361: Parenting and Pet Care Roundtable

What's it like being a parent in pet care? As a business owner, it can be overwhelming to consider adding a child and growing your family while also keeping your business running. There is so much to account for and many different business models you can try. On a very special rountable Marissa LeJune, owner of Tail Swaggers, Amber Van Denzen Suarez, owner of Atta Boy! Animal Care, and Stephanie Brown, owner of Happy Trail's Pet Sitting & Dog Walking Services, join the show to share their experience of raising their kids while running their business. If you're just starting out in your business journey, or are a soon to be new parent this is for you!

Main topic

• Facing fears
• Preparing for birth
• Making business changes
• Taking maternity leave

Main takeaway: You can make your business work for your family, it takes planning and setting realistic boundaries.

About our guests:

Marissa LeJune is the Owner of Tail Swaggers, the #1 luxury doggie daycare in Fort Worth, Texas that provides each dog a balance of fun, structure and learning during the day. She believes there is depth and detail that goes into caring and building trust with you and your dogs. This is why her daycare focuses on fulfilling both your dog's physical and mental needs while challenging them to learn skills that will benefit them in real world scenarios. She also believes dog's are similar to humans in that they are a product of their daily habits. With this knowledge she makes sure that each dog a part of Tail Swaggers daycare is being properly loved, educated & empowered to become the best version of themselves!

Amber Van Denzen Suarez is the Founder of **Atta Boy! Animal Care, Florida Pet Sevices Association, and Pet Sitter CEO Youtube channel. A dually certified Professional Pet Sitter, retired Veterinary Nurse of 13 years, and holds a bachelor's degree in Animal Sciences. cpps. She lives with her 3 dogs, 15 chickens, 3 fish aquariums, 2 hermit crabs + 1 green anole lizard with her human family in Lakeland, Florida

Stephanie Brown was born with a passion for animals which was instilled by her mother at a young age. Always having family pets to love and horses to care for she knew from an early age she'd spend her life devoting herself to loving and caring for pets

After traditional college, she found herself back with animals and pursuing a career as a Large Animal Veterinary Technician with one of the country's top Equine Vet's. After some time, she found herself caring for patients whose owners had a planned trip coming up and had an "unexpected" pet emergency…so she found a niche, not only her skill set as a vet tech, but to be able to help the "humans" in those pets' lives, to comfortably leave with ease knowing their pets were getting the best care. Providing the personal touch and keeping both pets and owners happy is when Happy Trails came to life!! Originally started in 2002, as Happy Trails Professional Pet Sitting & Equine Services, the main focus was special needs pets and a strong presence of horse care in every aspect.

Over the past two decades, Stephanie has transformed Happy Trails, now known as Happy Trail's Pet Sitting & Dog Walking Services, into one of the county's top Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking service providers. The company's primary focus has now shifted to mostly Dogs and Cats and Hobby Farm care, always eager to help the special needs pets. Winning several prestigious awards including Next Doors Top Company and Morris County's Best Of awards to name a few! Community care and support is super important and a huge reason for Happy Trails Success, so giving back any way possible is always the goal from providing baskets for tricky trays, supporting local sports teams, dropping off donations for our local food pantry and giving back to our local rescues whenever possible!

Stephanie's goal is always to provide the best, most professional and loving care and has created an amazing team of pet care professionals that go above and beyond for every pet every time! Happy Trail's Team culture is heavy on Happiness…as happy team happy pets!!

Stephanie is proud to live and work in Long Valley NJ with her two boys, Zac and Patrick and her husband of 15 years, Alex!!

When she isn't working in the office or out in the field caring for pets, she enjoys hiking with her rescue pups or competing in Agility with her rescue westie Grayson!

Links

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Marissa LeJune - Tail Swaggers

http://www.tailswaggers.org

info@tailswaggers.org

@tail.swaggers

Amber Van Denzen Suarez - Atta Boy Animal Care

https://attaboyanimalcare.com

info@attaboyanimalcare.com

Steph Brown - Happy TRAILS Professional Pet Sitting

https://happytrailsprofessionalpetsittingllc.com/

steph@happypetsitting.org

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