Nicole Travis, the city of Lakeland’s community and economic development director, tells Tampa Bay Business Journal that she is motivated by her family: her mother’s success as a government minister in the Virgin Islands inspires her, as well as her desire to be a role model for her daughters. She also reveals the not-well-known info that she can play steel drums. Travis is one of the newspaper’s 2019 BusinessWoman of the Year honorees.

Source: Tampa Bay Business Journal

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  1. My mum is So embarrassing. She’s always talking about me and grandma and the fact that she can play the steel drums (us Virgin Islands most likely favorite instruments

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