confirmation that what I had was really, really, really good.” The positive reviews from the conference only encouraged Carr to take her business a step further. Six months after the conference she opened her online store, Good Girl Chocolate, and eventually opened a kiosk in Oklahoma City’s Penn Square Mall. Though her kiosk had great success, her initial business endeavor closed after only two months. The reason for the closing was because Carr’s contract packer, the company in charge of making, packaging, and labeling the chocolate, could not keep up with her increased consumer demand. That same year, Carr had been invited to put Good Girl Chocolate in the Grammy and in select Oscar nominee gift bags where she met stars Yolanda Adams, Smokey Robinson, and Cardi B, to name a few. At the time her chocolate was 70 percent dark, but after Cardi B told her “I only eat milk chocolate,” she got to work on new flavors containing milk chocolate with natural sweeteners. In less than a year, 5
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