Name: Dr. Nancy M. Gerhardt

Title: Owner

Company: Kindness Animal Clinic

What was the best business advice you ever received?

Always be available to your clients. Availability is very important.

If you could choose another profession, what would it be?

I love what I do now and would not change. But if I did, I'd be teaching college, specifically in the medical or biological field.

What's the biggest risk you have taken in your career?

Purchasing the practice I was working at when I had no plans laid out for practice ownership. It came rather suddenly, but it was the riskiest and also the best thing I ever did.

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you start?

I do not enjoy travel, however, I would go to Fairbanks, Alaska, visiting a friend who's a surgeon there.

-- Angie Monroe