When Tim Peltzer told his wife, Becky, that he was interested in buying Jim’s Johns, a portable sanitation business based in Des Moines, Iowa, she thought it was an unconventional if not odd career choice — until she went in to help him.
“He was having a rough start,” she says of her husband, who left a sales job at an architectural and engineering firm to become an entrepreneur. “I came into the office to help in May of 2018, and I never left.
“I found I absolutely love running a business,” adds Peltzer, who earlier had made a career

















