Multiple Streams, One Extraordinary Life

What happens when you follow the unexpected twists in your career path instead of fighting them? Jessica Minor's journey from political science student to custom cabinetry business owner reveals the power of embracing professional evolution.

Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, Jessica initially resisted following that path. She pursued a political science degree with dreams of "saving the world," briefly attended law school, and navigated corporate America before recognizing her true talents lay elsewhere. The road to finding her passion wasn't straight—it curved through family business experience, house flipping, and finally to creating stunning custom cabinets now shipped nationwide.

Jessica's story demolishes the myth that success requires unwavering focus on a single career from day one. Instead, she demonstrates how each professional experience builds upon the last, creating a unique foundation of skills that can't be replicated. Most remarkably, what began as a "side biz" in house flipping transformed into a thriving cabinetry business making "ten times more than I ever dreamed of making."

For women contemplating their own entrepreneurial ventures, Jessica offers crystal-clear advice: "Have multiple streams of income." She emphasizes that side businesses can evolve into primary enterprises if given room to grow, providing both financial security and the flexibility to navigate different life seasons. Her approach to business—prioritizing quality relationships over maximum scaling—challenges conventional growth-at-all-costs wisdom.

Whether you're questioning your current path, considering a side business, or wondering if it's too late to pursue what you're passionate about, this conversation delivers both practical wisdom and the reassurance that confidence often comes with time. Sometimes the most fulfilling careers emerge from the intersection of talent, passion, and market need—even when they look nothing like what you initially imagined for yourself.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:20

Welcome to the she Sweet Society, a community where women from all backgrounds come together to share their stories, support one another and reveal the unfiltered reality of our lives. I'm your host, Dahlia, and this podcast exists to give voice and space to women whose experiences might otherwise go unheard. Today, I'm sitting down with my neighbor, jessica Minor, whose journey perfectly illustrates that there's no single path to success. Jessica is a custom cabinetry business owner who went from studying political science and dreaming of saving the world to law school, to corporate sourcing, to working in her family's industrial supply business and finally to creating stunning custom cabinets that shiver across country.

Speaker 1 1:01

What makes Jessica's story so compelling isn't just the career pivots. It's how she's built a business that's as much about relationships as it is about craftsmanship. She's someone who becomes friends with her clients, who turns side projects into thriving enterprises and who's discovered that sometimes the most quote-unquote boring family businesses can teach you everything you need to know about entrepreneurship. Whether you're questioning your current path, considering a side business or wondering if it's too late to pursue what you're passionate about, this conversation offers both practical wisdom and the reminder that confidence often comes with time, sometimes decades.

Speaker 2 1:40

Oh, I own a custom cabinetry company.

Speaker 3 1:43

Oh, I knew that part. That's the cool part. Oh, what are the other? I don't know. Oh, I knew that part. That's the cool part. What are the other? I don't know.

From Political Science to Custom Cabinetry

Speaker 2 1:47

What do I do on a daily basis? My day looks different every day. I have this custom cabinetry company. I came to have this custom cabinetry company through I don't even want to say trial and error necessarily, but working in the construction industry, the home remodeling industry, which I started doing about eight to nine years ago when I stepped away from working in corporate America as a sourcing analyst, which I think kind of played well, because sourcing with cabinetry, you know, sourcing with, you know, cabinetry materials for building that's kind of what I transitioned into, as well as being a part of the process of remodeling. So currently I own a custom cabinetry company.

Speaker 2 2:33

My days are different every day. I work with customers who are building new builds. I work with customers who are remodeling current spaces, and I am a designer as well as providing the cabinetry. So a lot of clients start with either bringing the design to me and we build the cabinets based on the design they already have, or they come to me because they have, you know, gotten the word of mouth through a friend, or they've seen me in my posts on Instagram, or they've seen work that I've done through. I do a lot of spec houses with builders, so a house being sold and they come to me that way and they want me to design their space.

Speaker 3 3:14

Well, you're so good at it though. I know they can't see your house, but you did your whole kitchen, your living room.

Speaker 2 3:20

Yes, I have cabinets in many rooms in my house and there will be more I love to really good.

Speaker 3 3:26

You have an eye, your detail. That's the design part. Yeah, thank, you.

