“There’s this scene where one of the guys they fired falls apart,” she recalls. “He says, ‘I always wanted to be a chef, my life’s passed me by, I never got to open my restaurant, and now you’re firing me.’ ”

Determined to not let that happen to her, Stein quit her job as an account manager for a tech company and went back to school for interior design, an early love. “My parents really encouraged me to go into business,” she says. “But I never vibed with that corporate world. When I walked out of that movie, I told my then boyfriend, now husband, ‘That’s not going to be me.’ ”