Thank you for the question.
I'm from a military family and I'm from a middle-class family, so I am coming to this from a lot of privilege. That sets me apart from many in my community.
When I think about my community, I think about folks who are homeless, who are street-involved or who didn't have access to a post-secondary, graduate-level education. For them, it's a very different story from it would have been for me.
For me, I was feisty. I wanted to do this and I wasn't going to let anybody get in my way. For others, they don't know these programs existed in the first place. They don't know that there are federal grants to support business owners or entrepreneurs.