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Accelerating Appalachia empowered me as a woman in business, us as entrepreneurs, and as owners of a values-based enterprise. ACAP came during a time of transition for our business so it allowed us to dig deeper and maintain accountability to complete the work, fleshing out our current business plan while forming a new business model and groundwork for a new project. It’s the best thing we’ve done for our business so far. We feel like we just leveled up and we are excited about where we are headed.