This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. Hello everybody and welcome back to the Real Real Podcast with me Natalie Barboo. In today's episode I am interviewing Emily Harris who is the owner and founder of Shop Jack and Georgia, which is a local store

here in a city outside of Charlotte called Kings Mountain, and then she also has an online store.

But I wanted to interview her because she is blowing up on

social media her Tik-Toc are going viral she's killing it and her business is

thriving which is such good news in a pandemic.

So many businesses are shutting their doors,

so many businesses are struggling,

and to see one that is surviving,

or not only surviving, but doing really well,

so well that they needed to move into another bigger

location is amazing and I am so happy for her and I love sharing happy moments on

this podcast and I think that this is something that we

should celebrate because it is really really really sad seeing how many people

have had to shut their doors how many people have lost their businesses that they worked their

entire lives for and I'm definitely acknowledging that and it just makes me really

sad to see but it does make me happy when I do see a business that is doing well and I think it's

cool to just learn from and hear her story too because it hasn't always been easy.

We talk about the struggles of opening up a business, the struggles of opening up a store.

And if you guys didn't know, I used to have an online store called Shop Barboo, and this was when I graduated college.

I did it to the, like immediately after I graduated college. I kind of had the idea

one my senior year of college and I don't know why I named it that it's kind of

embarrassing now but it is what it is and a year later I kind of just shut the doors on it and didn't tell

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