Category: Success Story

  • Lina Mills Photo

    Lina Mills, Creative Ideas Catering

    May 27, 2021
    Lina Mills worked in the catering business for 25 years. Then she had to go on disability leave for three…
  • Sana Javeri Kadri headshot

    Sana Javeri Kadri, Diaspora Co.

    May 19, 2021
    Everything about Diaspora Co exudes passion. From the company’s growing line of consciously sourced and sustainably grown spices and its…
  • Leah Park Fierro

    Leah Park Fierro, Milkfarm

    May 5, 2021
    After six years as manager of Silverlake Cheese Shop, Leah Park Fierro knew she wanted to start her own business.…
  • Photo of Shani Jones

    Shani Jones, Peaches Patties

    April 22, 2021
    Peaches Patties is owned and operated by Shani Jones and Yeheyis Bedada. The duo bake and cater traditional Jamaican dishes…
  • Photo of Annika and Robert Corbin

    Annika and Robert Corbin – I Like Pie

    April 9, 2021
    Most small business owners face some obstacles on the road to Startup, but Annika Corbin feels like their “commitment was…
  • Shannon Saathoff photo

    Shannon Saathoff, Once in a Licetime

    March 19, 2021
    Entrepreneur Shannon Saathoff launched Once in a Licetime in 2014 to answer the needs of parents searching for support and…
  • Teri Beckett photo

    Teri Beckett, SKS Engineering and Planning, Inc.

    March 3, 2021
    Teri Beckett is the founder, President, and Chief Engineer of SKS Engineering and Planning, Inc. As a civil engineer, ocean…
  • Photo of Deanna Hurn

    Deanna Hurn, Miracle Math Coaching

    February 19, 2021
    When Deanna Hurn opened Fairfield’s Miracle Math Coaching 12 years ago, she was only in her mid-twenties. She did not…
  • Olympia Auset

    Black Entrepreneurs Making History

    February 3, 2021
    SÜPRMARKT started out as a pop-up produce store located in farmer's markets, offering low-cost organic food to Olympia Auset’s community.…
  • Photo of Renata Maculans

    Renata Maculans, Renata’s Creperie

    January 21, 2021
    Renata Maculans started her dream business in a truck. Her idea was to offer people in her town inexpensive, nutritious…