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As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

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All these things were happening, and I was like, you know, literally on my kitchen floor sobbing.

Like, I'm going to lose all of this, and it made me have to make a decision, like in that moment.

I was either going to give up and just say, I can't do this.

Party's over.

I was going to have to throw all my chips on the table, and we were going to have to do something like radical.

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I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, how a young mom named Kendra Scott turned her spare bedroom into a launching pad for a multi-million dollar jewelry company.

When Kendra Scott was a little kid in Kenosho, Wisconsin, she'd often get driven up to Milwaukee to visit her glamorous aunt, who worked as a fashion coordinator at the Gimbles department store in downtown.

Going into her closet was, you know, magical, and I could become anything I wanted to be.

You know, I would play in her clothes and her jewelry, and I would sketch ideas of clothes and handbags and shoes.

I would break antique pieces of jewelry apart and try to put them back together again. I would style my mom.

I mean, I don't can't say it was great looking, but it was creative. I could say that. I loved it.

But Kendra really thought of fashion as a hobby. She'd never imagined it as the thing she would eventually do with her life.

But at times she turned 16. Her parents' marriage was falling apart. Kendra and her mom moved to Houston.

And so for college, she decided on Texas A&M. But shortly after the start of her freshman year, her stepdad was diagnosed with cancer.

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