May 04, 2021

Meet Taryn Mitchell! She’s creative, tenacious, enterprising, and one of Footprints Floors’s newest Franchise Owners.

Taryn is opening her flooring franchise in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Originally from California, she has called Texas home for the past couple of decades and is excited to secure a territory surrounded by friends, family, and the community she loves.

Taryn brings a diverse professional background to our faith-based flooring franchise, with experience in recruitment, sales, and business development.

Taryn also has an extensive history in the performing arts. Over the years, she has been a dancer, thespian, playwright, professional singer, poet, speechwriter, lyricist, songwriter, and more.

Earlier in her life, Taryn came close to signing several recording deals. Instead, she chose to focus on raising her young family.

During that time, Taryn used her talents to give back to her community as a youth mentor and artistic talent developer.

When Taryn decided to re-enter the workforce, her warm personality and strong people skills helped her quickly find her place. She explored several industries before ultimately landing in the retail and home improvement space.

It would have been easy for her to remain in that comfort zone, but that’s simply not who Taryn is.

Taryn believes in living life to the fullest. For her, that means building prosperity in a way that creates fulfillment, purpose, and happiness. She was never meant to work a traditional job forever.

Footprints Floors naturally attracts people with that kind of mindset. Our Franchise Owners come from all walks of life but often share a few common traits — they’re industrious, resourceful, and actively pursuing growth and success.

Taryn fits perfectly into that group.

"In essence, I have always been an entrepreneur. My ideas and mover/shaker personality have led me to need my own business."

A Thoughtful Endowment

Taryn decided to make the leap into business ownership after the passing of her father. Carlton Mitchell was Taryn’s biggest supporter, and his care for her continued even after his passing.

He provided his daughter with an endowment that helped make this new opportunity possible. With those resources, along with savings, family support, and a strong dose of faith, Taryn embraced the challenge of becoming a flooring Franchise Owner.

So how did this artist at heart decide on a flooring franchise? Initially, Taryn had her sights set on the restaurant industry. In fact, she was passionate about pursuing it.

Taryn first explored a Chick-fil-A franchise opportunity. When she was cut during the third round of the process, she began searching for other possibilities.

Fortunately, that search led her to Integrity Franchise Group, a business opportunity consulting firm, where she connected with certified franchise consultant Lisa Welko.

Lisa took the time to understand everything Taryn wanted from a franchise opportunity and the future she envisioned for herself. She carefully considered Taryn’s background, professional experience, personality, and long-term goals.

With all of those factors in mind, Lisa knew exactly what would be the right fit for Taryn: an affordable, highly scalable Footprints Floors franchise.

Everything about Footprints Floors resonated with Taryn.

"Footprints Floors has all the key elements I seek: work-life balance, working with people, low overhead, a system already set up for me to focus on sales alone, and I have the option to make as much as I desire," she explains.

Lisa introduced Taryn to the Footprints Floors opportunity and connected her with our Franchise Development Director, Brian Knuth.

A Thoughtful Endowment

There was an instant connection between Taryn’s warmhearted personality and the energy of our team.

"I love all their laid-back, super knowledgeable, and welcoming personalities. The demeanor of the Founder reflects the business culture, and it really showed me a family-like environment with amazing team support. Everyone wants everyone to win."

"Brian and Bryan were an absolute pleasure, and the more founders that were introduced to us, it just kept getting better. A wonderful group of people."

At Footprints Floors, we pride ourselves on providing Franchise Owners with exceptional support, and that begins long before any monetary investment is made.

Our Discovery Day gives prospective Franchise Owners a structured, thorough, and personal introduction to the company and its culture.

Taryn found the experience invaluable.

"We were treated kindly, treated to great food, and had absolutely every question answered that we needed. The ‘a-ha’ moment was also seeing the culture for myself and meeting the Founder on Discovery Day!"

Affordable and Rewarding Flooring Franchise

There’s more than good chemistry at play. Taryn understood the opportunity’s good business sense and she knows the value of a dollar.

"I really like the detail of the organization from the customer service and lead generation team already set in place to the product outsourcing agreement established. Everything is ready for new owners to enter this well-oiled, fully functional machine.

I also like the low initial investment cost. The affordability leads to equal or more profit. Basically, investing less than the other ones, yet reaping the same (or even more) of a return."

The Footprints Floors franchise opportunity is designed to make profitable business ownership within reach for everyone who truly wants it. The flooring franchise was within her investment budget while providing healthy returns.

What sealed the deal is that this faith-based franchise system was the right lifestyle fit. "I was sold on the business model, work from home (no office space needed), CSR’s built in, leads generated, no overhead and no headaches. Just get to work and make it happen!"

Taryn does have some prior exposure to the home services industry. Much of her business development and sales work was done in the home improvement space. This sparked an interest in flipping houses.

"I have always been interested in home improvement as it was one of my goals to flip houses soon," she recalls. "I used to work for Lowe’s and had ideas with how I would restore fixer-uppers using materials I listed and budgeted in the store, floors included."

Real estate investment is a popular wealth-building strategy. But there are many underrated ways to profit.

Providing home improvement services is another way to sell shovels in a gold rush. And a profitable, scalable flooring franchise is a great real estate adjacent income strategy.

Taryn saw this value right away. "Once I discovered the model, I got excited. It renewed an interest [in home improvement] that was suppressed."

Owning a Footprints Floors faith-based franchise gives Taryn more than financial benefits. It’s bridging the way to much larger dreams.

Family Friendly

Taryn is moving into an entirely new phase of her life. She’s opening a business, getting re-married, planning her wedding, and expanding her family.

This entire venture is a family affair. Her fiancé is a co-manager and there’s plenty of work for their blended family of 11 (grandchildren included) to do.

Taryn’s open heart begins with her family. She treasures her time with them. Footprints Floors gives her the freedom to include them in her work and enough free time to maintain her personal interests.

At Footprints Floors, we like to consider ourselves a second family. This means creating a nurturing, supportive environment for our Franchise Owners and going all out for their success.

But we also understand what real family means. We take pride in the flexibility and healthy work-life balance that our flooring franchise provides.

A Vibrant Future

Taryn certainly has a lot to handle. But she’s energetic, ready to work, and eager to make the most of this opportunity.

Taryn lives by a “never quit mentality.” And she wants to absolutely master our system. "I look forward to getting my system down to a science," she says. "I want to work hard and understand what I am doing, so I can do it in my sleep."

We have no doubt that she will. Plucky Franchise Owners like Taryn are a core reason we’ve been so successful.

We’re thrilled to have Taryn on board — Chick-fil-A’s loss is our gain!

This is an exciting time for Taryn and Footprints Floors. Our Christian franchise is growing exponentially. We recently earned a spot on Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500 List, a prestigious honor for brands of all sizes. Recognized companies across multiple industries have appeared on this list, and we’re proud to be included among them.

With dynamic Franchise Owners like Taryn on our side, we’re looking forward to an incredible season of growth and prosperity.

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