How I Built Resilience: Live with Cathy Hughes

Hey everyone and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. This is the place we've been talking with entrepreneurs about how to think creatively during this really disruptive moment. Now back in twenty sixteen, pretty soon after we launched how I built this, we featured the story of Kathy Hughes. And if you haven't heard it, it's well worth going back to listen to. Kathy built the largest African American broadcast network in the United States, starting with one small radio station in Washington, DC. in nineteen eighty one. Her company, Urban One, has expanded to include a cable network, digital brands, and 54 radio stations. A few days ago I called up Kathy to find out how she's doing, what's going on with the business

And her thoughts on the mass demonstrations against racial injustice happening across America And around the world. First of all, Kathy ha How are you doing? I mean Where do we begin? Pandemic, economic meltdown, um mass demonstrations, um

uh about r racial injustice. I mean What a time, what a moment in our history. Yeah. Uh one of the things um it's given me regular, consistent, daily time to meditate and pray and really concentrate

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