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Sinopsis

What no one told you before you started — and what it cost them to find out.

At seventeen, Mary Haarmeyer helped her husband Andy launch an electrical company from their home. They had determination, a modest savings, and a work truck that arrived on their wedding day. What they didn't have was anyone to tell them what they didn't know.

Over the next forty years, they learned. About cash flow when customers stopped paying. About personal guarantees when the bank tied their home to a business loan. About environmental liability when a property they purchased turned out to carry problems from decades before they arrived. About what it really means when eighty-five families depend on you to make the right call.

Defiant Dreamer is the book Mary wishes someone had handed them at the beginning.
Written not by a consultant looking in from the outside, but by someone who delivered pizzas to keep the lights on, studied accounting while raising two children and running a company, and drove an injured employee two hours to a trauma hospital at eight months pregnant — this is practical wisdom earned the hard way, offered so you don't have to be.

You'll learn how to calculate what your household actually costs before risking your savings, why profit and available cash are not the same thing, how far a business loan can reach into your personal life, what becoming an employer truly requires, and when the right move is to slow down and ask better questions before signing anything.

This isn't a book about manifesting success or glorifying hustle. It's a roadmap for building something real — with your eyes open, your finances protected, and the people depending on you treated with the care they deserve.

The dream is worth pursuing. Go in prepared.

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