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I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me working, or being a part of the industry.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.