Keilen Crenshaw learned early that the world responded to force. Taken from his mother at 10, cycling through foster care, carrying unchecked anger that eventually led to a four-and-a-half-year federal sentence — survival was the only thing he knew.

What he didn't know was where that anger came from. Or what it had cost him.

In this episode, Keilen traces the full arc: from a school hallway in DC to the Middle Fork of the American River, where getting thrown from a raft and coming up gasping taught him something prison never could — respect. Now a recovery support counselor at Jubilee Housing in Washington D.C., he brings that hard-won wisdom directly to the men who need it most.

This is a conversation about the difference between surviving and living.

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