A Plumber’s Wife

If you’ve ever tried to explain what it’s like to run a business with your husband to someone who doesn’t, you probably already know why I started this podcast. I’m Lallenia Birge. My husband and I have been building our plumbing company together for over 15 years. It started with a Harley we traded for a drain machine and somehow turned into a multi-million dollar business. And during all of that, we were also building our family. We have six kids now, from a teenager to a newborn, so we are definitely still in the thick of it. There have been some really great years and some really hard ones. We’ve made plenty of mistakes, learned a lot the hard way, and are still figuring things out. And for years I’ve wondered, where are all the other wives doing this? So I decided to go find them. The 100 Wives Project is my 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. Because I know I’m not the only wife who has wondered if anyone else understands what this life is actually like. And if you’ve wondered that too, this podcast is for you. Welcome to A Plumber’s Wife and the 100 Wives Project.