Video Entrepreneur Stories

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After 29 years in daycare, Alexandria entrepreneur, Chris Svee turned a dream into reality—creating Grammy's Town, an imaginative play space inspired by her granddaughter. With support from SBDC consultant, Calvin Guyer and a lot of late-night research, she launched in June 2025. Calvin helped Chris understand her financial reports and put together financial projections for Grammy's Town. 

Now kids walk in wide-eyed and leave with memories. “The SBDC made the business side make sense,” she says. “I couldn’t have done it without them.”

Chrissy Davenport never imagined she’d one day own a retail business. As a

shepherd and founder of Re-Ewe’able, she started out using waste wool from

her sheep to create eco-friendly soil amendments. “I raise sheep to sell wool

to hand spinners,” she explains. “But I wanted to find a way to utilize the

waste wool.” That simple idea blossomed into a broader mission—to showcase

the many ways wool can benefit our lives. 

Her business journey took a turn when she joined Thrive, an entrepreneurial cohort offered through the West Central Minnesota SBDC and funded by a grant from the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. Chrissy worked with SBDC consultant Beth Pridday to walk through the steps of purchasing a downtown  retail shop from another attendee of the cohort. Now Chrissy sells both natural bath and body products as well as natural wool products. 

Market on Main is a grocery store, purchased by Twyla Myrin early in 2024 in Osakis, MN.  Market on Main is the only grocery store in Osakis. While Twyla sells conventional staples, she also sells local unique offerings like locally roasted coffee, candies made by a local Amish family or fresh flowers from a local flower farmer. 

Twyla worked with SBDC consultant, Skip Carpenter, to develop her business plan and financial projections. “Working with Skip opened my eyes to some things that I hadn’t taken into consideration. It was really beneficial to me to walk into this with my eyes wide open.” 

Aziza’s Residential Care, LLC is a residential 24-hour care home in Fergus Falls, MN that provides assistance to individuals with disabilities and to elderly individuals to help with daily living. 

Calvin is driven by passion to make a difference in the lives of his residents to help them to live as independently as possible. 

Calvin took an entrepreneur class with Cultural Diversity Resources and was recommended to work with Bill Schalow to fine tune his business plan and financial projections. 

Rolling Blue Logistics LLC is a transportation management company in Herman, MN. Brooke got into this work while earning her accounting degree. 

Brooke’s husband is in the trucking industry and she did much of the back-end work for him. She realized that trucking companies were hiring out for many different types of services. Brooke thought that it would be helpful to provide all of the needed services under one house. 

Brooke reached out to the SBDC for marketing assistance. 

Deb McGregor helped Brooke tell her story so that all of the services Rolling Blue Logistics LLC provides fall under one umbrella. 

CM Interior Design designs residential and commercial spaces that are comfortable, personal and interesting. Claudia believes that great interior design is great art that reflects who you are. 

Claudia worked with both the West Central MN SBDC and Cultural Diversity Resources for assistance in starting her business. The SBDC is proud to partner with great organizations like CDR to assist entrepreneurs in West Central MN. 

Abby Dahlberg Photography photographs weddings, couples and high school seniors. Abby worked with the SBDC to get assistance with financial projections, best bookkeeping practices and setting up her LLC. 

Abby created this video for the MnWest Entrepreneur Summit 2023 to share her Entrepreneurship story with other young Entrepreneurs. Give customers a reason to do business with you.