An author, entrepreneur, inspirational and educational speaker, you could say that Steven has a passion for life and helping others.

However, that wasn’t how his life started out.

Being abandoned by his mother at an early age, and growing up in a very abusive and poverty environment, Steven found his way to drugs and alcoholism early in life.

By the time he entered his late teens, he was no stranger to trouble nor law enforcement.

By the age of 21, he was completely entrenched in the criminal lifestyle and found his way off to prison for the first time to serve a 3-year sentence.

When he got out at the age of 24, Steven was still lost in a world of addiction and found himself back in prison, this time to serve a sentence of 22 years for nonviolent drug crimes and with no hope of any kind for a real future.

But  ...