Modern Day Profits: Rising from Soul

After connecting with The Adolescent Redemption Project , I realize that these stories need to be heard.  I had the pleasure of hearing from Chester Shepard, who has now been incarcerated 47 years sentenced to life without parole. He practices every day to live a life of God and Grace even when the world says he doesn’t deserve a second chance. At what point can we decide that someone has earned a second chance for redemption?  When the prisoner no longer holds a threat to society and when even the laws that held him there for life have been overturned in 1980, how can we continue to turn our back on this human being?  

I often wonder if we will ever to be able to build systems based on forgiveness and compassion.  How many more lives could we truly save when our world isn’t run by the pursuit of power, politics and greed and more on the spiritual potential that lives within all of us?   Even as I spoke to Shepard, I thought to myself how does a man like still continue to be an inspiration and a mentor to so many others? How does he continue to help others when we’ve told him he isn’t worthy of a second chance?  If this is something that a man with no freedom, locked in a place where hope is a dangerous idea to hold, can find then isn’t it worth us listening to these stories and taking action so more lives don’t get silently sacrificed.  I do not condone the actions that got these men sentenced, but I do believe that they’ve earned the right to redeem themselves in society.  At what point in sentencing can we decide there is a better way forward for rehabilitation for the ones that when given the proper tools and education want to become something better? Don’t we at least need to give these adolescents a 1st chance before taking away their 2nd? 

Unfortunately, there are so many cases like Josh’s & Shepard’s where once sentences they are left forgotten to do nothing, become nothing and to die silently forgotten from society.  I encourage you to ask yourself is this really the best we can do as humans?  Wouldn’t a shot of redemption, rehabilitation and re-education be a better way to go that encourages, inspires and educates others from making the same mistakes?   

Although Chester Shepard and Josh Puckett don’t put the blame on anyone or anything other than their own choices, when do we as a society take responsibility for the fact that our systems, poor education and lack of community and togetherness have created the very things that we are condemning as guilty.  Only together can we truly become the change we want to see.  

If you would like to join the fight for 2nd chances, please visit The Adolescent Redemption Project to see how you can take part in saving lives, but also aiding in the education so adolescents faced with the same choices don’t make the same mistakes.  

What the say about Chester Shepard now: 

“Mr. Shepard is professional, kind and remarkably happy every day. He brings a joy and light to all individuals he is around. He often takes younger inmates under his wing, and does his best to encourage them to live up to their potential. He is a kind and gentle 67-year-old "old timer" who is loved by all who know him.” - MDOC Officers, fellow inmates and his work supervisors

To Support Shepard, Josh and their Mission to stop condemning adolescents to the silent death sentence , please go to: adolescentredemptionproject.org

To Join Our One Tribe Rising Team, please reach out to:
One Life. One Love. One Tribe.
Your Choice
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected]

After connecting with The Adolescent Redemption Project , I realize that these stories need to be heard.  I had the pleasure of hearing from Chester Shepard, who has now been incarcerated 47 years sentenced to life without parole. He practices every day to live a life of God and Grace even when the world says he doesn’t deserve a second chance. At what point can we decide that someone has earned a second chance for redemption?  When the prisoner no longer holds a threat to society and when even the laws that held him there for life have been overturned in 1980, how can we continue to turn our back on this human being?  

I often wonder if we will ever to be able to build systems based on forgiveness and compassion.  How many more lives could we truly save when our world isn’t run by the pursuit of power, politics and greed and more on the spiritual potential that lives within all of us?   Even as I spoke to Shepard, I thought to myself how does a man like still continue to be an inspiration and a mentor to so many others? How does he continue to help others when we’ve told him he isn’t worthy of a second chance?  If this is something that a man with no freedom, locked in a place where hope is a dangerous idea to hold, can find then isn’t it worth us listening to these stories and taking action so more lives don’t get silently sacrificed.  I do not condone the actions that got these men sentenced, but I do believe that they’ve earned the right to redeem themselves in society.  At what point in sentencing can we decide there is a better way forward for rehabilitation for the ones that when given the proper tools and education want to become something better? Don’t we at least need to give these adolescents a 1st chance before taking away their 2nd? 

