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Radio One: Cathy Hughes

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How Did You Become a Teenage Mom When You Were Pregnant?

I was typing at 10 years old. I was taking shorthand by the time I was 12 and having to be proficient at it because I was a staff person. My family kept imposing them on me to come to work. So even though pregnant is 16, my mother at 17 sounds like, how did you do it financially? Well, I was already working. And I say this to young mothers: It's easy to be a teenage mama when the baby's still in infancy.

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