This episode is a little bit different: it’s with someone whose name I doubt you’ll know, but it’s a story which, as soon as I heard, I knew I wanted to share with you all on Great Company.
Riordan Maynard was a high flying business man until one day it all came crashing down - he doesn’t shy away from the crimes he committed - but they resulted in him serving almost seven years in a maximum high security prison in the states for tax fraud. Promised a low-security camp to serve his sentence, instead he was sent to a maximum security prison, he came into contact with real violence and aggression.
Riordan doesn’t hold back about the realities of life in prison - how it almost broke him, spiralling mentally, and riddled with guilt for leaving his family without provision. But that time away also taught him mental resilience and he has since come out a different man.
This is a raw, powerful conversation about accountability, redemption and the strength of the human mind to shift, even when in the darkest of places.
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What to expect in this episode:
- Writing letters from prison
- Beating boredom and making the most of each day
- How I became a businessman
- Breaking ground in the mobile phone game
- How I ended up behind bars
- When the business started to fall apart
- The morning of the arrest
- The charges brought against me
- First impressions of prison life
- How I felt being found guilty
- Fighting the temptation to go on the run
- Why prison was actually good for me
- How brutal those first few months inside were
- Being forced into a gang while in prison
- Witnessing a prison murder
- My first night behind bars
- The impact it had on my family
- The moment I realised I could change my mindset
- The Final Eight Questions
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THE CREDITS
Exec Producer: Jemima Rathbone
Assistant Producer: Gurlina Heer
Video: Jake Ji & Ryley Kirby
Social Media: Laura Coughlan
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