Episode

#543 Digna Deleon-Morris: How Did $5.25 Become $4M a Month?

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21st Century Entrepreneurship
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Aug 31, 2026
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Summary

Digna Deleon-Morris is an entrepreneur and insurance agency CEO, and we spoke about her path from arriving in the United States at 17 and earning $5.25 an hour to building an agency doing almost $4 million a month. Before entrepreneurship, she earned two college degrees, supervised 30 locations and managed $82 million in operations while working seven days a week — but, as a mother of four, realized, “I was building somebody else's business.” The turning point was painful: after making ...