How can young business owners leverage their mentors and professional contacts that might be just out of reach for them? What are your recommendations? This is such a relevant question, especially in the conversations that you and I have had in the past, because really, my solution to this is meeting people just like you, Nettie, and finding people that you can click with that might be a little older than you or they might be your same age,

  I was barely 17 when my nephew, Dylan, was born and it was 7 ½ years before there was another niece to put my attention to. In those 7 ½  years, I graduated high school, graduated college, got married, moved across the country to California and back to Maryland, and I started my company, now The Sappari Group. I was 24 years old. I had started working at a young age, being entrepreneurial from the get go. At 10