By Jessica Boggio, Sage Media | Gladewater, TX The Credential Nobody Wanted Her to Have She was 27 years old, sitting in a prison cell in Texas, and she had made her decision. I'm forever gonna die an addict. I have no hope, and now I have this huge felony, and I'm for sure never gonna figure it out. Three months in, she got on medication for major depressive disorder. And something shifted — not dramatically, not all at once, but enough. Enough to make a plan. Enough to imag

“I came out of the back room one day and it was chaos,” she said. “And I thought, I’m killing myself. If I’m gonna do that, I want to do it for something I’m passionate about.” That was the moment. Thirty years in retail — working her way from salesperson to store manager — and it came down to one thought in a stockroom in Longview. Not a grand plan. Not a business model. Just a woman who had spent her whole career being very good at something she didn't fully believe in, fin