Introducing Started from the Bottom

Every week on Started from the Bottom, host Justin Richmond interviews successful people who grew up on the outside – people of color, people who weren’t part of the old boys’ network, people who came from a world where almost nobody went to college. How did they do it? How did they beat the odds while also beating away the feeling of being an imposter? Find out, beginning March 14. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin. Hey everyone, my name is Justin Richmond, and this
show started from the bottom as an origin that's probably
familiar to a lot of you listening. I was always
told growing up that college would be my ticket. It
was the end all be all. No one in my
family had ever completed a degree. So by the time

(00:36):
I transferred to UC Berkeley in twenty eleven, I thought
that as long as I made it through the next
two years, i'd made it. Of course, it was really
only the beginning. I had no idea what came next,
what I wanted to do for a living, or what
making a living even was. I was lost, and so
I started doing what I used to do as a kid.
Anytime I saw a brother who looked like me in

(00:58):
a Benz or a suit, I started asking successful black
men and women i'd see around what they did for me.
It seems like the only way I could figure any
of this out, and so that's when I'd be for
This show struck me to sert. Interviewing successful people who
grew up on the outside, people of color, people who
weren't part of the old boys network, people who grew

(01:18):
up in a world where almost nobody went to college.
How did they do it? How did they beat the
odds while also beating away the nagging feeling of being
an imposture, of feeling like an outsider. This is started
from the bottom, hard earned success stories from people like
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