While growing up in the '60s in White House, Tenn., a small town located 25 miles north of Nashville, June Taylor would walk to her mother's insurance agency after school, sit in a back room and do her homework while her mother tirelessly ran the business.
“We aren't like normal kids—and you aren't a normal mother,” Taylor recalls telling her mom. “Other kids go home after school, get a snack and their mothers help with homework.”
Although she didn't realize it at the time, Taylor was learning some invaluable lessons in what it takes to own and run your own agency, lessons she puts into practice every day as owner of the Wilkinson Insurance Agency. “I turned out pretty well, having the kind of mother I had,” she says.
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