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September 25, 2023 61 mins

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Sometimes you need a break from your career and change paths, and today we are talking about taking that break or gap year. Today’s guest on the show is Ericka Nicole founder of skincare company Silkenn and host of Behind The Silk, who after years of working towards a career in forensic science working towards a career working for the FBI- she hit a wall, and took a break to travel the world.

On today’s episode we will be covering: 
• How Ericka quit her job and took a gap year 
• lessons Ericka learned from taking a year off to travel  
• Hard lessons learned from entrepreneurship 

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