The Shades of Entrepreneurship™

Episode 209 From Elephants to Empires: How Libby DeLucien Built Multiple Businesses from Scratch

The Shades of Entrepreneurship™

In this inspiring episode, Gabriel Flores interviews Libby DeLucien—multi-business owner, software founder, and children’s book author—about her remarkable entrepreneurial journey. Libby shares how she went from growing up in a family that owned the largest herd of Asian elephants in North America to launching residential cleaning companies, recruiting tech, and SaaS solutions. After losing everything in a divorce, Libby rebuilt from experience, not from scratch, scaling multiple ventures and creating impact in the process. Tune in to hear how she leverages AI, bootstraps software from real-world gaps, and balances life as a wife, mother, and founder.

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