Finding a Common Goal

The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Charles Koch and Brian Hooks joined Sarah and David to discuss their new book, Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World, which is about social entrepreneurship, the principles of human progress, and empowering people to discover their gifts. On today’s show, Koch and Hooks explain how finding common ground with people across the ideological spectrum has helped reorient their approach to public policy reform as it relates to the criminal justice system, education, and more. Show Notes: -Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World by Charles G. Koch and Brian Hooks. -Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies by Charles Koch. -After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom by Alice Marie Johnson with Nancy French. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to our special Friday dispatch podcast.
0:03.1	I'm your host Sarah is good join this week by David French.
0:06.9	We are talking to Charles Koch,
0:09.1	the CEO of Koch Industries and Brian hooks,
0:12.3	the CEO of the Stand Together Foundation.
0:15.3	They have just written a book called Believe in People,
0:18.4	Bottom Up Solutions for a Top Down World.
0:21.1	We should disclose that one of our staffers comes to us
0:24.1	from the pointer Koch media and journalism fellowship program
0:27.1	and she is wonderful by the way.
0:28.9	But we're really looking forward to today's conversation
0:31.2	about how Charles and Brian are trying to seek common ground
0:35.1	in a world of negative partisanship.
0:37.1	A topic you all know is near and dear to me and David.
0:40.1	And let's dive right in David.
0:56.6	I'm going to hand this over to you.
0:58.9	All right, well, welcome.
1:00.6	Really appreciate you guys joining us.
1:03.5	And we're talking about your book Believe in People.
1:08.0	And it is Believe in People, Bottom Up Solutions
1:11.4	for a Top Down World.
1:13.5	Now we're not going to talk politics this whole time.
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