Started From The Bottom: Charlamagne Tha God - How He Turned Anxiety and Failure into Success
The Breakfast Club
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Introducing Started from the Bottom.
Every week on Started from the Bottom, host Justin Richmond interviews 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 feeling of being an imposter?
Over a 25 year career, Charlamagne Tha God clawed his way to the top of the radio industry. In this episode of Started From the Bottom, a new podcast from Pushkin Industries, the long-time host of The Breakfast Club tells us what it took for him — a young man suffering from anxiety, constantly in and out of jail — to become an icon of modern media.
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| 0:00.0 | AT&T believes in the things that keep their value over time. |
| 0:03.6 | Like those expressionist paintings all our grandma's had in their living rooms, |
| 0:07.6 | that good cast iron skillet that holds the secret ingredient to all of those pastown recipes, |
| 0:13.2 | the quilt you're on intricately made by hand, a dead stock pair of sneakers, |
| 0:18.0 | and at AT&T, even your old Samsung phone can have surprising value because the deal is back. |
| 0:24.8 | Get a new Samsung Galaxy phone when you trade in your old one. |
| 0:28.6 | Ask how new and existing customers can trade in a Galaxy phone any year, any condition, |
| 0:34.2 | and get a free new Samsung Galaxy S23. |
| 0:38.1 | Limited time requires trading of Galaxy Note, S or Z-Series smartphone. |
| 0:43.5 | Terms and restrictions apply. |
| 0:45.4 | C-A-T-T dot com for details. |
| 0:48.2 | It was a Hollywood movie come true, and I was the star. |
| 0:53.3 | That's Damon Launer. |
| 0:54.6 | In 2013, he founded what became known as the most elite sex club in the world. |
| 0:59.9 | Sanktum. |
| 1:01.1 | Join me, Carly Chortino, as we explore how this luxury sex empire was built, |
| 1:06.6 | and how it ultimately turned Damon's life upside down. |
| 1:10.4 | Listen to Sanktum unmasked on iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, |
| 1:14.0 | or wherever you find your favorite shows. |
| 1:23.4 | Pushkin. |
| 1:30.2 | For me growing up, it was oh, oh, oh, it's the time, |
| 1:33.8 | join a morning show because my mom was a school teacher. |
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