Overwhelmingly, media coverage of team building, hiring, training, etc. is often geared towards the issues faced by HR at Fortune 500 sized companies. Even when it’s positioned as advice for small business owners it is often coming from an executive or consultant working primarily with giant corporations. We think it’s far more relevant to hear from small and medium business owners who have successfully grown their businesses – and so we asked some very talented folks to tell us the stories of their initial hires and the struggles and lessons they can share.

Ernie and Fiona Padaon

When we started our business it was just Ernie and Fiona. We did photography and videography together, but we knew we wanted to once day scale and give others the opportunity to build their own creative branch under the Everyday Forever Brand while still maintaining our artistic style. Read more>>

Tristan Thibodeau

From day one of being an entrepreneur back in August of 2016, I have sought out as many opportunities as possible to be surrounded by visionary, ambitious women. Read more>>

Aykut (Ak) Demirhat

My restaurant has been opened almost five years and I have one person still working with me. His name is Alberto, when I interviewed him he was attending full time college and I met him during open house job interview. He had planned to continue is college journey by going for his masters degree. Read more>>