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 and creatives in the community to share some of those stories below.

Marcia Hacker

We have had some crazy stories to tell. I will share one smaller and one that was pretty big, which set us on the path of ‘no return’. A couple of years ago we had a huge number of orders coming in on one single day. And our instagram got a lift on followers and likes. I had no idea, but also didn’t have the time to find the reason as we got pretty busy for a few hours. Read more>>

Whitney Combs

As a photographer, one of my favorite things to document is births. I have experience photographing births in a hospital setting, but this year I had the opportunity to photograph my first home birth. I met Christina and their family last Fall when I did their family photos. We had moved up their Fall session because, unfortunately, Nick’s (the Dad) cancer had returned. Shortly after that, they found out they were pregnant with their fifth child. Read more>>

Damian Hendrix.

One of the craziest experiences that I went through as I was growing my business was the balancing of my full-time job at the time and my business. I remember calling out for a 12hr shift for a $50 photoshoot. I was making about $25/hr at the time and I remember telling myself that one day it would all pay off. I knew that it meant more to me to earn the $50 under my business name and not the $300 from working for a company. Read more>>

Aidan Paul Leonardo Bacan

Hey there! We are Aidan Paul and Leo Bacan of Cat Daddy. Leo and I recently returned from Malmö, Sweden to successfully produce our latest song, “Disco Love” with Amir Aly as lead track on our upcoming release album ‘Omens’ (Releasing later in Spring 2023). Disco Love is an exciting two-year journey that has become some of our best work to date. Read more>>