Thriving Stylist Podcast

Today I am so excited to be speaking with someone I am obsessed with – Morgan DeBaun! Since launching Blavity Inc. in 2014, Morgan has led the company to successfully acquire Travel Noire, a travel platform for Black millennials and Shadow And Act, a Black entertainment news site. Under her leadership, Blavity has launched several leading consumer summits including Summit 21 for Black women creators and Bay Area’s AfroTech, the largest tech conference for Black innovators and founders. While scaling the company, Morgan has raised 11 million dollars from top Silicon Valley venture firms such as GV and Comcast.  In this episode, we talk about Morgan’s rapid growth as a serial entrepreneur, how she’s been able to create a digital community with so much traction, why she flew all the way from San Francisco to Los Angeles to get her hair done, and the ways she coaches stylists, salon owners and small business owners to scalability. Speaking with Morgan is always so inspiring to me, and I know you are going to abso