About this episode
Anton Noble didn't read about gang culture in a textbook. He lived it. Growing up in Coventry, he was inside it. Now, 12 years out, he's one of the UK's most credible voices in youth violence prevention, running Guiding Young Minds and working with at-risk young people who are exactly where he once was.
This episode is about what actually drives young people into gangs, why punishment alone never works, and what real intervention looks like when it's led by someone the young person knows has walked the same road.
The conversation goes into county lines exploitation, the role of trauma in youth violence, and why the systems designed to help so often miss the mark. Anton doesn't pull punches.
Lived experience isn't a qualification. Here, it's everything.
About Anton Noble
Anton Noble grew up inside gang culture in Coventry and spent over a decade on the wrong side of it. Now he's one of the UK's leading voices in gang prevention, founding Guiding Young Minds, a mentoring and intervention programme working with at-risk young people across the country. Lived experience as the foundation for real change.
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