This week we've got Steve Schwarzman, founder and CEO of Blackstone, and one of the country's wealthiest people. He's a philanthropist, a Wall Street deal maker, and owns a variety of companies through his private equity firm including; the Waldorf Astoria Hotels, theme parks like Lego Land and Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, and Crocs.

But Steve wasn't born into money, he had to work his way up from the streets of Philadelphia to get to where he is today. In this conversation, we talk about a decision that changed his life at an early age, how he handles rejection, and what you can do to impress him.

This is our inaugural episode, and appropriately, we're kicking it off with someone who's practically seen it all. Andrea Jung is the CEO of Grameen America, a non-profit microfinance organization.

Before that she was the CEO of Avon, one of the first woman CEOs of a major Fortune 500 company. She graced magazine covers and power lists over and over again. But then, it all came to a grinding halt. Sales begin to slow, the stock price fell and before long she left to start over.

In this conversation Andrea talks about her upbringing, what she had to do to overcome as a woman in the corporate world, and the skills that helped her along the way.

Hosted by Betty Liu, Radiate will provide you with exclusive, unfiltered access to the world's most accomplished people in business, politics and society. What does it take to become a wildly successful entrepreneur or CEO? What is the path to success? What mistakes did people make and how did they overcome them? Betty and her guests answer all these questions and much more.