Earning Freedom

Michael Santos helps audiences understand how to overcome the struggle of a lengthy prison term. Readers get to experience the mindset of a 23-year-old young man that goes into prison at the start of America's War on Drugs. They see how decisions that Santos made at different stages in the journey opened opportunities for a life of growth, fulfillment, and meaning. Santos tells the story in three sections: Veni, Vidi, Vici. In the first section of the book, we see the challenges of the arrest, the reflections while in jail, the criminal trial, and the imposition of a 45-year prison term. In the second section of the book, we learn how Santos opened opportunities to grow. By writing letters to universities, he found his way into a college program. After earning an undergraduate degree, he pursued a master's degree. After earning a master's degree, he began work toward a doctorate degree. When authorities blocked his pathway to complete his formal education, Santos shifted his energy to publishing and creating business opportunities from inside of prison boundaries. In the final section, we learn how Santos relied upon critical-thinking skills to position himself for a successful journey inside. He nurtured a relationship with Carole and married her inside of a prison visiting room. Then, he began building businesses that would allow him to return to society strong, with his dignity intact. Through Earning Freedom! readers learn how to overcome struggles and challenges. At any time, we can recalibrate, we can begin working toward a better life. Santos served 9,135 days in prison, and another 365 days in a halfway house before concluding 26 years as a federal prisoner. Through his various websites, he continues to document how the decisions he made in prison put him on a pathway to succeed upon release. Contact Michael Santos PrisonProfessors.com 32565 Golden Lantern Street Box B-1026 Dana Point, CA 92692

If you want to be a millionaire, then keep reading. If you've been struggling to amass wealth, then keep reading. Do you want to learn the secrets of becoming a millionaire? Do you feel stuck in a rut and ready to learn new habits? While we've all dreamt big such as driving big cars, and splashing money on luxuries we have always wanted, chances are you've considered this as a daydream despite moving on to purchase a scratch card every time you step out to buy milk. However, becoming a millionaire isn't difficult and unattainable as you may think. Many people prove every year that you don't need to be working in a bank or win a lottery to build up your wealth to seven figures. And for many rich-listeners, becoming a millionaire is more a matter of lifestyle and not having to be scared about your finances, than how much you have kept in the bank. To live like a millionaire, you don't need to have a million pounds saved in the bank. In fact, 99% of millionaires don't. To become a millionaire, you will, for sure, require to be on top of your finances and investments. Becoming a millionaire can mean all sorts of things, but in this book, we're typically mapping out a realistic path to growing your wealth past £1,000,000. This book quickly walks through the whole of your life, reviewing the steps you can take to become a millionaire. To go straight to the point, successful people have successful habits, and unsuccessful people do not. In this book, you will discover the million-dollar habits of men and women who started from rags to riches in one generation. You will discover how to think more effectively, make better decisions, and take more effective actions than other individuals. You will discover how to plan your financial life in such a way that you accomplish your financial goals quicker than you imagine. One of the most critical goals you must accomplish to become happy and successful is the development of your character. You want to become a great person in every area of your life. You want to become that person that others look up to and admire. In each case, the crucial factors in the accomplishment of each of these goals that we all share in the development of specific habits that result in what you want to accomplish. Remember, if you keep doing what you've always done, you will never break away from your job slavery. You will continue to live your life on autopilot. Millionaire habits teach you every strategy to develop millionaire habits for breaking free from your job and start earning today. Discover which habits you need to apply and how to get started? How will the success process change your entire life? Inside this book, you will learn: How to change your habits, and avoid procrastination? The millionaire strategies The secrets to success Discover your emotional why Now is the time to begin getting serious. Stop blaming others for your failure and take deliberate steps.

