Franchise Update Magazine Issue I, 2015 | Page 14

POWERHOUSE WOMEN IN FRANCHISING Waco, located on I-35 between Dallas and Austin. “He raised us, training us how to be great leaders,” she says. “That is what he did really well.” Don Dwyer also taught his daughter that she could achieve anything she believed, if she worked hard enough. She admittedly lacked experience, but knew what customers wanted because she was the customer. She promised to step down in six months if she couldn’t get the job done. So when a group thought she wasn’t right for the job, Dwyer-Owens went straight to the “rin