Shizu Okusa wasn't exactly sure what life had in store for her when she quit her six-figure Wall Street job in 2012.
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 ran the business full-time, opening nine brick-and-mortar stores and selling juices at two Whole Foods locations, but wasn't able to bring in enough money to keep it afloat—"We could never get it above 5 million in revenue," she says.
Okusa sold the company for an undisclosed amount in 2019 to Puree Juice Bar, which helped her start Apothékary, she says.Even though Apothékary and Jrink shared a healthy living ethos, Okusa says she had to do a few things differently so her second business could be more successful than her first.