SuperPsyched with Dr. Adam Dorsay

#151 I Got There & Now I Help Others Get There Too | Scribe Media CEO JeVon McCormick

03.14.2023 - By SuperPsyched ©Play

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Once upon a time, there was a boy, the son of a pimp and whose mother who used to work for that pimp as a prostitute. Since he was born in 1971, his parents’ union would have been a crime just four years earlier because his father was black and his mother white.  Yes, there were horrible, racist laws in place until 1967 that attempted to prevent such interracial unions. He was raised at times by his mother, sometimes by another non-parent adult, and sometimes on his own as a mere child caring for his own siblings. One of 23 siblings, he had a rough childhood full of traumas and challenges that probably most of my listeners have never experienced. He would a GED and his formal education would stop there.

Can you see him in your mind’s eye? Where do you imagine he is today? I can tell you that he imagined he’d be dead by 25.

Instead, he’s the CEO of one of the best businesses in America and was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year for 2022.

It was an honor to connect with JeVon McCormick (https://jevonmccormick.com/), CEO of Scribe Media, a multimillion-dollar company ranked #1 for corporate culture by Entrepreneur Magazine. He’s also the author of two books I devoured in record time. The first, his management book called Modern Leader and the second, his autobiography, I Got There: How a Mixed-Race Kid Overcame Racism, Poverty, and Abuse to Arrive at the American Dream. I loved both books, and so have thousands of readers including retired Navy Seal turned ultra-athlete and bestselling author, David Goggins, who wrote the foreword for Modern Leader.

In our interview, JeVon generously and openly shares his story as well as his take on leadership that has made him one of the top leaders in business today. You’ll get his take on what businesses need to do to grow to their fullest potential while doing what is right for society.

So, listen in as JeVon shares about where he came from and what it takes to be a modern leader.

Book Links:

I Got There: https://tinyurl.com/33faevtw

Modern Leader: https://tinyurl.com/4kknnmfu

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