Speaker 2 3:31

I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm not a designer by training. It's interesting because I studied political science in school and I always thought I was going to be a lawyer, which I think a lot of people did. And it's so funny because, when I thought about my upbringing, I'm actually the daughter and the granddaughter and the great granddaughter of honor entrepreneurs, so, um, my dad's entire side of the family. All they did was own businesses. Um, and my dad owned the business once my grandfather passed. He was passed, it was passed down from his grandfather and I actually worked for the company as well. So it was over. It was four generations working for the business. And it's funny thinking about growing up. I remember career day and you talk about what your parents did and, like I had friends whose parents were firefighters and doctors and lawyers and I always was like I don't want to say embarrassed.

Speaker 2 4:24

I wasn't embarrassed, obviously, I was super proud of my dad. He had a very successful business, but it was so not interesting. Oh, what does your dad do? He's a business owner and I didn't really fully. They sold industrial supplies and cutting tools and when you're 70 years old, in elementary school, no one knows you don't even really know what that is, and you probably know more than what other kids know.

Speaker 2 4:43

So I always thought, oh, when I grow up I'm going to be a veterinarian or I'm going to be a lawyer and something that when I go to career day for my kids is super exciting, and you come to find out what I do, I think is more exciting than any corporate job or being a lawyer could ever be and I tried.

Speaker 2 5:02

And I don't blame my dad. He didn't really. He talked to us about business and finance and things like that, but we didn't really know the core of what he did. And I always try to talk to my girls about what I do. They know I make cabinets and they know that I work with customers and they know that I do design and I, you know, I want them to be excited about that and I want them, if they own a business someday, to be proud of that.

Speaker 3 5:26

Yeah, and to be clear on, there's not one right way. There's so many different paths you can take and show what it looks like behind those doors, a hundred percent.

Speaker 2 5:34

And I always say leaving corporate America was the best decision I ever made. And if I had to sell my house and move into a smaller house or just downsize my life to continue to do what I do? If I had ever had to like face that choice, I would do it not to own my own business.

Speaker 3 5:51

How did you end up in corporate America?

Family Business Background

Speaker 2 5:53

Well, so I went to Ohio State and I studied political science. I think I was like in that, I'm going to save the world and I'm going to change the world mode at that time and I really enjoyed what I studied. I, going back, I didn't have. I always was interested in interior design, but I never really had the confidence. I just kept saying things to myself oh, you can't draw well, or oh, you don't have experience doing this, or that's not really a career. I was always having negative self-talk to myself about what I could do, and so I settled on political science and I think it was a good choice, looking back, because it was something that I enjoyed and I was good at it. I was good at reading and writing and I was good at debating and all of those things. So it just felt natural and it didn't feel wrong. But I graduated in 2009 from college, during the Great Recession.

Speaker 2 6:43

I was one of those literally, and I actually had a job when I graduated. So I had been working as an intern for a political campaign and they hired me during the recession, so it was like it paid like $30,000 a year. It wasn't like this. Still, it was a job. Yeah, it was a job and I was able to afford my rent and food and I was just living my life. I was single and it was great and I worked that job for a couple of years and it was an election cycle. So once the election cycle ended, I continued because my candidate got elected continued.

Speaker 2 7:14

I was a fundraising person. I continued fundraising and I just was like this is not really where I see myself. So I applied to law school and I got into law school and it's funny because I really never quit anything in my life, maybe other than gymnastics as a kid. But I got into law school and I was in the first semester and I loved school. I loved learning, I was felt right back in my element. But they started talking about the past, right Cause law school is only three years long. Almost immediately they start talking about what do you want to specialize in, what are the paths, what do you think you're going to do when you graduate and I could just not picture myself in any of the roles and jobs that they were talking about. I just couldn't. I, I don't know. I think the choice to go to law school felt like the next right step for a career in politics, and then I just did it without really putting probably enough thought into it.

Speaker 3 8:09

It's what I felt, like I was supposed to do.

Speaker 2 8:10

It felt like the next step. And it was not right for you? Yes, and to be fair, it was a recession, so everybody felt super urgent to do something to further themselves because the job market wasn't great. And if you have a degree in political science, of course corporate jobs will hire you right Sales, logistics, supply chain, things like that.

Speaker 2 8:30

Right, because you don't really necessarily have to have a specialized degree for those jobs, but I just didn't feel like I was in the right place in law school so I decided to leave and it was still coming out of the recession. So I just asked my dad if I could come work for him. And the rule was always you can come work for the family business if you go to college and get your degree. So I did that.

