In today’s episode of The Game Changing podcast, Anniece talks to Kyle Quilausing. As a kid, Kyle spent more than a decade of his life in prison after becoming addicted to crystal meth in 2005. As a kid, Kyle had very bright prospects. At the age of 10, he was competing with Tiger Woods as a champion golfer in his own right. At one time, when Woods was #1 in the world, Kyle was #4. His world would come crashing down after getting kicked out of high school and a few years later, would get caught in the crystal meth epidemic. In this episode, Kyle shares his story of redemption, and how the horrors he encountered in jail allowed him to meet God and turn his life around. While in prison, Kyle experienced the worst that the American jail system had to offer, but came out a reformed man with a mission: to educate kids about the power of choice.
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Kyle: "The pipe went in my mouth, all I did was inhale. And I remember, when I blow out that crystal meth smoke for the first time, I blew out everything that was instilled in me as a child. All my love, all my morals, all my respect; everything that was good instilled in me came out with that smoke. Instantly, I became an addict."
Kyle: "I remember looking at my skin and noticing that I was losing my pigmentation 'cause I never see outside. I never feel the warmth of the sun anymore. I didn't even know if it was night time or day time, because the light was on 24 hours in the cell. I didn't know if it was raining, I didn't know if it was sunny, I didn't know if it was cloudy, I didn't know nothing. All I know is I was in a 7x7 blacked out cell, losing my mind."
Kyle: "Before I went to prison, my heart that is in my body was like a tilled garden. It had no weeds, was well-manicured, had rocks around them nice, with one rose inside. That's how my heart was before I went to prison. But now I'm in prison, I gotta do things that is not me. If I gotta go up to that one guy and punch him in his face to avoid three guys jumping me, I'm sorry bruh I'm gonna punch you in the face bruh. And every time I would do something like that, I'm planting weeds in my heart."
Kyle: "She was driving down the road and I stick my head out the window and I could feel the wind on my face. I tasted freedom and it was a beautiful taste. I got released on prison with prison shoes, prison shorts, and a prison shirt, that's it. Not one cent to my name, but I came home saved."
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