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Ep 74: Stepping Back Without Losing the Studio: Marty Roberts on Succession and Teen Teaching Assistants
Robin sits down with fellow studio owner and friend Marty, who gave up an engineering acceptance at the University of Washington for a community college business degree and a life running the basement studio she once trained in as a kid.
Forty plus years later, she's still building on that legacy.
The conversation covers what that early pivot cost her and what it gave back, how Marty stepped back from day to day ownership without losing what made the studio hers, and how she stays visible to families even when she isn't in the building five days a week.
They dig into the teen teaching…
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