Corporate America and Law School

Speaker 2 8:54

So I was like he's like I'll hire you, I'll teach you to do what I do. So that started about God. I was there for over five years and I enjoyed it. It wasn't sexy, it was cutting tools, industrial supplies it wasn't really my interest, but I enjoyed working with my dad. I was learning a lot about being a business owner from him and it's funny because at that time I was not thinking about having my own business at all, but it felt like he was grooming me to take over his job. But what I really think he was doing was just grooming me to think like an owner, no matter what the job was. His goal was if she doesn't stay at this business, I want to teach her everything she needs to know to be an owner or be a boss or whatever.

Speaker 2 9:37

What did your mom do? My mom's a therapist Totally opposite, totally opposite. But the interesting thing about my mom is my mom got her master's degree when we were kids, right around the time my parents divorced, and she never got her license to practice until about five or six years ago. So she was always kind of working like corporate jobs. My mom was really good at sales and so she was kind of always doing that, Just kind of not bouncing around a ton. But she was working in banking. So she worked for like bank one, she worked for PNC, she worked for national city before it was PNC and she never really enjoyed what she was doing. But I think she felt like I was I'm raising kids. I can't really make a career change. So you know, once we were all out of the house and out of college she decided to get her license and actually just like a month ago she got her independent license.

Speaker 1 10:31

So she's been a therapist for five years now.

Speaker 2 10:33

She's had her degree for like 25 years and now she has an independent license, so she's practicing independently as a therapist.

Speaker 2 10:40

So, um, and it's funny cause we were, you can never be too old, so and it's funny because we were, you know, that's a really cool thing is like I did this. I can't really like credit my mom because I kind of did this before she did that. But I think, like you know, going like seeing your mom like go to grad school, and then, you know, I think it inspires me every day still, even though I kind of started this business before she did that and maybe I kind of inspired her a little bit. But I think, you know, I feel like I definitely have parents who go for it. You know, my mom is a daughter of entrepreneurs as well. My grandfather had a children's clothing store growing up that I actually worked at. He had like multiple locations around the city and I worked there when I was in middle school and high school and it's so cool.

Speaker 3 11:27

Yeah, you just are from a family of go-getters.

Speaker 2 11:30

Yeah, I would say a go-getter.

Speaker 2 11:32

Yeah, and conventional and I think like so much of business is risk and when you've seen people take risks, you are more likely to take risks. And when, like you kind of see people maybe like play it safe and you know there's nothing wrong with that, you know some people, you know we're all built differently, right, um? But yeah, when my dad not only had the business that he got inherited from his father, who was who his father started the business Um, my dad also started a company, a manufacturing company, in 1996, with a few business partners and that was actually they sold the businesses last year and that was actually the business that sold for like much more Um, and you know so. You know I knew he started that business and I knew what it took to start that business Um and then getting to work for him. I saw even you know closer, you know like balance sheets and you know profits and losses and things like that.

Speaker 3 12:26

So maybe ins and outs of it all. I did yeah, so you could do anything over again, would you change?

Speaker 2 12:32

anything? I don't think so. The only thing I think I would maybe change but I worry, if I changed it it wouldn't have led me to this is maybe studying design and school. I don't really necessarily feel like I'm at a disadvantage. I feel like you know I do really, you know really well for what I do. I mean, I design cabinetry. I don't you know, pick people's like rugs and couches and you know all of that. Maybe Thank you.

Speaker 2 12:57

Well, that's a huge compliment but I always tell people I don't have the degree to do that.

Speaker 3 13:01

I'm not an interior designer.

Speaker 2 13:05

Well, I appreciate that that's very sweet, but I do. I think I think if I could go back and have that background, you know, I think it could be helpful. I think I do well with the cabinetry, I think I do well with what I do, but then I sometimes wish I could offer more to my clients and I felt like I feel like I wish I had more of a background to do that. What?

Speaker 3 13:25

did you offer?

Speaker 2 13:27

Just more design services. Yeah, like I think you know, I think just through doing I could probably eventually offer that even without the schooling. That's good.

Speaker 3 13:38

But I think AI for that.

Speaker 2 13:39

Yeah, that's true, AI is amazing. I love all my AI tools, but, yeah, I just, you know, I think I wish I could go back and tell my former self hey, just have the confidence and go for it. And you know, and I think you know, some people have that at a young age. Some people develop it. I feel like I more developed it and I came into that confidence in my 30s versus like my 20s or my teens.

Speaker 3 14:02

Some people take some few more years. For me it was in 40s.

