Some people wait to be invited into the room.

Well, Steve Stout has never waited for anyone.

Steve is a powerhouse music executive, marketing genius, CEO and founder who has worked with

everyone from Jay-Z to big global

brands. But it all started with one truth. Your background isn't baggage. It's the key to unlock

everything you've been chasing. What I love about Steve is that he never tried to fit in.

He used what he knew and where he came from to his advantage. He's helped artists sell millions of records,

built culture-defining companies, changed our brands talk to culture, and now he's here to

show you how to achieve breakthrough success by leaning into exactly who you are.

I'm so happy to have you here.

Just to contextualize it a bit for the audience,

I want to understand what your core skill is.

When you think about all the success that you've had,

what do you ultimately boil it all down to?

I was always curious about things I didn't know and understand.

I never let industries that were new intimidate me.

So the truth was that what I seen growing up as a kid in Queens, Trinidadian immigrants,

was that everything that we were doing, everything that I seen happening over time would then somehow have this reverb effect and then get larger and larger and larger.

And the only way to capitalize on that was to figure out how to get into those industries

and get into those rooms in which

you could make that big step change. But what took place was no one was able to get in those

rooms. First, there was the first big obstacle. They were white people, white corporate

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