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When we launched our family child care businesses, we each had different reasons for starting. We also had different ideas on what it would look like and what our role would be. We had different views of our future in this business. But as the years passed, and we made connections in the field and became more involved, we each started to see things for our futures that we had not considered earlier in our careers. Donna Fowler was first at becoming a leader in her state association. Patricia Dischler was first to become a leader in a national organization, and it was here that our paths merged and are now forever forged toward our newest goal: coaching and mentoring others through this often confusing, winding path through a career in family child care.
As we look back on our own paths, we each recognize one central truth: at any point in our journey, we could have chosen to stay at that place and it would have been wonderful. Rather than continue on to new roles, we would have settled in and perfected the one we were in. And in fact, there were stops along the way at which each of us ...