Odie’s spouse of 26 years, Teffany Odie, has not too long ago positioned one in every of her three places of work — the opposite two are in downtown Dallas and at their house in Powderly — into the Cherry Road location to assist oversee the enterprise whereas working a hospice startup and high quality management consulting enterprise that she has owned for years.

A registered nurse, she has labored within the well being care business, each in Dallas and regionally for greater than 20 years.

The couple’s two sons, James Odie III, and Jamondre “Buc” Odie are each North Lamar Excessive Faculty graduates, James III, a 2020 graduate who not too long ago accomplished an affiliate diploma in accounting at Paris Junior Faculty, and Jamondre, a 2013 graduate and former basketball star.

On a day final week, the lot was full of beforehand owned automobiles and a number of other over-the-road diesel vans parked there in between journeys. As he appeared out over the lot, the patriarch of the household pointed to a vacant constructing and mentioned, “That’s the place we’re going to put a music manufacturing studio.”

With quite a lot of operations beneath one roof, Teffany Odie mentioned the household calls on her massive prolonged household to assist out with the companies.

“My brothers do garden care, so they arrive and assist maintain the garden, my brother-in-law does strain washing so he helps us maintain the automobiles and my Dad is an general useful man and a mechanic,” she mentioned. “So now we have a number of assist right here.”

Just lately featured in a VoyageDallas podcast on June 16, the household shared the Odie Group’s motto, “We’re blessed to be a blessing.”

After which James Odie added, “We’re a busy however productive household; we’re mentors and can proceed serving to in constructing others, and we all know that God won’t take us the place He received’t lead, information or present.”