4Mrs. Chrystèle Sanon, “A Schizophrenic Who Treats Herself?”
Looking for profiles that I could interview for this book, I had put a post on LinkedIn for this purpose. I got feedback from someone I didn’t know at all: Mrs. Chrystèle Sanon. The return said verbatim, “If you are looking for profiles of ‘schizophrenic’ female entrepreneurs in recovery, I can testify”. I must confess I was very amused by the answer. If Chrystèle wanted to stand out from the many entrepreneurs who were offering to answer an interview, then she had succeeded.
Once we got in touch, we made an appointment to meet at the Station F, a mecca for entrepreneurship in France, and I was going to discover this “schizophrenic”, at least according to her words…. I was expecting a very long interview to discover her multiple personalities…. At the first handshake, I understood that I was in front of a determined person and much more rigorous than her LinkedIn message could have made me feel.
4.1. Context
4.1.1. The origins
Born into a cosmopolitan family (father: Italo-Guadeloupean; mother: Haitian), Chrystèle oscillated for a long time between France and the USA where she has ties. She is said to be the child of two nomads and “exoticism is sedentary” in her eyes. It is in France that she developed in the end, not without always wondering even today what her life would have been like if she had chosen the USA.
A woman of intuition, she very quickly understood that her life would not be in a conventional approach ...
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