2016, where was I at? Me? Getting married 👰🏾 Working retail to help pay for a wedding. 🫣 Building a startup I believed in deeply. Trying to keep a jewelry business alive that I already knew needed to end. I was ambitious, stressed, hopeful, in love, and learning everything the hard way. Six months after my wedding, I’d be diagnosed with cancer. But in 2016, I didn’t know that yet. What I did know was how to ask for what I wanted. That brand mattered. That founder visibility mattered. And that I wasn’t done, even when things felt uncertain. Looking back now, it was one of the most formative seasons of my life. Where were you in 2016? . . . #2016WhereWereYou #ThenAndNow #FounderStory #2016trending #EntrepreneurLife #WomenInBusiness #BuildingOutLoud #RealLifeEntrepreneur