Sponsored by Walgreens, WBDC Top Shelf is an intensive eight-week course designed to help fledgling entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds with the essential tips and skills needed to scale up production and distribution of consumer products and get them ready to sell into large retailers. That’s when she was referred to the Top Shelf Program. McGhee, who is a client of the Chicago-based Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC), asked her WBDC coach what she should do. The ideas were moving as quickly as a late passenger trying to catch a flight, but with products developed and in the market – and encouraging traction – McGhee knew she needed some direction and guidance to take her business to the next level, so she leaned on her business coach for advice. McGhee began with a few stylish products that solved simple problems for female travelers like her: a jewelry case that kept necklaces from tangling, a makeup case with travel-sized brushes and a toiletry bag with a smaller, detachable pouch.

I wanted to make something that was both.” Or I’d find something really nice-looking that wouldn’t hold up over time. “I’d find a piece that was made with high-quality material, but just wasn’t as stylish as I would have liked.

“Although there was a decent enough selection of travel accessories for women, I always felt there was sort of a gap,” McGhee explains. That’s why it made all the sense in the world for her to combine the two into an eponymous line of stylish, affordable travel accessories for women, called Ms. Having been to 27 countries and counting, McGhee’s fearless passion for travel is matched only by her entrepreneurial spirit. If there were such thing as a travel bug, Tracey McGhee was definitely bit by it.

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