Meet Bigal Harrison

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Bigal Harrison a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Bigal, we’re thrilled to have you sharing your thoughts and lessons with our community. So, for folks who are at a stage in their life or career where they are trying to be more resilient, can you share where you get your resilience from?
I’ve always been self motivated but i can attribute large parts of my resilience from being the 2nd youngest of 24 siblings. 17 brothers and 7 sisters. My father was raised in Harlem, NY and went to the Vietnam War when he was only 17. He was a paratrooper and earned a purple heart for his efforts. He instilled the military discipline in us growing up. We used to get up 6 am every morning before school to run & exercise. It paid off because I was an All American in college for Track & Field. While my older sister Queen Harrison became an olympian running in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. My father went to prison for 10 years when I was 3 years old. My mother was born in Mississippi and moved to Yonkers at 8. She came from humble beginnings as well. She had back problems as a youth and had to learn to walk again. She didn’t graduate high school and at points in her life she was raising my older brother and sister in a shelter. She did drugs as well but when she had us she completely changed her life around and filled the community we lived in with love. She was a natural gardener and chef. My father passed away in 2018 on Christmas Eve two weeks after i graduated college. My mother passed the same day as Kobe Bryant before the pandemic hit us in 2020. Those two moments changed my life forever, and there was a time i was gonna give up what i was doing because i remember how hard i was going to give them a life they deserved and when those events happened i found myself lost and confused on what to do next, on top of being in a global pandemic. One thing that stuck with me that they used to say was K.I.M (keep it moving). So regardless what happens you still gotta put 1 foot in front of the other and keep going.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
The three most impactful qualities on my journey are toughness, humility, and creativity. My advice to anybody starting out is to build a catalog only through constant reps will you improve i’m whatever you’re doing.

All the wisdom you’ve shared today is sincerely appreciated. Before we go, can you tell us about the main challenge you are currently facing?
Ever since having my son Makiro 3 years ago i kind of took a step back from the entire grind of music and entrepreneurship so i can be a father. It’s been a challenge building the momentum that i had up again because i don’t have the same time that i did when i didn’t have him, but it’s okay as time has gone on i’ve been able to work around it and realized it’s best to start from a clean slate and abandon the way you used to do things especially when it’s not getting the required results.

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