(US Magazine) n it together! Chip and Joanna Gaines point to teamwork as their secret to overcoming past struggles as they fought to get their now-thriving business off the ground.
“Chip and his familyOpens in a new Window. have always had this thing that Gaines never quit, so he’d say, ‘Jo, we’re not going to quit, we’re going to make it through this,’” Joanna, 42, recalled during a virtual discussion on Wednesday, July 1.
The former Fixer Upper stars revealed why their business risks paid off — even if they didn’t believe they would — while taking part in the Salesforce Presents Stories of ResilienceOpens in a new Window.: A Conversation With Chip and Joanna Gaines on Finding Inspiration event.
“I remember moments where Chip and I would look at each other and just think, ‘How are we going to make it?’ Not seeing the end — not understanding you could actually get through it,” Joanna said during the chat. “We would look at each other and say do we just bail and get out, that seemed so much easier than having to figure out how do we make it through this.”