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.

Jerry Mikulanec

So about a year back I was working a referral that came in for a listing. This older couple was moving out of the area to move closer to family do to some health issues which are very personal to me. Read more>>

Madeline Harn

I started Naked Fig Soap in March 2020 truly with the “why not?” / “What if” mentality. I have a deep love for our planet and the people on it. Naked Fig was born with a mission to make sustainable selfcare products accessible. Over the next 2 and a half years I worked the business out of my home. Read more>>

Aric and Yukari Bianchi

Sure. We were super naive when we started our business. We went into a beautiful kitchen, but the stovetop only worked 3 burners out of 6 burners, or the freezer was not correctly working when we had homemade ice cream for the dessert, or the rental space put a fire alarm right above the stove, it kept going off as soon as we started cooking, even boiling water. Read more>>