On August 11, 1987, when I was 23 years old, DEA agents arrested me. I served the next 9,135 days in federal prisons of every security level. On August 13, 2012, authorities released me. EARNING FREEDOM shows readers how I began to transform my life from inside of a county jail. It shows the steps I took to develop values, skills, and resources that would empower me through a quarter century in confinement. My disciplined and deliberate adjustment began with a principled plan, a commitment to serve my sentence with dignity. I thought about law-abiding citizens and wondered what I could do to earn their forgiveness for the bad decisions I had made during a reckless transition between adolescence and adulthood. Those thoughts led to a three-part plan: I would work to educate myself, I would work to contribute to society, and I would work to build a support network that would have a vested interest in my success upon release. By embarking upon the first prong of the strategy and sticking with it, I earned a bachelor of arts degree from Mercer University and a master's degree from Hofstra University. For the second prong of the strategy, I wrote numerous books to help others understand prisons: the people they hold, how they work, and strategies for growing through confinement. With regard to the third prong, I worked every day to build a support network that would help me succeed upon release as a law-abiding, contributing citizen. To build my support network, I created a document that I called "my portfolio." It was a binder that included copies of my degrees and letters of recommendation that I asked my professors to write on my behalf. Whenever I read of someone whom I thought might have an interest in my work, I reached out by sending a letter and a copy of my portfolio. For every 100 letters I wrote, I received one or two responses. Some of those people were distinguished scholars who wrote extensively about the prison system. People like Norval Morris, from The University of Chicago, John DiIulio, from Princeton, and Joan Petersilia, from Stanford Law School. They became mentors to me, opening numerous opportunities that few would think possible for a man serving a lengthy prison term. It worked so well that I met the love of my life, Carole, while serving a quarter century in prison. We married in a prison visiting room and nurtured our marriage through my final decade of imprisonment. Using blank pages of paper, I drafted a design for a website that I wanted Carole to build. The purpose of the site was to help others understand prisons, the people they hold, and strategies for growing through confinement. I wanted to document my journey, to show others the values-based, goal-oriented approach I took to the adversity of my life. I wanted others to see that with deliberate action steps, an individual could triumph over his environment. Efforts that Carole and I made to live transparently, using the Internet to memorialize our journey, helped to broaden my support network and opened opportunities that I could leverage upon my release. They enabled me to earn an inner freedom, even if I remained in prison. On August 13, 2012, Carole picked me up from prison and drove me to a halfway house in San Francisco. This book tells the story of my journey. The context of my story may be prison, but my message is decidedly human, as we all face adversity of one kind or another. Mine is a message of hope, perseverance, and deliberate action. It shows that regardless of what challenges an individual or business faces today, that individual can set a principled plan to overcome those challenges. That is the essential message of EARNING FREEDOM.

Education is Freedom explores the transformative power of education and its ability to liberate individuals and societies from the constraints of ignorance, inequality, and oppression. In this book, author James Keyes explores the ways education empowers people to take control of their lives, to pursue their dreams, and to contribute to the world in meaningful and fulfilling ways. He provides a roadmap to the “why,” “what,” and “how” of learning. The book outlines the importance of education for all mankind, the power of education to change our world, and the wisdom to unlock our personal freedom while preserving our democracy. Where does humanity go to school? Democracy across the world is at risk. With the polarization of today’s society, the foundational right to freedom of speech is now being challenged from all sides. The truth is under siege as misinformation and hostility have replaced critical thinking and civil discourse. Our freedom of self-determination has a prerequisite: an informed electorate. If that electorate is armed with false information or is influenced by outside forces, their actions and reactions can put democracy in jeopardy. Today, more than ever, we must nurture the education, knowledge and wisdom of individuals to discern right from wrong, truth from fiction, and success from failure. If learning is the key to success, then how can humanity advance its own cause? Our forefathers recognized that an educated populace was the very foundation of democracy. Education is a self-help guide for humanity that allows us to individually and collectively understand the roadmap to freedom. For the individual, education is the one common denominator that separates those who are free from the ones trapped in their own reality. “Someone can take your money, your material things, your job…but they can’t take away what you know. With knowledge you can replace anything lost, you can be free to explore the world, you are beholden to no one.” Whatever challenges or adversity you face in life, embracing a learning mentality will empower you and set you free. Humanity must indeed go back to school, because the future is in our hands!

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How to stop worrying about money — forever! You become financially free when you can stop working for money and when money starts working for you. That’s financial nirvana — and this book shows you how to achieve it. The book takes you on the liberating journey from financial slavery to financial freedom. It contains 10 commandments for wealth creation and wealth preservation which lead to financial freedom. Step-by-step the book helps you fully understand money and its fascinating, elusive behavior, including the best ways to earn, invest, protect, budget, save, spend and multiply your money. It uncovers the unique rules of money and highlights the common financial mistakes which may be stopping you from becoming rich. This book boldly challenges — and often upturns — conventional wisdom. It reveals things about money which you may never even have thought of before. Above all, it gives you the roadmap to be financially free — forever: * The best sources and methods of earning income *The best ways to invest * How asset allocation is the secret weapon for creating enduring wealth * How to pay yourself first via budget surplus * How to make money from "thin air" * Beware of liabilities disguised as assets * How investment assets help set you financially free * How to unleash the power of good debt to multiply your wealth * How to protect your money from financial predators.

The Freedom Framework shows business owners how to have the freedom and flexibility they’re missing in their business. Many business owners start a business in order to gain freedom, financial security, and flexibility. Unfortunately, many also end up feeling like they have to do everything themselves. As a result, they become “chained” to their business or their business feels like a job instead of a way to have more freedom. Where Simon Sinek’s book Start With Why and Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness leave off, The Freedom Framework picks up. A must-read for those who are ready to take their business to the next level by unlocking human potential, it provides practical, real-world strategies for updating or creating the business of their dreams!

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