meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1091 | Morgan DeBaun: “Focus on What You Can Control and Just Move Forward.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Morgan DeBaun, founder and CEO of Blavity Inc., reveals the mindset it takes to start up and grow a successful business. Source: Morgan DeBaun | Blavity | 2019 ( https://youtu.be/XT19NRF9Af4 )

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Yo, today's QLD is focus on what you can control and just move forward. Here we go

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quarter of the day show I'm your host Sean Croxton, a

0:36.1

Sean Croxton.com. We got a brand new speaker on the show. Her name is Morgan

0:40.6

DeBon. She is the founder and CEO of Blavidy Inc and today she's gonna reveal

0:46.5

the mindset that it takes to start up and grow a successful business. Here's

0:53.4

Morgan. I read an interview and I wanted to bring this point up.

0:59.6

What was the biggest obstacle in launching and getting Blavidy off the

1:04.9

ground? Not necessarily a business issue but maybe internal. Well, I don't know

1:09.0

what did I say. Great research mindset mentality. I'll definitely mindset.

1:17.2

Talk about that because as a young person, you know, people are always gonna tell

1:21.7

you you don't have enough money, you don't have enough experience, go do these

1:25.0

things, you know, of access, you don't really know what you're doing yet. So

1:28.1

those things are back there and I want, you know, as a 23 24 year old launching

1:32.0

a company. Right. Yeah, so I did a lot of research. You know, I was I'm a planner.

1:38.2

So I read all the blogs. I read everything you possibly read and there was

1:46.5

no one that looked like me that was black. I'm not even just starting with a

1:51.5

woman. Let's just start with black. There was no one at the time who had raised

1:57.0

over a million dollars. The only person who was in the news at the time was

2:02.4

Tristan Walker because he was head of BD at four square. Like that was like the

2:06.5

biggest thing. And obviously Tristan went and told us company to PNG, which is

2:11.3

great. So we made it. But at the time that that wasn't there, right? So that was

2:18.2

the first thing that there was no clear example. And so that was that was one

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sean Croxton, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sean Croxton and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.