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Having been the owner of two small businesses I have learned many techniques to make a business successful. I owned The Perfect Day Cakes for 14 years, and for two years also owned Central Park Coffee. I was running both businesses at the same time. These businesses had over a quarter million in sales, a payroll with 2 dozen employees, and an award-winning brand that was nationally known. In addition, I was in the process of opening two additional locations. All of this while being a full-time mom, wife, and active member of the community.
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So, why am I a small business consultant, an executive director to a non-profit, and a small business owner of TLF - True Love forever in Cody, Wyoming? In my last year of business, I was in a single-car accident. The injuries from this accident left me unable to continue working at such a demanding physical pace. As a result of this accident, my family had to make a hard choice. We liquidated the businesses that we had worked so hard to build. Shortly after, my husband was recruited to a new position here in Cody. We packed up and moved out West to start a new life.
I love small businesses and helping the community. When I first moved to Cody, WY I was lost. All I knew was how to be successful at making small businesses succeed, so I started T and T Consulting Solutions. Then Covid hit, which you think would be the perfect time to help small businesses move to online ordering, but as someone in the high-risk category, I had to re-evaluate my life and see what I was really meant to do. I had a dear friend that was starting up a non-profit, but sadly she passed in a car accident. So I took her mission and started another mission with my business partner Cheri Kreitzmann to start Heart to Heart - WY, where Cheri is our Clinical Director for Mental Health and I am our Executive Director. During that time I also started TLF - True Love Forever as personal healing for myself. It started out talking about my illnesses and just getting through the many diagnoses I had. Then it grew into Fashion trying to keep Kema's memory alive through fashion, and enjoying being a fashion contributor for Mys Tyler, a start-up company in Australia that focuses on women's fashions of all shapes and sizes, which was perfect for me as I had started gaining weight due to one of my illnesses. Now, TLF - True Love forever is about everything I love and hate. I know, I know...... If it's called True Love Forever why would I discuss things I hate? Because to love your self you have to embrace the things you hate about yourself, to truly love yourself and all things around you.
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-Thea L Farrington