Great schools and training programs offer learning opportunities that go far beyond the syllabus. We asked some amazing folks from the community to share stories from their educational journey with us. Terri Edwards Most of my studies have helped to prepare me for nutrition counseling as a Certified Holistic Nutritionist. From my undergraduate work and training…

We love grabbing drinks with our entrepreneur friends because they always have the craziest stories. Sometimes it’s a big, unexpected win. Other times it’s a problem that came out of nowhere and couldn’t possibly have been foreseen. There is so much to learn from these stories and so we asked some of the brightest entrepreneurs…

We asked some very thoughtful members of our community to reflect on what they’ve learned from their heroes. Kristen Alexis My hero is Martha Stewart. She’s the perfect blend of refinement, resilience, and unapologetic standard-setting. What I admire most about Martha is her ability to set the tone in every room she enters. Her attention to…

What even is a “regular” job? Semantics aside, the heart of our question is about those moments when the stress of entrepreneurship is mounting – do you ever sit back and wonder what if you had just been working for someone else, what life would have been like without all the stress? Debra L. Morrison Well…

Tony Robbins says the #1 human need is certainty, but do you know what the second need is? It’s uncertainty. This tug of war between the competing needs of safety and risk are at the heart of so many dilemmas we face in life and for most folks the goal isn’t to eliminate risk –…

Internships and apprenticeships are a time-honored rite of passage in many industries. We’ve asked some brilliant folks to share some of the most important lessons they learned during these early experiences in their career. Jacob Gorovoy In the summer of 2023, I had the incredible opportunity to spend a summer in Bilbao, Spain, as a culinary…

Often, those who tread off the beaten path are misunderstood or mischaracterized and so we asked folks from the community to reflect and tell us about the times they've been misunderstood or mischaracterized. Kangela Guerrero My work has always been misunderstood and mischaracterized. Having such a unique path causes many individuals to raise questions, one of…

Stories are incredibly powerful – their ability to teach, inspire, and create understanding is why we are so in love with storytelling. Most stories have a defining moment and so we’ve asked some of the most talented, insightful folks across a broad range of industries and markets to tell us about a defining moment in…

Over the years as we connected with incredible from folks from almost every imaginable industry we realized that every nook and cranny of our economy is full of small business owners, artists and creatives who live and breathe what they do - and their stories are nothing short of heroic. It's the immigrant parents who…

We asked some very talented folks to tell us about the most innovative thing they’ve done in their career. Sunir Patel For us, the most innovative thing we’ve done doesn’t sound super exciting, but I feel that it was quite an achievement. For an entire year, we operated a retail business without a retail showroom while…