Jenna Casey

About Hearts in San Francisco Introduced in 2004, the citywide public art project, Hearts in San Francisco, featured 131 5’ tall Heart Sculptures designed by both local and national established and emerging artists. The unique works of art were featured in plazas, parks, and street corners throughout San Francisco. Since the inaugural year, more than 500 Hearts have been created to benefit programs at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG). Read more>>

Jessica Mosley

I wanted to create the SayWHA Radio Network to make podcasting easier for those passionate about the art and getting their message out. When I began podcasting, back when Jesus was a boy (2011), it was extremely hard. MANY doors were slammed in my face and so many obstacles just continued to appear, but I persevered. I just came alive when I got to the mic. I found a passion , I never even dreamed about. Read more>>

Cashflow Dolla

First Mind Entertainment is an idea I came up with in entrepreneurship class in high school. It was meant to be a one stop shop for all things entertainment. Now it is a successful record label and management company and still will be a one stop shop for entertainment when it’s all said and done Read more>>

SpiritBird Holton

During my childhood, I had encounters with the spirit realms, psychic gifts, and prophetic dreams, but I struggled to understand their meaning. I felt lost and confused without a clear cultural context of what was happening. Read more>>

Jahshawun Youmans

The story behind The WEiRDO Collection amazing. So at a young age I used to be called “weird” or a “weirdo” because I didnt confide to social norms so I used to do things like wear mix match shoes or not match because no one ever told me I HAD to be a specific way or dress a certain way. Time goes on I start to see those very people who called me weird starting to do the exact things that they called me weird for. Read more>>

Kelley Khoury

My niece Shelby-Ann was born in 2015. Living across the country, I was extremely grateful I was able to travel to each birthday celebration. In 2018, when Shelby-Ann was old enough to understand sharing and giving, I started a unique birthday tradition. We would shop for kids’ birthday items (cake, frosting, sprinkles, cupcake wrappers & candles) and then donate these items to her local food bank. Read more>>

Greg Raelson

Pickleballerz was created to fill multiple needs for our pickleball community here in Northern Virginia. Obviously, there was a lack of indoor pickleball when the weather isn’t very conducive to outdoor play, but even moreso was the lack of “adequate” options for pickleball all-around. Most of the courts in our area were makeshift – extra lines on tennis courts, portable nets, or lines put down on a wood gymnasium floor. Read more>>

Michael Hindy

You might hear our name, Three Shores CISMA, and wonder “what in the world is a CISMA?” The acronym CISMA stands for Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area, or a partnership between regional organizations working together to manage invasive species. Our CISMA is named Three Shores after our location in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, nestled between the shorelines of the three largest great lakes: Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior. Our mission is to protect our “Gateway to the Upper Peninsula” from invasive species threats and restore it to its native, natural beauty. Read more>>

Gerda Friedel

Our story is one of friendship and our will to bring our creativity together to created something new, a project which would motivate us and spur our creativity even more. That way we truly enjoy how we bring ideas to life and the success that comes with it. Read more>>

Danesha Ford

A couple of years ago I began to feel out of or just kinda off. I’d gone to the doctor for my annual and discovered I had high blood pressure. It was nothing outrageous but i did need medication to bring it down to a normal level. My doctor prescribed me a low dosage of blood pressure meds and sent me on my way. My family has a history of heart issues so this bothered me, but I’m like I’ll just take the meds. One night my husband and I had gone out to a comedy show. Read more>>

Alondra Dimas

I am a first-generation Mexican- American artist and bruja by embracing both of these parts of myself equally, has allowed me to become rooted in my own work and connected to my ancestors. I became more at peace and fluid in my being as I started to communicate with that part of my soul. Read more>>

Paula Marie

My passion for writing the self-help book Kick A*s and Have a Life stems from a desire to help others avoid the same mistakes I made in my own life. As someone who has struggled with work-life balance, I know firsthand the toll that an unbalanced lifestyle can take on an individual’s overall well-being and happiness. That’s why I wrote this book – to provide guidance and support to others struggling to find balance in their lives. Read more>>

Adam Harris

When I was 11 years old, I lost my dad. He suffered an aneurysm and stroke. I was only in the sixth grade when he made his transition, and I had so much to learn about life. His passing caused me a lot of grief and pain, and for years I didn’t even know I was suffering from depression until I learned in my adult years the signs of depression. Losing my father was not only tough because he was my dad, but he was truly a man of faith and a strong foundation for my family. Read more>>

