cat: sarah eichhorn is one of her clients.son when simmons was incarcerated and eichhorn was volunteering to help people with substance use issues. eichhorn had been incarcerated herself after an altercation during a supervised visit with her son when she was a teenager, a time when she was battling drug addiction. sarah: i got sent off to prison and was just there for like five or six months, not too long. but yeah, so i got out. and that's really hard to get a job. cat: for the last 18 years, eichhorn has not had any run ins with the law, but her felony record has been a big obstacle. sarah: i feel like i have to kind of live on the fringe a little bit still. i would love to not have to explain my worst day ever, my son's worst day ever to anyone again. you know. cat: simmons is helping her friend apply for a pardon, to erase that record. tarra: you know, you make one bad decision, make one mistake, and that does define you. and it's unfortunate because you can make hundreds, thousands, millions of good decisions since then