One of the questions I get most often is how we balanced family, community involvement, and running the businesses for over 15 years. The honest answer is that it was never perfectly balanced. Some seasons the businesses took more. Other seasons family did. What worked for us was treating community and family as part of how the businesses stayed healthy, not as things that competed with them. Local community involvement was never something we squeezed in around the busine

For 15+ years my wife and I owned and operated our franchise businesses together. The question we heard most: “How often do you fight? How hard is it to be in business with your spouse?” We didn’t fight. We got along better. We had different skill sets and almost no overlap. She was great with customers, payroll, and keeping employees and customers happy, including the angry ones. I handled marketing, operations management, and the numbers. We believed in the same