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WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) – We’re persevering with our Hometown Satisfaction Tour, proper right here in Wichita Falls.<\/p>\n
Texas is ranked third within the U.S. for having probably the most women-owned companies in honor of Girls\u2019s Historical past Month, we heard from feminine enterprise homeowners about empowering others to comply with their entrepreneurial goals.<\/p>\n
When you take a stroll by means of Downtown Wichita Falls, you\u2019ll discover a number of companies which can be owned by girls who believed they may and did.<\/p>\n
A number of enterprise homeowners share they imagine proudly owning a enterprise is about empowering those that come by means of their retailers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to make sure that girls really feel tremendous seen and heard and cherished by our model.\u201d Proprietor of Ramble & Co. Katherine Hager mentioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe offer a artistic house for the group. So we do issues with children and adults of all ages.\u201d Proprietor of CrashWorks STEAM Studio & Makerspace Shauna LaRocque mentioned.<\/p>\n
Katherine Hager opened Ramble & Co. in 2009, and in these 15 years, she\u2019s been in a position to develop.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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,\u201d Hager shared.<\/p>\n
Shauna LaRocque opened her enterprise 5 years in the past after discovering a distinct segment Wichita Falls didn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have a kids\u2019s 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\u2019re nonetheless having enjoyable,\u201d She mentioned.<\/p>\n
Each girls share the adversity they face working their retailers.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudying the e-commerce enterprise, retail enterprise, after which getting folks to purchase into your concepts and to belief you,\u201d Hager mentioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudying 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\u2019t drop tomorrow? I believe the steadiness has been the toughest half.\u201d LaRocque shared.<\/p>\n
Regardless of the challenges they\u2019ve confronted within the trade, they need to see extra girls open companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cA whole lot of occasions, we’re within the mindset that ladies are you already know nonetheless sort of caught beneath somebody\u2019s thumb and that\u2019s not all the time the case,\u201d LaRocque mentioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cParticularly girls suppose they\u2019re not in a position to or not able to and also you completely are. The one one who\u2019s going to carry you again is your self.\u201d Hager mentioned.<\/p>\n
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