We have six kids now, from teenager to a newborn, so life is pretty full. I’m still involved in the plumbing company, especially the marketing side of things. I still love fitness and lifting weights. I homeschool, bake sourdough, come up with way too many ideas for our house, and now I’m interviewing women for a podcast too. 😂

My life didn’t start out looking anything like it does today.

I had a hard childhood and was on my own pretty young. There was a time I never would have imagined I would have this family, this business, or this life.

I think that’s probably why I’ve always cared so much about helping people see that where you start doesn’t have to determine where you end up.

And now there’s A Plumber’s Wife.

After years of building a business with Brad, I started wondering why we don’t hear more from the wives who are doing this too.

The women answering phones, doing the books, handling the marketing, raising kids, hiring people, making decisions, worrying about payroll, working with their husbands all day and then going home with them at night. 😂

I wanted to talk to those women.

So I started the 100 Wives Project, and I’m on a mission to interview 100 women who have helped build family businesses alongside their husbands.

I want to know what it was really like.

What worked and what didn’t. What was hard on their marriage. What helped it. How they handled raising kids while growing a company. What they would do differently. And what they know now that they wish they knew when they started.

I’ve learned a lot from building Big Birge Plumbing with Brad, but there are women who have been doing this longer than I have and women doing it completely differently than we are.

I want to learn from them too. And I have a feeling a lot of other wives do too.