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Episode 3 | Billie Edison — "For Such a Time as This"

What do you do when you're surrounded by US Marshals, guns pointed at your head, and you've already told yourself you'd never go to prison alive?

Billie Edison did the one thing she never expected — she listened.

In this episode of B.A.S.I.C. Conversations, Brother Boston sits down with his friend and fellow Last Mile alumni Billie Edison — a mother of seven, a woman of faith, and one of the most remarkable transformation stories you'll ever hear. Billie opens up about growing up surrounded by drugs and alcohol, working in the medical field for 23 years while fighting addiction, and the chain of events in 2016 that led to her arrest on charges of felony murder and robbery.

But this isn't a story about what Billie lost. It's about what she chose.

Behind bars, she picked up a Bible she had no interest in reading — and encountered a peace she had never felt from any drug, any relationship, or anything in this world. Then came the decision that changed everything: with early release on the table and her attorney ready to go, Billie told God she needed a sign. She asked Him specifically — if you want me to stay, someone has to tell me I was brought here for such a time as this. The very next day, at a seminar, a woman on the screen said exactly that.

So she chose to stay.

She completed The Last Mile Program, came home, and within two years landed a job in the IT department of the Indiana Pacers. She has since purchased her own home, her own car, and is actively going back into prisons across the country to bring hope to those still inside.

God didn't just change her circumstances. He gave her a purpose she couldn't have planned for herself.

This one will stay with you.

Key topics: addiction and recovery, finding faith while incarcerated, The Last Mile Program, reentry, restoration, purpose after prison