The William Hocking Podcast

A financial advisor who manages nearly a billion dollars will tell you his real job has almost nothing to do with money. William Hocking sits down with Jason LaBarge, founder of LaBarge Financial and author of If It's Meant To Be, It's Up To Me , for a back-porch conversation about money, family, and what it actually takes to build a life worth living. Jason came to Maryland in 2013 with one wife,...

Stephen Hanlon spent almost fifty years as a lawyer, with decades of experience running the largest pro-bono civil rights practice in the US.  He will tell you that, in his opinion, our entire legal profession/system in the US is one of the main facilitators for mass incarceration in America.   William Hocking sits down with Stephen Hanlon, the lawyer who led a national movement to ‘fix’ the publi...

SUMMARY: What happens when you travel across the world to serve some of the most vulnerable communities on earth? In this special episode, Bill is joined by his son, Connor Hocking, and Shafkat Alam from the incredible grass-roots non-profit, Tiljala SHED. They discuss Connor's recent week-long volunteer trip to Kolkata, India (Calcutta). Walking the same streets where Mother Teresa built her lega...

Bill's mom let him walk a mile and a half to school by himself at five years old. His six-year-old sister joined him a year later. No one called the police. No one called it neglect. That was 1960s Chillum, Maryland, and that was just how kids got to school. In this episode of The William Hocking Podcast, William Hocking sits down with his closest friend of fifty-three years, Dave Stutzman, for a...

William Hocking sits down with his  wife’s (Maria) uncle Vinny Rojo, an Air Force veteran of twenty two years, for a conversation about discipline, respect, and why the guy standing next to you might be the most important person in your life.   Vinny did not plan to enlist. He and two buddies were walking past a recruiting station at Borough Hall in Brooklyn when one of them said, let's go in and...

William Hocking and his closest friend of fifty two years, Dave Stutzman, kick off The William Hocking Podcast with a conversation about friendship and what it actually takes to keep one alive for half a century. In this debut episode of The William Hocking Podcast, William welcomes Dave for a candid, unscripted conversation about why he thinks friendship is the whole point. They met in August 197...