Shizu Okusa wasn't exactly sure what life had in store for her when she quit her six-figure Wall Street job in 2012. At age 22, she was a proprietary trader and investor at Goldman Sachs. It was a lucrative role, particularly for her age, but its 100-hour workweeks quickly wore on her, she says. The coping strategies she relied on to compete in such a corporate environment, she recalls, weren't healthy.
'I was drinking alcohol every single night and then jacking myself up with coffee the next day,' says Okusa, now 35.'It wasn't sustainable. And I looked back to my roots and believed that there was a real solution in using nature as medicine.' The company, which Okusa says is now profitable, has brought in more than $20 million in annual revenue as of November, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. It's projected to cross $35 million by the end of its fiscal year in February 2025.Born in Vancouver, Canada, Okusa unconventionally made her way to Goldman Sachs at age 19. She cold-emailed her future boss, Ted Goldthorpe, telling him she had a stock idea she wanted to pitch in person, Okusa says.To her surprise, he was open to meeting. She caught a flight to New York and spent the entire workday being interviewed. The next day, she got a job offer. Okusa graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in commerce in 2010 and started her Wall Street job that same year. She stayed at Goldman Sachs until 2012, when she left the company to rediscover herself, travel and co-found her first business, a Washington, D.C.-based juice brand called Jrink.The pay cut was significant — she went from making about $150,000 a year in finance to'paying myself a $30,000 salary' as a new entrepreneur, Okusa says. She lived in a studio apartment with a roommate and crafted her juices in her home kitchen during Jrink's early days. It was tough, but rewarding, Okusa say
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