Business View Magazine - November 2016

Business View Magazine - November 2016 43 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 WEBSITE : www.geniuskidsonline.com