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	Podcast:		Business Beat
	Episode:		Business Beat - Independent designers strive for success in changing industry
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:58
	Publish Date:		2015-10-28 16:45:00
	Description:		This piece was produced in conjunction with Missouri Business Alert , a digital newsroom that provides business news from across the state of Missouri. Charisa Slenker sold her first piece of jewelry when she was 15. “I saw a little beading kit at Michaels and I decided I’d want to do that,” Slenker said. “So I bought that and I started making earrings and I would take them to school with me and sell them to my friends and teachers.” In 2009 while studying fashion at Stephens College, she opened an account with the online retailer Etsy, and a few years late she turned that account into an active online jewelry shop called "Charisa" to sell her handmade pieces. “I really wanted to have one of a kind pieces and so I just started doing wire working and creating initials or words that mean something, I kind of fell into my niche,” Slenker said. Today, Slenker splits her time between her full-time job as a computer technician for a dental laboratory and running Charisa which she has been
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