That first year, I drank from a firehose trying to get my arms around the bigger picture and quickly realized if we were going to survive, we needed an accounting system that also had tools to help us manage inventory. Eventually, it was time to be “all in” and I switched my major to Business Administration with a focus on Accounting. She started two long years of treatment and I eventually took over the back-office. By my second year in school, I thought, “maybe I should minor in business.” But when my step-mom was diagnosed with leukemia, everything changed. By the time I entered the university, I had started to help my step-mom in the back office doing deposits and basic bookkeeping. In high school, I was helping women select tackle and clothing for their husbands’ favorite hobby. At 11, I was bagging fly tying materials and sneaking behind the cash register to ring up customer orders any time I saw an opportunity (much to the manager’s chagrin). By then, I had spent many weekends working at my dad and step-mom’s retail store ( The Caddis Fly Angling Shop) working my way up the ladder, so to speak. I always loved listening, coaching and advising people when they were faced with personal challenges and as a result chose Psychology as a major when I first entered the University of Oregon in 1988. What or who inspired you to pursue your career? We’d love to hear the story. Both heavily influenced where I ultimately landed in the world. From both I learned first-hand the benefits and struggles that come from owning your own business. Both of my parents’ choices resulted in a great deal of privilege for me including access to a quality education via my mom and step-dad, entrepreneurship, business operations and a job via my dad. They eventually chose for my mom to make running their household her focus and in high school after taking herself from secretary to successful real estate agent, she quit working outside the home. Eventually my mom remarried my step-father a wonderful man (albeit more old school as he was 16 years her senior) with his own law firm. My dad started a small retail business for fly fisherman and grew the business during my growing up years. They divorced when I was four the significance of which was far reaching and involved watching my mom shift from stay-at-home to single, working mom.
I was born and raised in Eugene, OR in the 1970’s and 80’s by parent’s who with the exception of their passion for the culinary arts, were essentially opposites one who was way left, the other way right politically which drove most of how they showed up in the world.
Can you tell us a bit about your childhood backstory? Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Before we dive into the main focus of our interview, our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better.
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