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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.