Episode Summary – FROM PRISON TO PURPOSE –

IMAGINE 81 MONTHS IN A PANAMANIAN PRISON AND REBUILDING A MEANINGFUL LIFE. In Episode 48 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show (links in the comments) titled INCARCERATION TO INSPIRATION = JUSTICE, I am joined by Alan Moore an aspiring stylist in the fashion world that was asked to take a trip to Panama and bring back a package. She new in her heart of hearts she was being used as a drug mule with promises of career launch and access to stars. Faced with the harsh reality of being in a foreign country and not knowing the language, Alana had to think about her new reality of prison survival and what type of life she could make during her time there. Alana will give us a preview of her “tell-all” book  and share raw prison life and her ability to help other incarcerated women take a positive step forward each day. The real Justice is her 18-month-old son that does fuel her passion to create the best life for herself and son as a author, motivational speaker, and transformative life coach. Come listen, download, share and review this POWERFUL SHOW you do not want to miss!

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Alana Moor's life took a dramatic turn in 2015 when she was sentenced to 81 months in a Panamanian prison for international drug trafficking, having trusted a client connected to a famous music artist who promised to elevate her fashion dreams. During her 4.5 years behind bars, Alana found strength through self-discipline and daily exercise, emerging not just as a survivor but a thriver. After her release, she founded a foundation aiding incarcerated women, became a certified mindset life coach, and is now a fierce advocate for formerly incarcerated Central American females. Alana's writing a tell-all book, with a mission to impact a million young lives, and as a motivational speaker, she blends raw honesty with humor to inspire resilience and the power to overcome adversity. Afull-time mother to her 18-month-old son, Justice, she embodies the positive ending to her Panama journey, dedicated to uplifting others on their paths of transformation.

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Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Hello, it's Howard Brown. This is the Shining

Brightly Show. This is the podcast with the best and the

most interesting guests ever. I am the maestro with the mic and

oh my god, this is a show that is going to just hit you

emotionally. And it's amazing. It's going to inspire you as

well. I want to introduce Alana Moor, a lot of Welcome to the

Shining Brightly Show.

Howard, I'm good. Thanks for having me. So

grateful to be here.

Well, you're all the way across the country and

British Columbia. I want to tell you, this woman is so

courageous, and has a lesson to teach. And I just am so thrilled

to be introduced you recently. Let me take a little read of

your bio, and then you can add some stuff in and fill in the

blank. So Alana Moor's life took a dramatic turn in 2015 when she

was sentenced to 81 months in a Panamanian prison for

international drug trafficking. That's four and a half years of

this young woman's life. She trusted a client connected to

some famous, famous music artists, you are promised to be

elevated in to your fashion dreams. And then things went

haywire. Oh my god. You actually were asked to be a druggie mule,

and you got busted. And you found yourself in prison, a lot

of found strength through discipline and exercise, and

reading. And she emerged not as a survivor but as a thriver.

After her release, she founded the foundation to aid

incarcerated women, became a certified mindset life coach,

and is now a fierce advocate for formerly incarcerated Central

American females. Alana is writing a tell all book, and her

mission is to impact millions of young lives as a motivational

speaker, as she blends her raw honesty, humour, and resilience

to overcome adversity. She's a full time mother to his son

justice, and we're going to talk about him. And you embody a

positive ending to this Panamanian journey, and you're

dedicated to uplifting others in transformation. And that's why

you're on the show, because I am overcoming an inspiration. Alana

Moor, tell us a little bit more what did I miss? Or, and tell us

something interesting that we don't know about you?

Oh, that's great. Thank you for that introduction,

that was lovely. Anything that you missed, I would say that I

think you hit the nail on the head. You know, there was a lot

of things that I did while I was in prison. And we can get into

that, obviously. So something that people something

interesting about me that a lot of people probably wouldn't

know, I am obsessed with Indian flute music. And I have this

sort of mantra in this meditation where I love to get

in the kitchen, and cook a really good meal. Obviously, I

have, you know, no limits on what I eat anymore. And listen

to Indian flute music and just be in an incredibly meditative

state.

