From Inc.:
When she was 15 years old–decades before she would go on to revolutionize health care staffing–SnapNurse founder Cherie Kloss was emancipated from her family. Her mother was suffering from acute mental illness and had to leave the home to get care. Her parents divorced. Then her father, a Korean immigrant, decided he needed to return to Seoul to pursue a job opportunity. Cherie, who was on the Venice High School swim team and content being a 1980s Southern California kid, declined to go with him.
“If you don’t leave with me, you’re on your own,” her father told her.
“OK,” she said. “I’ll be alone.”
Even though her family had been “super poor” before it broke apart (“inner city, government cheese, the whole thing,” she says now), Kloss grew up hearing from her father that if she worked hard and studied hard, she could make it here in this country–especially if she pursued a career in engineering or medicine. She’d have to fend for herself, but her father had armed her with an immigrant’s faith in the American dream.
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