Stephanie Khattak

K.Co Arts is an arts-centered travel content and engagement consultancy, and K.Co Press is its publishing initiative. I founded K.Co Arts in 2016, and it has since evolved to include James Khattak as a co-founder and principal photographer. We have a small roster of preferred vendors who are integral to all of our work. Read more>>

Whitney Frederic

I was motivated to start It’s Seasoned because it allowed me to showcase 3 things that I love: experimenting, cooking, and helping others. As a scientist with over 5 years of lab experience I have always found myself being the ‘curious George’ in rooms where some chose to stay silent. I always wanted to know “why”, and through research, I sought out ways to tackle many challenging questions. The summer of 2018 was no different. One morning on my daily commute, I learned that the FDA recalled several batches of a drug used to treat hypertension, because it contained traces of a known carcinogen. Read more>>

Jessica Cowan

Our mission can be summed up in one word: community. To expand on that, it is my goal to facilitate an inclusive space where people of all walks of life can gather, make memories, and explore their creativity. It’s my opinion that as a society we have been trending away from creating in-person connections since before the pandemic, which just so happened to accelerate us towards a digitally driven society. Read more>>

Nina Hall

My mission to provide “healing dietary guidance that will transform your life” began long before I became a dietitian. As a child, I was unknowingly being groomed to become a dietitian. My mother was (and still is) a healthy diet enthusiast. I remember not having “regular” foods (i.e., foods that I saw in my friend’s houses) in our house, and we went to the health food store EVERY week. Read more>>

Becca Carnahan

Have you ever taken your kids to a playground and then found yourself in deep conversation with Aiden’s mom who you just met? Suddenly you go from “Looks like our kids enjoy playing together” to “I’ve heard great things about that pediatrician” to “I’m stressed all the time and have no idea how to fix it.” Read more>>

Jamie Saam

Start Something Studio is the brainchild of Jamie Saam and Lisa Koivu. Jamie, Lisa, and teammate Ellyn Theis see small businesses as the heartbeat of the economic community and understand that each town needs healthy, local businesses to remain relevant to its community members and visitors alike. Read more>>

Matthew & Jennifer FitzMaurice & Moutenot

Our core beliefs are founded in the idea that people are our greatest resource. The challenges life throws our way are unavoidable. No amount of money, fame, or stability can prepare us for the challenges we will face. Everyone will fall from these challenges, but we are choosing to Fall Forward. Our failures and struggles give us the opportunity to grow stronger as an individual, learning more about who we are. Read more>>

Liz Williams

I am a wife, mom and a professional visual artist. Knowing that I needed a career that would feed my passion for creativity and give me the flexibility I craved for my growing family, I opened Liz by Design Photography, LLC in 2013. Through my love for photography, children, and artistic expression, LBDP has had the pleasure to capture life’s sweetest moments for thousands of other growing families all over the state. Read more>>

Kelley Smith

I have been in Real Estate for 14 years. My dad owns a lumber business in the small town where I grew up. I have been around building and the housing market my whole life. In 2008 when the market was crashing I decided to get my Real Estate license. It was sink or swim and I decided to swim and kept swimming. Read more>>

Surbhi Saxena

My main motive is to restore hope and optimism in order to encourage individuals to develop a more hopeful and reassuring look on life. As a model, I am aware of how tedious the standards can be in the beauty industry. I believe that mental health is a very important aspect of life and should be acknowledged and talked about, especially since I feel that society sometimes fails to bring awareness to it. Read more>>

Alana Mascarenas

The story behind my mission… I love to make people happy. I also love to do hair and makeup. By doing these services to others I’m not only doing what I love but I am transforming the way others view themselves from the outside, making them feel beautiful. The huge smile of excitement and ease when the service is over reminds me every day why I get up and come to work. Read more>>

Melissa Fanning

Growing up with all boys, my highlight was staying under my father going to the library on a regular basis. It was nothing to go on a Saturday and on the way home we would share what we read. It was exciting and our time allowed us to bond, enabling me to see my father as a person and learn outside of our home and school. It provided an opportunity to dream and explore the possibilities of different experiences. Read more>>

jennifer somkovic

I have always wanted to help people see their beauty inside and out. I help provide woman and men with the process of loving themselves from the inside our. I teach people how to prepare their body and face and be the best they can be in their daily lives . Read more>>

