Screw The Naysayers Podcast

Reesy Floyd-Thompson is an entrepreneur, professional storyteller, and the founder of a support group called Prisoners Wives Girlfriends and Partners. Ressy’s story is inspiring and educational on so many levels. It begins in 2005 when she stood in a Pennsylvania courtroom where her husband, a Desert Storm Veteran, was sentenced to prison for 12.5 to 25 years. To use her words, for better or worse, she was now a married-single woman legally separated by the Department of Corrections. In that moment Reesy lost all sense of personal identity. She began to call herself Mrs. GE6309. People around her saw Reesy as just another African American woman with her husband in jail. Shock turned to reality when a UPS box arrived at her doorstep with all of her husbands belonging. Then the bills started to pile up. A 15 minute collect call from an out of state prison ran around $20. Going to see her husband involved a 10 hour trip. For the first few years Reesy operated on auto-pilot. She began to do side hustles to pay