Starting from the Bottom (w/ Justin Richmond)

Justin Richmond is the producer and co-host of Pushkin's music podcast Broken Record with writer Malcolm Gladwell and Def Jam co-founder Rick Rubin. He is also the host of a new podcast called Started from the Bottom, on which he interviews mega-successful people who came from disadvantaged economic backgrounds and neighborhoods from which few residents go to college and the professional world.

Before hooking up with Gladwell and Pushkin, Justin was a producer for NPR’s flagship news program Morning Edition and later became an arts reporter for the network. He began his career as an intern for *The Tavis Smiley Show* and *Smiley & West*. Despite not having graduated from high school, Justin earned a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree from the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.