Unfortunately, there are so many cases like Josh’s & Shepard’s where once sentences they are left forgotten to do nothing, become nothing and to die silently forgotten from society.  I encourage you to ask yourself is this really the best we can do as humans?  Wouldn’t a shot of redemption, rehabilitation and re-education be a better way to go that encourages, inspires and educates others from making the same mistakes?   

Although Chester Shepard and Josh Puckett don’t put the blame on anyone or anything other than their own choices, when do we as a society take responsibility for the fact that our systems, poor education and lack of community and togetherness have created the very things that we are condemning as guilty.  Only together can we truly become the change we want to see.  

If you would like to join the fight for 2nd chances, please visit The Adolescent Redemption Project to see how you can take part in saving lives, but also aiding in the education so adolescents faced with the same choices don’t make the same mistakes.  

What the say about Chester Shepard now: 

“Mr. Shepard is professional, kind and remarkably happy every day. He brings a joy and light to all individuals he is around. He often takes younger inmates under his wing, and does his best to encourage them to live up to their potential. He is a kind and gentle 67-year-old "old timer" who is loved by all who know him.” - MDOC Officers, fellow inmates and his work supervisors

To Support Shepard, Josh and their Mission to stop condemning adolescents to the silent death sentence , please go to: adolescentredemptionproject.org

To Join Our One Tribe Rising Team, please reach out to:
One Life. One Love. One Tribe.
Your Choice
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected]

Join me and a very special guest, Josh Puckett,  and the TARP (The Adolescent Redemption Project) as we talk about Josh's personal mission to help others and himself fight for a second chance.  Since we are speaking from Prison, you will be able to hear the recording when our allotted time is up as well as the poorer audio quality.

Much like Josh, I believe that Transformation comes from the Small & Mighty Steps that reap the Mighty Rewards and even through the most dyer of circumstances we each hold the most valuable resource we have, Our Choice to focus on the things we can control and go All In on that.  While in prison, Josh wrote a workbook called The Power of the Grind, to help others grow and transform in a way more beneficial to themselves and to other’s around them.  

The Power of the Grind resonated with me deeply in a powerful way.  The books multiple lessons aligned with all that I try to Teach & Reflect through the service in my life for others.  It is a simple, effective pocket guide to build a better foundation on Value, Principles & Heart vs. fear, doubt & ego as so many of us has been taught.  

Undeniably, it hurts my heart to think that people, actual human beings like Josh and so many others are sentenced to Life with no opportunity for redemption.  In my opinion, the Personal Growth that Josh has Risen through should be Honored and Appreciated as he is setting a new standard for someone in his circumstance.  Where so many choose to give up, he chooses Empower, Educate & Entertain a new way of thinking, feeling and behaving for those who are not being given a second chance.   

Josh and I have had countless conversations and every time I walk away from them a better person for having met Josh and so often just left with one major question of why are we keeping him behind bars?  Why can we not see that by doing so we are actually robbing so many others of what Josh has to offer others who are on the verge of giving up?  How many others like Josh, have we locked away to be forgotten about, with no hope, with no future? Are we truly honoring the lives lost from these horrendous circumstances? 

Josh rarely speaks about his own freedom, but more so fights for the freedom of others when it has come down to how can he become a service to others.  Rarely has he asked for anything for himself, although I know his fight to become a free man is still a very real cause, one that I can only hope that somehow through these words can give his story some justice. 

I am in awe of his strength, determination and dedication to helping others fight for something that I can only imagine can feel very hopeless at times and hope is something that I believe that we should all fight for because when hope is gone, so leaves our desire and our will to fight for the value of our lives. Without feeling hopeful, we feel helpless and when we feel helpless, we get caught up in disempowering thoughts, feelings & actions that only continue the victim mentality cycle which only breeds more fear and destruction.  Isn’t this the exact thing that we are trying to prevent and avoid by locking up these people and throwing away the keys for life?  

