Healing in Public: The City that Failed Us with Charles Rheddick and Joe Teixeira

This episode of Conversations with Coach LA marks the opening of Season 9, Chapter 50 — Heal. Elevate. Evolve., with a powerful and necessary conversation on healing in public.

Coach LA is joined by filmmakers Joe Teixeira and Charles Rheddick to discuss their documentary The City That Failed Us All, which examines the lasting impact of the 1979 shooting of Darryl K. Williams and the decades-long silence that followed for those who witnessed the tragedy.

The conversation centers on community and racial trauma, the psychological toll of witnessing violence without aftercare, and the long-term effects of institutional neglect. Through storytelling, lived experience, and clinical insight, the episode reframes healing as an act of truth-telling, accountability, and legacy-building.

This show invites listeners to reflect on their own unacknowledged trauma, consider the cost of silence, and explore what it means to choose healing even when systems fail.

This ain’t a mid-life crisis — it’s a mid-life clarity.

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