open doors to a better future.
Prison: My 8,344th Day
In this video, I discuss my intentions behind writing Prison: My 8,344th Day. While my previous book, Earning Freedom, explored how leaders taught me to build and sustain a strong mindset over decades, this book focuses on the power of a single day. I describe how deliberate decisions and meaningful actions taken intentionally each day created momentum, helping me advance toward my goals, even from within prison. My aim is to inspire readers to seize each moment as an opportunity to build the life they want.
Success after Prison
In this video, I discuss my purpose for writing Success after Prison, a self-directed workbook designed to highlight the direct connection between decisions we make during times of struggle and our opportunities for success. Every choice we make carries an opportunity cost, influencing our future outcomes. I feel fortunate and grateful to have learned from leaders like Socrates and Frederick Douglass, who taught me how to think differently during my own difficult times. Their lessons empowered me to make strategic decisions, enabling me to control several million dollars in assets just a few years after returning to society. Today, my mission is to share these strategies, showing others how they can transform their lives, overcome adversity, and achieve lasting success.
Preparing for Success
In this video, I describe my intentions behind writing Preparing for Success after Prison, a self-directed course built around the Straight-A Guide. This course outlines a clear, step-by-step approach that anyone can follow to overcome adversity and achieve meaningful goals. Through actionable lessons on defining success, setting attainable goals, cultivating the right attitude, and taking consistent action, I share strategies that empowered me—and can empower others—to build a life of purpose, resilience, and lasting success.
Digital Economy
In this video, I share my purpose for creating Digital Economy, a self-directed course designed to teach students what I've learned about blockchain, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence. By providing foundational knowledge of emerging technologies, I aim to equip others with practical strategies to identify opportunities and build income streams within the rapidly evolving digital economy. My hope is that participants will leverage this information to create new possibilities for financial independence and personal success.
Earning Freedom
In this podcast, I share my intentions and inspiration behind writing Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term. Drawing from the decades I served in prison, I describe the strategies and mindset that empowered me to transform adversity into opportunity. My goal with this book—and everything I create—is to help others facing challenges see that deliberate choices and disciplined actions can open doors to a better future.
Prison: 8,344th Day
I discuss my intentions behind writing Prison: My 8,344th Day. While my previous book, Earning Freedom, explored how leaders taught me to build and sustain a strong mindset over decades, this book focuses on the power of a single day. I describe how deliberate decisions and meaningful actions taken intentionally each day created momentum, helping me advance toward my goals, even from within prison. My aim is to inspire readers to seize each moment as an opportunity to build the life they want.
Success after Prison
I discuss my purpose for writing Success after Prison, a self-directed workbook designed to highlight the direct connection between decisions we make during times of struggle and our opportunities for success. Every choice we make carries an opportunity cost, influencing our future outcomes. I feel fortunate and grateful to have learned from leaders like Socrates and Frederick Douglass, who taught me how to think differently during my own difficult times. Their lessons empowered me to make strategic decisions, enabling me to control several million dollars in assets just a few years after returning to society. Today, my mission is to share these strategies, showing others how they can transform their lives, overcome adversity, and achieve lasting success.
Principles we teach
The origins of our self-directed courses began with readings of Socrates, Frederick Douglass, Nelson Mandela, and modern leaders who teach us how to live as if we're the CEO of our life. To overcome any crisis, or build solutions, follow the principles of our Straight-AÂ Guide.
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Who we serve
We offer resources that people who are going through a crisis or challenge can use to recalibrate. It's never too early or too late to begin building pathways to a better outcome. Each individual can build a body of work that opens opportunities for the next phase, empowering them to live meaningful, contributing lives.
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Incarcerated Learners
Get access to our lessons, books, or self-directed courses. Regardless of what staff do, you grow.
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Improve the culture of your facility, inspiring people to learn. Be the change you want to see.
Lawyers & Law Firms
Offering resources to help people develop assets for self-advocacy, building mitigation stories.
Family, Friends, & Community
Download daily lessons to inspire people in custody. Help them build self-confidence and prepare.
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Prisons we've visited to make in-person presentations. We don't only teach and inspire, we lead train-the-trainer seminars to promote peer-to-peer learning and improve the culture of confinement.
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People in custody taking initiative to build profiles on the Prison Professors Talent platform. They're memorializing steps to prepare for success as law-abiding, contributing citizens.
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Jails and prisons that offer our lessons, courses, and books to teach and inspire people. In our self-directed courses, people learn how to accelerate pathways to success upon release.
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People in custody with daily access to Prison Professors lessons, courses, and books through our collaboration with the Edovo Foundation and direct partnership with government agencies.
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