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Most people let the day decide how they show up. The difference is choosing it before anything else does. That’s where consistency and real leadership start. #BeACoffeeBean #Leadership

Leadership isn’t about being first to the top. It’s about making sure no one gets left behind.

Life gets clearer when your walk matches your talk. Move through each day with intention, speak with integrity, and let your actions prove your words. That’s how you change the water around you. #BeACoffeeBean

Your circle matters. Surround yourself with movers and encouragers. #BeACoffeeBean

Your defining moment starts now. #BeACoffeeBean

You don’t have to have it all together to start changing. Real transformation begins the moment you start owning your story. That’s when your “why” gets clear—and your purpose takes shape. #BeACoffeeBean

The Change Agent prison graduation was blessed to host world-renowned performance painter, David Garibaldi, as our guest speaker. It was a masterful performance in which David shared his story before painting a picture, upside down, to music, in less than six minutes. Thank you, David. You blew us away. No one will ever forget this experience.

So excited to announce my new book, Six Dimes and a Nickel, is available on Audible. This is me reading it, with all the emotion and energy each character represents. It’s going to be like listening to a serial podcast. Please go to Amazon and preorder your Audible version today! Click the link here a.co/d/ar5VmUf

Seven 'no's in an hour is hard to swallow. That's one every eight minutes… Rejection is inevitable, but it's how you bounce back that defines you. Don't let fear and doubt control your story. #BeACoffeeBean #resilience #motivation

Workout each day spiritually, mentally and physically. Put in the work. You cannot give what you do not have. #BeACoffeeBean #motivation

Every four months, The Change Agent Prison Curriculum has a graduation ceremony at the Wynne Unit, in Huntsville, Texas, where the graduates of the program are celebrated, and their families are invited to share in the special, positive occasion. The speaker for the graduating class on March 24th was my friend, Sarah Jane Ramos. SJ, which she goes by for short, and I met a few years ago, when my friend, Dak Prescott, began dating her (they are now engaged). I immediately liked her. A successful career-woman, and specialists in the Florida wine and spirits industry, SJ has always been a trailblazer and a leader. A few minutes around her and you realize she is passionate and driven about anything she does. Once she and Dak began their love story and started a family, she, like so many mothers, stepped away from her career to raise her kids (they have a daughter together and another daughter on the way, in May). However, she could never step away from her passion: serving others. A few months ago, SJ told me she wanted to use her platform to positively impact incarcerated men and women, as well as their families. She could empathize with the family members because Dak’s half-brother, Elliott, is currently incarcerated in TDCJ.Being new to Texas, she asked if I – a former TDCJ inmate on parole for life - could help her get involved with volunteering in prisons. I had just the idea in mind for her first visit to a Texas prison: the Change Agent graduation ceremony. As if we needed any more of a God-wink, her family member, Elliott Prescott, was one of the inmates in the graduating class. She looked at Dak, then back at me, and said, “We will be there!” That graduation ceremony will go down as one of the most memorable events in TDCJ history. And it’s not because the Dallas Cowboy’s franchise QB went into a prison (Dak was also a speaker two years ago). Rather, no one in TDCJ could ever remember an eight-months pregnant mother going into a maximum-security prison to speak with a bunch of incarcerated men. The visual was both powerful and compassionate. One of my favorite lines was when she said, “Every obstacle in your life is there to shape you for a higher calling.” The absolute perfect advice for any incarcerated individual. In the end, she told the graduates, “If you believe you’re going to be a successful person in society one day, start acting like you already are. Because you are! You all got this. I believe in you.” This month’s newsletter celebrates Sarah Jane “SJ” Ramos. One of the most driven and compassionate servant leaders I’ve ever met. Thank you, SJ, for your selflessness, your commitment to using your platform to serve others and for, generally, making the world a better place because you’re in it.  You are the Coffee Bean of the Month.

“I believe in you.” Thank you, @sarahjane , for using your platform to deliver such a powerful message and serve the graduates of the Change Agent Prison Curriculum. The fact you have chosen incarceration as your mission inspires and excites me. I know @tdcj is excited as well. I love the way @_4dak was so supportive and hanging on your every word. 🙌✊🏽❤️🏈🫘

Embrace the coffee bean mindset and let the adversities in life be what make you stronger not what keeps you from becoming a better version of yourself. #BeACoffeeBean #motivation #mindset

Gratitude is the key that unlocks the door to blessings. #BeACoffeeBean

Just as a coffee bean changes the pot of boiling water into coffee, you have the power to change your situation. #BeACoffeeBean #changeyourmindset

Don’t let your past define you. You have an opportunity each and every day to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those around you. #BeACoffeeBean #motivation #growthmindset

Let prayer guide you rather than trying to control everything on your own. Worrying and praying shouldn’t coexist when you have full faith in Him. #Prayer #Trust #LetGodLead #BeACoffeeBean