Photo: Leilah Dhore/How She Hustles

In honour of Small Business Month, ByBlacks spoke with Emily Mills of How She Hustles about what it really takes to successfully build your own business. Mills is fresh off the launch of her latest project - the Startup & Slay Digital Series sponsored by CIBC, Futurpreneur Canada and Ryerson University.

In 2015, there were over a million small businesses in Canada, with less than half of these businesses partially or solely owned by women.