Jamie Mustard
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She went to Juilliard.
She comes out and plays this classical opening thing in piano.
And then she invites the next musician on, who she says flew in from Spain.
And there's a seven foot harp.
And the woman walks out to the harp and it's the woman that hemmed my pants.
And she looks at me like I'm like three tables back.
She looks at me, smiles and winks and then starts to play.
That's the real true incredibleness of my life is growing up in Mexican neighborhoods, worst kind of poverty you can imagine.
And then all of a sudden I'm with the richest people in the world.
And that's what's made my life kind of incredible.
In writing the book, I thought my life was boring.
But for the first time when I finished it, I was like, this is crazy.
Because the stuff that I do now, I didn't even aspire to do.
People thought I was ambitious.
When I got into London School of Economics, I remember being in my grandmother's living room.
We got the second you're in.
And I did not believe it.
And we're sitting in her foyer, like right downstairs from her living room.
Even at that point, she's confused.
And she says, how are you doing this?