Mesa 01.18.2018

Angelo Romano

Growing up around my father’s landscaping company which he started in 1966, 7 days a week. I watch and leaned what a strong family was and working hard for what we wanted. Not expecting any handouts, learning honest hard work is the key to a successful business. Read more>>

Dr. Robyn Wilhelm

Born and raised in Northwest Ohio, I graduated with a Master of Physical Therapy (PT) degree in 2002. I worked in several areas within physical therapy, including teaching in Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) education. I moved to Arizona in 2007 and continued my teaching/professor career while seeing patients part-time. Read more>>

Steve Savant

I started in the financial services industry 35 years ago in private practice. I started writing for our industry trade magazines in 1990 and gradually started speaking in our industry shortly thereafter.I had an opportunity to co host a weekly radio show, “It’s All About Your Money,” as a color commentator with certified financial planner (CFP) acting as the money expert in Fort Wayne Indiana. Read more>>

Kevin Solomon

Kevin Solomon is the salesperson for ExerPlay, which is an outdoor recreation company that designs and builds Playgrounds and commercial community spaces. He started as a Landscaper, and was hesitant to go into sales. Read more>>

Joe Dulin

I’ve worked in the nonprofit sector my entire career, beginning in the arts community as the Managing Director for a theatre company in Michigan. My responsibilities at the theatre included fundraising so I became very interested in working with donors as they made philanthropic decisions. Read more>>

Becky Holsten

Coffee has always been my passion but it was always just a pipe dream. I would always say, “someday I’m going to open a coffee shop” or “wouldn’t it be awesome to just sell coffee for a living?” As with most pipe dreams, there was no time-frame and certainly no bank account associated with it. Read more>>

Jeremy Hammer

I started off getting a degree in psychology with the purpose of trying to figure out what made people do what they do. I worked while in college and ended up doing digital marketing for a company, and found that I really enjoyed it. Read more>>

Pamela Kempf

I moved to Mesa Arizona when I was 20 years old. I was practicing to be a student to be a licensed practical nurse in a small town in Colorado but when I moved here my credits didn’t follow so I became a CNA I worked in a nursing home, While my husband went to school to become a heavy equipment operator. Read more>>

Susan Ashe

In January of 2007 after I was laid off from my long time Corporate accounting position in Illinois I decided that 47 years of snow and ice and cold were quite enough so… I packed my life up into a Uhaul and headed to Arizona. It was the best decision I made I know now but quite scary to move from my comfort zone out to a place where I didn’t know a soul, had no job lined up and as luck would have it the economy was just starting to take a major downturn here in the Phoenix area. Read more>>

Michelle Landgren Lee

I began taking martial arts at age 17 when I was a student at ASU. In my 2nd year I moved to Japan to major in International Business and Japanese language and fell deeper in love with the arts while training there for several years. Read more>>