Together LA Listening Tour

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Ken Korver, the President of The Compton Initiative and Pastor of Emmanuel Reformed Church in Paramount, to talk about his love for the city and the power of staying planted.

In this episode of the Together LA Listening Tour, Tommy and Johanna sit with 3 legendary scholars local to LA and discuss the power of coming together and journeying through what racial reconciliation looks like in today’s culture.

In this episode of the Together LA Listening Tour, we sit down with  Ali Motroni, Advisor at Align Impact and Together LA Board Member. Based in Santa Monica, Ali talks with us about her inspiring career path, the idea of privilege and marrying our work with passion.

In this episode of TogetherLA's the Listening Tour, Tommy and Johanna sit down and talk with Russell Bjorkman, an LA entrepreneur, about the Christian entrepreneur scene in LA, and how he started working and investing into startups. They talk about the growing trend of starting your own business not only in the US, but all over the world.

In this episode of TogetherLA's the Listening Tour we talk with Karen Covell, Entrepreneur, Producer and Founding Director of Hollywood Prayer Network. We talk with her about her start in Hollywood, her passion for those who work in Hollywood, and the path that led her to starting and growing the Hollywood Prayer Network.

In this episode of TogetherLA's the Listening Tour, Tommy Lee sat down with Joseph Barkley, the lead and founding pastor of Radius Church in North Hollywood.  They talked about the city of North Hollywood, how the  church started, his vision for the church, as well as his life as a  career musician and in a band before being a pastor.

In this episode of TogetherLA's the Listening Tour, Tommy sat down with Rev Dr. Naima Lett, and talked about her life as an entrepreneurial pastor, working in Hollywood as an actress and producer, launching a church in Beverly Hills, and the launch of the 4050 project.

In this episode of TogetherLA's the Listening Tour, Tommy and Jojo sit down and talk with entrepreneur and Forbes 30 under 30, Eden Chen about lessons he has learned working in private equity, a church, and now as an entrepreneur launching new companies.  They also talk with him about his decision of moving into a neighborhood of LA different then the neighborhood he grew up in and the reason behind it.

In this episode of TogetherLA’s the Listening Tour, Tommy and Jojo talk with Maurice Woods, Field Director for Prison Fellowship where he oversees the cognitive program development in prisons all throughout LA. We talk about the current situations in prisons in LA today during COVID-19, what prison fellowship programming looks like, and understanding how the church can come alongside those who have been incarcerated.

In this episode of Together LA's The Listening Tour we talked to Dorima Hamilton, Executive Director of Instituto de Avance Latino or IDEAL CDC in LA. We talked about her own journey, the challenges of starting and launching an organization, and her passion for economic justice. This interview was recorded early on when the Pandemic started so we heard from Dorima on some of the challenges facing the Latino community during the early onset of the Pandemic.