We asked some fantastic entrepreneurs and creatives to tell us about their first job in their field. Check out their stories below.

Chris & Maegan Griffin

reactions to store-bought soap and infant body washes. We found a minimal ingredient recipe that seemed pretty simple for a bare-bones bar of soap. We gave it a shot and after a few tweaks and iterations we found something we were really really happy with. After that we started to add other things we could find around the kitchen that we would like to see in a bar of soap. Read more>>

Matthew Powell

One afternoon in high school during dismissal, I noticed a young man with disabilities who was laying on the ground, refusing to budge. Apparently he’d been struggling every day to get on the bus. He would just lie down on the floor. For whatever reason, getting on the bus was a trigger for him. Read more>>

Tisha Ortiz.

My first Pilates teaching job actually came about because I was already a member of the Pilates studio working out before I went to my full time job at a real estate office. I had been a decade long boot camp junkie with chronic shoulder pain that ultimately resulted in surgery in Spring 2016. Post surgery and graduation out of PT I knew I wouldn’t go back to the heavy, impactful exercises I had been doing. I had heard about Pilates and the benefits it offered so I tried it and instantly fell in love. Read more>>

Summer Friedmann.

I’m going to tell the story of how I got my first paying job in my field. I worked first in the field as an Accredited La Leche League Leader (LLL) for 5 years which is an international organization and made up of all volunteers. This work was in the community after discharge, quite different than the clinical setting a office or hospital offers where you are working with inpatient families. I was incredibly honored to be doing this work, knowing it was my calling and never ever felt like a job or work. Read more>>