Episode 8: Fighting To Give Others a Fighting Chance
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On the season five finale of "On The Job," we meet Leonette. Her path to her career - she's a Law Clerk at the US Department of Education - had more than a few twists and turns. In fact, she started law school in her 30s, after realizing that she could help to address the yawning gap in African-American and female representation in the legal field. Now, she's using her degree to advocate for others who lack a voice: victims of predatory for-profit colleges. She's part of the DOE's Borrower's Defense Group, and is responsible for processing claims against these unscrupulous schools. Turns out that Leonette found her niche after all, and her work is helping others - many of them new to the country and to the English language - regain their footing so that they may, too, find their niches.
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| 0:00.0 | This is On The Job, a podcast about finding your life's work. |
| 0:10.7 | On The Job is brought to you by Express Employment Professionals. |
| 0:14.4 | This season, we're bringing you stories of folks following their passion to carve their |
| 0:18.2 | own career path. |
| 0:21.6 | For this season finale of On The Job, we talk to Leonette, a second career law clerk who |
| 0:26.3 | works daily to help relieve student debt for people who've been misled by bogus colleges. |
| 0:31.7 | We talk to her about the surprising accessibility of the profession itself and the importance |
| 0:36.4 | of new voices being represented within it. |
| 0:43.1 | As a radio producer, I feel like one of the most confusing and out-of-reach lines of |
| 0:47.5 | work for me is any job in the field of law. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm recording. |
| 0:51.8 | You're recording on your voice, memo? |
| 0:53.8 | Yes. |
| 0:54.8 | Okay, awesome. |
| 0:55.8 | I got to demystify that world a little bit by talking with Leonette. |
| 0:59.8 | So my name is Leonette Rainey Hammett. |
| 1:02.6 | I am 42 years old. |
| 1:05.8 | I keep having to think about that. |
| 1:07.6 | COVID messed up. |
| 1:08.6 | It's COVID. |
| 1:10.6 | Leonette is a lawyer. |
| 1:12.0 | Technically, a law clerk for the Department of Education, Barwer's Defense Group. |
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