Founder's Story

Created from lived experience.

Breaking Cycles was inspired by the journey behind the book Breaking Cycles: From Prison to Purpose by Agos Youngsam.
Agos Youngsam holding his book Breaking Cycles: From Prison to Purpose

Agos Youngsam

Founder & Author

Agos Youngsam is the sole founder of Breaking Cycles. His lived experience shapes the organisation's voice, its conviction, and its commitment to practical second chances.

This work is rooted in the belief that transformation is possible when people are given more than advice — when they are given genuine opportunity, practical tools, encouragement and someone willing to believe in their future.

From lived experience comes a different kind of credibility: not theory, but the hard-won knowledge that the path out is real, navigable, and possible — with the right support, structure and community.

Breaking Cycles is the next chapter of that story: a movement built to help others walk a similar path with fewer obstacles and more open doors.