I love that and allows you to actually what I

call in my book, find your happy place, because it's your stress

free zone. And you should go there often everyone needs to

find it, whether it's meditation, yoga, hiking,

biking, athletics, travel, music, I don't care, find your

happy place, go there as much as you can. Well, I want to dig

right in because you're young, and you made some mistakes. And

we all we are actually, in the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur war

coming up, and it's it's making atonement, it's repenting. You

made a mistake. And instead of actually just living with that,

and just killing yourself about it, you actually did something

about it, you use your time that you had to serve for this

mistake, for positive for helping other women. And now

continue to do so afterwards. So that's very honourable. We are

human. We make mistakes. Now, other people had something to do

with that, and that sucks. But I want you to share a little bit

about your time in prison. And some of the lessons that you

learned.

Yeah. I mean, to talk about my time in prison.

Let's start with the beginning. Very quickly, you know, I was

going I made a decision when I was 24 years old that I wanted

to go to school for fashion. And it was something that I believed

was going to be I was going to be the next big fashion

designer, made a decision, went to school. Graduated became a

stylist met an incredible person that allowed me to work for them

as a stylist and I was called into their office one day long

story short, this person and I had a great relationship. And

she called me into her office one day and said, I have a

really great opportunity for you, I really want to pay you

back for everything that you've done for me, I'm going to send

you to Panama on a vacation, and I have a friend there. You don't

have to worry about anything. I have lots of people that have

done this, you're gonna bring a bag back for me. And the thing

is, Howard is sometimes in life, when you want to get to the top,

and you see everybody around you getting there. You will do

anything that it takes to get there without thinking about any

consequences that may be at the end of your decisions. So I said

yes. And of course, I was like, Well, is it drugs? No, you don't

have to worry about anything. There was also somebody in the

room with her that day, who happens to be the right hand man

to one of the most famous musicians around so that helped.

It was a great sales pitch. And I fell for it. And I said, Yes,

fast forward. A week later, I show up to I go to Panama, I

spend a week there, I show up to the airport. And I think that I

start having this feeling that something is going wrong. And I

see I start thinking, I wonder if there's drugs in my bag. So

we get to the airport, I get off and I'm thinking this is it.

This is it. These drugs, our dogs are going to mull me and my

life is over. So I'm waiting in line to get on this plane and

one drug drug dog walks by, nothing happens. Another one

walks by nothing happens. Another one walks by nothing

happens. So I get this sort of second wind of confidence. I'm

waiting for the plane I get through security. They call my

name on the loudspeaker. They take me into the back and it's

utter chaos. And somebody is screaming at me. Where did you

get these bags? Where did you get these bags. Fast forward

five hours later, a prosecutor that I now know to be the

prosecutor comes in, goes through my bags and they find 11

kilos of cocaine in my suitcase, I'm transferred to what I now

know to be a men's prison where I am ankle shackled and risk

Chaco shackled for three days with no water, no food, and no

shower, no toilet paper, I'm transferred then to a female

prison where I'm sentenced to six months, because in Panama,

you are guilty until proven innocent. And that was my entire

life ripped from underneath me in the matter of three minutes

in an airport.

Let's stop for a second. Because I want that to

sink in for the listeners and anyone watching is that you

trusted someone, they were mentoring you. You had a big

superstar that asks you to do something. And you felt in your

gut that it was wrong, but you wanted to climb the ladder. You

also I know you brought a friend and that friend, just by chance

of being your friend suffered as well. And you knew there was

something in that bag. And you went forth anyways. Yeah. And

and now had to pay some extreme consequences because you're in a

foreign country of foreign land. And you're a drug mule. And

basically, you now have to suffer the consequences from

that mentor that was looking out for you. And all you did was

have a passion for fashion. And you wanted to you know, I made

that up. You just wanted to climb the ranks. So all right.

So you're a young woman, you're scared out of your mind. I can

imagine. You don't speak the language at that time. Correct?

I don't speak the language now. Correct. And so

in our previous talk, they made you sign a

document, you signed all your rights away. And they basically

were going to send in sentences sentence you to this woman's

prison, correct? Yeah. Right, pick us up from that shock and

awe, and what happens when you land there.

