{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Reasoning with Mustapha","title":"Alone at 18 in America: Barbara's Story - EPS #2","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3347,"description":"Barbara left Poland alone at 18 — no family in the U.S., barely speaking English, and no real plan beyond a plane ticket she'd saved up for through high school. In this conversation, she walks through what that actually looked like: surviving her first Chicago winter working multiple jobs, a police stop that turned into an unlikely lesson, learning English by drawing pictures at the grocery store, and eventually building a career in drug discovery — all while raising two sons and starting an MBA years into a career most people would already call successful. \nIt's a conversation about what ambition actually costs, and why she still wouldn't trade the hardest parts of it. Come to think of it. \nReasoning with Mustapha is a conversation-driven show exploring history, faith, culture, and personal experience — not to win an argument, but to understand a little more fully.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/d6jzIgUKfBsKBMg0WDtNrHPmucKP0_zRyYT8gi9-2rs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hNWRj/Y2UyYjM2MzE1YzQy/NmUzODgwYmI2NTAx/MThjYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}