Brian Hooks
Stand Together
Stand Together CEO Brian Hooks joined serial entrepreneur Jeffrey M. Zucker's People Are the Answer podcast, a series dedicated to people who invest their time, talent, and resources to tackle our country's biggest problems from the bottom up.
If you're driven, passionate, and audacious enough to think you can help make the world a better place — by reshaping education or immigration; by helping gang leaders to become community leaders; by fighting addiction — you already understand that it takes a special mindset to even begin, much less succeed.
For Stand Together, that mindset is at the heart of our bottom up approach to social change. It starts with a deep belief in people, seeing those closest to a problem as the source of solutions, and uniting with anyone to do right.
Below are excerpts from the podcast, which have been edited for length and clarity, and may help you on your own journey to enact change.