How to find your power as a Black entrepreneur

Black entrepreneurs are starting a record number of businesses.

For generations, the conventional wisdom for Black professionals was simple: Get a good job and keep it. It’s what most of our parents drilled into us. Mom and Dad’s wisdom didn’t account for a few pretty significant events. Millennials, for instance, entered a workforce still feeling the sting of the 2008 recession, and the stability our parents promised us was wildly elusive. We had a global pandemic that gave many boomers and Gen Xers the first opportunity to look at our careers and ask ourselves, what do we really want from work? And how do we leverage our hard-earned skills and experience to take more control over how we use our time and talents to make money?