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Krista Gannon

Krista Gannon

Founder of Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY); nonprofit executive, juvenile-justice advocate, and leadership coach; former Stanford Law graduate and UC Santa Barbara basketball All-American.

Jun 30, 2026

29:26
Did you ever have any difficult conversations with parents who weren't as excited about you playing the role as an organization in their life that you were playing?
29:34
Yeah.
29:35
Yeah.
29:36
I mean, sometimes difficult conversations or with parents or with gang members that aren't super excited that we're working with young people to help change their trajectory.
29:45
I, I remember probably, you know, just it was a horrible experience when I was taking a young person home from a three-day retreat, and his mother, who was, you know, just, she was a hardcore drug addict that didn't get the support that she wanted, and she just, she didn't want me to bring him home.
30:02
She wanted him to go somewhere else.
30:04
And that was, that was really, that was really hard, and that was the reality that he was living in.
32:58
Any negotiation stories from that group of people?

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