Ep. 42 - Coolio: Entrepreneur's Paradise

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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 minds to it. ------------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	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.5	This is the James Alteter Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:10.8	Hey, is this coolio?
0:20.3	What's up?
0:22.3	Coolio, this is James.
0:23.8	Thanks for coming on the show.
0:25.3	I don't have James, so I'm good.
0:28.2	So coolio, here's what my show is sort of about.
0:31.5	It's about how people transform, like amazing artists and businessmen transform their lives
0:37.8	from one career to another career to another career.
0:41.9	And you've done that so well over your whole life.
0:45.2	I wanted to talk to you about that.
0:46.6	Is that cool with you?
0:48.4	Sure.
0:49.4	Okay, so I saw you once on Craig Ferguson's show, The Late Late Show.
0:58.1	And you kind of did this funny thing.
0:59.6	You turned the tables on him and you asked him, you were almost making fun of the question,
1:05.2	like, oh, how did you get into rapping?
1:07.3	So I'm assuming like everyone asks you that, but I have to ask you that because it's interesting
1:13.6	to me.
1:14.6	So when did you start getting into, obviously you're one of the best rappers in history.
1:21.1	When did you start doing it?
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