My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.
My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.
I grew up in a Navy family.
On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.
My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.