So I remember being in the back of a truck. And it's

this long dirt road to get to the prison. And the funny

juxtaposition is right across the street, there's a

university. And I remember driving down that thinking,

Okay, I'm about to become somebody's bitch. I'm about to

get the shit kicked out of me. And I'm about to have to learn

how to defend myself very quickly. I'm gonna have to

figure this out. And this is the interesting part of the story

that I always sort of still laugh to myself about. I

remember pulling up and getting off of the back of this truck.

And looking and there were all these women outside, in pink T

shirts and jeans, with giant rollers in their hair. There was

Spanish music playing in the background, and a bunch of girls

are getting their hair blow dried. And I thought, Where the

heck did I just show up. And I was so afraid that this moment

almost allowed me to sort of feel a little bit at ease. Like,

I was still very afraid. But I was like, Oh, okay. And I

remember a girl yelling at me and my friend, I love you for

their word, screaming at me. And there were all these other women

up against the fence on the other side of where I where I

was like these other women were staring at me up against the

fence, you know, little short shorts, hair and rollers, little

crop tops, my friend, I love you, whatever. And I remember,

the guards went through all of our stuff. And they handcuffed

us and they brought us in to the prison. And we had to walk by

all of these girls, and they were all hooting and hollering

at us.

This is the welcome waggon This is the

welcome waggon

This is the it's the fresh meat. It's the fresh beat

waggon. So basically what happens when anybody new walks

into a prison, they scream about it. Everybody knows fresh meat,

fresh meat, you know. And so I don't know this at the time, I

hear gibberish. And I was in shock. I mean, how do you go

from a life that you know, in North America to walking into a

Panamanian prison in the middle of the desert, with some of

Panama's most dangerous criminals that are just walking

around everywhere, not speaking the language, not having any

clue when you're leaving, and having to then decide which

route you're going to take for survival. So I've always said,

and I will always say, the second that I walked in, I knew

I had two choices. I was to be constructive with my time, or

destructive. Now, living in the middle of hell, destructive

seems like the best option, because negativity when you're

living in hell is so rampant. But I decided that both took

energy. And both I would have to focus and figure out how to do

either one. And I chose to be constructive. And from day three

of being there, I had to go through the initial trauma

shock, overwhelming feeling of where the fuck did I just end

up? And I made a decision very quickly and very early on, that

I was going to be constructive with my time. So I had a

decision to make. The question was how I also learned very

quickly that this is not like a prison in North America, where

you are given everything that you wear, everything you wash

with, you are given your feminine hygiene products, you

are given a schedule, there's no schedule, whatever you walk in

with is what you have, if you don't have it too bad, you

better figure it out. So I not only had to figure out a way to

survive financially in terms of having clothes to put on my back

and having soap to clean my body and having feminine and feminine

hygiene products to deal with what happens to women every

single month. I also had to decide how was I going to use my

time wisely. Because regardless of what my decision was the time

was going to pass. So was this going to be a waste of time, or

time that passed by that I used wisely and became a better

version of myself. Now there were definitely a few turning

points during my time that made that that sort of, you know, put

that into perspective of like, okay, this is the moment where

change has to happen.

Now, you had a roommate, which was your friend,

and you there's a lot of isolation time. Also, you're the

newbie, and then you're learning and eventually you don't become

the newbie, but right you there's an internal black market

there in order to acquire things, and you need to do

favours for other things. So, I mean, we see a lot of stuff on

TV, and I'm sure a fraction of it isn't even accurate. But, you

know, you had to live this, you know, in a foreign country. And

and then I think you actually had to call home, right? And

say, I effed up. I'm going to be here for a while. Yeah. And so

I'm sure there was some nasty stuff that happened, but you

decided to learn the language, right? You learned so you could

actually be able to speak and communicate. I think that's a

survival thing. But you also became a whatever reading they

had you became a voracious reader to expand your mind as

well. But also tell me about some of the relationships You

decided to actually be known to be someone that could help

others, and put that reputation out there in a prison of all

sorts. Tell me about that.

