{"id":16565,"date":"2025-06-26T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16565\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:06:08","slug":"young-entrepreneurs-graduate-from-st-clouds-enterprise-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16565\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Entrepreneurs Graduate From St. Cloud&#8217;s Enterprise Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE FALLS (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wjon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WJON News<\/a><\/strong>) &#8212;\u00a0The Initiative Foundation has graduated 12 young St. Cloud area entrepreneurs in its Enterprise Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the spring 2025 Saturday cohort of Enterprise Academy include (back row, left to right): Devin Hyde and Abdi Daisane, trainer. Middle row: Tyrone Reynolds; Sheree Sheffield; Glentrice Montgomery; Lakeya Johnson; Latoria Martin; and Kristen Kimbrought. Front row: Aden Dekow and Amber Goodlet. Not pictured: Shernoveia Hinds.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the spring 2025 Saturday cohort of Enterprise Academy include (back row, left to right): Devin Hyde and Abdi Daisane, trainer. Middle row: Tyrone Reynolds; Sheree Sheffield; Glentrice Montgomery; Lakeya Johnson; Latoria Martin; and Kristen Kimbrought. Front row: Aden Dekow and Amber Goodlet. Not pictured: Shernoveia Hinds.<\/p>\n<p>Erica Cole is the owner of Brenda&#8217;s Place, a business that offers residential and community-based health and wellness services for seniors and individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Aden Dekow launched Waamo Cafe in 2023, serving Somali tea, coffee, and light meals.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Evans is the owner of Opulent Visions, a custom embroidery business he started in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Shernovia Hinds is training to become a nail technician.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the spring 2025 Thursday cohort of\u00a0Enterprise Academy include (left to right): Abdi Daisane, trainer; Erica Cole; Briana Pearcy;\u00a0and Corey Evans.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the spring 2025 Thursday cohort of\u00a0Enterprise Academy include (left to right): Abdi Daisane, trainer; Erica Cole; Briana Pearcy;\u00a0and Corey Evans.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Hyde has been running Hyde and Barrel Studio since 2024 and is transitioning from an online-only shop for plant enthusiasts to a retail space in St. Cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Latoria Martin owns Village Detail, a car detailing and cleaning business.<\/p>\n<p>Glentrice Montgomery wants to launch a business focused on outreach and support to people formerly in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Sheree Sheffield wants to launch a logistics business that offers shipping, warehouse, and other support services.<\/p>\n<p>Students also graduating are: Amber Goodlet, Kristen Kimbrought, Briana Pearcy, and Tyrone Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/attachment-wjonam-alexacard-big.jpg\" alt=\"AM 1240 WJON logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Since its founding in 2018, over 300 people have graduated from the Enterprise Academy program.<\/p>\n<p>READ RELATED ARTICLESLOOK: How Many of These Classic Summer Toys Do You Remember? <\/p>\n<p>If you grew up in the Wild West of the &#8217;60s, &#8217;70s, or &#8217;80s, summer toys were a lifeline because many of us were locked outside (until the street lights came on). Inside was no place for a kid! Check out these classic summer toys that kept us cool, kept us busy, and always seemed to add a dash of danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Stephen Lenz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LITTLE FALLS (WJON News) &#8212;\u00a0The Initiative Foundation has graduated 12 young St. Cloud area entrepreneurs in its Enterprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,607,16339,2295,16340,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-16565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-from-the-wjon-newsroom","11":"tag-newsletter","12":"tag-st-cloud-news","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114750290892749671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}