It is often said to avoid working with family, likely because it can be challenging to establish boundaries, say no, or refrain from taking things too personally. Additionally, there is an old adage that warns against mixing business and pleasure. However, families and husband-and-wife teams around the world are achieving great success in their co-owned ventures. A spouse serves as a person’s greatest support system, so why settle for being just romantic partners when you can be business partners as well?
One Scottsdale couple is proving that working with both family and one’s spouse can be a dream.
That couple is the Jurisins.
Their entrepreneurial story begins in the 1980s at AJ’s grocery store in central Scottsdale. Michelle Jurisin was working at the deli counter of the gourmet market in 1987 when Eric Jurisin walked in…