How I Built Resilience: Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Father Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, one of the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry programs in the world. He speaks with Guy about how the Los Angeles based organization has adapted to continue training and employing people during the pandemic. These conversations are excerpts from our How I Built Resilience series, where Guy talks online with founders and entrepreneurs about how they're navigating turbulent times.

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1:08.0	On these episodes, we talk with entrepreneurs and change makers about how they're meeting today's challenges with new strategies and ideas.
1:17.0	And today, we're going to hear from father Gregory Boyle. He's the founder of Homeboy Industries.
1:22.0	Father Greg founded Homeboy Industries after years of serving as a Jesuit priest and later as a pastor at Dolores Mission Church in East LA, where he saw the devastating effects of gang related violence on his community.
1:36.0	After operating for over 30 years, Homeboy Industries has become one of the largest gang intervention rehabilitation and reentry programs in the world.
1:46.0	About 15,000 folks a year walked through our doors trying to reimagine their lives. We were begun in 1988.
1:53.0	Just in my parish, which was the poorest in the city, but it had the highest concentration of gang activity.
1:59.0	We had eight gangs that war with each other.
2:02.0	And I started to bury kids. I buried my 283rd last week.
2:08.0	Not all from that community obviously, but I know a lot of gang members. So I get asked.
2:12.0	And so we just started things. We started to school. Then we started the jobs program trying to find felony friendly employers.
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