HeyJaredThe Conviction Fiction w/Antoine Rivers
The Conviction Fiction is a podcast dedicated to sharing inspiring stories of redemption, transformation, and the power of second chances.
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The First 72 Weeks: How to Outlast the High of Coming Home (opens the original)
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Everybody talks about the first 72 hours after release. The food. The family. The freedom. The excitement. But what happens when the adrenaline wears off? In this solo episode of The Conviction Fiction Podcast , Antoine Rivers explores the much harder question: how do you build a life when the celebration ends and everyday reality begins? From employment and relationships to transportation, finances, identity, and the pressure to constantly prove you've changed, reentry can quickly become exhaus
Starting Over Without Starting From Scratch: Your Past Is Not Your Ending (opens the original)
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What happens when the life you built no longer fits? In Starting Over Without Starting From Scratch: Your Past Is Not Your Ending , Antoine Rivers sits down with author, entrepreneur, inventor, and founder Paul Harkins , author of The Refrigerator Test . After decades of building companies, raising a family, experiencing divorce, loss, and major professional setbacks, Paul had to confront a question many people eventually face: Who am I when the life I planned changes? Paul shares what he learne
Wrong Time, Wrong Place: The High Cost of Hanging With Yesterday (opens the original)
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Your old environment is a magnet designed to pull you back into the version of yourself you fought so hard to escape. In this deeply personal episode of The Conviction Fiction Podcast , Antoine Rivers examines the high cost of revisiting old relationships, old environments, and old versions of ourselves after we've supposedly moved forward. Antoine shares a recent experience that forced him to confront his own accountability. He went to a bar with people he already knew were still connected to s
Kinetic Compassion: Turning Survival Into a Leadership Legacy (opens the original)
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True mentorship is more than sharing advice. It is about transforming the hardest lessons of your life into a clearer path for someone coming behind you. In this solo episode of The Conviction Fiction Podcast , Antoine Rivers explores how past failures, trauma, incarceration, recovery, and personal setbacks can become powerful tools for mentorship and leadership. Rather than hiding our survival scars, we can study them, extract the lesson, and build practical frameworks that help others avoid un
The Shadow of Recidivism: Breaking Free From Your Family’s Low Expectations (opens the original)
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What happens when the people closest to you continue expecting the worst from you—even after you have committed to becoming someone different? In this powerful episode of The Conviction Fiction Podcast , host Antoine Rivers examines the shadow of recidivism created by family expectations, generational trauma, inherited limitations, and the pressure to remain loyal to an outdated version of yourself. Your family may remember your incarceration, addiction, failures, broken promises, or unstable pa
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