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My name is Mike Lawson,

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and I am the on-site director
for the fourteen forty Promise

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Program.

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There are fourteen forty
minutes in each day.

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It's up to you what
you do with them.

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Let me take a minute to tell
you what being part of the

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fourteen forty Promise
Program has done for me.

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It has taught me to set standards
and not to lower them for any reason.

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It has taught me a lot about
self discipline and being

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honest with the
man in the mirror.

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My fourteen forty brothers
literally saved my life.

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Fourteen forty has been
pivotal in my life.

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It helped me build my
self esteem back up,

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and it also helped me build my
confidence and it helped me not

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to be a procrastinator.

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I came to the conclusion that

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if I don't change who I am
as a person and do something with my

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life, I'm not gonna
get out of this place.

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Stay true to what you say
you're going to do long after

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the mood you set
it in has lifted.

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Seeing myself as
a business person,

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I feel like it just made me
have this hunger for life that

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I want to get home and, you know,
just really, you know, do my thing.

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Invest.

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Invest in yourself and invest
in the program, you know,

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because it's like anybody.

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If you don't put, like,
your all into something,

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you're not really gonna
gain anything from it.

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First time I've seen my
daughter in a long time,

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I had to apologize to my
daughter for not being that

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can put because of the drugs,
the alcohol, all of that.

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If I can leave things in these
men before they go home and let

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them know that I'm gonna
be there consistently,

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maybe the one thing
that changes their life.

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So with the fourteen
forty promise,

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I want you to know that it's
a ten month long program.

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First three months
are character,

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followed up by business, shark
tank, and then a graduation.

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So if you sign up
for this program,

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you will be moved to
JustDone Correctional Center.

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That's where we're based at now.

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Hopefully, we'll get a
few people from your facility.

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I'll come down, I'll
do personal interviews,

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and then once you say you're
ready and you meet our

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criteria, then you'll be coming
to Just Done for the class.

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Being in prison
for twenty years,

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no one helped you when
you got out of prison.

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I've learned to love
people a lot more.

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Now I'll be following
up with you.

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Again, not everybody's
gonna make this.

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So I challenge you as a person if
you're ready for fourteen forty promise.

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Let's go.