Multi-Unit Franchisee Magazine Issue I, 2014 | Page 40

MEGA

“I like to feel the pulse of the operation
on the ground level.”
PERSONAL
First job: Joye washed windows and pumped gas at her grandfather’s gas
station. I hauled chains from the front to the rear of my father’s car wash. Joye
and I detailed cars while sweethearts in college.

be looking at all items on the ground level in the three states. We travel two
by two. We rarely travel one at a time. We maximize talents and abilities by
going together.

Formative influences/events: I spent my childhood on a farm, the
son of a broke farmer. That bred certain attributes into me, living with little to
nothing, not having things, being made fun of because I didn’t have it. Clothes
were hand-me-downs. I was the fifth child of six. I was in the 7th grade reading
at a 3rd-grade level branded as attention-deficit, and there was a lady in the
remedial reading course for people who couldn’t read. She found I was a multilevel thinker and not attention-deficit. That was a real impressive moment. Ruth
DeVries took me from the 3rd-grade level to the 8th-grade level in six months.
The next one would be learning how to work for my father. My dad had a
car wash. Before going to work, I’d volunteer and drive tractors and equipment,
planting and cultivating crops on 130 acres owned by our church, from early
morning to 20 minutes to 8. Then I’d drive to my dad’s place and Y]Y