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Or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. For those who find new ways to grow their business. American express open proudly presents your business on msnbc. Hi, everyone, im j. J. Ramberg. Welcome to your business, the show dedicated to helping your growing business. If you need a dose of inspiration this morning, listen to this. Down syndrome may have prevented Colette Devito from getting a job, but not starting her own company. Her mission is to start a business and hire people with disabilities like herself. That makes her our Small Business hero. Today, everyone in the cookie ...

Long Island school elections, 2021-22 Print Email School district residents go to the polls on May 18 to vote on budgets and members of their local boards for the coming school year. Below are the details on the ballots in 124 districts. Results will be posted here as they become available. Read our full coverage of the results here. The Great Neck, Lawrence, Hewlett-Woodmere and West Hempstead districts received permission from the state to hold voting on May 11, before the statewide date of May 18, which is also the date of the Jewish holiday Shavuot. Get more information on school distri...

Entrepreneurship and perseverance. >> blake said i'm going to build her a social platform. >> i'm gng to start with the cookie, then up to you. >> social media is fciting to me because it's global. everyone is on the same platform. so, the stories that were already being shared locally, i made little pages for her on twitter, instagram, facebook. all the information that was already out there, i put on those pages. >> once blake did, it was just everybody kept building on the story. not only have they shared the story, they keep circling back to see the progression of her growing her company, ...

Ingredients is about love. from the heart. >> like many entrepreneurs, colette started small, baking batches of cookies at home and selling them to friends and family. >> it kind of came as colette's main focal point. it made her feel good. there's no rejection there. >> feeling confidence in the quality of her amazing cookie, she approached the golden goose and asked if they would sell her cookies. >> she's a customer of ours and a nice girl. we said we would. >> with a small order from friends and family and shelf space at the golden goose, it was now a real business with payi customers. >> ...

Dream that is very personal. >> a company is to -- is to get people with disabilities. >> her goal is to grow the company to create thousands of jobs for people like herself with disabilities and her sister, blake, thinks colette is just the person to make that dream a reality. >> she's at the perfect pace for an entrepreneur. she's driven and loves everybody but she's sassy. she's smart. she's so smart. there is such a platform now in front of us to rea change the fact that a lot of people w disabilities are not employed or have these entryevel jobs or not being paid. i mean we are now able t...