Fashion designer, entrepreneur, corporate trainer, stroke survivor, Senior Olympian, and artist, VeRetta Garrison-Moller thinks she can do anything — and from the looks of it, she can.

The Ohio native-turned-New Yorker, now Louisiana resident, has had a series of successful careers that include founding a renowned high-end dress shop on a whim, designing her own clothing lines, and advising national corporations on diversity and interpersonal communications. Never mind that she wasn’t formally trained in any of the fields she conquered. A minor point, if you ask her. “I just jump into the pool,” she says. “Then halfway down, I figure out if there’s water in it.”

Art is just another fresh hurdle to stretch out and leap over. Everyone, she believes, ought to employ the same philosophy. “C’mon. The worst thing that can happen is that you fail. Only two things should stop you from trying, that you might die, or that you’ll go to jail. Otherwise, this is America. There’s no better place to mess up.”

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Designer - Advocate - Entrepreneur - ArtistVeRetta Garrison-Moller