Yeah, that's, that's great. So, day three, I remember

I go in to see the director of this prison. And I had been

doing a lot of writing and a lot of thinking, obviously, there's

a lot of time to think. And she goes, What do you want, like,

what could make your stay here a little bit better. I said, not

being here, A, but if we have to, if I have to be here, I

really want to, I really want to be able to work out. I know, you

know, I come from an athletic background, I was a soccer

player growing up, I was an avid competitive dancer my whole

life. So I also have always been into fitness. So I knew that my

mental health and my faith in God was going to be shown

through my ability to stay active, and to, you know, help

my mental health through physical fitness. Okay. So we

made a decision that day that I was going to start teaching

fitness. So day three of my prison stay in 2015, in a place

where I could not speak more than two words, and those two

words being Hola, and Cervesa, which I now know to be beer.

Those are the only two words I knew, I was thrown into a

position of leadership, where I got to teach fitness at 7am,

every single day. And I want to talk a little bit about how that

went for me. So I remember walking in the first day, and

they went in and they did this announcement like, Hey, we're

gonna start to have fitness classes. And this is the other

thing, Howard, the prison system in Panama is very behind, in

accessibility to courses to studying to, you know, allowing

people to expand their mind in any sort of a way. So there's a

lot of boredom. And what happens when people get bored. They act

out what happens when people get bored, they hurt themselves.

What happens when people get bored, they hurt others. So it

was kind of like this social experiment where a I became a

leader. So in a position of leadership in a prison, you are

less likely to be in a position of of being hurt by anybody

there. So all of a sudden, I look like somebody that can

defend themselves. So I start teaching fitness at 7am Every

single day, the first day, I think 10 people showed up, we

got to listen to music. And I was basically just going, huh,

and, and I Oh, no dose and tres and I had no idea how to speak

the language and people are laughing at me hysterically, you

know, and I'm talking, the girl that killed her husband, and

then hit him in her freezer is out there side by side with me

laughing at me because I have no idea how to say up or down in

Spanish. Here's the cool thing that happened. And I love this

story. We started to see girls create consistency in their

life, because they started to come out every single day,

Monday through Friday, for one hour in the morning to work out

with me. You know, I this isn't a gym. This is a cement floor

with you know, barbed wire all around you. And I was given some

chairs. And I had to figure it out how to use the body, how to

make people work together. That was the other thing. People

started to work together. People started to become calmer. There

was, you know, less violence with the certain 1015 women that

would come out consistently to see me. And I was able to teach

them about slowly I started to learn the language. So I started

to focus and that sort of ties in with it right, I got the

dictionary, I started to listen, I started to really force myself

to understand the basics of fitness in Spanish and be able

to teach it. So you start to see these girls create habits in

their life have consistency in their life. And I start to put

myself in a position of leadership. So I am basically

it's a it's a it's a Get Out of Jail like safe card. Right? I

remember this girl named Chola. Seven bullets in her body. One

of the toughest criminals in Panama. She got transferred to

our prison. And I remember her telling the entire jail the only

person that I will not fight in this jail and I mean fight she

has a double switchblade and she will cut anybody that comes

within a five foot radius of her. She was a very scary human,

but very loving at the core. She said the only person I will not

fight in this prison is Alanna. She is strong and she could kill

anybody. So fitness became my defence mechanism and it It also

became my power. And I, I was as strong as I'd ever been.

But at the meantime, you're running, you

know, aerobics on a cement floor with no gym pads, and people are

coming out and starting to come out. And you're teaching them

how to stretch, and you're starting their day with a

purpose. And they're actually doing some physical fitness. And

I'm sure they told others and the class grew. And that's a

beautiful story, because you're trying to survive. I mean, it's

no fun there, and you have a lot of downtime. And a lot of bad

stuff goes into that, because there's a chain of command and

you fortunately navigated and took the right path that way as

well. So take me through a few more things that prison that are

that stand out, that you want to share?

Yeah, definitely. So I would say that for me, I

noticed very quickly, there's a few things that stand out for me

that I that I love. This is something that sticks out a lot.

