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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 2016, 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, D.C.

in 1981.

Her company UrbanOne 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, how are you doing?

I mean, where do we begin? Pandemic, economic meltdown, mass demonstrations about racial injustice? I mean, what a time? What a moment in our history.

One of the things is given me regular, consistent, daily time to meditate and pray and really concentrate on what it's going to take for us to pull ourselves out of this.

Because the frightening thing is that everyone globally, this isn't just an American problem or a black community problem, this is a global problem.

And it really doesn't make much sense to solve a problem.

If there's no one here to participate in the benefit of the solution to the problem, then at the same time, I'm so encouraged by the demonstrations and the number of young people that I see that aren't going to accept.

Things being the status quo any longer, we're doing a tribute to the mayor of the District of Columbia because, as you know, she painted 16th Street, which leads directly into the front door of the White House, Black Lives Matter, and changed the name to the Black Lives Matter avenue.

But the issue is, particularly when we're talking about business, there is never again going to be a normal.

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