Audacious Solutions

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Technology

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Original broadcast date: June 30, 2023. Big problems need audacious solutions. This hour, TED speakers use data and common sense to make laws more effective, reform the foster care system and hold environmental offenders accountable. Guests include criminal justice reform activist Sheena Meade, child welfare advocates Sixto Cancel and Marquan Teetz, and ocean monitoring expert Tony Long.

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:04.4	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:06.8	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.2	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:09.9	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:12.0	Around the world.
0:12.9	To understand who we are.
0:14.8	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.0	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:21.9	Challenge you. We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy? And even change you.
0:26.3	I literally feel like I'm a different person. Yes. Do you feel that way? Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.5	From Ted and NPR. I'm Manusse Zamoroti.
0:39.8	In 2004, I was newly a single mom trying to raise four children.
0:45.3	This is Sheena Mead.
0:46.9	Sheena was living in Florida, and life was hectic.
0:51.3	We had just moved into a new home. I was on Section 8 and just trying to get
0:57.1	myself together. My children at that time were all under the age of seven. I was on government
1:05.0	assistance and I was just trying to make ends meet. Sheena remembers an afternoon that started off like any other. Her kids were playing, running around. There were cartoons blaring in the background. And there was two knocks at the door. And it was a police officer with another police officer. And so the kids were like, Mom and the police sat at the door. I'm like, okay, so I'm looking at them confused.
1:29.1	And I'm like, they're like, are you Sheena? And I'm like, yes. Because I didn't have anything to be worried about. I didn't think. I kind of was hesitant, but I was just like, they're probably at the wrong door. So what did they tell you? They're like, we're serving you in a warrant for a worthless check.
1:27.2	You know, basically, like, we're serving you in a warrant for a worthless check. You know,
1:45.3	basically, like, you passed a check that got returned with no funds and the company decided to
1:53.3	prosecute. And so that check was for $87.26, a check that I had at that time written for groceries
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