The pandemic may have broken many things, but it did not break the resolve of our people. We have been blown away by the countless stories of small business owners, artists, creatives and folks in every profession. The resilience and the ability to pivot to survive has been beyond inspiring and below we’ve shared stories of how folks have adapted their business models and ways of operating.

Queen Wooten

Queen’s Paint & Play, LLC was founded in the summer of 2019 with the original business model consisting of me traveling around the area, bringing paint parties to homes, local businesses, schools, and churches. When COVID hit, of course the in-person activities had to come to a halt. Read more>>

Shauna D. Balfour Anderson

As a talent manager of actors and film producers, Covid limited in person auditions and actual film production before adding more health and safety precautions and guidelines. However, it allowed the availability of more eco casts and relaxed standards of live video and online submissions across the nation. Read more>>

Manuela Seve

At the beginning of the pandemic one of our investors gave us a call and told us to prepare for the world ending, so we created a doomsday plan, which took into consideration a scenario of 0 revenue for 6 months (the opposite ended up happening we grew 220% in 2020) Read more>>

Rebeca Velie

My whole business history is a story of working remotely. I started my company, Rebeca Velie Photography when I was a sophomore in college at Wesleyan University. It was the first year of COVID-19, so I was remotely completing my schoolwork from New Hampshire. Read more>>