Not every day in prison is bad. You know, you you definitely get

to create a good time for yourself if you want to. So I

really, there's this whole moment of time in prison. That

was the shift for me. Okay, so I was teaching fitness. But I also

within that year and a half found out that I was sentenced

to 81 months in prison where I had been lied to by a lawyer and

told that I was going home. So I was dealing with that stress and

the stress of not knowing. So I started to read a lot. I mean,

my own mother brought me an entire suitcase, not with

anything in it. But books. I started to read books, I started

to read about business, I started to write business plans

for different ideas that I had, because I knew I needed to keep

my brain sharp. The time was going to pass, they wouldn't let

me complete my degree. I wanted to complete my degree and do my

masters. They said no, the government of Panama refused my

education. So I did grade Kindergarten to Grade 12. So

during this time, I begin to adopt, you know, I sound like

everything's going good, but I have a bit of a bad attitude.

Because when you're surrounded by people that are bullying you

all the time. And when you're surrounded by guards that a lot

of these people have never even seen a white person like me.

That's the reality. So they think that I come from

privilege, they treat me differently. I was bullied by

guards, I was bullied by different people within the

prison. I had to protect myself. And then you're also dealing

with its high school. You know, you have women that are, you

know, setting things on fire and slitting their wrists and

fighting each other in front of you. And you have to think it's

normal. You're in a cell that's full of bunk beds, 72 bunk beds

with one toilet, no shower, everybody has to do the same

thing. And they're infested with cockroaches, you have an

industrial fan, 24 hours a day going, you have 72 radios in one

cell. And no one ever is quiet. There was never any quiet.

Imagine four and a half years of noise. So I was it was getting

to me. And I was starting to get a bit of an attitude. So I

remember this one guard had it against me, this is a very cool

story. I had a cell phone at one point in prison because the only

way to communicate with people was through having a cell phone,

you can only imagine where women would hide the cell phone to be

able to not have it there. I did not do that. So I got my cell

phone taken away very quickly. She was against me. She had nine

guards come into the cell at 930 at night one night to take my

phone for me. Okay. The next day she shows up to the jail. She

laughs in my face and calls me a fucking dumb gringa. And I snap

and I see red. And I begin to follow her and my thought is I'm

going to kill her. And this is nothing. She's so mean to me.

And I remember two girls put their arms in front of me and I

was like, No, I've had enough. Okay, I tried to fight this

guard. I ended up getting in trouble for it. That was the

moment I remember going into the back after it happened. I got in

a lot of trouble. I got six months probation. And I was

bawling my eyes out and I'm like, What am I doing here? How

am I going to survive? And this girl was like, You got to get

your shit together. You got to find things that you love to do.

You got to do it. I was like, Okay. And I remember walking two

things happen. I saw this note on the wall that said public

speaking competition. So what they were doing was a national

wide public speaking competition. And basically you

did it at the prison. You wrote a speech. You did it there. If

you won, you got to go to this beautiful theatre in the middle

of Panama City with no handcuffs, and you were put on

national television and radio to compete and you could win and I

win I remember I used to pray on my knees every night and I got

this overwhelming feeling of you need to do it. And I woke up the

next day and I went into the office and I said, Can I do this

even though I don't speak Spanish, and they were like,

yep. And I spent the next month and a half, learning the

language perfectly writing a speech in English, translating

it into Spanish. Now, if you think about this, I had a lot of

time on my hands. So this was great. I did that. I competed, I

won. In prison. I went to this theatre in Panama City. And I

had my father fly down. And he saw me with no handcuffs compete

on television. That was a shifting moment for me. And just

the last thing that I'll say to this is that guard I, we had

problems for month months. And I remember one day, we had this

kid's day. And they wanted us to, they wanted somebody to

dress up as a clown. And nobody wanted to do it. And I was like,

I'll do it. I dressed up as a clown. And I went out. And I and

I, we had a day with the kids, the kids could come and we did

games for them and things like that. And I remember I had this

voice in my head that said, today's the day you're going to

apologise to Flores to this guard. And I was like, No, I'm

not. And my head was like, Yes, you are. And I walked into her

office that day, three months after this thing had happened. I

sat down on the floor in a clown costume. And I apologised for

what I had done. And six months later, she died of breast

cancer. And that was a huge pivotal moment for me. And from

that moment, I invested all my time and shifting my mindset. I

designed clothes, I worked out twice a day I did every course

that came to prison, I went to school, I went to church. And I

made sure that during this time that I without the resources

created my own resources to become the best possible version

of myself that I could. Because mindset, it's all about your

mind. You choose your attitude. And you know, the book, we

talked about it, you know, Viktor Frankl, yeah, A Man's

Search for Meaning three years in a concentration camp.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of

