Every week on Started from the Bottom, host Justin Richmond interviews successful people who grew up on the outside – people of... more
Ready-to-wear designer Busayo Olupona talks about what it was like to leave her six-figure salaried job as a corporate attorney... more
Keith Corbin never thought cooking could be his way out of the hood. After a stint in prison, Keith needed... more
Freddie Wong is a YouTube OG. As YouTube transformed from a backwater website to a behemoth media platform, Freddie's career... more
FLY BY JING founder Jing Gao never intended to make hot sauce for a living. But after living in China... more
At 19, Jessica O. Matthews invented the SOCCKET, a soccer ball that stores kinetic energy, and then converts that power... more
Zainab Salbi grew up in Iraq, where her family lived in terror of Saddam Hussein. Then she came to America... more
When Tremaine Emory became the Creative Director at Supreme, he joined an elite but tiny group of Black people calling... more
Suze Orman has spent the past few decades sharing her financial wisdom with the public. But before Suze became an... more
When producer and author Nely Galán became Telemundo's President of Entertainment, she became the first Latina to head an American... more
Convicted of murder at age 16, Nike executive Larry Miller kept his crime and incarceration a secret for over 40... more