Business View Magazine | January 2021

143 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2021 FOREVER T INY HOMES of women-owned businesses in the U.S. in 2018, up from 20 per cent in 1997, according to data from research firm Womenable. Mendoza knows the challenges to starting your own business as a Latino woman, but she didn’t do what more than 50 per cent of women do – which is start a business in the service industry, or more known traditional women’s professions. She went an even harder route, striking out on her own into the manufacturing industry, where women make up only nine percent of the industry’s workforce, let alone construction company presidents. Although there are barriers being a woman in a male-dominated field, Mendoza perseveres everyday and you’d be hard pressed to find a small business owner more ambitious, committed, and enthusiastic about their product and the lifestyle it allows. Forever Tiny Homes is a state licensed Dealer and Manufacturer of their RVIA certified travel trailers tiny home style and can offer warehouse pricing because they sell direct. They build