09/19/2026
What does a "family-owned business" actually mean to me? 💼❤️
It means 8:30 PM on a Friday night looks exactly like this photo.
Our remodeling showroom construction is underway for our big event on October 15th, but I needed my actual office up and running for Monday morning. You can’t run a remodeling company from a dirty drywall desk. (Trust me it's been a hell of a couple of weeks) But at 5:00 PM on Friday, the lights in my office completely died and Curtis needed light to get the last layer of drywall mud on the office ceiling. Some of the power in the building was working, but we just couldn’t figure it out.
When I called our amazing electrician, (Donovan with Greater Bay Electric) he said he could come over to help us out, but he had his kids with him. We told him, "No problem at all, bring them over, I'll go get Avi."
Right after that, I left to go pick up my 11-year-old from school. Knowing we had little ones coming to a chaotic job site, she and I started tearing the house apart searching for anything to entertain them. We managed to find a random stash of rubber duckies and leftover Easter eggs.
While Donovan worked late into the night to get our lights back one, Curtis muddied the room, and I hung drywall in the showroom, our 11-year-old stepped up as the ultimate MVP. She took those duckies and Easter eggs and created a full-blown warehouse daycare to keep his kids happy so the adults could focus and hit our tight deadline.
To me, a family-owned business isn't a glossy corporate slogan. It’s raw, it’s chaotic, and it’s real. It’s an unshakeable commitment to doing whatever it takes, leaning on your village, and treating the people who help you build your dream like family. 🛠️✨