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 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 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 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 us coming soon. Wherever you get your podcasts,