Steve Harvey: From Living in a Car to a Media Empire

In December 2015, Steve Harvey crowned the wrong winner at Miss Universe in front of hundreds of millions of viewers, a career-ending catastrophe for almost anyone else. For him, it was just another chapter. This is the blueprint of a man who became, in effect, cancel-proof.This episode examines how a kid from a West Virginia coal town with a severe stutter who flunked out of college and lived in his car for three years built a multimillion-dollar global empire. It matters as a master class in the mechanics of resilience and constant reinvention.The childhood teacher who called him a smart aleck, and the flat-screen TV he sent her every Christmas afterwardThe three years of homelessness in a 1976 Ford Tempo that forged the fearlessness needed to command the ApolloThe Kings of Comedy Tour, the highest-grossing comedy tour in history at the timeHow his radio audience became a data-gathering operation that fueled the bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a ManHow Steve Harvey Global and ownership of his own content made him "the casino, not the gambler"