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Angel Garcia | Part 1: When Survival Is All You've Known
What happens when the identity that helped you survive no longer fits the life you want to build?
In this episode of Through the Sh#t, host Jen McDowell finds out the answer to that question whe she sits down with Angel Garcia, author, TEDxAlbuquerque speaker and formerly incarcerated individual.
Growing up surrounded by gangs and violence, Angel saw a narrow set of possibilities for his future. After years of incarceration, a move to Albuquerque opened up a different path. But getting a second chance also meant confronting a difficult question: Who was he without the identity he had spent…
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