Ask any couple running a business together the secret to their success, and they might tell you they create time and space for themselves apart from the job. Ask Brian and Jamey Elrod, though, and you'll get this answer:
by Mary FortuneHis career in logistics and transport set up George Abernathy to know Chattanooga well. His first trip to the city was in 1997, and he returned many times over the years to work with US Xpress, Covenant Transport and Kenco, among others.
by Mary FortuneDylan Pollack and Rebecca Brooks wanted to play outside and launch a business. For them, that added up to living in Chattanooga.
by Mary FortuneFlint and Jennifer Chaney never expected they would welcome their first child to the world in Chattanooga, but they have warmed up to the idea since moving here this summer.
by Mary FortuneEmily Szink, the news director for FreightWaves TV, left Omaha for Chattanooga in May, and has settled in happily with her dog NE (pronounced Enny).
by Mary FortuneJames and AnneMarie Eckhart came to Chattanooga in October after the city they had called home for their entire lives stopped feeling like home. Denver had gotten too big and too out of line with their conservative values, the Eckhardts say.
by Mary FortuneNagwan Zahry says she's pretty sure her nickname was a sign that she was destined for Chattanooga.
by Mary FortuneLike any good pilot, John "Omar" Bradley started his route with a map.
by Mary FortuneDeb Socia says she loved being a middle school math teacher in Boston, but with an entrepreneurial passion she soon moved into leadership roles in education to help empower her fellow teachers and the inner-city students she taught.
by Dave FlessnerGrowing up in a small town in northern Ohio, Bob Martino played baseball as a youth and through high school.
by Dave FlessnerJerry Summers is one of a handful of Chattanooga attorneys whose name recognition comes by reputation, not TV commercials.
by Lisa DentonWhen Patti Steele joined the former Marion Trust & Banking Co. in 1987 the bank had about $50 million in assets.
by Dave FlessnerAs a little girl growing up in Hixson in the 1980s, Cindy Monroe would buy candy at a neighborhood gas station and sell it at a profit to her older sister, Christie.
by Mark KennedyAs a 12-year-old newspaper carrier in central Indiana in the 1960s, Warren Barnett would deliver a copy of the final blue streak edition of Indianapolis News every day to one of the retirees on his route and pick up a used copy of that day's Wall Street Journal from the customer.
by Dave FlessnerFor Sharae Moore, trucking runs in her family.
by Allison Shirk CollinsYou may not know the name Lou Lentine or the company he founded, Viatek Consumer Products Group.
by Lisa DentonNicole Koesling is the last German in the top management team at Chattanooga's Volkswagen plant - a big change from the time the factory opened in 2011.
by Mike PareJohn Woods recalls the days a generation ago when people generally didn't want to come to downtown Chattanooga.
by Mike PareAntonio Pinto, who oversees Chattanooga's Volkswagen plant and its 3,500-person workforce, says he sees a big difference in cultures when he compares America with Germany and some other countries where he has worked.
by Mike PareJim Johnson likes to tell people he was born in the wrong place.
by Joan McClaneKim White recalls a time not too long ago when everything from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga had to be orange.
by Mike PareJeff Morgan was 23 years old when he started a construction company with a handshake loan for $120,000 from Pioneer Bank in Chattanooga.
by Dave FlessnerWhen John Wise III decided to leave T.U. Parks Construction Co. to start his own construction company, the then 30-year-old builder began with little more than his ambition to own his own business.
by Dave Flessner