This episode features a discussion with Von Bryant, senior counsel in Foley & Lardner's Washington D.C. office. Von is a corporate attorney focused on venture capital financing and M&A transactions. Von shares about growing-up in West Philadelphia and the suburbs of New Jersey, navigating high school as the number one Ivy League recruit, as well as life as a college football player at Duke University and University of Pennsylvania. Von also shares some incredible stories about the professional path of his late father, and reflects on how he's been impacted by discrimination as a Black man in America.