This Ex-CIA Officer’s Near-Death Experience Inspired Her to Start a Business That’s Earning Over 8 Figures a Year: ‘I Have a Higher Risk Tolerance Than Most’

“I always wanted to make a difference,” Emily Hikade, founder and CEO of luxury sleepwear and home company Petite Plume, tells Entrepreneur. “I wanted to make a change. I wanted to do something that meant something.”

Image Credit: Courtesy of Petite Plume. Emily Hikade.

Growing up in Central Wisconsin, Hikade was curious about the world from a young age. She biked to the library to teach herself French before high school. At 13, she convinced her parents to let her do a summer exchange program in the South of France — and returned home fluent.

Hikade went on to attend the University of Notre Dame, where she continued to study French

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