Introducing: When It Clicked

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Lemonada Media

True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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What’s it like to spend years in a state penitentiary and then make it big in Hollywood? What makes a death row warden become a leading voice in prison reform? How does a conservative Christian in the deep South decide we can’t incarcerate our way out of a drug crisis? For all of these people, they had a moment when their thinking about justice and safety changed. In this series, host Ana Zamora – founder of The Just Trust – sits down with business leaders, advocates, actors, artists, and unexpected changemakers to learn about when it all clicked for them, and what they’re doing about it.

You’re about to hear an episode from When It Clicked, focusing on the transformative power of art within the justice system. For Clarence Maclin, the answer unfolded during his incarceration at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Through a program called Rehabilitation Through the Arts, he used theater as a way to process trauma onstage and off. Now starring in the A24 film "Sing Sing", Clarence tells us what it was like acting out his own story on the big screen. Plus, how a more compassionate justice system doesn’t just transform the lives of incarcerated people – it strengthens society when they return as productive, creative and empowered community members.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rushmastajani, founder of Girls Who Code. Look, I'd consider myself a pretty successful
0:06.8	adult woman. I've written books, founded two successful nonprofits, and I'm raising two incredible kids.
0:13.7	But here's the thing. I still wake up wondering, is this it? And if the best years are yet to come, when's that going to start? Join me on my
0:25.0	so-called midlife, my new podcast with Lemonada Media, where we're building a playbook for navigating
0:31.2	midlife, one episode at a time. Each week, I'll chat with extraordinary guests who've transformed their midlife crisis
0:39.3	into opportunities for growth and newfound purpose. At some point, we all ask ourselves,
0:47.2	is there more to life? I'm here to discover how to thrive in my second act, right alongside you.
0:55.0	My so-called midlife is out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:00.1	I'm Nicola Cochlin, and for BBC Radio 4, this is history's youngest heroes.
1:06.6	Rebellion, risk, and the radical power of youth.
1:10.3	She thought, right, I'll just do it.
1:11.9	She thought about others rather than herself.
1:14.9	Twelve stories of extraordinary young people from across history.
1:18.7	There's a real sense of urgency in them.
1:21.1	That resistance has to be mounted.
1:22.5	It has to be mounted now.
1:24.5	Follow History's youngest heroes, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:31.8	Lemonada.
1:37.4	Welcome to When It Clicked.
1:39.9	I'm your host, Anna Zamora, founder and CEO of the Just Trust, an organization fighting for a
1:46.3	criminal justice system that works better for all of us. In this series, I'm talking to people from
1:53.6	all walks of life to ask why they're working to transform our justice system. We may come to this issue for very different reasons,
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