Danny Trejo – “A Book of Miracles” – TWP071 (UPDATED)

About this episode

Danny Trejo shares his journey of transformation and the importance of helping others during a live interview.

One day in 1968, Danny Trejo had hit rock bottom: solitary confinement at the Correction Training Facility, otherwise known as Soledad Prison. From that moment, he decided to change his life completely. During a live interview at DragonCon 2024, Danny tells Anson about the redemptive power in helping others. Music in this episode was provided by John Bartmann under a Creative Commons 1.0 Universal License. Link to John Bartmann’s Patron: https://www.patreon.com/johnbartmann Link to CC License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ https://youtu.be/2DUEVQs-RMs

People in this episode

Hosts: Anson Mount, Branan Edgens

Guest: Danny Trejo

Topics covered

• redemption
• personal transformation
• helping others
• prison experience
• live interview

Keywords

• Danny Trejo
• redemption
• prison
• DragonCon
• interview
• personal change
• helping others

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DragonCon, John Bartmann

Books & works: A Book of Miracles

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