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.

Ariel Bejerano

MY thoughts on family business is that it doesn’t get better than that. Normally we spend more time at our jobs than we do at home so opening up a business knowing that in the future I will be able to hire my children and teach them what I know about running a business and taking care of your workers is something that inspires me to keep going. Read more>>

Kylie James

We have a four year old daughter that was there when we designed our shop. That was three months of pretty intense construction and stress, and she was there the entire time helping. She painted, and hammered, and ran around. When we were done and had to explain to her that now it was a shop and not a playground, she just started helping out. She sweeps up hair, she cleans chairs, she sits at the front and greets people. Involving families into businesses is really the best way to teach your kids to have confidence, to help out, and give them something special. Read more>>

MYRIAM & Jean DANDONNEAU

We are the typical family business. Husband and wife working together all day taking care of three restaurants. We love working together and we work as a very solid team. We are complementing each other and are always taking important decisions the two of us. This is a real strenght. We also take care of our staff like family. We often help them in their life and try to help them to grow in our business. We have many employees that are with us for almost the beginning. Read more>>

Jenny Smorzewski

In all honestlyI hadn’t given much thought on a family business until just very recently. I kinda regarded family businesses as something that was forced upon generation after generation. I mean like if someone had all the choices in the world, is being a part of a family business where they’d chose to be ? But now I look at this concept so differently when I begin to think about the many years and numerous steps it has taken to build the strong foundation of a business. Read more>>