On The Power of Hope & Action | Father Greg Boyle & Fabian Debora
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
When you’re in your darkest hour, dealing with tough circumstances that don’t seem to have an end in sight, it can be easy to lose hope. And, have those around you give up on you, even abandon you. But, in today’s powerful conversation, you’ll discover how two people, from profoundly different walks of life, found each other and not only transformed their own lives, but also the lives of so many around them.
Father Greg Boyle has become known to millions as the Jesuit priest who asked to be placed in a neighborhood in LA deeply affected by poverty, surrounded by gangs and unbearable violence, where he’d eventually found Homeboy Industries, which has since become the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program in the world.
Along the way, Fabian Debora found his way to Homeboy. A gang member, addicted, and formerly incarcerated, he lived a brutal life, at one point, becoming so despondent, he came close to taking his own life. All the while, Fabian had the soul, impulse, and wisdom of an artist that he kept trying to express. Fabian started creating stunning, large-scale paintings that reflected everything he’d experienced, and would eventually partner with Father Greg to become Executive Director of the Homebody Art Academy.
They’ve partnered on a new book, Forgive Everyone, Everything. It is a powerful collection of Fr. Greg’s most poignant writings and Fabian’s stunning art, making this book a modern-day devotional that will provoke and inspire readers.
You can find Father Greg at: Website | Instagram
You can find Fabian at: Website | Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Homies will always say they're used to being watched. They're not used to being seen. |
| 0:05.2 | It's a hard thing to do, you know, because it's like mindfulness, you know, it's not hard to do. |
| 0:10.7 | It's hard to remember to do it. And, you know, kindness is not hard to do. It's hard to remember to |
| 0:17.3 | be that. So when you're in your darkest hour, dealing with tough circumstances that don't seem |
| 0:26.1 | to have an end in sight, it can be easy to lose hope and have those around you even lose hope as |
| 0:32.6 | well, give up on you, maybe even abandon you. But in today's powerful conversation, you'll discover |
| 0:38.4 | how two people from profoundly different walks of life found each other and not only transformed |
| 0:44.1 | their own lives, but also the lives of so many around them. Father Greg Boyle has become known |
| 0:49.2 | to millions as the Jesuit priest who asked to be placed in a neighborhood in LA, deeply affected |
| 0:54.5 | by poverty surrounded by gangs and unbearable violence, where he would eventually create a |
| 0:59.7 | completely different approach to helping the community around him, founding homeboy industries |
| 1:06.3 | and growing it into a complex of companies that helped provide a safe space education, |
| 1:11.7 | community and a livelihood for former gang members, many of whom had also been in and out of |
| 1:16.5 | prison their entire lives. And homeboy has since become the largest gang intervention, |
| 1:21.4 | rehabilitation and reentry program in the world, and employs and trains gang members and |
| 1:26.3 | felons in a range of social enterprises, as well as providing critical services to thousands |
| 1:31.5 | of men and women each year who walk through its doors seeking a better life. Father Boyle is also |
| 1:37.2 | the author of the New York Times bestsellers, tattoos on the heart, the power of boundless |
| 1:41.5 | compassion, and barking at the choir, the power of radical kinship. Now, this is an unusual |
| 1:47.3 | conversation. Father Greg Boyle is here with us, but he's not the only one. Along the way, |
| 1:53.2 | Fabian DeBora found his way to homeboy. A gang member dictated formally incarcerated, he lived |
| 1:59.5 | a brutal life at one point, becoming so despondent. He came close to taking his own life, |
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