Small Business Today Magazine OCT 2015 TEXAS SECURITY SHREDDING | Page 8

COVER STORY

Patricia
Vice
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Texas Security Shredding
Staying in the Pink through Carefully Created
Harmonious Relationships

P

atricia Vice is such a likeable person. From the
moment you meet her and experience her radiant
smile, you can’t help but feel her warmth, sincerity, and caring nature exuding from the inside out.
In addition, Patricia is so passionate about giving
back to the Susan G. Komen® Organization that she
started a program with them called the “Shred for
Komen Project”. Patricia’s personal dedication to
saving lives and ending breast cancer forever has inadvertently
helped her business, Texas Security Shredding, stay in the pink.
As the old saying goes, “What goes around comes around” so
it is no wonder that Patricia has been so successful in creating harmonious relationships whether it involves
family, community, or business.
Growing up in Boise, Idaho, Patricia was the
second oldest of the four children in her family.
She never developed “middle child” syndrome
due to the harmonious relationship with her
family and was often seen as the “peacemaker”.
Loving music from a young age, Patricia was always attuned with lyrical orchestrations. Later,
Patricia successfully transformed her scrupulous ear for perfect pitch into being finely attuned to clients’ needs, skillful in harmonious
business orchestrations, and in touch with
the heartbeat of community and charitable
organizations.
Patricia’s father was a supervisor for an Idaho power company and her mother worked
hard in caring for the family. Leaving home
to attend Boise State University, Patricia first
majored in music but soon realized that she
couldn’t make a living in that field. After