As I started to build more of this business idea, I took some classes from Uptima Entrepreneur Cooperative and I’ve been taking classes at Laney Community College in carpentry and this semester I started woodworking.
One of my classmates was Mia Jackson, one of the founders of Repaired Nations who had just launched their Cooperative Work-Based Learning Program, so I applied and here I am today as a graduate.
First, we did the Return to Black Wall Street simulator, then the Collective Courage book club before the work-based internship. There’s something to be said about the importance of finding courage for how you live your life to not be guided by fear, but to be guided by courage in spite of fear.
When I started the program, I was really excited about the internship from the jump to get more clear about what it means to work in a cooperative environment. You can’t build connections with other people doing the work outside of the work, right? You gotta get in it.
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