Disruption Now
Join us on the Disruption Now podcast as we challenge the status quo and advocate for digital equity, ownership, and responsible technology.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 182
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Disrupting in Georgia
The races pit two Republican incumbents, Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, against Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. If Ossoff and Warnock win, the Senate will be spli…
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The American Dream Redefined
The Right Propaganda
Propaganda is not spin, marketing or campaigning it’s rapid, repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency. The firehose of false propaganda is the biggest threat to our country. To beat it we m…
Episode 97: Noelle Silver Data Disruptor
Noelle Silver has spent many years as a trainer, architect, and evangelist for IBM, RedHat, EMC, Amazon and Microsoft. She believes diversity of thought must be applied at every level to ensure tech …
Episode 96: How To Get Funded
The opening session at the Disruption Now Summit with corporate leaders and entrepreneurs. From survey results, gathered from entrepreneurs we will explore the common questions, pitfalls, and struggl…
Episode 95 Sevetri Wilson
She is also the founder of Solid Ground Innovations, LLC (SGI), a strategic communications and management firm with offices in Baton Rouge and New Orleans that she founded in 2009. Sevetri possesses…
Episode 94 Tech and the Human Connection
This is a re-play from the Disruption Now Summit 2020. Artificial Intelligence is less impactful unless you understand the human connections and problems you are seeking to solve. Artificial intellig…
Episode 93: Dawn Dickson on Crowd Investing
Dawn Dickson is well-known for raising capital through crowdfunding means. In 2019, she made history using the same fundraising route usually overlooked by Black entrepreneurs. Dickson became the fir…
Episode 92: Equity Matters
The closing keynote panel at the Disruption Now Summit focused on what this moment means for black equity. In 2020 it’s now become mainstream to be socially conscious. Everyone from the NFL to the NB…
Episode 91: Jewel Burks Solomon
In this session from the Disruption Now Summit we discuss the best practices and approaches for getting funded as a start-up with Jewel Burks -Solomon. Burks is an advocate for representation and acc…
RBG and Black Lives
Episode 89: Max Tuchman CEO Caribu
Maxeme Tuchman is the CEO + Co-Founder of Caribu, an interactive video-calling platform that allows parents and grandparents to read and draw with children when they’re not in the same location. Cari…
Is Black King?
The use of art can be a powerful change agent in this critical moment. Mark Phi hopes through his art he can inspire change and get more African Americans to embrace the power of their heritage.
Follo…
The Need for Black Angel Investing
What you learn in this episode
The right approach to seeking Captial and investing
What investors look for in startups.
Why is important to learn from the rejections in fundraising.
How to adjust if y…
Racism & the Anti-semitism We don't see
DeSean Jackson’s Hitler moment—and Nick Cannon's anti-Semitic comments —showed that Black Americans’ experience of racism doesn’t automatically immunize us toward other forms of hate. Many African …
Seeking representation in Hollywood
Dumont’s clients include Spike Lee, The Netflix Original Series She’s Gotta Have It, BlacKkKlansman for Focus Features, Actor/Director Roger Guenveur Smith (Rodney King), Stefon Bristol and his Spi…
Phylicia Fant: Come As You Are, Change the Game
As a music executive, Fant has conceived and executed campaigns for a myriad of multi-platinum, award-winning artists including Drake’s OVO Sound, Prince, Jason Derulo, Swizz Beatz, Common, Andra Da…