human freedoms, right to choose one's attitude, in any given set

of circumstances, to choose one's own way, that book changed

my life. And I realised that I could find freedom in the middle

of Hell, if I wanted to. You make the choice. And that's what

I did. And the hardest part of being in prison, as Viktor

Frankl talks about in his book, The hardest part of being in a

concentration camp is not living in El, it's not knowing when

you're getting out. Because how do you create goals when you

don't have a tangible ending? Now, could I physically create

change in my life when I didn't know when I was leaving? That

was the hardest part.

I want to say that shuddering a little bit, because

you actually had the ability to shine some light, in the darkest

of moments in complete darkness, the speaking competition, you

know that you pursued it to be the clown that no one wanted to

be, you raise your hand and said, Pick Me. And so you're

able to do that just this human resolve that you're showing is

so important. And as I always say that we don't compare, I had

my own prison, I've been a sage for cancer. There's nothing

there's nothing to compare. But it's darkness. We all suffered

darkness. And we did not, or could not, or chose not to find

the light to be able to get out of that. And you tried to and

did. And I tried to and did. And this is why we're on this show

together today to lift other people up from their darkness.

And this is going to become a book and I'm sure a motion

picture. So tell us about what's what's going on with your book.

Oh, gosh, you know, I will say I will talk about my

book in one second. And I just want to say to what you just

said, when people come to me, and they say I could never go

through what you went through, you said it yourself. Just now.

You know, your story must be worse. It's never about the

story. It's about the feelings. We all go through difficult

situations in our lives. I could never think about what you've

gone through. I don't think I could get through it. And if you

looked at me, you would say yes, you could. Because in in the

face of adversity, we are given the skills that we need to

change. It's just whether or not we're willing to work hard

because it's not fucking easy. So my book starts like this. I

have over 12 journals that I began to write because I knew I

always wondered what my purpose was. And I had these pivotal

moments. And that speaking competition was the huge pivotal

moment where I thought if I could change one person's life,

or One person's decision to choose themselves, and to do the

work to get where they wanted to go. So they don't have to make

the decision that I made. Or if I can teach people about mental

toughness, and about how to get through situations because you

can, I don't want the excuses, literally, I've realised that

going to prison is probably one of the five most difficult

situations you could go through in your life. And I thought, I

just knew, I just knew, it just came to me that I needed to

share my experience and my story. And here's the thing, I

remember someone saying to me in prison, prison is a different

world. And I became numb to a lot of the stories in the

situations that I went through, because we could sit here for

five hours, five days and talk about hilarious stories of

people infiltrating drugs, and people throwing alcohol over the

fence and girls running to pick it up and how the system works,

right? There are rules behind bars, there's no rules, and I

want to be able to share my experience, the good, the bad,

the ugly, there were good days, there were bad days, there were

funny, funny moments. There was amazing learning experiences. I

don't wish this on anybody, but I would never change it for the

world. And so I feel like, why do we come to this earth, to go

through an experience to help somebody else? So I've started

my book, I haven't finished it. But it's basically talking more

about, you know, I want it to be really raw. So I really want to

share the real things I was writing about, right? Here's a

raw look at how it was, here's what I've learned from it. And

here's what I wish for you. You know, I did a lot of things in

prison every single day that I forced myself to, like, let's

say our gratitude list, right? Or, or, or planning out my

future and how that looked. So I want to be able to help people

to do that for themselves. And look at the big picture, but

then also look at, you know, who isn't what it's like, what I

went through so that they don't have to go through it?