Where we can go one, we can go all! 

To Support Josh and his Mission and start practicing a model of Service where No Lives Get Left Behind, please go to:

 www.freejoshpuckett.com
adolescentredemptionproject.org

To Join Our One Tribe Rising Team, please reach out to:
One Life. One Love. One Tribe.
Your Choice
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected]

Join me and a very special guest, Josh Puckett,  and the TARP (The Adolescent Redemption Project) as we talk about Josh's personal mission to help others and himself fight for a second chance.  Since we are speaking from Prison, you will be able to hear the recording when our allotted time is up as well as the poorer audio quality.

Much like Josh, I believe that Transformation comes from the Small & Mighty Steps that reap the Mighty Rewards and even through the most dyer of circumstances we each hold the most valuable resource we have, Our Choice to focus on the things we can control and go All In on that.  While in prison, Josh wrote a workbook called The Power of the Grind, to help others grow and transform in a way more beneficial to themselves and to other’s around them.  

The Power of the Grind resonated with me deeply in a powerful way.  The books multiple lessons aligned with all that I try to Teach & Reflect through the service in my life for others.  It is a simple, effective pocket guide to build a better foundation on Value, Principles & Heart vs. fear, doubt & ego as so many of us has been taught.  

Undeniably, it hurts my heart to think that people, actual human beings like Josh and so many others are sentenced to Life with no opportunity for redemption.  In my opinion, the Personal Growth that Josh has Risen through should be Honored and Appreciated as he is setting a new standard for someone in his circumstance.  Where so many choose to give up, he chooses Empower, Educate & Entertain a new way of thinking, feeling and behaving for those who are not being given a second chance.   

Josh and I have had countless conversations and every time I walk away from them a better person for having met Josh and so often just left with one major question of why are we keeping him behind bars?  Why can we not see that by doing so we are actually robbing so many others of what Josh has to offer others who are on the verge of giving up?  How many others like Josh, have we locked away to be forgotten about, with no hope, with no future? Are we truly honoring the lives lost from these horrendous circumstances? 

Josh rarely speaks about his own freedom, but more so fights for the freedom of others when it has come down to how can he become a service to others.  Rarely has he asked for anything for himself, although I know his fight to become a free man is still a very real cause, one that I can only hope that somehow through these words can give his story some justice. 

I am in awe of his strength, determination and dedication to helping others fight for something that I can only imagine can feel very hopeless at times and hope is something that I believe that we should all fight for because when hope is gone, so leaves our desire and our will to fight for the value of our lives. Without feeling hopeful, we feel helpless and when we feel helpless, we get caught up in disempowering thoughts, feelings & actions that only continue the victim mentality cycle which only breeds more fear and destruction.  Isn’t this the exact thing that we are trying to prevent and avoid by locking up these people and throwing away the keys for life?  

Where we can go one, we can go all! 

To Support Josh and his Mission and start practicing a model of Service where No Lives Get Left Behind, please go to:

 www.freejoshpuckett.com
adolescentredemptionproject.org

To Join Our One Tribe Rising Team, please reach out to:
One Life. One Love. One Tribe.
Your Choice
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected]

Please Join me for this very special episode with our very first couple, Tanner & Kate Wendell! Join as as we dive into the deeper conversation about their journey as they came together in a long distance relationship, started a business and created a family built on a Vision! 
 
I am beyond honored that these two are my very first couple and really feel like the perspective that they bring to the table is a valuable mention!  The world right now is really struggling when it comes to building trust and having faith in each other and it warms my heart to see two people create such a beautiful way to help educate other families who may be feeling the same way!  I appreciate them 

Kate and Tanner Wendell are parents, entrepreneurs and lovers of life.  They live outside of Denver, Colorado where they raise their three kids, run their businesses from home and enjoy being outside in their community.  They met in 2015 at a personal development seminar and were the most unlikely match to be made.  Through their friendship they found that they had more things in common than they thought and turned a long distance relationship into a lifelong commitment.

