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🗓️ 31 December 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Driven by her hatred for injustice and love for the underdog, Catherine left behind a career in venture capital and private equity to pursue a higher calling. In 2010, she founded Defy Ventures, an organization dedicated to transforming the hustle of formerly incarcerated individuals and equipping them to go legit.
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0:54.2 | Jelly Dooms here and I am fired up to bring you our feature guest today Catherine Hoke. |
1:01.1 | Catherine are you prepared to ignite. |
1:04.2 | Yes, I know right driven by her hatred for injustice and love for the underdog. |
1:10.8 | Catherine left behind a career in venture capital and private equity to pursue a higher calling in 2010. |
1:17.4 | She founded the five ventures and organization dedicated to transforming the hustle of formerly incarcerated individuals in equipping them to go legit. |
1:28.4 | Catherine, I've given fire nation just a little inside. |
1:31.3 | So share more value personally and expand upon the biz French Canadian born California raised for the most part. |
1:39.0 | But live in New York City right now used to work in venture capital and private equity and after being invited on a prison visit at the age of 26 saw that many of the biggest underdogs in America happen to have rap sheets and many of them are right there behind prison bars and I asked myself the question when I met them the first time what would happen. |
1:59.8 | If they were equipped to go legit with their skills and that led me to start my first nonprofit which is based in Texas and the five ventures is my second nonprofits my 2.0 attempt to scale something nationally to make a difference for this very overlooked talent pool. |
2:18.1 | Well, this is exciting stuff Catherine and I think that if the five ventures wasn't available a great name for your business could have been equipped to go legit. |
2:25.8 | I just love that flow. |
2:28.2 | I might change it now. |
2:30.5 | She's like, whoa, I do like that. She's like on go daddy trying to buy the domain. |
2:34.8 | So Catherine, we're going to dive into your journey. We're going to do a really a deep dive and uncover some cool things that you've experienced throughout your life. |
2:42.8 | But before we get into that, you have a pretty, I want to call it mantra slash saying just like more like belief that you're going to share with fire nation today. So go ahead and share that. |
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