Speaker 2 14:05

I mean, well, like with my mom, it was in her 60s. My mom did not have the confidence. I mean that was the biggest thing for her. She got this degree. She graduated summa cum laude with a four or magna cum laude with a 4.0. It's not like she didn't do well and she just didn't have the confidence to take the test and it took her 25 years to do it and she did it at 60.

Speaker 2 14:25

Yeah, it's okay yeah, and she's having her second career at 60 and now she's an independently licensed therapist at 65. You know it's like sometimes they're 64, but that, yeah, just sometimes it what do?

Speaker 3 14:37

you think your kids think about, about business, seeing your grand, their grandparents do all sorts of different things, so you know it's funny.

Finding Confidence Later in Life

Speaker 2 14:44

I started my first business making necklaces with my friends in high school, literally like we saw the styles that they were wearing on like the teen TV shows and we decided to start making them. And my daughter is 13 and she has a nail business. She's like a super talented nail artist. I mean she like I've seen the stuff she does on my. My other daughter is she'll go to like the salon and get them like done, you know, with the um, the licensed, you know like professional person and my daughter's arts like a thousand times better.

Speaker 2 15:17

And I know I'm biased, but I mean, she's really is a talented nail artist and she has her friends paying her to do her nails.

Speaker 2 15:24

So she started her first business at 13. So and I definitely think, seeing that in your family, you know, they know that their grandfather owned a business that he just he's retiring and he just sold. They know that I own my own business, my husband owns his own business. I think it's a really cool thing to be able to show our kids, even if they don't end up being business owners themselves, understanding business and understanding entrepreneurship, I think can be valuable for anything in life. What do you do for fun? What do I do for fun? What do I do for?

Speaker 1 16:00

fun Um I spent time with my family.

Speaker 2 16:02

We have. We have a lake cottage and we have a boat. So we love to, like you know, spend time there in the summer and go boating, love to travel. I'm obsessed with travel. Um, my like goal in life is to go to Europe every year. You know, and nothing fancy. I always say like my friends are like how do you guys afford to go to Europe all the time? And I'm like my Europe trip is cheaper than your Disney trip.

Speaker 2 16:21

Like literally, I mean, I'm like you tell me how much you spent for your family and for to spend five days in Disney and I'll tell you what it costs for my family of four to spend two weeks in Europe. I guarantee you it's less. So, yeah, I mean, you're not wrong, and we just we love going to like the smaller little places and running little houses and be like living like locals and eating at the little local restaurants and, um, we took our kids overseas for the first time. Um, last year we went to Portugal for spring break.

Speaker 3 16:49

And.

Speaker 2 16:50

I mean literally it was so fun, and my and we went in Spain as well, and you know they just I love seeing that through their eyes. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Guyana, okay.

Speaker 3 17:01

So here.

Speaker 2 17:01

Here, yeah, yeah, in central Ohio yeah.

Speaker 3 17:04

And how many siblings do you have? I have two.

Speaker 2 17:07

I'm the oldest, I'm like the classic older sibling.

Speaker 3 17:10

Are you?

Speaker 2 17:10

I think so. Yeah, I think my siblings and I fit our roles very well. I have two younger brothers. I have a brother who's 18 months younger. He, him and his wife live in California, and actually both my brothers live in Southern California. And then my one brother has a son, so I have a nephew, and then my other brother and his girlfriend.

Speaker 3 17:30

How does he end up over there.

Speaker 2 17:32

They both really want to be in the film industry. Still trying to be in the film industry. My youngest brother works for the Voice, the film industry still trying to be in the film industry.

Speaker 2 17:40

My youngest brother works for the Voice, showed the Voice and then my other brother started his own COVID testing business, did very well during COVID, like very, very, very well, and him and his wife have a. They have a one-year-old so they've been not working since he was born and he's trying to figure out his next baby. I'm trying to get that brother and his wife and baby to move back and I want them to work for me with my business. But we'll see. That's kind of a pipe dream and we would want to work with them.

Speaker 2 18:05

Yeah, with my brother, and I mean his wife would do. You know she stays at home with their son, but she would do some things as well. Yeah, I just think there's a real opportunity in what I do with the cabinets. There's a huge demand for custom cabinetry. I think, you know, hgtv has been around for a while, but I think how Instagram and Pinterest and just social media and AI and everything has blown up to the point where people aren't just thinking about like their kitchen and their bathroom, they're not thinking about just like. Oh, let's just, you know, cabinets aren't just like function, it's art in your home, it's beauty. Let's just you know, cabinets aren't just like function, it's art in your home, it's beauty, it's, you know, it's an expression of self. And I think that that is a lot different than, maybe, you know, 10 to 20, 30 years ago, where maybe people were, you know, thinking about a space like a kitchen for just function.

