Kendra Scott

No, you know, look.

Yeah, you know, my first business was a hat company.

I started it because my stepfather had brain cancer and I was meeting a lot of men and women undergoing chemotherapy who had lost their hair.

And I had loved fashion since I was a little girl.

And so I started sewing in cotton linings into hats.

and created a hat business at age 19, dropped out of college.

And I think seeing this person that I love struggling, wanting to save his life, really.

And at 19, you're kind of an idealist.

This was my way.

I could do something, right?

I felt so helpless in that moment.

And after five years of trying to run this little hat company,

And it not working, wanting hats to be the next big thing again, like it was 1940.

I had these big grand plans for this business and it just failing day in and day out.

And after five years knowing I had to close it.

And now I'd already just lost my stepfather to cancer.

So the person I had done this for, I had lost.

The business I had started is failing.

The thing he was so proud of me to do.

I'm now a dropout.