Dr. Kenn Collier went from a 17-year-old father with no guidance…

to prison…

to earning his GED…

to becoming a PhD.

He beat the odds.

He rewrote his story.

But then life hit him with a pain no degree could prepare him for—

losing his son to gun violence.

And in one of the most vulnerable moments of this conversation,

he shares the weight he carries…

That the morning his son was killed,

he was supposed to pick him up—

but decided to stop at the barbershop instead.

A decision he now has to live with.