Con Jobs: From Inmate to Entrepreneur (with Catherine Hoke)
Stay Tuned with Preet
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.8 • 32.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and |
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| 0:55.9 | From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm your host, Preet Bharara. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm a big advocate for second chances because I got a second chance. Most of the people |
| 1:07.1 | that I advocate for, I believe, defies their first legitimate chance. But because I was |
| 1:12.4 | a beneficiary of people who believed in me after I screwed up very publicly, I have devoted |
| 1:18.2 | my life to this work. That's my guest on the show today, Catherine |
| 1:22.2 | Hoek. Catherine is the CEO of Defy Ventures. Defy Ventures is sort of an unusual, non-profit |
| 1:28.5 | that tries to help people who have been sentenced to prison in America transition to life outside |
| 1:32.7 | of prison by helping them become entrepreneurs. Before we get to my conversation with Catherine, |
| 1:38.3 | let me answer your questions. Hey, Preet, it's Eric calling from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:43.1 | My question is more political than legal. But do you believe Senator Bob Corcor is recent |
| 1:48.2 | comments about Trump being unfit to serve in a potential danger to the country, could |
| 1:52.8 | open the floodgates for more Republicans to criticize or completely break away from the |
| 1:57.1 | president? What political incentives would need to exist for the GOP to completely divorce |
| 2:01.9 | Trump? |
| 2:02.9 | Well, look, Eric, I'm not a politician. I don't aspire to be one. And I'm not a political |
| 2:10.5 | consultant, but I am a citizen of the country. And I did make some comments on Twitter |
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