Operation HOPE started as an idea in the ashes of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Today it is a seventy-five-million-dollar organization with coaches in communities across the country. This week I tell you how we got from one to the other.

I have never laid the whole story out on the podcast before. The first meetings where nobody believed a nonprofit could be run like a business. The banks that said no before they said yes. The partners who took a chance on a young man with a big idea and not much else. The mistakes I made as a founder that I would spare you from if I could.

If you are running a nonprofit, thinking about starting one, or building anything that is supposed to outlast you, this hour is a blueprint. It is also a love letter to the people who built HOPE alongside me.

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▶️ Prefer to watch? The full conversation is on my YouTube channel.