There are plenty of couples in the design industry who build a business together and, despite the inevitable challenges, it works out. Just as common, though less publicized: It doesn’t. So it was with Toronto-based designer Ashley Montgomery, whose husband joined her firm a few years in to handle operations and accounting. At first, it went well. Then came the pandemic, which led to both explosive growth for the business—she was in demand all over North America, and her work got picked up by the big national shelter publications—and new stresses at home.

“I was burning the candle at both ends, trying to keep up family life while also feeling like I was killing myself taking red-eye flights and going here and there, and that’s where the resentment started,” Montgomery tells host Dennis Sc

See Full Page