I’ll never forget the first time I saw Chrishon. It was during the height of COVID, yet her energy cut through the uncertainty like a beacon. She had already faced what could have broken most people—a flood that destroyed her Chicago art and wine bar—but instead of giving up, she rebuilt, reimagined, and dared to leap. What makes her story extraordinary isn’t just survival; it’s that she built a nationally distributed wine brand as a Black woman in a male-dominated industry, challenging assumptions, breaking barriers, and creating space where so many had been excluded.

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