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Lakeisha grant the CEO of virtue Enterprise architects we're an IT consulting company based in the Washington DC area well I always thought I was different I felt it was always a an innate feeling that something was different about me and to me in order for you to truly be different you have to really call upon those instincts and just act on it you have to take the step forward but it has to be an educated step you have to make sure that you're armed with all the tools and everything that you're going to need in order to make that step possible inform yourself and educate yourself first but most importantly act don't just think about it don't just write it down on your vision board and never attempt it if you never attempt it you're gonna always view that as a failure no matter what you do people are very attracted to numbers when they see the growth of small businesses like myself they really feel inspired to look at their own goals and become entrepreneurs we have nine core values our very first one is volunteerism my internal staff all nine of us and myself we volunteer every third Thursday and Friday at a local food bank I don't think it's ever going to leave our company culture because to me family starts in your own homes and then in your communities and then it grows from there that's pretty much how we stay true to who we are throughout this growth my parents are middle-class folks they were rooted in South Carolina and they loved everything South Carolina that's pretty much how I was raised when I first started the company and said that I was going to jump out and become an entrepreneur they thought I was absolutely insane and crazy my mother did not understand it at all so I made it a habit of not mentioning my business at all to her acted as if I was still working for someone else I never really let them into what I was doing day to day last year we were honored by the city in which the mayor held a press conference for us and I told my mom I said hey mom the mayor's honoring us in about two weeks and you know I'd like for you to come and you know attend and so she said well what is he what is he gonna honor you for and I was like for my business and she said oh well what kind of business is this you know again wait what do you do I'm like it's computers so we had the press conference and my mom proceeded to hand a camera to the mayor to take pictures of herself and me and my father and the rest of the family she was turning to people saying that's my daughter that they're talking about she hugged me and she said I'm so proud of you I still don't understand what you do and why we're having this but I'm so proud of you I have a wonderful family that has done it I think a wonderful job and instilling a spirit of entrepreneurship as well as a strong work ethic I have noticed in most of my engagements that not everyone has that same feeling or sentiment of we're in this together where a family is just not a sentiment that's consistently practice I truly believe that entrepreneurship is attainable you know for anyone if this country girl can sort of do do well in a big city you know others can do the same thing