BUDD MISHKIN

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I’m really excited to announce that my podcast “Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin” is being relaunched by the new podcast company Gemini XIII.

“Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin” is all about the journey to success, the early years when that success was by no means guaranteed. It’s Steven Van Zandt giving up the music business to work construction for two years. It’s Bob Costas announcing minor league hockey and occasionally Bowling for Dollars before a big break right out of college. It’s David Crane selling ink toner over the phone, years before he and Marta Kauffman would create the TV show Friends.

And there are seminal crossroad moments as well: Hugh Evans sleeping on concrete amidst garbage with a poor family in Manila, inspiring him to eradicate extreme poverty and eventually be the co Founder of Global Citizen, Norma Kamali traveling to London in the 60’s thanks to an airline job and seeing the fashions that inspired her to start a brand now worn around the world and actor Aasif Mandvi thinking that he is going into an audition for The Daily Show on a lark, only to get the gig immediately and appear on the show that night!

Please click HERE to listen and follow/subscribe to “Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin.”

We are trying to build an audience in a crowded market. If you enjoy the podcast, I would truly appreciate it if you would share it on your social media platforms. Every subscription and every social media word of mouth will help.

I’m through the first 4 episodes and already hooked, but hardly surprised. If you remember Budd Mishkin from his decades at NY One, you already know he’s a nonpareil interviewer – curious, eloquent, with a natural warmth and dry humor that allows him to shift the tone with uncommon ease. In this format, he is stellar: No one wants their skin peeled back, yet these guests all recognize the importance of imparting the journey and sharing their growing pains, even when the pain
persists – Norma Kamali’s humiliating experience with sexual harassment at a job interview, years before she became a fashion icon, was particularly compelling. There are common threads, such as the importance of mentorship and the element of luck, or as the humanitarian and Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans put it, “how the lottery of life is the most unfair reality on the planet.” It is important to understand why highly accomplished individuals succeed at what they do, but what Mishkin does here is indispensable — for listeners of every age and every aspiration. This series is a keeper..

Dave D’Allesandro

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