Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Before Hollywood Unlocked, before the award shows, before the BET deal, Jason Lee was a kid from Stockton who refused to let his circumstances define him. 🎙️

Lee grew up navigating foster care, loss, and poverty in one of California's most underestimated cities.

In part one of this conversation with theGrio's SVP & Chief Content Officer @natashasalford, Jason takes us back to the beginning from his earliest obsession with celebrity culture to the moment he realized he was building something bigger than a blog.

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