Radio One: Cathy Hughes (2017)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We're hard at work planning our upcoming live show, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Radio One. As a kid, Cathy Hughes practiced her DJ routine while her siblings banged on the bathroom door. As an adult, she founded Radio One—now Urban One—the country's largest African-American owned broadcasting company. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Mike Butera, whose digital Instrument One raised a million dollars on Kickstarter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:09.0	New years is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.
0:13.0	As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.
0:17.0	So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.
0:24.0	Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
0:27.0	Hey, everyone, we've been really, really busy this summer on the road with some live shows.
0:32.0	We've got one more happening in Seattle in mid-September.
0:35.0	And right now it is officially sold out, but please keep checking Twitter and NPRPersense.org
0:42.0	because we may have a few more tickets for you by early September.
0:46.0	And because we've been pretty busy with all this live stuff, we're going to play a show from our archives this week.
0:51.0	It's one of our favorites, an amazing story about how a single mom built a media empire.
0:58.0	So here it is.
1:03.0	You have to be so very careful about who you discuss your hard times with,
1:09.0	because those who love you and care for you the most like your mother, like your best friend,
1:15.0	they'll give you the worst damn advice in the world.
1:18.0	You need to get a job. You shouldn't be sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag.
1:28.0	From NPR, it's how I built this.
1:30.0	A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
1:41.0	I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, White Kathy Hughes refuses to take no for an answer
1:46.0	and how that helped her build one of the biggest African-American owned businesses in the country.
2:01.0	So it's possible you've never heard of Kathy Hughes before,
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