Every Saturday night, Kaylee Davis and her family transformed their LaPlace kitchen into a juice factory in hopes of furthering the 12-year-old's entrepreneurial dreams.

Into the wee hours of the morning, they would prep, cut and juice apples, bananas, papayas, lemons, strawberries, blueberries, pineapples, kale and other ingredients for Kaylee's various juice blends that she would bottle, label and sell the next day at a local farmer's market.

"She was selling out within an hour," Kaylee's mother, Tishia Boldene Davis, 45, recalled of those early days.

Four years later, Kaylee and her family expanded on those dreams. Squeezy Fresh, a brick-and-mortar juice bar, opened July 18 in Destrehan where the now-16-year-old high school junior and her staff sell freshly pressed juices and smoothi

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