Speaker 2 18:57

And then maybe picking a color they like but not thinking about the cabinets as art or design. Yeah, that's a fair thought. Yeah, so I think what I do, I mean I'm very busy, so I know people are responding to it, but I, you know, and I'm I don't advertise at all. I mean I advertise free advertising. You know, I use Instagram, facebook, I'll post, and you know design groups about my cabinets, but I don't pay for any advertising. So you know what I tell my brother is hey, you come out here, we'll start paying for advertising and you can, you know, grow from there, grow from there. Yeah. So yeah, just an idea. I mean it's more for him than me.

Speaker 2 19:39

Um, just because you know I'm happy with what I'm doing and I don't necessarily feel the need to grow, I like working with a small number of customers and clients per year. I don't want to like overload myself. I want to be able to be there for my customers through the design process and even after. You know I have customers that'll call me back and you know say, oh, can you? You know we love the cabinets, can you help me with, like, a paint color that you think would coordinate, or you know things like that? I don't want to be so busy, that you know. I just kind of drop off when people are finished, you know buying that cabinet.

Speaker 2 20:12

You're not that type of person. Like, you're not even that type of person. Yeah, no, and like. I mean literally I text with so many of my clients, they really do become like my friends. Yeah, it's nice.

Speaker 3 20:22

You strike me as a relationship builder that happens to also have this huge specialty that you're really good at that. You're helping them, but really it's also about the relationship.

Speaker 2 20:32

I definitely think I'm a relationship builder. I work with a lot of the same people over and over again. I have a lot of builders that I work with. I have a lot of developers that I work with. I have a lot of designers that. I work with and I work with those same people over and over again. Sometimes you know it's for a project for them, like a spec home, sometimes it's a customer that they have and I'm working with them via their customer to you know to to bring the design to life.

Speaker 3 20:56

Yeah, but then goes word of mouth.

Speaker 2 20:58

Then word of mouth. So I'm working with a lot of former customers family. I'm working with one of my former customers moms. Right now. I'm working with another former customer's best friend. Two of her other best friends have asked me to quote things. I'm working with a builder that I did three homes with last year, I'm doing five this year. I'm really excited about that and we we ship all over the country. So I'm working with people in. I've had two customers this year in the Bay area of San Francisco. I have customers in Chicago, um DC area, new York, out right outside New York city, florida, um, mostly like big market cities, I found, but I did an entire house and hope Indiana this year, which is like a town of like 800 people.

Speaker 3 21:40

Yeah, it's like a.

Speaker 2 21:42

it's like a two stoplight town, I think, in India. I actually I didn't go on the delivery but, um, the customer's really excited about the cabinets and once she gets the hardware on and the countertop she really wants me to come. And my daughter's best friend moved to Chicago. Actually, the people that lived in your house previously, they moved to Chicago, yeah. So I told her because she was like, please come, I really want you to see everything installed. So I said, well, I need to take my daughter to Chicago. Hope Indiana happens to be just a little bit out of the way on the way to Chicago, so we're gonna stop and that'll be really fun.

Speaker 2 22:14

I've never met her in person and that's the thing like I really feel like I know my clients. We do a ton of Zooms, we talk on the phone, we text and sometimes I'm working with people for eight months and we've never met face to face. But I think that's a really cool thing about how technology works in today's society is like I can really become close with a client and really work closely with them to make their kind of kitchen or bathroom or whatever room I'm working on dreams come true and I've never met them face to face.

Speaker 3 22:45

That's my favorite part. Now, some people lean into that. I've met a lot of other people that are just so tired of Zooms and teams and I'm like what is that? That's my thought. I feel the same way as you do. I'm like I don't feel any. No, I actually still feel very close way as you do. I'm like I don't feel any. I actually still feel very close to a bunch of people. Oh, I do too. It's so funny.

Speaker 2 23:04

Yeah, yeah, I do too. Sometimes the first time I've ever met my clients is like at their delivery. Sometimes if I have like a bigger project, I go I just want to make sure like everything gets off the truck well and just to coordinate. And sometimes I'm meeting my customers for the first time at that delivery We'll like give each other a big hug like. Oh my God, it's so great we're finally meeting.