Well, you can tell your story. And it's there was

horrible times to don't don't care. It was not a bunch of

roses by any stretch. I'm sure there was a lot that you even

talked about, you know, a switchblade and, and nasty stuff

happening as well. But I want to wrap things up a little bit. But

I want you to talk about to the word justice. I want you to talk

about justice, the meaning and justice your son, please. Yeah,

thank you. You know, I that's, that's where do I even

start? So justice, my son, I fought for my freedom for a long

time. When I got out of prison, I ended up as you know, going

and spending time with a woman whose name is Sonny justice. And

she basically created Burt's Bees into the brand that you see

now has taught me so much about self love about running

businesses about managing businesses, and did that with

her came home was deported from Panama, defeated, heartbroken

because I had while I was in prison, I met my partner, I met

the love of my life. That's a crazy story. And I had to leave

him I had no choice. And I remember I got home. And two

weeks later, I found out I was pregnant. And I didn't know when

I would see my partner again. And how do you walk away from

somebody that you love, but also somebody that supported you in

the darkest moment when they didn't have to, had no

obligation to come and see a person in prison, when you could

be seeing a woman that's out in public doing good things with

her life. And you chose to be there for me. And, you know,

through that, also, like, you know, as I started my little

foundation and all of that, like I wanted to pick a name because

this was like a full circle moment. Panama took my life

away. And then Panama went ahead and gave me life. And I raising

a son is not easy when you're starting your life from scratch.

raising a son is not easy when you're doing it as a single

mother. Raising your son is not easy when you're doing it. With

all with everything going for you. It's not easy, but there is

justice behind what I went through. And like I just said,

justice is that full circle moment for me. And my son is

just the most beautiful Latino man you've ever seen. My laptop?

Yeah, of course you are. Right And it's

beautiful. You also finally had some trusted caregiver mentors

that that really cared for you, your partner he's dedicated to

you. And then sunny justice taught you that there is a

brighter tomorrow. This testimony is so powerful. I want

to actually just wrap up the show we're gonna do our shining

brightly moment. So let's shot together, put on your

sunglasses.

The great thing about these is these are

actually from panama,

panama Jack are real Panama's sunglasses while

we are shining brightly here, because your your testimony is

so powerful. Your perseverance, your resolve your resiliency,

and to start and give justice a good life. Give yourself a good

life. And may you be reconnected with your partner soon. Please

tell people how they can everyone's gonna want to get in

touch with you. So how's the best I'll get there. Get in

touch with you.

Thank you, you're so sweet. So I would say my

Instagram is at Alana Moor speaks more being spelled mooR.

My name is spelled A h l a n a. And then I have a little website

WWW.AlanaMoor.my.Canva.site. Those are probably the best ways

to get in touch with me send me a DM. Yeah, and I'm

going to include everything in the show notes and

in the comments on social and everything like that people are

going to want to reach out to you because you're also although

you're working on the book, you are a speaker. And you also

actually are a mindset coach, and you have a giveaway. So tell

people that you're going to give away some discount off your some

of your coaching.

Ah, this is awesome. So yes, I am a mindset coach, I

am going to offer if you send me a DM saying shining brightly,

obviously thank you to Howard. I'm giving 50% off your first

four sessions with me for mindset coaching, we'll do a

discovery call and we'll get into your four sessions. And

it's I'm just so looking forward to work with working with people

to help them to really shift their mindset and shift their

life. And also on my website, you can get in touch with me for

speaking engagements, you can donate to my foundation, which

actually helps bring dignity packages to women in prison in

Panama. I'm working to make that bigger and better every single

day. So I would love to collab and chat with anybody about that

as well.

It's beautiful. And so this has been one

powerful show, and I you are a light and you're taking a awful

situation and making it better. I'm sure you can coach lots of

men and women that that need that type of help as well. And I

do the same. And we're that's why we're so aligned. And so you

can reach me at shining brightly.com You can find out

about speaking and my my book, of course and the podcasts and

my advocacy work, and I help and mentor entrepreneurs young ones

at Babson College and cancer patients, and I work in the

interface space. So come interact with me as well. I have

downloads for mentorship, survivorship and interfaith

relations. So this has been another great show. We will

close it out by saying let's all shine brightly a little bit each

day for ourselves, for others and our communities. And yes,

the world will be a better place. Amen.

Thank you so much, Howard. Thank you for having me.

My pleasure.