Miami, Florida
Jamal Livingston Alexander
Conversations about accountability, faith, discipline, belonging and building a meaningful life after profound change.
Speaking Engagements • Podcasts • Interviews • Panels • Faith & Community Programs
About Jamal Livingston Alexander
Liv to the people who know him.
There is room for a strong faith, a stronger body, a beautiful home and a little audacity in the same life. Liv is interested in all of it.
His days bring together training, writing, spiritual community and a love of art and personal style. The common thread is a conviction shaped by his own experience: changing a life is about more than leaving something behind. It is also about finding people, practices and possibilities worth moving toward.
Sinchona
Before Liv’s story, there were the stories that shaped him. His mother, Sinchona, was ten years old when she became the youngest person in the nation to receive an artificial mitral valve. She died suddenly at 36, when Liv was 11. The newspaper clipping preserves a remarkable chapter of his family history.
He writes and speaks about the practices, relationships and experiences that shape a life—faith, physical discipline, belonging, personal expression, accountability and the possibility of meaningful change.
Liv is currently writing a book, bringing his experiences of recovery, faith, community and transformation to the page.
A personal story.
A wider conversation.
Faith • Community • Service
For Liv, faith makes life larger. It opens the door to gratitude, friendship, service and the possibility of becoming someone he once could not imagine.
His spiritual journey took root in Miami in 2019. Sundays became a source of energy and connection; volunteering became a way to give back. Later that year, he was baptized in the ocean—a moment he still remembers with pride and joy.
— JAMAL LIVINGSTON ALEXANDER · MIAMI, FLORIDA · JUNE 2024
What stayed with him was the experience of being welcomed and then having something to contribute. He wants others to feel that too: not simply to attend a gathering, but to know that their presence matters.
Transformation
Liv loves the feeling of getting stronger—and seeing the results.
Nearly 100 pounds of weight loss has changed how he moves, how his clothes fit and what he believes his body can do. Cardiovascular training, pull-ups, strength work and attention to nutrition have become part of the rhythm of his life.
Fitness gives him both structure and pleasure: the satisfaction of another completed session, the energy of a great soundtrack and the confidence that comes from doing something difficult often enough to get better at it.
In his forties, he is still setting goals. He wants an athletic body, strength he can use and room to keep surprising himself. Looking good is part of the fun; feeling capable is what brings him back.
The Butner Fellowship
The Butner Fellowship grew from a few men gathering in a room into a weekly community of approximately 60. For Liv, it became a deeply personal expression of what happens when people make space for one another.
He helped create the Fellowship with his cellmate during his time at FCI Butner in North Carolina. What began in their room eventually moved into the chapel. His role was organizer and evangelist: bringing people together, sharing his experience and inviting men who often felt excluded to take part.
The group spent its first year studying 1 Corinthians. Alongside scripture came conversations about faith, accountability, responsibility and how to live differently. Liv performed five baptisms.
The relationships changed him too. The Fellowship was not simply something he gave to others; it was a community in which he found friendship, purpose and room to grow.
— 1 CORINTHIANS 3:6
A Life in Color
Miami is where I recharge. It’s the ocean, the light, the art, the dogs, good food, and a home filled with things that inspire me. It’s a place to create, to heal, and to keep becoming.
The Work Ahead
The book is the center of the work now. Speaking, interviews and conversations are ways to bring its questions into rooms before the manuscript is finished.
Liv welcomes thoughtful opportunities to speak, write and collaborate around the parts of life that rarely fit into a single neat category.
Accountability & What Comes After
What responsibility can require after consequences have already arrived.
Faith in Unlikely Places
Belonging, service and the story of a fellowship that grew inside federal prison.
Discipline & the Body
Nearly 100 pounds of weight loss, physical practice and the pleasure of getting stronger after 40.
The People We Become
Identity, style, aging, community and building a life that feels increasingly congruent.
He is interested in speaking engagements, podcast and media interviews, panels, faith and community programs, and thoughtful creative collaborations.
A book in the works
Liv is writing about faith, recovery, accountability, community and the people and choices that shaped what came next.
A Life in Progress
Liv’s story includes addiction and recovery, but it also includes incarceration. After a federal conviction for a sexual offense, he served two years in federal prison.
He does not separate that chapter from the life he is building now. For him, accountability means acknowledging the choices that brought consequences, examining the thinking behind them and deciding what responsibility requires afterward.
Some of the practices that shaped his life began before prison. Others deepened there. Sobriety, faith, physical discipline, community and service became less about “starting over” than about deciding what kind of life he wanted to build next.
— JAMAL LIVINGSTON ALEXANDER · MIAMI, FLORIDA · JUNE 2024
He does not offer a formula for someone else’s life. He offers an experience: progress can begin before confidence arrives, and it is easier to keep going when there are people beside you.
Jamal Livingston Alexander, at a glance.
For producers, editors, event organizers and interviewers.
50 words
Liv (Jamal Livingston Alexander) is a Miami-based speaker, writer and community organizer whose work explores accountability, faith, discipline, belonging and what it means to build a meaningful life after profound change. His story spans recovery, physical transformation, incarceration, community-building, art, style and the continuing work of living with purpose.
150 words
Liv is the public-facing name of Jamal Livingston Alexander, a Miami-based speaker, writer and community organizer. His conversations bring together accountability, faith, discipline, belonging and the complicated work of building a meaningful life after profound change. After a federal conviction for a sexual offense, Liv served two years in federal prison. At FCI Butner, he and his cellmate helped create a weekly fellowship that grew to approximately 60 men; Liv served as organizer and evangelist and performed five baptisms. His wider story also includes recovery from addiction, nearly 100 pounds of weight loss, a deep interest in art and personal style, and a commitment to community and service. He is currently writing a book and is available for speaking engagements, podcasts, interviews, panels, faith and community programs, and thoughtful creative collaborations.
Conversation & interview angles
Accountability & What Comes After
Responsibility after consequences have already arrived.
Faith in Unlikely Places
Belonging, service and a fellowship that grew inside federal prison.
Discipline & the Body
Nearly 100 pounds of weight loss, physical practice and getting stronger after 40.
Identity, Style & Becoming
How presentation, creativity and community participate in rebuilding a life.
Booking
Based in: Miami, Florida
Available for: Speaking engagements, podcasts, interviews, panels, faith & community programs and selected collaborations.
Notes from a Life in Motion
An evolving record
Faith, fitness, food, style, art, community and Miami—alongside reflections on accountability, change and updates from the book Liv is writing. A place for curiosity, conversation and the occasional refusal to take everything quite so seriously.