WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) – We’re persevering with our Hometown Satisfaction Tour, proper right here in Wichita Falls.
Texas is ranked third within the U.S. for having probably the most women-owned companies in honor of Girls’s Historical past Month, we heard from feminine enterprise homeowners about empowering others to comply with their entrepreneurial goals.
When you take a stroll by means of Downtown Wichita Falls, you’ll discover a number of companies which can be owned by girls who believed they may and did.
A number of enterprise homeowners share they imagine proudly owning a enterprise is about empowering those that come by means of their retailers.
“I need to make sure that girls really feel tremendous seen and heard and cherished by our model.” Proprietor of Ramble & Co. Katherine Hager mentioned.
“We offer a artistic house for the group. So we do issues with children and adults of all ages.” Proprietor of CrashWorks STEAM Studio & Makerspace Shauna LaRocque mentioned.
Katherine Hager opened Ramble & Co. in 2009, and in these 15 years, she’s been in a position to develop.
“The O.G. is right here in Wichita Falls, the one we opened in Waco in 2022, and we additionally not solely promote our model of clothes, however we stock quite a lot of different giftable and city-specific shirts,” Hager shared.
Shauna LaRocque opened her enterprise 5 years in the past after discovering a distinct segment Wichita Falls didn’t have.
“We don’t have a kids’s museum or one thing like that right here, and so we simply present an outlet for them to return in and get artistic and do some hands-on issues, and be taught whereas they’re nonetheless having enjoyable,” She mentioned.
Each girls share the adversity they face working their retailers.
“Studying the e-commerce enterprise, retail enterprise, after which getting folks to purchase into your concepts and to belief you,” Hager mentioned.
“Studying learn how to steadiness being a mother. We homeschool our children, and so making an attempt to juggle all of those balls and a few are glass and a few are plastic. And so which of them can I drop at this time, however I can’t drop tomorrow? I believe the steadiness has been the toughest half.” LaRocque shared.
Regardless of the challenges they’ve confronted within the trade, they need to see extra girls open companies.
“A whole lot of occasions, we’re within the mindset that ladies are you already know nonetheless sort of caught beneath somebody’s thumb and that’s not all the time the case,” LaRocque mentioned.
“Particularly girls suppose they’re not in a position to or not able to and also you completely are. The one one who’s going to carry you again is your self.” Hager mentioned.
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