Steve Madden: Overcoming Addiction & Building An Empire
Angie Martinez IRL
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Fashion icon Steve Madden sits down with Angie Martinez to talk about growing up with nothing to being the name and face of a shoe empire. Steve explains what it’s like living life as an addict and how coming out of prison reshaped his view on life. Then he explains how different the music industry is compared to the fashion industry, as well as what it’s like to meet hip-hop royalty such as Jay-Z, Beyonce, and T.I. Finally, Steve answers questions from our IRL Bowl of Questions, and reconnects with an old employee (who now works for Angie).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Your story's not always written for you at the beginning. |
| 0:06.5 | It's like you could have went in a completely different direction. |
| 0:09.5 | I could have. |
| 0:10.1 | I could have died too. |
| 0:11.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.7 | You know, drugs and alcohol kill. |
| 0:13.4 | I like to reach out to young people if I can to not throw in the towel in their 20s. |
| 0:20.7 | If they get going out and getting fucked up |
| 0:23.7 | and being foolish and, you know, |
| 0:26.6 | it's not too late to turn it around. |
| 0:33.5 | Thanks for watching, guys. |
| 0:34.6 | Today's episode is brought to you by Boost Mobile. |
| 0:37.2 | Are we rolling? Okay, our entrepreneur is brought to you by Boost Mobile. We're rolling. |
| 0:37.7 | Okay, our entrepreneur is here. An entrepreneur and award-winning designer, a business |
| 0:43.1 | titan with a company currently worth over $3 billion. He is also a devoted family man, |
| 0:51.2 | a provocative shoe designer. He is nothing but an inspiration. |
| 0:56.6 | Steve, you are. |
| 0:57.4 | You also happen to be Brittany, my executive producer of the podcast. |
| 1:01.1 | She worked at Steve Madden. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, no way. |
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