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You have to be so very careful about who you discuss your hard times with, because those who love you and care for you the most like your mother, like your best friend, they'll give you the worst damn advice in the world.

You need to get a job! You shouldn't be sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag!

From NPR, it's how I built this. A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, why Kathy Hughes refuses to take no for an answer and how that helped her build one of the biggest African-American-owned businesses in the country.

Kathy Hughes is a very famous American-owned company.

You might have never heard of Kathy Hughes, but the company she started, Radio One, is the largest African-American-owned broadcaster in the US.

And it now has more than 50 radio stations and media outlets all across the US. Now, Kathy didn't exactly stumble into this line of work. She grew up in the 1950s in Omaha, Nebraska, and even when she was little, she couldn't stop talking about what it was that she wanted to do.

I wanted to be the first African-American to have a syndicated radio show. I've had that desire since I was 8, 9, 10 years old.

Wow. But this is what you want to do from Charlie and from childhood. It's so interesting. When I go back to the high school that I graduated from, that every single solitary weeks in a note home to my mother saying she talks too much.

I'm like, I'm practicing for my future career. I grew up in a household where there were six of us, one bathroom.

And I did my radio show every morning in the mirror with a toothbrush and no matter how many blows my brothers and sisters would, you know, heap up on my head when I finally opened the bathroom door so they could get ready for school.

I never came out of that bathroom every morning until I finished my radio show. Everyone thought at that time there was something wrong with me.

I mean, there are no black people in radio, particularly no black women, because again, remember, we're isolated in the middle of the United States.

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