Building With Grit: Pushing Past Limits, Defying Expectations & Owning Your Business Persona

There is rarely a perfect time to build a business. The resources may not be there yet. The confidence may still be developing. The people around you may not fully understand what you’re creating. And sometimes, the expectations placed on you have very little to do with what you know you’re capable of becoming.

Join Victor + Valor® for a live virtual conversation with Keishawn Blackstone, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Akwire Agency, about what it means to keep building anyway.

Working across film, media, technology, and entertainment, Keishawn has built his career by turning bold ideas into real opportunities. In this conversation, he’ll share practical perspective on trusting your instincts, adapting under pressure, pushing beyond expectations, and developing a business persona that feels authentic, decisive, and unmistakably your own.

This isn’t a conversation about waiting until everything is perfect. It’s about developing the confidence and resilience to move forward with…