Tenacity took Chris Russo Blackwood through each of her career’s incarnations

Chris Russo Blackwood holds her novel, "My Brother’s Keeper."

Blackwood has learned a thing or two about resilience over the years—lessons that are particularly useful to today's entrepreneur.


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