Harriett’s Bookshop owner Jeannine Cook’s Trinidadian upbringing had a major effect on her views of entrepreneurship — even if she didn’t always consider herself an entrepreneur.

Cook’s mother emigrated to the United States from Trinidad when she was 16 and always had extra side projects in addition to her day jobs. In their household, having multiple streams of revenue represented the opportunities that came with life in the United States.

“My mother always had a side hustle,” she told Technical.ly. “She would be selling hats at church and [also worked as] an event coordinator. She was one of those people that does multiple jobs. There’s a stereotype that Caribbean people have multiple hustles and that was the environment I was raised in. In high school, I braided hair and babysat.”

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