BUSINESS/ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE

As former educators, opened five start-up businesses from scratch and made a success of all five.

• Started and ran a quaint, natural foods retail store in Fair Oaks, a suburb of Sacramento, CA. Sold it to the wife of the producer of STAR WARS
• Five years in retail and wholesale sales – sold high-end kitchen equipment (Kenwood mixers, etc.) that were purchased in lots of 100 at a time
• Three years in computer sales – own business – CA
• Co-founder of Sacramento’s American River Bank
• Ten years buying and selling rental properties in ID
• Started and ran a successful public auto auction in ID
• Started and ran a popular travel agency and school of travel in ID
• Hundred of articles and TV travel segments "selling" world-wide destinations