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NetSuite.com slash C-suite. Netsuite.com slash C-suite. Welcome to another episode of your first thousand clients. I'm your host

Mitch Russo. I am in business and work with clients every day. Together we create

businesses that serve others as our highest priority. I have a responsibility to

find, curate, and deliver the best business building information possible.

To do this, I call through hundreds of profiles and interview requests to bring you the top leaders

with incredible information that I think will serve you best.

Today my guest is a business owner who started as a government employee dealing with teams of contractors,

angry clients and general mayhem on her daily

basis.

Then a miracle, a new baby who needed a sustainable baby product and none were easily located. So she did what all great entrepreneurs do and

opened a retail store. That's when the life-changing lessons of business hit like waves on the beach.

How do I get clients?

How do I manage inventory?

What about staff?

Finally, she perfected the process, sold the stores,

and now she teaches others how to scale their own retail empire even in the face of Amazon

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