May 15, 2019
Ann @ BGM
Finding Balance
I come from an entrepreneurial family. My father quit his union job and started a health food store in New Jersey in the early 80’s. This was not popular at the time. It was very costly to start up and risky given the lack of interest in the vegan lifestyle in the Black community. My grandmother was also an entrepreneur, after her retirement sold her homemade veggie patties, not because she needed the money, but because there was a demand for vegan versions of Jamaican patties. She mostly supplied the health food stores in Brooklyn, then branched out to the mainstream Jamaican bakeries. I say all that to say, being an entrepreneur was not a foreign thought, it was in my blood.
