Beverly Parenti & Chris Redlitz (The Last Mile) and Ray Harts (Healthy Hearts Institute) - Growing a Social Venture

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Beverly Parenti and Chris Redlitz are the co-founders of The Last Mile, an organization that aims to break the cycle of incarceration by providing education and career training opportunities in prisons. Founded in 2010 at San Quentin State Prison, The Last Mile has become one of the most requested prison education programs in the United States. In this talk, joined by former TLM student and Healthy Hearts Institute founder Ray Harts, they discuss how to build and grow social ventures that make a difference.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build. This is Thought Leaders Revisited, a special summer
0:09.5	2020 edition of our Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. During this summer of uncertainty,
0:16.0	we're inviting some of the most influential past ETL speakers to join us for a series of new conversations
0:22.3	about innovation, leadership, and especially finding opportunities in the midst of a crisis.
0:28.9	Today I'm really excited to welcome Chris Redlitz, Beverly Parenti, and Ray Hartz back to ETL.
0:36.4	Beverly and Chris are the co-founders of The Last Mile, an organization that aims to break
0:41.8	the cycle of incarceration by providing education and career training opportunities in prisons.
0:49.0	Founded 10 years ago, 2010 at San Quentin State Prison, The last mile has become one of the most requested prison
0:55.4	education programs in the United States. And Ray Hartz was a participant in the last mile
1:00.6	program at San Quentin, where he crafted a plan for Healthy Hearts Institute, and he launched
1:06.2	and leads this venture. Chris, Beverly Ray, welcome to ETL. Really delighted to talk to you since your
1:12.6	last visit seven years ago in 2013. Thanks for having us. Great to be here. Really a pleasure.
1:19.6	So we're going to talk about what's going on now, but we're going to also play some short clips
1:24.9	from your last visit to help tee up the conversation. Now, I have to tell you,
1:29.0	I am a huge fan of the last mile. In fact, I've got my last mile sweatshirt on right now. The talk
1:35.2	you gave seven years ago stimulated me to start volunteering in the program. And from my
1:41.0	vantage point, it has been incredibly remarkable to see the program grow and expand.
1:46.1	So I want to start with a short clip with Beverly talking about what motivated the launch of this program.
1:52.0	So let's start with a clip about, you know, what inspired this at the very beginning.
1:57.4	My first reaction was, why would I want to spend my free time? Because I have so little
2:04.7	of it anyway. Why would I want to spend my free time working with prisoners? But he had that
2:11.7	passion, and he actually asked me not to make any judgments about something I knew very little about.
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