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2 - Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - Women In Business - Red Bluff Daily News Forsberg knows how to break the mold and persevere By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter Red Bluff >> Liz Moule Forsberg, owner of Moule's Tehama County Glass, is the third generation in the glass industry and the second in Red Bluff, who started out working for her father, Bill Moule, in 2000 before eventually buying the busi- ness. If Forsberg had to give just one bit of advice to women going into business it would be to never give up, she said. "Don't allow the fact that you're a female mean you can't do something," Forsberg said. "It's not unusual when I walk up to a job site to be asked 'what are you here for?' ey don't imagine I'm here to measure things. It's fun to break expectations when they learn I'm a licensed general contractor." e construction industry has changed over the years and thanks to do-it-your- self shows it is becoming a more popular industry for women. ere are still times Forsberg says she's not the person people expect to see on a construction site. Moule's Tehama County Glass is one of several shops in the North State owned by her family, all stemming from the original shop established in Grass Val- ley in 1949. Forsberg's father, formerly a teacher in the Chico area, opened the Red Bluff location in 1978 and of his 11 siblings, all 9 boys went into the glass industry with several opening their own businesses. Forsberg started out at Sacramento State for two years following graduation from Red Bluff Union High School in 1989. She changed her major multiple times and when she went in the fih time to change to the medical field,

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