By Rajitha Sivakumaran
M
ost entrepreneurs have a full plate simply due to
their business, but MasseyWhiteknife juggles his
commercial ventures with a singing career and an
upcoming reality TV show.
“My whole life revolved around being an entrepreneur and
wanting something better,” Whiteknife said. Growing up in
the small town of Conklin, Alberta, Whiteknife, a Mikisew
Cree First Nation, experienced the battles of life early on.
At the age of 16, he had his own apartment and managed
to balance high school with a job as a custodian at Suncor.
He was abused and bullied for most of his life, but that did
not impair his spirit or his ‘reach for the stars’ mentality. He
told himself that although he was cleaning the office at the
moment, one day he would be sitting in the office and the
next day he would be owning the office. And that is exactly
how his story progressed, although it was not without a few
hurdles.
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