Meet Rackeda Roper, the Jamaican-born 27-year-old serial entrepreneur, Army veteran and visionary force behind Exquisite Enterprise – event staffing, event spaces and event rentals. Rackeda aka “Keda” shares her life journey from Jamaica to America and how an early knack for hustling and sales led her onto the entrepreneurial path within the events industry that has been filled with wins, losses, roadblocks, pivots , revelations and more. Rackeda opens up about the reality of taking risks and “learning as you go” and why she hasn’t let the major business hurdles she’s faced this year stop her belief in herself or her dreams. All lessons. No regrets.
Some of the things we discuss in this episode include:
- What it was like growing up in Jamaica
- Moving to Irvington, NJ as a teenager
- Early lessons about hustling
- Why she joined the Army National Guard
- Graduating college but never using her degree
- Leadership lessons learned during entrepreneurship
- The ups and down of acquiring her own commercial events space…and the wild year, business losses, and major that came next
- Getting arrested because of one of her events
- Future business endeavors…and more!
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