Despite alleged financial discrepancies resulting in Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey being placed under receivership, the company’s CEO and co-founder, Fawn Weaver, stepped on the main stage at InvestFest, a financial literacy conference held at the Georgia World Congress Center, and told entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs to “stay the course” as they navigate inevitable “hurdles” on their way to success–just as she’s been doing.

As previously reported, a federal judge ruled earlier this month that the Black-owned whiskey brand be placed in receivership amid a $108 million loan dispute with lender Farm Credit, which accused the owners of Uncle Nearest of defaulting on those loans. Weaver had already assured consumers that she is “unshaken and unmoved” by the judge’s order, that any no

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