Kimani Anku

Welcome to Gardening & Beats-Gardening, Healthy Eating, and Music! Gardening and Beats is a full-fledged global gardening coach service specializing in helping build new gardens and helping new gardeners/farmers grow their own food using an organic and spiritual approach to gardening. Read more>>

Jack Merwin

I don’t like to operate within the ‘mission’ mentality. Missions imply completion or finality, and I want to convey to my team that we are never done. I learned about this while participating in the dreaded ‘annual business planning’ meetings at former jobs, where you put the goal post 12 months away and don’t look past it. Read more>>

Mina Miusius

Hi everyone! My name is Mina and I am a vegan chef from Barcelona who is passionate about animal well-being and sustainable food choices. Growing up, I had a traumatic experience seeing first-hand my grandma raise animals for consumption. This led me to reduce my animal product consumption until seven years ago when I went vegan and decided to make it my mission to create and veganize dishes from around the world. Read more>>

Braiden Wade

You know when I started this creative business, I was a nervous high school kid feeling pressured into finding something that made me money as an adult. My uncle handed me a camera during a family reunion when I was a freshman in high school. In the picture I saw my grandma smiling with the sun beaming down on her perfectly surrounded by family. That’s when I knew I wanted to do photography as a hobby, but the reality of being an interior designer hit that summer when I job shadowed my uncle’ s friend. Read more>>

Melissa Bell

Everybody deserves to feel good in their own skin. Personally, I’ve struggled with my body image for a majority of my life – and I think I’m not alone in that sentiment. The irony is, that I’ve looked back at old photos of times I felt really awful or hated how I looked – and realized I wasn’t ugly, or overweight, or anything to that kin. I was beautiful – and I think this occurrence happens so often in life. Read more>>

James Cosgrove

My goal is to bring history back to life. We can learn so much from our past, the good, the bad and the ugly. My main goal for Project Past is to bring you interactive and informative videos of battlefields, museums, and other places that have shaped our country. I think studying/knowing history is critical for society to continue to progress in a positive direction. History has taught us just how cruel and evil humanity can be at times. If we don’t learn from these moments we are doomed to repeat them. Read more>>

Chelsee Joel

I’m someone who’s always struggled with mental health. In creating Conscious Seed, I sought to aid the mental health of myself and others. As I discovered how incredible plant medicine is, I just had to share what I learned with every page I turned. So I set out to create tinctures and other consumable remedies, first testing them on myself and my partner. But having them potent and pure wasn’t enough. Read more>>

Sean Bowser

We began like any other small start-up, setting up accounts, outlining processes, mapping out goals and then going back -and-forth making changes and tweaks to each. While many of those items have changed over time, we really tried to hold fast to a desire to have our small company be an authentic representation of who we were…individually and as a family. With that in mind, we landed on three primary pillars: Have Fun. Build Community. Serve Well. Read more>>

Alyssa Young

One word: per·se·ver·ance /ˌpərsəˈvirəns/ Learn to pronounce noun persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.My mission is rooted in my own personal life and it has been absolutely defined by persevering. Starting, saving and growing Cake Llama orbits around persevering. My mission started, and has maintained, as creating platform to give back and support my community. Read more>>

Stephanie Wright

The calling came in March 2019 when a business school paper sparked my personal development journey. It led me to my coach Rachel Onojafe. Rachel helped me grow my confidence. She helped me to explore the direction I wanted to head down. She held space for me to learn, build and grow. She challenged me to step outside my comfort zone while always making sure I knew she was there for encouragement and support. Read more>>

Elsa Kery-Grant

I had been an entrepreneur at hart ever since I was a litter girl in the Dominican Republic my home country. First at all I love God! My family is my passion then I love business and people. I had always dream of having my own business, I opened my first business back in 2014 a beauty salon and 3 years later I opened my second salon. I had no experiences at all running a beauty salon but I made happened. Read more>>

Swarna Ananthan

My son is eight years old and he loves stories! Like many immigrants – our families are overseas and we try so hard to engage them in my day to day son’s life. They tried reading him stories and having him talk about his stories. But just holding a book over Zoom or Facetime does not have that same magic, connection, or conversation. It was hard for a 3-year-old to concentrate and not lose interest. Read more>>