On this episode of Homegrown Economies, Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce CEO/President Carrie Hamblen talks with Jo Ann Garay, the Director of the Las Cruces Division of the New Mexico Small Business Development Center. On the show, Jo Ann and Carrie talk the challenges faced by small businesses, what makes a successful business owner, and how the NM SBDC helped so many locally owned businesses during the pandemic with access to state and federal assistance, getting their bookkeeping in order, and helping them prepare for the future of how consumers will shop post-COVID.