I used to hate public speaking. I used to be very nervous when I performed a piano

I competed nationally, played tennis like competed nationally. I used to get very nervous.

Now I don't care. Two-time cancer survivor and I think I've learned to be so embarrassed

or worried about things that I am who I am and this is what I bring to the table and love

me or leave me.

Love her or leave her. Lydia Higginson has taken on the challenge of her career, running

a startup business in the Hudson Valley of New York. We'll meet her and one of public

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Now here's Karen Michelle with Lydia's story.

Lydia Higginson is a present and for the past year, the head of Huncho would have started

a business where at Dutchess spirits at Harvest Homestead Farm in Pine Plains, New York.

Pine Plains is a tiny and somewhat remote hamlet of New York's Hudson Valley. Lydia Higginson

isn't tiny, has bright red hair straight to her shoulders and a laser focus.

I have a lot of talents. I mean I think a lot of them I learned when I was very young,

my father used to have me help when he was doing catering before he had his own restaurant.

So I was very used to the hospitality, welcoming people, greeting them and I thought that was

very important. Those skills are very useful in a matter of what career you're in. And

the fact that I have a bunch of different talents, I mean some of them are useful, some

of them are not so useful. I think just give me a broader understanding of other people

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