Jun 30, 2026 · 55 min · 14 segments
Stan interviews Christa Gannon about founding Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) after volunteering with incarcerated teens and asking what could have prevented their involvement with the justice system…
Krista GannonGuestStan ChristensenHostFirst question I'd like to pose to you, you took a very non-traditional path out of law school.
There's probably a fair amount of pressure to follow a more traditional path.
... talk about, as you thought about taking a different path, what was that negotiation like with yourself?
[laughs] Like, I, I think there was a part of me, and I call it, like, the inner whisperings or the deepest wisdom that we have as humans that was constantly talking to me, and I just kept pushing it down.
I had a real relationship with fear and really wanted to make sure that I made the best of my Stanford education and all the hard work that I had done.
I was actually at a all women's law conference with my then boyfriend, now husband, who had flown up to see me for the weekend.
If you wanna see me, you gotta come to this conference with me." And we were sitting in this room at Stanford, like, a hundred and eighty seats, and I'm sitting next to him, and this civil rights lawyer who was so inspirational was speaking, and she was holding her hand up, and she said, "I've been carrying the torch of justice for years, and I'm tired.
Who will take my torch?" And I grabbed my husband's leg, and I literally blurted out loud, "I want the torch.
And it was mortifying because a lot of people heard it, but it was this moment where I think this inner wisdom and calling just broke through and was like, "I'm going to make you listen to me.
First question I'd like to pose to you, you took a very non-traditional path out of law school.
There's probably a fair amount of pressure to follow a more traditional path.
... talk about, as you thought about taking a different path, what was that negotiation like with yourself?
[laughs] Like, I, I think there was a part of me, and I call it, like, the inner whisperings or the deepest wisdom that we have as humans that was constantly talking to me, and I just kept pushing it down.
I had a real relationship with fear and really wanted to make sure that I made the best of my Stanford education and all the hard work that I had done.
I was actually at a all women's law conference with my then boyfriend, now husband, who had flown up to see me for the weekend.
If you wanna see me, you gotta come to this conference with me." And we were sitting in this room at Stanford, like, a hundred and eighty seats, and I'm sitting next to him, and this civil rights lawyer who was so inspirational was speaking, and she was holding her hand up, and she said, "I've been carrying the torch of justice for years, and I'm tired.
Who will take my torch?" And I grabbed my husband's leg, and I literally blurted out loud, "I want the torch.
And it was mortifying because a lot of people heard it, but it was this moment where I think this inner wisdom and calling just broke through and was like, "I'm going to make you listen to me.
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I Want The Torch
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