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Balanced Black Girl

Morgan DeBaun on Overcoming Self-Sabotage, Creating Capacity, and Unlocking New Levels of Success

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

Health & Fitness, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

#224: Have you ever felt like you were getting in your own way? Or wondered if you’re undermining your success? That’s what we’re unpacking in this episode.

I’m excited to sit down and chat about all things success and embracing a soft life with this week’s guest, Morgan DeBaun. Morgan is a new mom and the co-founder and CEO of Blavity Inc. overseeing brands like AfroTech, 21Ninety, and Travel Noire. She is also the founder of Mor Matcha and the host of her own podcast “The Journey with Morgan DeBaun” where she delves into the captivating stories of purpose-driven achievers on their quest for living their best lives.

We also talk about…

  • How Morgan’s definition of success has changed throughout her career
  • Morgan’s journey into motherhood, and self-discovery
  • Navigating moments of doubt and our relationship to fear
  • The difference between working hard vs. working smart
  • How to create capacity for success and minimize your decision making fatigue
  • How to take advantage of opportunities as a new entrepreneur or professional


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See you on May 4 to balance black girl podcast. My name is Les. I'm your

0:48.3

host. This podcast is all about the different things that we are balancing in our

0:52.1

day-to-day life, how we can do that,

0:53.8

while still pouring into ourselves.

0:56.6

Now all year long, we have been focused on the successful era, which is something I

1:00.8

coined where I'm talking about redefining success

1:04.2

for ourselves and the different things

1:05.8

that contribute to our success.

1:07.5

So I am super excited to welcome today's guest

1:11.5

who I think can teach us quite a bit about having

1:13.6

different successful eras Miss Morgan de Bonn co-founder and CEO of Blavitti and

1:19.3

also the host of the Journey Podcast. Welcome Morgan. Thank you for for having me I am so excited to have you I feel like this

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episode has been like a long time coming and the fact that we get to do it in person so much better even better

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