Through trials and tribulations individually and together they have overcome many obstacles in life and continue to pursue living out their dreams.  They are passionate about living free and helping others experience the power of personal freedom through faith, family, fitness and finances.

More than ever, right now the world needs leaders coming together through their own personal development.  Only when we understand and focus solely on the true things that we can control, we will become the change we want to see.  

To Join their 513 Challenge:  Click Here!! 

To Show Tanner & Kate Our Love & Support:

Kate & Tanner Wendell
Your Holistic Health Partners
w: | www.kateandtanner.com  e: [email protected]

For More information or Become a Part of Our One Tribe Rising Mission:

One Tribe Rising
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected] 

Please Join me for this very special episode with our very first couple, Tanner & Kate Wendell! Join as as we dive into the deeper conversation about their journey as they came together in a long distance relationship, started a business and created a family built on a Vision! 
 
I am beyond honored that these two are my very first couple and really feel like the perspective that they bring to the table is a valuable mention!  The world right now is really struggling when it comes to building trust and having faith in each other and it warms my heart to see two people create such a beautiful way to help educate other families who may be feeling the same way!  I appreciate them 

Kate and Tanner Wendell are parents, entrepreneurs and lovers of life.  They live outside of Denver, Colorado where they raise their three kids, run their businesses from home and enjoy being outside in their community.  They met in 2015 at a personal development seminar and were the most unlikely match to be made.  Through their friendship they found that they had more things in common than they thought and turned a long distance relationship into a lifelong commitment.

Through trials and tribulations individually and together they have overcome many obstacles in life and continue to pursue living out their dreams.  They are passionate about living free and helping others experience the power of personal freedom through faith, family, fitness and finances.

More than ever, right now the world needs leaders coming together through their own personal development.  Only when we understand and focus solely on the true things that we can control, we will become the change we want to see.  

To Join their 513 Challenge:  Click Here!! 

To Show Tanner & Kate Our Love & Support:

Kate & Tanner Wendell
Your Holistic Health Partners
w: | www.kateandtanner.com  e: [email protected]

For More information or Become a Part of Our One Tribe Rising Mission:

One Tribe Rising
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected] 

Please join me in welcoming a very special guest, Billy Lanford.  I first me Billy when he gave a speech talk called “Chasing Moments”. That talk has had a profound effect on my life and that way that I take an approach to the present moment.  You never really know the impact that you can have on someone’s life when you show up on purpose! 

Billy speaks about the importance of intention and just how simple & powerful our intention with the next step really is.  Not easy, but simple and how we change the world when we change ourselves! 

Billy Lanford is the Ambassador of Wellness and the Director of Operations at A.K. Rikk’s in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the owner of Eremos Performance, LLC which is dedicated to people and organizations in identifying and scaling their best practices. 

Billy is married to Anya. He is also a former college athlete,
graduate of WMU and is a Certified Nutrition Coach as well as Certified
Personal Trainer (CPT) certified through National Academy Sports Medicine NASM.

To Show Billy Lanford Our Love & Support:
 
Billy Lanford
Ambassador of Wellness and 
the Director of Operations at A.K. Rikk’s in Grand Rapids, MI. 
FB: Billy Lanford
IG: @billylanford 
Email: [email protected]

For More information or Become a Part of Our Mission:
One Tribe Rising
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected] 

Please join me in welcoming a very special guest, Billy Lanford.  I first me Billy when he gave a speech talk called “Chasing Moments”. That talk has had a profound effect on my life and that way that I take an approach to the present moment.  You never really know the impact that you can have on someone’s life when you show up on purpose! 

Billy speaks about the importance of intention and just how simple & powerful our intention with the next step really is.  Not easy, but simple and how we change the world when we change ourselves! 

Billy Lanford is the Ambassador of Wellness and the Director of Operations at A.K. Rikk’s in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the owner of Eremos Performance, LLC which is dedicated to people and organizations in identifying and scaling their best practices. 

