Leaving Corporate to Build a Winery From Scratch and Survive What Came Next

In this episode of Pouur Decisions, we sit down with Destiny Burns, founder of CLE Urban Winery, to talk about the real decisions behind leaving corporate life, coming back to Cleveland, and building a business from the ground up with no roadmap.Destiny shares how a 20 year Navy career and years in defense contracting led her to walk away from stability, design a purpose driven business, and navigate everything from SBA loans and alcohol regulations to COVID shutdowns and near breaking points.This is an honest conversation about entrepreneurship, risk, legal realities, survival mode, and why mission matters more than money if you want to last. No hype. Just real lessons from nine years of building something meaningful.