Do you run or work for a family business? If so, we’d love to hear from you for our family business series. In this series, you’ll find insights, stories and a discussion of the pros and cons of family businesses.

Elizabeth Kaul Thach

Steve and I both come from families made up of small business owners. My dad was a self-employed manufacturing consultant for a majority of my childhood, about 17 years. For the last 10 years, my family has run a haunted house attraction in the East Valley, Sanctum of Horror. Additionally, Steve’s Dad is an electrician who has owned his own electrical company for about 17 years. Starting our own business didn’t feel like anything out of the ordinary to us because it’s what we’ve both seen modeled for us by our hardworking parents all of our lives. Read more>>

Taylor Schultz

This is a topic that is very relevant to me as I work for my own families business. While I understand that it is not the right fit for every family, it is something that works for ours and in many ways has made us a more tight knit unit. I feel very thankful to be working alongside my family with a common goal in mind. Not only have I been able to watch our business grow over the last 20 years, I’ve been apart of that growth and in many ways contributed to it. Read more>>

Natalie Odis-Herrera Liza Herrera

I’ve always had a knack for being an entrepreneur even at a young age. When my mom, Liza, started her candle-making journey back in 2009, I was about 11 years-old creating dog-walking flyers for the neighborhood and duct-tape wallets to sell to friends at school. Fast forward to 2020, I was a Junior at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas studying Psychology when the pandemic hit and I moved back home. Read more>>