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The James Altucher Show

Entrepreneur's Paradise | Coolio (Redux)

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Business, Education

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

After the unexpected and untimely passing of Coolio, we have decided to re-air this early episode of the podcast.From the original release notes:"Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum artist Coolio joins The James Altucher Show to share his story of success. With more than 30 million records sold globally, Coolio gives a side to his story that most people don't know. Teacher? Psychologist? Author? There are many surprising career paths that Coolio he had interests in pursuing.You'll hear how his love of music and his ability to understand and connect with people enabled him to create hip-hop poetry unlike anyone else. Something that most people don't realize is that one of Coolio's biggest hits, "Gangsta's Paradise," caused him some career conflicts, and here you get all the details.What is truly inspiring is his passion for life and his ability to choose himself. From a rough childhood and being bullied to creating his career from scratch, you get the exclusive details from Coolio himself.He is living proof that believing in yourself is a skill, one that everyone can master if they put their mind to it."------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Oh man, I cannot believe it.

0:07.3

One of my all time favorite podcasts guests has just passed away.

0:12.3

I'm really sorry to hear this, but we had an insane podcast.

0:18.0

Podcast was coolio.

0:19.5

And this was really one of my early podcasts.

0:21.3

I did this one back in, I believe 2014.

0:25.7

And I was nervous.

0:27.0

And I coolio had been my favorite rapper back in the 90s.

0:32.4

And I just loved everything he did in the podcast.

0:37.3

He described to me his writing process.

0:39.7

It was a lot more intense than I thought.

0:42.2

And it was also a good training.

0:44.2

I was a beginning podcaster then.

0:46.4

And it was good training for me to kind of learn how to kind of stop when I get curious

0:52.2

and find out what's going on.

0:53.4

Like he mentioned something about having some problems and it turned out and I stopped

0:57.6

him.

0:58.6

What problems?

0:59.6

And he's like, oh, you know, I'm addicted to cocaine.

1:01.8

And I'm like, well, how do you get over an addiction to cocaine?

1:05.0

And he describes the answer.

1:07.0

So we talk about music, we talk about his process, we talk about his personal journey and

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