Kendra Scott

So all of my friends have graduated from college now or are getting jobs.

So I have no degree.

You're 24 or something, yeah.

No degree.

I have a failed business.

I lost my stepfather.

And I remember just thinking, wow, like I'm a complete loser.

I'm a loser.

I really did.

And now what am I going to do?

Well, I've got to go get a job.

I'm going to get an entry-level job somewhere because I don't have a college degree.

And I was able to get a job at a travel company that did a travel magazine in their marketing department.

And I still had customers calling me from the hat store and they weren't calling for hats.

I was making jewelry in that little store and I'd put it on the counter and the day that it would go out, it would sell.

But I was so focused on the hats working.

Yeah, that I couldn't see what was working.

Yeah, it was just like, and I enjoyed making jewelry and I loved making jewelry and I loved some of my precious stones and I wanted to make jewelry that people could afford that was beautiful quality.

And so, but it was just a side thing.

I made hat pins too and other things just by hand.