High school teacher Merrilee Kick was diligently marking her students’ papers one warm afternoon in 2009, but in a bid to make the experience a little more exciting, she sipped on a cocktail.

Suddenly, a thought came to the 62-year-old’s head while sitting next to her swimming pool at home in Dallas ; maybe she shouldn’t be drinking out of a glass so near to the water. Rather than decant the beverage into a plastic cup and continue with her life, this singular moment instead changed her path completely as it gave her the idea for BuzzBallz …

BuzzBallz’s humble beginnings

At this time, the mum-of-two was going through a ‘tough spot’; she worried endlessly about getting by on her $55,000 (£42,000) salary as a single parent, as she was about to divorce husband Tim. ‘I was terrified

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