The finale of Season 1 features Daniel Gallant, a former violent extremist turned anti-violence activist, counselor, and scholar.
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Reckonings features stories from the conscience. Guests include law enforcement officials, business leaders, veterans, and others who are making amends with past actions. No sensationalizing or absolving, just a space for honest and heartfelt reckoning.
The latest episode features Daniel Gallant, a former violent extremist turned anti-violence activist, counselor, and scholar. He had various abusive step-dads, and was taught that to be respected, he needed to feared. His is a difficult story, but an EPIC odyssey of transcending a toxic understanding of masculinity.
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#8 Daniel Gallant || Transcending a lineage of violence
“I called myself a Karma King, because I was distributing the shit that had been given to me.” The finale of Season 1 features Daniel Gallant, a former violent extremist turned anti-violence activist, counselor, and scholar. Violence is what Gallant experienced growing up, what he became a perpetrator of, and what it has been a phenomenal feat for him to overcome. Today, he’s the founder of anti-violence organization Exit Canada, and a J.D. candidate at Thompson Rivers University. May we take this story — albeit difficult — as an opportunity to understand what motivates extremist violence, and draw hope from one person’s ability to transcend it.
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