The One About Adversity & Entrepreneurship With Devon Brooks

The Papaya Podcast

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In just the second year of university, Devon Brooks became one of the youngest female successful entrepreneurs when she founded BLO in Vancouver, Canada. But, that’s not her whole story. You see, Devon is also a two-time attack survivor, thriving now in the life after. In this in-depth conversation, we creep into the world and mind of Devon Brooks, entrepreneur, speaker, wife, mother. Discussing what it means to be a trauma survivor, the choices we make and the reason she’s yet again becoming an entrepreneur for something entirely different, and entirely needed in today’s society. You can follow Devon and her latest ventures at @devsdevelopment.

Trigger warning: sexual assault & violence is mentioned.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:06.0	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,
0:11.0	Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed
0:16.4	in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired,
0:22.4	get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.
0:30.8	I am in a hotel room yet again with another guest yet again. Please welcome Devon Brooks.
0:39.4	Hi, I'm looking at you out of this view. Oh my gosh guys, I'm in this. If you followed this
0:46.1	journey on my Instagram, I got upgraded into this ocean view room, which is like the huge
0:51.9	thing I've ever had. I'm not even kidding. Like when it comes to like appreciation of life and
0:56.2	stuff, I'm so glad that I'm so simple because this made me stupidly happy. And I last night
1:03.2	by myself skipped through the entire place all the way through like three times. And I'm like,
1:08.3	I'm a child inside, but there's part of me that was like, I am such in a season of having,
1:13.3	after having a season of being a have not. And I'm like, I'm so happy to have gratitude for like
1:18.5	the grandeur of how cool this is. So I was just, I'm so so in love with this view and I'm so
1:25.4	glad that I'm so in love with it. It's, it's absolutely remarkable here in Vancouver. It is,
1:29.2	it's a good backdrop for this combo because it's all about the big opportunities and mindset
1:34.8	and choices. And we're looking out at the big blue ocean. Okay, you just went deep so fast.
1:39.4	And there are ships coming in and out. We can go on. We also have Devon's little girl,
1:45.4	Clooney, in the room. You might hear her in the background, but she is currently being like a
1:50.0	literal angel. I was new play dough that we just bought from the gallery. She walked in and I was
1:55.2	like, I am going to need her to have an Instagram account because I need to follow her. Why is she,
2:00.0	she walked in with like a blazer and dog Martin? Yes, she's wearing a full suit. Do you dress her?
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