Showing up as your authentic self with love and honesty with United Playaz Executive Director Rudy Corpuz Jr.

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07/14/21 • 33 min

In this episode, host Chris Nguon taps in with United Playaz founder and executive director Rudy Corpuz Jr., who takes listeners on a journey two decades long in violence prevention and youth development work. Rudy is as transparent and honest as they come, lifting up his journey, trials and tribulations along the way stretching from his time growing up in San Francisco, his incarceration, and his eventual path towards building one of the most successful youth and violence prevention organizations that has roots and chapters not only across the country, but now around the world.

Rudy explains how important authenticity is to successful and sustainable work, while centering love and self-healing as pillars towards creating and building strong partnerships not only with youth, but with the institutions that are all part of the community ecosystem. Never one to show intimidation in expressing what needs to be said, this conversation with Brotha Rudy is rich in honest complexity that paints a beautifully pure portrayal of grassroots community work and how healing plays a big part in making it go.

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Transcript

Chris Nguon: Hey everyone before we get started today, wanted to give everyone a heads up that this episode does include some explicit language. Sometimes the Flourish family we talk about this work is super passionate and what we do and sometimes we do curse. So if you have young people around just wanted to give you a heads up. Thanks and enjoy the episode!
Chris Nguon: Peace community. Welcome to another episode of the CARMA Chronicles where we speak to the nation’s leading healing ce