Jewel: From Homeless to Grammy Nominee

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Legendary singer-songwriter Jewel became homeless when she was 16 years old and was later discovered singing at a coffee shop. She opens up about how she used mindfulness to help cope with her tough childhood and pitfalls in her music career. Today, she is on a mission to help other people learn healthy mental fitness habits through her "Never Broken" platform and is partnering with corporate America to increase wellness in the workplace. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In this episode of Boss Files,
0:02.1	Not to worry, because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these,
0:07.8	because in the end, only kindness matters.
0:14.0	Legendary singer-songwriter, Jewel.
0:16.9	She grew up in Alaska, left home as a teenager hitchhiking from Michigan to Mexico.
0:22.5	And it's when I looked in the mirror that I realized, oh, I didn't avoid being a statistic.
0:26.1	I am a statistic. I'm a homeless kid with panic attacks.
0:28.9	She was discovered at just 18 years old, and by 23, she graced the cover of Time magazine.
0:35.6	Fame never was a lure for me.
0:39.1	It was always sort of a false profit.
0:42.0	My currency has always been my ability
0:43.7	to have an authentic, happy life.
0:46.0	Today, she's working to share her happiness
0:48.2	with all of us.
0:50.0	Through Jewel Never Broken,
0:51.8	an online community with tools
0:53.5	to help lead a happy life.
0:55.7	Plus, she calls her three-year-old son her greatest accomplishment.
1:00.4	I sat down with the one and only Jewel at Fortune's Most Powerful Women's Summit.
1:06.6	Jewel, thank you for being here. Thank you for having you.
1:09.6	So many ways to describe you. You are a mother.
1:14.0	I say that first because as a mom, that's the hardest of all the jobs, the most rewarding.
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