Sublime

We’re Defy and we believe in second chances. Second chances for those who are caught and labeled, and for those who are still in hiding, being eaten alive by shame. I hope I can find them.

Lisa Miller, the founder and CEO of VIE Partners, the best expense reduction and control consultancy in the health-care industry.

Mimi is the founder and director of Love’s Arm (www.lovesarmoutreach.org), a ministry that engages in Christ-centered relationships with people in addiction-related prostitution and the sex industry, empowering them to move beyond shame and into a community of grace.

I realized that as long as we were labeling them (and they were labeling themselves) as “cons,” we were all going to be victims of a never-ending cycle. So I began thinking of these people as entrepreneurs. I saw a chance to hustle with them and for them, to create a story that could break a cycle.

the number-one reason that people recidivate (return to prison)—and often don’t even give themselves a second chance—is that they lack a positive, legal vision.