Aug 4, 2026 · 30 min · 9 segments
Zach sits down with Alex Malebranche is an Founder, Father, Tech Guy and Mental Health with Code22 Apparel. About Living Corporate: Check out our merch!…
Alex MalebrancheGuestZach NunnHostRight now, like you think about the landscape today, right? I think it's interesting because we connected a couple years ago.
This was like, I feel like it was like three years ago.
It was a few years ago.
It was three or four years ago.
Three or four
years ago, Alex.
Um, but now we're in the full swing of it, right? We're seeing, um, you know, they oftentimes mainstream media really wants to center and highlight black women layoffs.
Uh, but the reality is, is that black folks across the board, I think there's like over a million layoffs.
I mean, for black women, I think it's like 500,000 at this point, black men is like 500,000, 600,000.
So over a million black, black folks have been getting our, our, our, our getting the brunt, uh, be it, um, intentional or disparate impact.
Um, They are facing the brunt of these.
You know, when they say like when white America gets a cold, black, black, black America gets pneumonia.
We're also seeing like the tech space contract and change in a lot of different ways.
Roles that we thought were recession proof or are, you know, you have you have you have engineers with 10, 15 years experience making no funding is
That's a
clip.
Bam.
But I want to say there's something just to be said about this moment.
What have you seen and what are you learning in this moment as a Black tech creator, as someone who's been in this industry? What have been your revolving thoughts in this season?
Right now, like you think about the landscape today, right? I think it's interesting because we connected a couple years ago.
This was like, I feel like it was like three years ago.
It was a few years ago.
It was three or four years ago.
Three or four
years ago, Alex.
Um, but now we're in the full swing of it, right? We're seeing, um, you know, they oftentimes mainstream media really wants to center and highlight black women layoffs.
Uh, but the reality is, is that black folks across the board, I think there's like over a million layoffs.
I mean, for black women, I think it's like 500,000 at this point, black men is like 500,000, 600,000.
So over a million black, black folks have been getting our, our, our, our getting the brunt, uh, be it, um, intentional or disparate impact.
Um, They are facing the brunt of these.
You know, when they say like when white America gets a cold, black, black, black America gets pneumonia.
We're also seeing like the tech space contract and change in a lot of different ways.
Roles that we thought were recession proof or are, you know, you have you have you have engineers with 10, 15 years experience making no funding is
That's a
clip.
Bam.
But I want to say there's something just to be said about this moment.
What have you seen and what are you learning in this moment as a Black tech creator, as someone who's been in this industry? What have been your revolving thoughts in this season?
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