We asked some very talented folks to tell us about the most innovative thing they’ve done in their career.

Nakia Campbell

Widely known as The Mental Motivator: an international keynote speaker, entrepreneur, mindset coach, author and new TV show host of “The Mental Motivator,” my job is to reach individuals around the world and empower them to makeover the way they think. One way this is accomplished, is by encouraging them to break their silence and tell the stories that will emotionally connect them to their customer base, clients, employees. After speaking on stages, coaching hundreds of hours via Zoom and mailing out hundreds of affirmation books, I decided that I needed a bigger platform. I asked God for it. In June of 2023, I was offered the opportunity to partner with a digital TV network to own and produce my own show. Read more>>

Samuel Miller

Recently I have started designing clothes, and everything sounds easy to just design clothes but it is a logistical nightmare sometimes. Between copyrights and costs, it isnt that easy. I started off making a first run of my clothes and they ended up selling out in a day, which is great, however, you cant just then go all in, you have to be smart and strategic with your money. Read more>>

Kathleen Tolbert

In a non product driven space, I had to identify a need or area of opportunity that fit my unique skill set. I began curating custom spoken word pieces, telling my clients stories of love, celebration and congratulations. With their guidance, I transformed their life’s journey into art and performance. Read more>>

Kim Sims

One of the biggest challenges I feared when starting my business was food allergies. I have food allergies myself, and have no nuts or peanuts in my home. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to take half as many orders as the next baker because I cannot have any nuts in my treats. I decided to be upfront from the beginning and term myself as a nut free bakery, hoping to prevent people asking for nuts in their ordering. Read more>>

David & Kirstin Hebert

When owning your own business we feel like everything you do has to be innovative. One of the things we enjoy about owning our own business is the creative side of it all. Owning your own business means that you are constantly creating ideas to keep money flowing. In fact, the more you create the more money you make. It’s exhilarating to know that the sky is the limit when you work for yourself. It’s a challenge that you must happily except every day in the life of a business owner! There can definitely be highs and lows, but it is dire that you continue to keep your head up, trust that if you are putting forth your best efforts, be grateful, go out and truly love what you are doing, and never give up (even during what feels like the lows) it will all come together when it is supposed to. If you are putting in 100%, how could your next step be wrong? Read more>>

Annie and Tony DeMille

Tony and I have always loved to travel and when we do, we find that we seek out cool destinations and even more than that, we’re drawn to cool, unique lodgings or stays. We were living in LA when we purchased a home and land in the Joshua Tree, CA. area and decided to create our own glamping retreat called Lazy Sky in 2015. It was really amazing to create that from the ground up…to be able to concept and run every aspect from the build, to the design, to the cleaning, reservations, maintenance and everything in between. After years of running it, the market began to saturate with copy cats and we faced issues with zoning that made us look elsewhere. Read more>>