Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin
"Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin" explores the journey to success and professional fulfillment. These are the stories of obstacles overcome, periods of doubt, plan B's and the passion to push through to follow one’s passion and realize a dream.
Guests on the first 80 episodes of the podcast have included musicians Shawn Colvin, Sarah Jarosz, Nick Lowe, Steven Van Zandt and John Pizzarelli, writers Nick Hornby, Jacqueline Woodson, Patrick Radden Keefe, Scott Turow and Colum McCann, Basketball Hall of Famer and former Senator Bill Bradley, plus thought leaders and changemakers like Ford Foundation President Darren Walker, Global Citizen creator Hugh Evans, real estate and environmental racism activist Majora Carter, actors Paul Reiser, Aasif Mandvi and Richard Kind, "Friends" creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane, screenwriter Tony Gilroy, fashion design icon Norma Kamali and more.
Join us on the journey.
Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin
ALSU KURMASHEVA AND PAVEL BUTORIN: Press Freedom Fighters
How do you return to a normal life after experiencing pain, loss and then unbridled joy?
Alsu Kurmasheva is a Russian American journalist who works for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague. She was detained in her native Russia while visiting her mother in 2023 and later arrested on charges of “spreading false information” about the Russian military, charges that Alsu and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty deny. While his wife was detained for more than 9 months, her husband Pavel Butorin, also a journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, advocated for her release while taking care of their two daughters. Finally, the family’s dreams were realized when Alsu was included in a prisoner swap between Russia and the United States in August, 2024.
Alsu and Pavel are back in Prague, busy with work, raising two daughters and getting accustomed to a new normal: life after detainment.