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I'm Deere de Quinn, co-founder and CEO of Lafayette 148. We are a lifestyle fashion

brand named after our street address in Soho and we are women-run women-owned company and we dress a lot of successful women in the world.

There is a fine line between success and failure. And walking that line is a little bit dangerous.

So you just have to be prepared.

This is Secrets of Wealthy Women

from the Wall Street Journal, helping women empower themselves financially.

Now, Veronica Dagger.

Jeerger Quinn is the CEO and co-founder of Lafayette 148 New York, the Women's Fashion Company.

She explains how after a long career in the fashion industry, she was inspired to branch out and become an entrepreneur.

You came from a big Irish family and you said that actually has helped you in business.

How so?

You know, you just learned to get along with a lot of different people from an early age.

I mean our dinner tables were always full of cousins and relatives.

People that you know every time somebody came in the door they were

another relative that you never met and it was like wow are all these people related to

us so it was awesome and it was also you know a bit more global from the beginning because you had relatives coming in from from England from Ireland from Australia like all over the place and and you know it was fun to grow up learning that there was a little bit more than just the town you were in.

Growing up you didn't want to ask your parents for money. Tell us about that.

I guess my parents were immigrants and so they sort of ingrained in us what it takes to

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