Speaker 3 23:28

We've talked, you know, we spent you know 50 hours on zooms together or whatever. So the thing that always seems to shock me, and I feel like most people, is how tall or short people are. Oh, you can't see that, so it's like the one thing that happened to me.

Speaker 2 23:38

I have a client and he is, I think he's like six, eight. He's very tall, and not that I didn't picture him tall.

Speaker 2 23:44

I don't really think about how tall people are but I remember we're like in passing and he's like, yeah, well, I'm six eight. And I'm like, wait, you're six eight. And he's like, yeah, I'm like, oh my gosh, that's really tall. And he's like, yeah, he's like, did you not picture me tall? Like honestly, I didn't really picture you short or tall. I kind of like picture people sitting down right Cause like I'm on my computer and yeah, you're on the Zoom, you know whatever, but it's just funny. That's why it always baffles me.

Multiple Streams of Income Advice

Speaker 3 24:17

People now I think they're used. That's so funny. Yeah, we're coming close to time, okay, and I like to end up every episode about the same, which is to ask you what advice could you give or would you give to somebody listening to this? It could be life advice, it could be business advice, it could be any advice you think would women in our community would find helpful.

Speaker 2 24:38

Yes, I would say have multiple streams of income. That is my biggest advice to women. I think men can obviously take that advice too, but as women, I think it's really difficult for us as the mother. If you choose to be a mother not everyone does but if you choose to be a mother, being the mother in the family, I think it makes it harder on us, and I think having multiple streams of income and being able to turn to those streams of income at different points in your life I always say like if you have an interest or you have an idea, start it as a side biz, do a side biz. It could. My side biz turned into like my real business, yeah, my business.

Speaker 2 25:16

And I could not be more grateful and I don't know where it would be if that didn't happen. And I started this. I didn't really get to this in our conversation, but I started this as a flipping house side biz nine years ago and now it's a cabinetry business that is making 10 times more than I ever dreamed of making. So I think your side biz can totally become your biz biz if you just have the confidence to do making. So I think your side biz can totally become your biz biz if you just have the confidence to do it. And I think that can start as a second stream or a third stream of income and it can be your main thing.

Speaker 3 25:50

It could be your main thing. That's really good advice, Really really good advice.

Speaker 2 25:54

It took me to almost 40 to really totally understand that. I've heard people say that for years and I didn't really totally get it Like how can you like be working at a job 40, 50 hours a week and like start something on the side? Like who has time for that? But when things are your passion, I think you make time for it. And again, you know, I've given this advice so many times, I've given it to other friends, I've given it to neighbors. So many times I've given it to other friends, I've given it to neighbors, I've given it so many times.

Speaker 2 26:21

I see so many talented women in our society that should be doing the things they're talented at as a business who aren't. And it's just, you know, it's like not, it's either like a lack of confidence or it's feeling overwhelmed, like they don't have time. And I'm very fortunate, my husband is a very supportive spouse and does a lot around the house and, um, you know, just with our kids and our life, and it just has enabled me for you know this to kind of come to fruition. So I think that's so great yeah.

Speaker 3 26:48

Well, thank you for spending time with us today.

Speaker 2 26:50

This was great.

Speaker 1 27:17

What I love most about today's conversation with Jessica is how it dismantles the myth that you have to have it all figured out from the beginning. Her path from poli-sci to custom cabinetry isn't a failure to commit. It's a masterclass in staying open to opportunities and building on each experience. Her advice about multiple streams of income resonates deeply, especially for women juggling various responsibilities. The idea that a side business can become your main business isn't just entrepreneurial wisdom. It's about giving yourself permission to explore what lights you up, even when you're not sure where it will lead. I'm also struck by how Jessica has redefined what success looks like in her industry. Instead of scaling to maximum capacity, she's chosen to maintain relationships with her clients and work at a pace that allows for quality and connection. That's a lesson that extends far beyond cabin tree For those of you sitting on a talent or passion that you think isn't a real business.

Speaker 1 28:10

I hope this conversation challenges that assumption. Sometimes the most fulfilling careers emerge from the intersection of what you're good at, what you enjoy and what people actually need. If today's story inspired you to good at what you enjoy and what people actually need, if today's story inspired you to think differently about your own path, share it with someone who needs to hear it. Remember SheSweet Society exists to amplify women's voices from all walks of life, proving that success comes in many forms. Until next time, this is your host, dahlia, reminding you that your life is your message to the world. Why not make it extraordinary? You?