Quote

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

I'd grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.

Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.