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macist, but soon abandoned the plan. “When I came
here and found out that I had to go back to school to
re-do my whole pharmacy degree, again, it just didn’t
seem appealing,” she says. Instead, over the next few
years, she worked with her first husband in a thriving
restaurant franchise operation in the San Francisco
Bay area. “It was a very successful venture, so I re-
alized that franchising was a great concept and that
maybe one day, I’ll do my own thing,” she relates.
Whatever that “thing” might have been, it had to be
put on hold after a divorce left her a single mom with
a three-year old and a one-year old to take care of.
When she went looking for daycare programs for her
kids, she struggled to find the right fit. “I would either
find programs that were only playschools, where they
were not really teaching anything, or I’d find schools
that were too academic with too much pressure on the
kids, and I really wanted a good balance,” she says. “I
didn’t find anything and I ended up raising my kids and
staying home.” During her time as a single stay-home
mom, she also completed her Doctorate in Science &
Naturopathy, and started learning more about the left
and right brain theories.
Dhillon discovered that she was actually pretty good
at tutoring her own children, as well as the children of
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Genius Kids
WHAT:
Accelerated learning franchise
WHERE:
Fremont, California
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