Ep 57: Up close with Morgan DeBaun: The Millennial CEO Shaping Black Digital Media

Side Hustle Pro

Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media

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🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Today on the show, we have a woman who is a millennial CEO shaping Black digital media. Her name is Morgan DeBaun and she is the Founder of Blavity, one of the fastest growing digital media startups and a top destination for black youth culture. In March 2017, she launched a new lifestyle brand called 21Ninety, a website focused on beauty, health and wellness for women of color. She is one of only 12 Black women to raise over 1 million dollars in venture funding and has been featured on Essence, New York Magazine, Teen Vogue, Nylon, and was a finalist for 2016 TechCrunch Founder of the year. I first encountered Morgan at the Blavity EmpowerHer conference back in 2016. I was already impressed enough with Blavity to buy a ticket, but what Morgan created in that room, really sealed the deal for me. I needed to start Side Hustle Pro. As a matter of fact, when the emcee asked, I forget what the question was, but she basically asked who wanted to share a new initiative or something, I raised my hand, got on stage and announced to this room full of black women creators and entrepreneurs that I was starting Side Hustle Pro. And there was NO turning back after that. So it's a pleasure to welcome Morgan to the guest chair today.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow a
0:07.6	Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business.
0:11.3	And I'm your host, Nikala Matthews.
0:13.8	So let's get started.
0:15.0	This is Nikala here, kicking off a brand new month of Side Hustle Pro. You may have noticed that I took a mini break
0:26.2	and there was no Side Hustle Pro last week and surprisingly even though it was a holiday weekend
0:31.6	it was actually really hectic for me.
0:33.4	I had two back-to-back weddings, then I flew across the country to a work conference and now I'm back at home and
0:40.9	it was just really good to take a beat.
0:44.0	You know, I'm realizing now that I'm in the final weeks of wedding planning,
0:48.0	I just need to surrender. I need to surrender to the process,
0:52.0	surrender to this moment, and acknowledge that this is a crazy time
0:56.2	in my life, crazy but good, and I'm not in complete control and it is what it is.
1:01.7	So if you haven't heard from me, if it seems like I'm MIA, and if my social
1:06.5	media posts and communications have slowed down, it's because I have slowed down. I am surrendering to this current moment because I have three jobs, my day job, my side hustle and my wedding.
1:18.0	And I know it'll be over sooner than I think and I'll be back at full steam but for now I want to live and
1:25.4	breathe in this time and just take it every second because it will be over before I
1:30.6	know it so that's what's up with me. Anyway enough about me. Let's get to
1:35.2	today's guest. Today on the show we have a woman who is a millennial CEO shaping
1:41.0	black digital media. How dope is that? Let me say that again. We have a
1:45.3	woman who is a millennial CEO shaping black digital media. Her name is Morgan
1:51.0	de Bonn and she is the founder of Blavity, one of the fastest growing digital media startups and a top destination for black youth culture.
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