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Work · September 29, 2016

James Altucher - Ep. 186: Jewel – 10 Lessons I Learned From Jewel

Altucher interviews Jewel about her rags to riches story.

James Altucher - Ep. 186: Jewel – 10 Lessons I Learned From Jewel launched on September 29, 2016 with 54 votes, #1,420 of 3,743 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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I love Jewel. But I wanted to break her down. I wanted her to laugh. She was so smart and serious. Trust me: I got her to laugh.

Jewel was broke and homeless, but she still turned down a million dollar check when she was 19 years old. Jewel was broke and millions in debt after selling 30,000,000 albums, and built back from scratch when she was 30. Jewel has switched genres, written music from folk to pop to country to even children’s music. She wrote a children’s book. Abused from the ages of 5 to 15. Moved out of the cold barn she was living in at 15 to live on her own. And three years later she was homeless. “I didn’t want to be a statistic,” she told me she was afraid when she was 15. “I looked around at other girls who were in my circumstances and things went from bad to worse” And yet… she ended up a statistic .…from archive.jamesaltucher.com

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