MADISON, Wis. — Megan and Carlos Tucker had one goal in mind when they opened DragonFly Hot Yoga in June 2011. To get their Midwestern family, friends and neighbors to try yoga.
Now, the couple is about to approach their 10-year anniversary of opening, and they’re afraid their business won’t survive to see the 10-year-mark.
“This plea for help is the last thing I thought I would ever have to write,” Megan Tucker wrote in an email to her clients. “For the last year, we’ve been told to start a GoFundMe by clients, journalists, neighbors, and friends. I resisted. I thought surely we could figure out a way to survive. Surely, we would find a way to pay rent. Surely, there would be protection for small businesses. But there wasn’t (at least not for our industry) and now I am worried.”