Ramberg and welcome to your business the show dedicated to giving you tips and advice to helping your Small Business grow. Seven years ago, i started a company with my brother. Before that, my brother had started a company with my mom. And my dad worked with his father. Our entrepreneurial ventures have had a lot of family connections. For us, it works. But it doesnt for everyone. Tensions can run high as feelings get in the way of business. Meet two entrepreneurs who have enlisted the help of their parents and together they figured out their own ways to balance the slippery slope of working with family. Owning a clothing boutique was always janine harveys dream. This is what i like ultimately want to do with my life. In 2011, at the age of 21, she opened alchemy hour boutique in new jersey with help from her parents. But this help wasnt a handout, it was a business agreement. I really wanted to treat them as investors and not just my parents giving me money. I took that as a loan from
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sponsored by american express. Dont do business without it. Hi there everyone. Im j. J. Ramberg and welcome to your business. The show dedicate today helping your growing business. Todays a big day for all of us here because it is our last show. 12 years ago i got a call Out Of The Blue from msnbc asking if i wanted to be the
Wheres the money. Washington update. Thats coming up next on your business. Im j. J. Ramberg and welcome to your business, the show dedicated to giving you tips and advice to help your business grow. Im often asked which Small Business owner ive met over the past seven years has inspired me the most and my answer is always the same. Kim benson. She to me embodies what it means to be an entrepreneur. Shes risk taking but calculate and is willing to change paths when she sees a better one. Thats exactly what she did when she turned her company into a business that helps people lose weight. Cha, cha when first met her in 120u she was working out of her home. Shes come a long way since then. Its incredible. I mean i look at this space and i have to pinch myself its really here. In 2008 kims husband mark was laid off from his job and because of an illness couldnt get a new one. They had some saving, 18,000, but with all of their expenses it wasnt going to last long. It was, as she describes
Im j. J. Ramberg and welcome to your business, the show dedicated to giving you tips and advice to help your business grow. Im often asked which Small Business owner ive met over the past seven years has inspired me the most and my answer is always the same. Kim benson. She to me embodies what it means to be an entrepreneur. Shes risk taking but calculate and is willing to change paths when she sees a better one. Thats exactly what she did when she turned her company into a business that helps people lose weight. Cha, cha when first met her in 120u she was working out of her home. Shes come a long way since then. Its incredible. I mean i look at this space and i have to pinch myself its really here. In 2008 kims husband mark was laid off from his job and because of an illness couldnt get a new one. They had some saving, 18,000, but with all of their expenses it wasnt going to last long. It was, as she describes it, a petrifying time. Very scary. It was very scary. We had four children,
American express. Dont do business without it. Hi there everyone. Im jj ramberg. Welcome to your business. The show dedicated to helping your growing business. Today is a big day for all of us here. It is our last show. 12 years ago i got a call out of the blue from msnbc asking if i wanted to be the host of a new Small Business program they were about to launch. I had been a reporter before but i quit to start my own company. It seemed like too good of an opportunity to pass up, so i said yes. It was supposed to be a sixmonth job. 12 years later, here we are. I cannot thank you enough for joining us every week and sharing the stories weve gotten an opportunity to tell. Ive met truly the most incredible people along the way. I have gone home inspired countless times. This has been a show about business, but the truth is, its been a show about life, about success, about failure and how failure is really in the eye of the beholder. Thats one thing i truly learned. Turn it around, its jus