Many people don't know what happens in solitary confinement or why an inmate would end up there. Here's my experience during my 3-month solitary confinement!

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On this episode of the In And Out Podcast, we sit down with Lucinda Cross - entrepreneur, motivational superstar, and bestselling author who tells it like it is. She is a certified business coach and TV Lifestyle Expert and is the CEO of two personal and professional development companies, Activate Worldwide LLC and Activate Your Life.

"From transporting dope to transporting hope." Lucinda's story is a cautionary tale of how brains and beauty - two potent qualities for success - can be twisted and used for all the wrong reasons. She began with aspirations of becoming a lawyer but was enticed to join an international enterprise that offered glitz and glam at the price of peace and freedom. Her travels got her caught up in the middle of a 3 year investigation that landed her in prison for trafficking.

Find out more in this part 1 interview with Lucinda Cross!

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A prison sentence should not automatically equal a death sentence. America's greatest sin is in how it treats its prison population, and I'm here to set the record straight!

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I know it's unbelievable that conditions like the ones in Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama can exist in this so-called great country of America, but all across the United States prisoners are treated as less than. "The Alabama Solution" should open the eyes of everyone, especially those who didn't know it's been happening under our noses this whole time!

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The reason why we don't have anything of real value is because we place value in things that don't truly matter. Where is the real wealth?

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There were a lot of times in my life where had I said "no," I could have put myself in a much better position and been further along, but that's why having the right tribe of people is also so important.

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Being so loyal to something that would take you out like THAT is just not smart, but so many young people fall victim to the streets every year!

#StreetLife #FairTrade #loyalty

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Tyrone Stephens lived a life most people wouldn’t survive — arrested at 9 years old, tried as an adult at 17, shot at work, and knee-deep in the con game from Detroit to New York. In this raw and powerful conversation, he opens up about growing up in violence, the streets that shaped him, and how crime evolved before and after the government flooded Black communities with drugs.

Growing up in Detroit as the middle child of six, Tyrone calls himself the “problem child,” but behind that title were deep emotional struggles and a household filled with weekend violence. By 15, he stopped going to school. By 17, he was in prison serving a 2.5–15 year sentence for robberies.

After nearly two years behind bars, Tyrone tried to rebuild — working in a factory — until he was shot over a bet that a man refused to pay.

What followed in the 60s and 70s was a wild, dangerous, and calculated hustle: the New York con game. Tyrone and his circle went from making $700–$1500 a week to running scams that pulled in over $10,000 per hit once they started targeting white-collar victims.

But everything shifted after the 1967 Detroit riots.

Tyrone shares how the government’s decision to flood Black neighborhoods with drugs destroyed communities, businesses, families, and an entire generation of Black wealth and potential.

This is a story about survival, systems, and street smarts — and the cost of it all.

00:00 Intro

00:53 Growing up

14:14 Robbing & hustling

25:00 From juvi to prison

30:00 Changed man

34:30 Con game & gambling

43:00 Government drops the drugs

48:25 After effects

57:25 How to get $1M

01:03:40 How the con game works

01:09:00 Can anybody do it?

01:15:20 Why he stopped?

01:27:15 Closing

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