How I Built Resilience: Live with Morgan DeBaun

Hey everyone, and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs about how to think creatively during this really disruptive moment. And today, I'm bringing you my conversation with Morgan DeBon, the founder of Blavity. Blavity is a media company with multiple verticals written by and for black millennials. Morgan started it six years ago after working in the tech industry, and we'll definitely talk about what spur her to do it. But first, I just wanted to know how she was doing. It's been like what like Two years since the pandemic started. Um, how how have you been doing? I think now I'm okay. Um

I felt like I just went to war. I mean it was a very traumatic experience running a business. having to make some very tough decisions about people and business model and make a lot of pivots and still exude confidence leading a group of people to help manage their anxieties and and fear of uncertainty. And then during that pandemic that we're still very much in

Um having the social unrest and really going into overdrive. as a company and as a mission of who we serve. Um while having limited resources because of Covid. So it's been A very long uh a couple of months, um and I'm very proud of you know what we've been able to accomplish despite kind of all the things going on.

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