What happens when a city’s entrepreneurs aren’t excluded from the economy, just invisible to it? On this episode of The Disruption Lab, recorded live in front of a studio audience, host Kevin McGinnis sits down with Suzanne Gunn. She is a former oncology nurse, med spa owner, couture designer, founder of AfroKC, and co-founder of a planned Fashion and Beauty Innovation Campus in Kansas City. Every one of those ventures traces back to one person: her mother. She died of cancer after being misdiagnosed four times in Kenya, and her quiet, community-first way of living became the blueprint Suzanne didn’t recognize until it was almost too late. Today we talk about everything she’s built since: a med spa that safely treats oncology patients a couture label shown at Kansas City Fashion Week a retail line selling handmade goods from African artisans AfroKC, a festival she started after realizing the region hadn’t excluded African-owned businesses so much as never known they existed a planned Fashion and Beauty Innovation Campus Recorded live, Kevin McGinnis talks with Suzanne about grief, a near-breakdown, why balance is a myth, and what it takes to build the community infrastructure most founders take for granted.