FF 140 - Catherine Hoke Shares Why Prisoners Make the Best Entrepreneurs

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Education, Comedy, Self-improvement, News, Politics

4.6 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of Felony Friday Catherine Hoke joins John to discuss her extensive work creating programs that teach inmates about entrepreneurship, business and forgiveness. Catherine is the founder of two groundbreaking incredible effective nonprofits: Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) and Defy Ventures. PEP and Defy equip people with criminal histories to start legal businesses and careers and have produced recidivism rates of less than 7 percent. Catherine is the author of A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us. During this episode Catherine also shares details as to why she had to resign from Defy Ventures earlier this year and what her plans are moving forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm making a robot head with an Amazon box.
0:03.0	I've painted it silver and Daddy help me make it.
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1:05.5	Here is your host, John Otermat.
1:09.2	Felons, friends, and freedom lovers, welcome back to another edition of Felony Friday.
1:15.3	Felony Friday, of course, is a weekly show here on the Lines of Liberty podcast that focuses
1:19.7	each and every single Friday on exposing injustice in this nation's broken criminal justice system.
1:28.5	Now, felony Friday is only one of a handful of shows that we have here on Lines of Liberty.
1:33.7	We kick off every week with a show hosted by Mark Clare.
1:37.1	It's our flagship program, our longest training program, where Mark interviews leaders in the
1:42.1	Libertarian Movement, Libertarian Philosophy, who also hosts
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