For some, family businesses mean spending more quality time with their families, financial freedom and so much more while for others it feels like a prison sentence. There are so many pros and cons, positives and negatives and so we wanted to create a space for folks who have experiences with family businesses to discuss the pros and cons.

Shiloh Therrien

My mother & I have been partners in Real Estate for the past 9 years, but working with family didn’t start there. When I was 12 years old my parents started their own business. A family owned and operated Auto Repair Shop. So began the start of working with family, and learning about being an entrepreneur. Read more>>

Beth Quinn

The roots of our business is our family, and I think that although family run businesses can present unique challenges they also draw everyone together to reach a common goal and the experience is, of course, very personal. There is this added connection that takes place between members of a family when you are working alongside each other. Read more>>

Tiana Johnson

For as long as I’ve remembered, my father has always been his own boss. He’s never worked for anyone else since I’ve been alive. That’s been 26 years now. From the dirt, he built our baby today, Urban Efficiency. This hits home for me because this is the life that I live now. Urban Efficiency has been instrumental in my professional development thus far. I was 18 when this company was started, Read more>>

Haley Koci

Row Homes is a family business born out of a business plan created during the height of COVID quarantine in May 2020. My husband and I had always dreamt of owning a renovation business, combining our backgrounds of construction (Ryan was a practicing Estimator at a commercial general contractor) and design (I was a Project Interior Designer in a large engineering firm). Read more>>