Kindness begets kindness. So, wanted to create a space to share and amplify stories of kindness with the hope that it inspires a chain reaction.

Danté Marsh

I joined the choir my junior year of high school in Ohio. I didn’t really join to sing I joined to get an easy A. My choir teacher Anjanette Depoy was the first person to hear my voice and believe in me. In that moment she changed the entire trajectory of my life. That was the beginning of me embarking down a path in life in which music would be my vehicle to navigate it. Read more>>

Amy Bierstedt

Being a business owner is hard. Also being the maker, and having to create all of your own merchandise is harder. Being a single mom on top of that, and being a single income household, is that toughest thing I’ve ever done. Read more>>

Max Dahmen

I think it’s important to first say I grew up valuing being cutthroat at playing cards and getting a head of everyone else in life. I did not have a lot of empathy or compassion. I was also very good at living this way so I had a large amount of arrogance going for me. Well, of course arrogance leads to misstep and I was fortunate enough to get knocked off my high-horse. To be brief- I lost my job and was placed on a license probation. Read more>>

 Landon Alley

My family has made this career path possible for me. First and foremost, my wife supports my dream of being self-employed. She has sacrificed so much over the last 8 years to allow clients to come into our home, allow me to work unusual and long hours, and has always trusted that our family will be provided for. If she wasn’t on board with my dream, it simply wouldn’t be possible. My parents have also supported and encouraged me from the very beginning, and have even invested financially into the studio to allow me to get up and running. I’m standing on the shoulders of many loving and supportive family members, and they’re encouragement is the kindest thing anyone has done for me. Read more>>

Mary Claggett

I was greener than a green bean when I was installed in my 1st gallery. I suffered from “imposter syndrome” and I didn’t even sign my artwork. An incredibly talented and brilliant artist volunteered to mentor me. Changed the very trajectory of my life wanting nothing in return. He taught me how to make my own prints, how to digitally capture my work, how to set up a website, more than I can say. Read more>>

Allison Maxwell

Back in college, I documented everything, from late-night pizza runs to impromptu dorm dance parties with my trusty point-and-shoot camera. Fast forward a couple of years, and I’m marrying my college sweetheart in our university town, with friends capturing all those pre-wedding moments on that same beloved camera. Read more>>

Carly Hunter

Maui is the place that I go every year, for the past 9 years, to reconnect to myself and my yoga practice. It’s a very magical place for me. In 2018 I broke up a relationship of 6 years and decided last minute, a week before, to go to my healing place of Maui for several weeks. I informed all of my private students that I was going to be away, but didn’t provide any context as to why I was leaving so suddenly. My route to Maui was NYC to Denver and Denver to Maui. When I arrived in Denver, I had to rush to make my connection. As soon as I got to my connecting gate and handed my boarding pass, the gate agent handed back a different boarding pass with a seat assignment of 1A. “1A?!?” I thought, “Oh my God! Is this FIRST CLASS!?” I couldn’t believe my luck! It was just what I needed – some major comfort on a long flight to ease my internal pain. I was overjoyed and confused as to how this happened. A week into my time on Maui, I was sitting on my favorite beach, looking out into the ocean feeling pretty sad about my breakup when I received a text from one of my longtime students. The text said, “I upgraded your flight home-enjoy!” Immediately I burst into tears. I was in complete shock and also so incredibly touched. He had no idea what I was going through in my personal life, however, he took it upon himself to find my flight and pay for my upgrade both on the way there (which I came to understand later), and on the way home. It was one of the most selfless, generous, thoughtful, and kind gestures I have ever received and I will never forget how much that meant to me in the moment. It felt like the biggest loving hug. I will always treasure this memory. Read more>>

Noah Grossman

The kindness shown to me, both by strangers and those close to me, has changed the course of my life on many occasions, and always for the better. The simplest example I’ve experienced took the form of a stranger whom had gotten off the City Bust no more than 10 seconds before helping rescue me from thr situation I had gotten myself into out of sheer stupidity. I was driving in the city, leaving a gas station, and I somehow partially missed the driveway exit, driving over the curb, causing my very low to the ground mini cooper to bottom out. If I were to reverse or drive forward, I risked severely damaging my car. As if it was planned, a bus stopped had let off passengers to my right and out walked my savior. Without breaking stride, this man walked over to an active construction site, grabbed two sandbags and whistled his way over to my car. We never exchanged words, he just placed them in between my wheels and the curb, creating a surface I could now very easily use to reverse back into the parking lot, saving my car from damage and from me having to pay for a tow truck. I had a twenty-dollar bill in my wallet I offered it along with my heavy thank you, but he just waved away my offering, smiled, and continued on with his day. I’ll never know that man, and I will never forget him either. Read more>>

Dalen Bakstad

When I was just starting out, there was a builder in town who really helped me with questions I had about doing the right applications. Sometimes, especially out here, it feels like you’re on an island, trying to figure everything out on your own—or, like in my case, just doing things the way my father taught me. He never really helped me with business questions, but more with things like the best way to waterproof a “blank” or how to approach a certain installation. I remember once asking him if I could pay him for his time, and he simply said, “One day, someone younger will need your help, and just pay it forward.” That stuck with me. I’ve tried to live by that advice ever since, and whenever I can, I make sure to pay it forward too. Read more>>