“I did go to business school, but truely the business side came from my grandmother being in business for many many years. [...] As a Black woman with a few kids, you know, back in the 40s, having her own business was just unheard of. [...] When I was 13 years old on the bus, leaving her business, her store, I turned around and knew that day that what I was going to be doing for the rest of my life, which was going to be in business for myself as an entrepreneur.”