Pickled Success

When best friends Ashlee and Jenny were laid off from office jobs around the same time as each other, they decided that they wanted to continue working together. How do best friends start a new company? By finding what they both have in common, and for Ashlee and Jenny, their mutual passion was pickles.

Ashlee explained that you can't drive a car without both the gas and the breaks, and in this dynamic relationship, Jenny is the gas, and Ashlee is the breaks. Together, these two women from diverse backgrounds come together each day to co-run, "Miss Jenny's Pickles."

They self-described themselves as America's first pickle ladies, and Jenny emphasizes the advice for people who want to start their own business to "believe in yourself, believe in what you are doing, and anything is possible." The motto followed by Ashlee and Jenny is to do something right, or not at all. These two women are not only building a future for themselves, but for their families as well.

Ashlee and Jenny's determination to continue working together, and their ability to persevere toward a common goal despite being laid off from their previous jobs, shows that when one door closes, another truly does open.