Everyone sees the company. The 55,000 students. The 25 years. What they don't see are the years in between. The business that almost didn't make it. The night that changed everything. Kay Cheytanov has spent decades building something that matters, and this is the story behind all of it. The parts that never made the highlight reel.

More than half of SA mom founders started with under R15,000. The real cost wasn’t money. It was everything else no one talks about.

The real financial picture behind starting a business while raising a family - and the numbers most advice leaves out.