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For today’s episode we have Jared Koenig, a pitcher for the Oakland A’s who has had quite the journey to get to where he’s at today. While we talk a lot about baseball, I believe Jared’s story is very relatable and anyone can take away useful lessons that can be applied in their daily life.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

It has been a while since I put out an episode and that is because I have had a lot on my plate since last September. But I am back and I wanted to reflect on some of the most important things I have learned from working on Bold Moves Only over the past 2+ years. Expect more episodes and projects to come out soon!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

For today’s episode we have Michael Simmons author of The Pain: A Black Man’s Poetic Reflections On Emotional Pain & Mental Distress. Michael, who has struggled in the past with mental health issues and worked hard to overcome them, wanted to speak out, write a book and inspire other's to be more open and better understand how to deal with them. You can purchase his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Poetic-Reflections-Emotional-Distress-ebook/dp/B08YP6R5TS --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

For today’s episode we have Quan Huyn, author of the book Sparrow in the Razor Wire: Finding Freedom from Within While Serving a Life Sentence. Quan was given a life sentence for shooting and killing another man in a gang-related incident in Hollywood in 1999. After many years he realized that prison could be a place of healing as opposed to purely punishment. He began his journey towards inner freedom and despite knowing that he could have spent the rest of his life in prison he dedicated himself to helping others do the same. He was ultimately paroled from his life sentence in 2015 and has continued to help others on the inside and out of prison with multiple initiatives and ventures. One of those being Defy Ventures,” an entrepreneurship, career readiness & personal development training program for people with criminal histories. You can learn more and get the book here: https://quanxhuynh.com/collections/products --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

Ethan Frisch is an entrepreneur and activist around food systems and social justice. He has had a very interesting journey which has led him to co-founding Burlap & Barrel, a spice company that is a Public Benefit Corporation, building new international food supply chains that are equitable, transparent and traceable.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

Matt Haney is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 6. He has been the member and President of the San Francisco Board of Education as well as co-founder of #cut50, an Oakland-based national nonprofit designed to end mass incarceration.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

Operation Libero is an organization based in Switzerland that has created a political movement by creatively re-framing public discourse by skillfully turning the spaces, tools and rhetoric used by conservative populists on the heads to reach broad audiences through emotional, simple and accessible imagery, messages and concepts. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

Since 2008 Leticia has been with La Cocina, an organization in San Francisco, California that cultivates low income food entrepreneurs, focusing primarily on women from communities of color and immigrant communities. They provide affordable commercial kitchen space, industry-specific technical assistance and access to market opportunities. La Cocina has opened over 30 brick & mortar restaurants, found national distribution for packaged products, and created hundreds of jobs in their communities. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

Cynthia Chandler has dedicated her life to achieving gender and racial justice while challenging violence in all its forms, including imprisonment. Cynthia is an always-bold founder, coach, and life-learner with over 25 years’ experience as a social entrepreneur, activist, academic and attorney. In collaboration with HIV-positive activists in prison, she founded the first organization advocating for HIV-positive women in prison. She co-founded Critical Resistance and Justice Now, early prison industrial complex abolitionist organizations influencing the Black Lives Matter network. She has coached the launch of dozens more social ventures. As an attorney, her practice is equally innovative: when law does not allow the relief she seeks for her clients, she changes it. She helped create the compassionate release legal process through loopholes in the law, representing the first terminally ill people granted release from prison in California. Her cases became the case studies used to codify the process in California, and later nationally. She uncovered California’s coercive sterilization of women in prison through 2012, and led efforts to pass successful legislation to stop it. Cynthia maintains a legislative practice, contributing to key legislation aimed at shrinking imprisonment. In all her work, she serves as an ally and coach, supporting disenfranchised people in realizing their own solutions for freedom. Cynthia has received numerous awards for her innovative work, including: California Women Lawyers’ prestigious Fay Stender Award, 2015; Women's Health Activist Network’s Top 30 Activist for Women's Health, 2005; Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award, 2001; and California Law Business’ Attorney to Whom California Can Be Most Grateful, 1997. Cynthia received her JD from Harvard Law School and a MPhil in Criminology from University of Cambridge. She is the mother of two artists and scholars. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

Jason spoke with Siddharth Kara, an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery, child labor, and related human rights issues. Among other things, Siddharth discusses his past few years researching the conditions of those mining Cobalt in the Congo. Siddharth has called it the "the most extreme and sharp example of modern slavery." Cobalt is needed for lithium recharcheable batteries so I needed it record this podcast and you needed it to listen to it. It touches us every day but do we really know much about where it comes from?   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

For today's episode Jason spoke with Rushan Abbas, an Uyghur American activist and advocate from East Turkestan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. She is the founder and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs, a non-profit that advocates and promotes human rights and democratic freedoms for Uyghurs, and mobilizes the international community to act to stop the human rights atrocity in East Turkistan. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message

For today’s episode Jason spoke with Dr. Leslie Field, the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of the Arctic Ice Project who have set out to preserve and restore the arctic ice. Learn about the dire situation we are facing with the Arctic Ice continuing to melt and how they have set out to address it.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boldmovesonly/message