Junior Smart is a youth leader, an ex-offender, an academic and a couple of months ago he added father to this list. 

If you don't believe people can change, listen to this. This is a story about the power of belonging. A need we all have to belong to a group. A lesson in how we often attach importance to the wrong things and end up in the wrong group, the wrong Club. It's a lesson in how, with an open mind and good people in your support team, you can change beyond your imagination. 

Juniors levels of self-awareness are stratospheric when compared to the frickin mess he describes himself as in his early twenties.

From giving away his personal power to taking it, from toxic masculinity to the Tedx stage . . . it's quite a journey . . . this is a story about leading yourself . . . this is Part 1