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I Downsized on Purpose: 15 Years of Lessons from a Kenyan Bridal Designer

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Ogake Mosomi, founder of Ogake Bridal, shares fifteen years of lessons from building a Kenyan bridal-design business, including why she deliberately downsized to survive.

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