From Banking to Belonging: Loveland Franchisee Mike Kraeutle Featured in Franchise Consultant Magazine
After 28 years in banking and corporate finance, Mike Kraeutle was looking for work that felt more personally meaningful. He found it with FirstLight Home Care, opening his Loveland, Ohio, franchise in September 2025. In the October 2026 issue of Franchise Consultant magazine, Mike shares how FirstLight’s core values and leadership team gave him the confidence to enter home care with no prior experience, and how quickly his business has grown since. Within 11 months, his team was billing 300 hours per week; he has since added a second territory and now serves about 500,000 residents in southwestern Ohio with a staff of 22 caregivers. For Mike, the most rewarding part is the relationships: “I receive the most satisfaction when we help a client or their family achieve something they weren’t sure was possible.”
