Jenn Harper: From Selling Seafood to Sephora & JCPenney

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What does it take to go from selling seafood and crying in the closet to turning $500 into a beauty brand on Sephora shelves? Two months sober, Ojibwe mother and entrepreneur Jenn Harper woke up at 2 a.m. from a dream about three little Indigenous girls covered in lip gloss. With no beauty experience and a $500 cheque, she built Cheekbone Beauty from her basement into one of Canada's most recognized Indigenous-owned beauty brands. Recorded weeks before two milestones that share a date, 10 years of Cheekbone Beauty and 12 years of sobriety, Jenn joins Talia Bronfman and Jessica Green on Built for This for an honest look at what it really takes to get on shelf, and stay there. From rejection…