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When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

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.

When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.

I never went to college. But the structure I grew up with was planted so deep that when it came to doing business, I knew how to be disciplined, create teamwork, and persevere. It set me up to be an entrepreneur and a successful franchiser.