Parents in Biz

Jeanette Sklivanou

Tell us about your journey. How did you get here?

It’s a strange feeling, as if it was only yesterday that we registered our business, unsure if it would succeed, and yet at the same time, as if it happened in a different lifetime! The brand we have today is a curious product of chance and innovation.

Before the crisis hit in 2011, we had another family business in real estate, and everything was going smoothly – until it wasn’t. Suddenly the value of the properties we were dealing with dropped dramatically, leaving us out of work and out of income.

Around that same time, my daughters were

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