How do you wind up being a business broker after a luxurious career in the high-end wine business?

Funny story. 

After working in the corporate world around 2008 and 2009 Jessica Fialkovich and her husband saw her friend who had a luxurious wine business brokering really high-end wines around the world. They thought how fun it would be to taste wine and travel for a living so with the help of their friend started their own wine business. 

Three years later, it turns out that tasting wine all day was exhausting and they decided to return to something more corporate.    

They hired a business broker to help them sell the wine business and as they say, the rest is history. 

Jessica and her husband now own Transworld Business Advisors, a thriving company offering M&A services and Exit Factor, helping small and midsize bu ...