She left corporate life to be a bagel artisan

Susan Shalhoub

06/10/2022

HERE TO SERVE: Milena Pagan, left, pours mimosas for Jessica Tynan, center, of Salem, Conn., and Rebecca Saenz of Cambridge, Mass., at Little Sister LLC on Hope Street in Providence. Pagan owns Little Sister and Rebelle Artisan Bagels LLC. PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Milena Pagan was a retail strategist for CVS Health Corp. in 2016 when she told the pharmacy giant she was quitting this steady job with a good salary to open a bagel shop. She told her family and friends, too. Did she get pushback? “I am sure people privately thought that I was crazy,” said

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