30 Things I Learned From Reinventing My Life After Prison

Craig Stanland
5 min readApr 7, 2021

I almost gave up.

It was almost too hard, too scary, too much.

I was starting from zero and didn’t know what the hell I was doing.

It would have been easier to stay put. I could have just stayed in the status quo, living an unremarkable life.

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Craig Stanland

I write about my journey from corporate success to federal prison and finding joy, mission, meaning, and fulfillment beyond professional and financial success.