#28 She's Not a Felon, but She's Spent Plenty of Time in Prison - Catherine Hoke, PEP and Defy

Catherine "Cat" Hoke is Founder of Prison Entrepreneurship Program and Defy, both programs created to give hope, teach skills and send ex-felons out in society to succeed. Both programs bring people and resources from the business world into direct contact with the incarcerated to raise the felons' expectations and to show business leaders on the outside that many felons are people who have made mistakes and want to make up for them. She is not without controversy, which follows her now even after her best-selling book, "A Second Chance". Felony Inc Podcast with your hosts Dave Dahl and Ladd Justesen We record the Felony Inc Podcast inside NedSpace in the Bigfoot Podcast Studio in beautiful downtown Portland. Audio engineer, mixer and podcast editor is Allon Beausoleil Show logo was designed by Carolyn Main Website was designed by Cameron Grimes Production assistant is Chelsea Lancaster Theme music "Free" written and recorded by Dave Dahl, all rights reserved, motherfuckers This weeks podcast brought to you in part by soap-on-a-rope, when you don't want to drop stuff Felony Inc Podcast supports City Central Concern at centralcityconcern.org 10% of gross revenue at Startup Radio Network goes to support women entrepreneurs in developing countries thru kiva.org/lender/markgrimes Listen to the Felony Inc Podcast live on-air every Friday at 10:00am pacific time on Startup Radio Network at startupradionetwork.com