Stephen Gillen, after being born in the UK & taken to the height of the troubles in Belfast as a baby where he witnessed the war and great traumas till age 9 when his surrogate mother died of cancer, was then sent back to England. After a succession of brutal children’s homes and having to survive in London in his early teens, he was groomed into crime, going to prison firstly aged 14 elevating quickly into organized crime as a senior criminal in Londons East End, receiving a 17-year sentence as a category A prisoner serving 12 years in prison being labeled one of the UK’s most dangerous prisoners.

During his early life and this period, Stephen overcame his behavioral problems, anger & violence issues, addiction, mental illness, criminality, isolation, abandonment, dis-empowerment & poverty. His life story, written in his bestselling book “The Monkey Puzzle Tree” is being made into a major film, in 2019 he was nominated for an International Peace Prize and is a leading Transformation Expert & Author, an executive producer, an Internationally successful entrepreneur in many fields and CEO of Roar Media Creative a successful and multi-award winning Digital media, brand, and TV/Film Production Company.