Complex sentence: According to Scott, during the creation of the project, she was told over and over that her idea would never succeed-not because the person running it had no business experience, but because the homeless women she hired would not be "capable".
Split into simpler sentences: According to Scott, during the creation of the project, she was told over and over that her idea would never succeed. Not because the person running it had no business experience, but because the homeless women she hired would not be "capable".