Hi everyone, this is Kate Snow, so happy to share a great conversation that I had with

Jewel, the musician over Mock Scotch, yes Mock Scotch, for my series The Drink, which is always

about how people got to the top of their career.

Jewel tells me about her journey from Alaska to living in her car in San Diego to musical

success beyond belief.

We talked about her not alone challenge as well, which is all about mental health and

raising awareness that you are not alone this time of year.

And wait till you hear her tell me about the weirdest thing about her.

I'm telling you it's weird.

You can hear a lot more stories of success from top artists, entrepreneurs, and visionaries

you can find them all at NBCNews.com slash The Drink.

There's always a moment for all of us where things kind of hit a fork and yeah, that

sounds like that change.

I think my major fork was realizing nobody was coming for me.

All right, Jewel, hi, multi-award winning artist and mental health advocate, what's our

drink here?

Well, I think we have some Mock tails.

Look at what we're trying to miss and look so much here.

It's Mock Scotch, yeah.

What is it?

I actually don't really taste really good.

The drink is all about how you go from growing up in Alaska to, you know, as I said, award-winning

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