We couldn't have asked for a better first episode than this one where Amirah, Kearsley, and Jacqueline talk with Kari Kermode, Kearsley's mom and founder and owner of Style Dance Academy in Franklin, Indiana.

Learn more about Style Dance Academy here: http://www.styledanceacademy.com/

Kearsley's involvement with the family business has been written about before: https://shelbycountypost.com/local-news/693755

And you may know Kearsley's oldest brother, Keaton, from TV: https://fox59.com/news/shelby-county-native-makes-it-to-top-6-of-sytycd/

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Jeremy VanAndel is the director of professional development and is an instructor of business at Franklin College and publishes this podcast. The views expressed in this recording are those of the instructor and students only and should not be attributed to Franklin College.