We asked some very thoughtful members of our community to reflect on what they’ve learned from their heroes. Kristina Garcia I am super lucky because I have two heroes. My husband who is my main support system and my number one fan. My other hero is my son, my why, my reason for starting my business…

We speak with so many brilliant folks across dozens of industries and when those folks happen to be working for someone else, sometimes we can't help but wonder why they aren't working for themselves. How do folks decide between joining a firm or starting their own? We posed the question to the community and have…

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. Isabelle Krize It’s a work of heart. Becoming a Home-birth Midwife is so easy feat. I am doing the self- lead PEP Process through NARM…

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, after talking with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, artists and creatives, almost every success story we've heard has been filled with stories of failure.  Unfortunately, in our view the media rarely covers these parts of the story - instead we often read summaries that make it seem like success happened "overnight."  However,…

One of the most powerful things about being a business owner is the ability to create a work environment according to your own principles.  So many of us have worked within a company or organization and been disappointed by the way things were run, the way team members were treated.  So, we wanted to ask…

As a business owner it's easy to feel like your work is never done - because no matter how much you do, there is always more that could theoretically be done.  Many business owners we've spoken with also feel that they have a responsibility to be available to their team and that if they step…

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…

Is it natural to wonder what life would have been like had you chosen a different path? Is it common? We asked many artists and creatives from all over the country if they’ve ever wondered about whether they should have pursued a more standard career path to see what we could learn from their stories. Travis…

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? Erica King Well, I…