"Buried $500K Drug Cash, Prison Plea with God, Bootstrapped Boarding School" with Melvin Cole

Some stories don’t fit neatly into a redemption arc. Melvin Cole’s is one of them. On the latest episode of Drive By with Sam Coates , Cole, founder of PURE Academy in Memphis, shares a raw, unpolished account of growing up in extreme poverty, entering the drug trade at age 11, surviving gun violence and ultimately choosing a radically different path. Raised by a heroin-addicted grandmother in…