You can build the business

Without losing your marriage Your family or Yourself!

Running a business with your husband can be really good. It can also be lonely, confusing, exhausting, and some days make you wonder why in the world you ever thought working together was a good idea.
I created A Plumber’s Wife because I don’t think women doing this should have to figure all of it out alone.

You need women around you who actually get it!


Not just friends who love you and mean well, but women who have sat at the kitchen table talking about payroll, worked through disagreements with their husband, raised kids in the middle of a growing company, questioned where they fit, and kept going.
And I don’t want this to be just about what I’ve learned. I want to learn from the women who have been doing this longer than me too. That’s why I started the One Hundred Wives Project!

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One Hundred Women One Hundred Stories

I’m on a mission to sit down with 100 women who have helped build family businesses alongside their husbands and hear their stories. Not just how they grew the business, but what was happening behind the scenes while they were doing it. Their marriages, their families, the seasons that almost broke them, what worked, what didn’t, and what they know now that they wish they would have known then.

Welcoming women from all kinds of family businesses. Not just for plumbers’ wives or the trades. If you’re building a business with your husband too, I’d love to have you here.  I’ll send you new 100 Wives conversations, things I’m learning from these women, and some of what we’re figuring out in our own business and family along the way.

Different Bussinesses

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Different Stories

Real Conversations

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Real Life

Brad and Lallenia Birge Date Night

Running a business with your spouse is no small feat.

My husband Brad and I have spent the last 15 years building Big Birge Plumbing while raising six kids. We’ve learned a lot the hard way, and we’re still figuring plenty of it out.

If you want to know how a Harley turned into a plumbing company, six kids, and eventually A Plumber’s Wife, you can read our story here.

If you’re building a business with your husband too, I’d love to have you here.

I’ll send you new 100 Wives conversations, things I’m learning from these women, and some of what we’re figuring out in our own business and family along the way.

Lallenia: A Plumbers Wife
Lallenia: A plumbers wife