In the sixteenth episode of The Idealists (formerly Grit & Grace), Melissa interviews Tina Wells. Tina has been listed as one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People, Billboard’s 30 Under 30 Power Players, and Inc’s 30 under 30 world’s coolest young entrepreneurs.

For over two decades she led Buzz Marketing Group, an agency she founded at age 16 with clients like Dell, The Oprah Winfrey Network, Kroger, Apple, P+G, Johnson & Johnson, and American Eagle. And what’s most exciting, Tina’s new book series, The Zee Files launches today, December 1st!  The Zee Files is a spin-off series of Tina’s best-selling tween fiction series Mackenzie Blue and is sold exclusively at Target and Target.com.

While we celebrate Tina’s launch, in this episode she gets real and raw on the many rejections that are part of the success journey, including the circumstances that made her walk away from $50 million.