This Mom-and-Son Team Teaches Teens What School Won't

Small Business Big Visibility · Aug 20, 2026 · 39m

Tara Lynn Haley wanted a doctorate in psychology. Instead, she failed Psych 101 and started her adult life thousands of dollars in debt. What followed was a winding path (flight attendant, an injury, an ADHD and OCD diagnosis, and years teaching alternative and neurodivergent students) that led her somewhere she never expected: building a business with her teenage son, Liam.

In this conversation, Tara Lynn and Liam share the "false finish line" idea at the heart of their work: the myth that high school, then college, then a job is the destination, when it's really the start of 40-plus years…