Cisco Designed

When I was growing up in a blue-collar town in the U.S. Midwest, it seemed like everyone got a job when they turned 16. Little did I know when I donned the red IGA apron (with coordinating skinny leather tie) for the first time that I’d spend the next six years working at that store. In those early…

When I was growing up, my room was one thin piece of drywall from the most important entrepreneur in my life, my mom. My mom was a hairdresser, barber, aesthetician, cosmetologist, and eventually, a proud small business owner and entrepreneur. Over the course of my childhood, she worked in different…