Billy is married to Anya. He is also a former college athlete,
graduate of WMU and is a Certified Nutrition Coach as well as Certified
Personal Trainer (CPT) certified through National Academy Sports Medicine NASM.

To Show Billy Lanford Our Love & Support:
 
Billy Lanford
Ambassador of Wellness and 
the Director of Operations at A.K. Rikk’s in Grand Rapids, MI. 
FB: Billy Lanford
IG: @billylanford 
Email: [email protected]

For More information or Become a Part of Our Mission:
One Tribe Rising
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected] 

Join us as I get to welcome this very special guest, Misty Tripoli, Creator of BodyGroove. 

She started coming across my facebook feed about a month ago and immediately I caught her sparkle.  In a world where body image is such a real issue, role models like Misty create a true path back to finding our inner happiness. As she awoke from her misery and left an industry that masks perfection but hides self-destruction, she truly has become a shining light for so many in a world that can feel so full of darkness. 

I am beyond honored that she took the time to have such a heartfelt conversation that I know many of us need to hear.  With a similar story of unhappiness and lack of self-love I too found my way out of my darkness by getting out of my head and back into my body through dance and movement! 

After coming back alive in her heart, she began the most incredible journey of self-discovery and true impact as she unites the world through dance one person at a time! 

Misty is a global force of inspiration and a self-proclaimed truth warrior. She has been 
on the road inspiring and moving people for over 20 years. She has become one of the most sought after luminaries, speakers, instructors and body image truth talkers of our time. Her raw, realistic and common sense approach to health, wellness and consciousness along with her passion for dance and creativity has quickly spread across the globe. Her inspiring message and simple techniques help people jump outside of the box, gain new perspectives and move their bodies in ways they never thought possible. Misty is the founder of The World GROOVE Movement, a global dance force of creativity and authenticity that can be found in over 20 countries. Misty’s motto. If you can move, you can dance, it really is that simple.

To Show Misty Tripoli your Love & Support and Become a Part of Her Dance Revolution:

Misty Tripoli
Founder of The World Groove Movement™
Creator of BodyGroove™
www.getgrooved.com
www.bodygroove.com

And Don't forget to check out her Book:
Stop Losing Sleep Over the Size of Your Butt 

For More information or Become a Part of Our Mission:

One Tribe Rising
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected]

Join us as I get to welcome this very special guest, Misty Tripoli, Creator of BodyGroove. 

She started coming across my facebook feed about a month ago and immediately I caught her sparkle.  In a world where body image is such a real issue, role models like Misty create a true path back to finding our inner happiness. As she awoke from her misery and left an industry that masks perfection but hides self-destruction, she truly has become a shining light for so many in a world that can feel so full of darkness. 

I am beyond honored that she took the time to have such a heartfelt conversation that I know many of us need to hear.  With a similar story of unhappiness and lack of self-love I too found my way out of my darkness by getting out of my head and back into my body through dance and movement! 

After coming back alive in her heart, she began the most incredible journey of self-discovery and true impact as she unites the world through dance one person at a time! 

Misty is a global force of inspiration and a self-proclaimed truth warrior. She has been 
on the road inspiring and moving people for over 20 years. She has become one of the most sought after luminaries, speakers, instructors and body image truth talkers of our time. Her raw, realistic and common sense approach to health, wellness and consciousness along with her passion for dance and creativity has quickly spread across the globe. Her inspiring message and simple techniques help people jump outside of the box, gain new perspectives and move their bodies in ways they never thought possible. Misty is the founder of The World GROOVE Movement, a global dance force of creativity and authenticity that can be found in over 20 countries. Misty’s motto. If you can move, you can dance, it really is that simple.

To Show Misty Tripoli your Love & Support and Become a Part of Her Dance Revolution:

Misty Tripoli
Founder of The World Groove Movement™
Creator of BodyGroove™
www.getgrooved.com
www.bodygroove.com

And Don't forget to check out her Book:
Stop Losing Sleep Over the Size of Your Butt 

For More information or Become a Part of Our Mission:

One Tribe Rising
Dustin Wheeler
[email protected]