Entrepreneur Helps Spouses Create Businesses
An entrepreneur who has moved around with her Marine Corps husband and now calls Camp Lejeune, N.C., home is using her small-business success to help other military spouses get started with businesses of their own.
Roxanne Reed, a mother of two whose Marine husband was her high school sweetheart, has decided to help other military spouses realize their dream of becoming business owners. She has helped small start-ups in pursuits ranging from scrapbooking to Web design to music.
“The most difficult thing about being a military spouse is the constant relocation,” Reed said. “Additionally, having our spouses deployed often places most of the household responsibilities on our shoulders, as well.”
As a result, her company designed a business roadmap that teaches spouses how to be realistic and use their strengths. She warned new small-business owners to guard against being discouraged by the ups and downs of business ownership.“If you are going to invest in a business, make sure you are doing something you love without being paid for it,” she advised. “If you love it, you will naturally get up every day and do it.” They might find their business in something they already do, such as volunteer work, she noted, or perhaps in something they do part-time for another business owner.
Photo by Jane Wayne Gear.
cassy on June 28th, 2008 1:35 am
Very true! if you really love what you are doing, no matter how difficult and hard it is, you always feel great.
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