I was raised in Green Bay, WI, on a small hobby farm. I come from a family of entrepreneurs – my father had an advertising agency for over 20 years and my mother was in marketing and public relations. Talk around the dinner table was often focused on marketing and growing businesses. In my early twenties, I moved to beautiful Door County, WI to work in a restaurant. The Door County area of Wisconsin is a tourist destination and good food, theater, music and art, silent sports, and wonderful natural areas abound. I worked off and on at various restaurants and hotels in the area and in the late 90’s opened a retail shop that I ran for 3 years. (I closed the shop when I decided to go back to school to get my teaching degree). I eventually met Mauricio, the man who would become my husband, at a local restaurant we were both working at. I was a “front of the house” server, and he was a “back of the house” cook. We have been married for 10 years now and have two young children, ages 7 and 9. We have both always wanted to have our own restaurant, but never took the leap. We have, however, always been involved in the service industry. After moving to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 2011 to work on Mauricio’s immigration papers, we started our personal chef business. We worked in vacation villas and condos and cooked for people from all over the world. Fresh Personal Chefs has now been in business in Mexico for just over four years. When my husband was able to come back to the United States, we re- settled in Door County and got the personal chef business going here. We are growing little by little and hope to eventually focus more of our time on our business. We both work other jobs and I keep busy with our kids. I will be back working in a school setting in the fall, and we are looking forward to buying a house and getting settled back in the area we left when we moved to Mexico. We both hope to some day work only for ourselves and support our family on our business income.