Jun 17, 2016
If you listen to Join Up Dots on a daily basis then you will hear me wax lyrical when introducing a guest as I certainly like to do my research, but todays show is different.
When my guest connected with us to request a place on the show, he hit me with this little tale and I didn't think i could out do this little lot.
So in his own words "On the day I turned 30 years old I looked around me and I knew things had to change.
I looked up at the barbed wire toped concrete walls of the
maximum security prison I had called home for the last 2 years and
I wondered where everything had gone so wrong.
Only a few years earlier life had been about fast cars, women and
parties. I was born in England but schooled and grew up in
Johannesburg in South Africa.
I had a career in television that put me in peoples living rooms on
a daily basis. I was a household name and people would ask me for
my autograph when they saw me out and about.
The choices I made led me to class A drug addiction and the results
pulled the carpet from under my feet. Everything was gone within 3
months and I found myself living as a homeless man in one of the
most dangerous cities in the world, Johannesburg.
Drugs lead to crime and crime leads to prison. After 9 months
awaiting trail I escaped from prison. Two weeks later I was
re-arrested buying drugs on the street. I was sentenced as a
security risk prisoner and given 3 years without parol in a maximum
security prison.
Today things look very different and I live a happy and peaceful
life with my wife Colette and my daughter Kristen.
I run a number of successful online businesses that pay my bills, I
have authored a book due for release in June and I am able to enjoy
a balance in life through my work as a psychotherapist. "
Wow , what a story, but believe me there is so much more to the
guys tale, the we could literally go three or four episodes and
still not touch the surface.
So looking back on his life as a famous TV magician, did he find it
easier to to get to the top, than he has since getting out of
prison and changing direction?
Or was that just the starting point to what he would call his
"Sweetspot".....has he now found the path that he would say was
truly his to find?
Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up
dots with the one and only Mr Kenneth Kelly
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