Phoenix 04.05.2018

Amy Guerrero

I have always been interested in fiber arts (knitting, friendship bracelets, embroidery) throughout my life and had it as a side hobby throughout college. I started an online shop in 2009 where I sold handmade accessories and home decor items. Read more>>

Lindsey Schwartz

I grew up in WI and am a proud Midwest girl at heart! Right after college I packed up my life and moved west to pursue the corporate dream, only to realize that it was NOT for me. I dove into personal development searching for a way to create a life building my own dreams instead of someone else’s. Read more>>

Michelle Jameson

I grew up with firsthand experience of the after effects of war. As a little girl, I never knew why my dad would wake up yelling in the middle of the night, screaming in terror. I learned not to ask why and to pretend that his nighttime terrors never happened. Read more>>

Johnny Black

Ash Black is both a band and a recording artist, but he’s a lot more than his name suggests. Ahwatukee musician John Wolanin trained in classical piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music, who holds a bachelor’s degree in English/history and earned a law degree – both from Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University. Read more>>

Tony Williams

My primary job is actually as a designer. Before that I was a Realtor for a few years, which is where I really developed a passion for home design. I started Local Trade at the tail end of completing my first major project under my design company, Anthony W Design. Read more>>

Sarah Rose

My self-healing attempt began with cleansing and purifying on the physical level that yielded marginal results. I became obsessed with being healthy and trying to maintain physical wellness while making little to zero progress. Read more>>

Gingher Leyendecker

The Hardways have been around since 2004, and have created four albums with a fifth on the way. The band plays a diverse array of venues, bars, and festivals, and has traveled to six states. The current lineup has been together for over two years, and includes a surgeon, a teacher, a mechanic and a contractor, who play guitars, bass, drums, banjo, and harmonica. Read more>>

Tracey Felten-Price

Born on Long Island New York and transplanted into Scottsdale Arizona in 1981 with her family, Tracey has been part of the theater, concert and corporate event industry starting when she was 16. Loved taking Tech Theater during High School, then volunteering afterward at the Phoenix Little Theater doing mostly wardrobe, wig styling, and make up. Read more>>

Jon Schaeffer

At 20 years old and looking in the paper for a job, someone asked if I had thought about being a machinist. I said “what’s a machinist?” They said “kinda like a woodworker (knowing I had some experience in that) but you cut metal instead”. This guy being the manager of a machine shop told me to come down and apply. Read more>>

Gary Stauffenberg

We’re a mom and pop, basically a one-man show. Nuts and bolts. Home office. Storage facility serving as warehouse. 600 +/- customers in North America. There are reasons, however, I can’t wipe the grin off my face, looking back over 20 years. Read more>>

Danny Levie

The Lunchbox Phoenix started from my passion for music. I was originally going to open a recording studio in the space but then I started to have bands play live and turned it into a music venue. The print shop came later and now it all functions as one. Read more>>

Faye Urlacher

I launched artstudio 101 in 2000. After working for other galleries in the design industry I was determined to open up a boutique style consulting firm that dealt mainly with local artists and was very hands on with the client. Read more>>

Marc Malnati

Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria was founded by Lou and Jean Malnati in Chicago in 1971. Lou Malnati opened three locations, until his untimely passing in 1978. I joined the family business as the ripe age of just 22. Our success stems from our commitment to quality. Read more>>

Patricia Federico

Since a very young child I often had visions and intuitive knowings. I had the privilege to live next door to my aunt, who was one of many Community Healers, natural healer. My personal gift of healing was an innate, I also learned by example. Read more>>

Bob Roth

Bob Roth grew up in Baltimore. Roth’s grandfather and great uncle emigrated from Russia in the early 1900s and became entrepreneurs – selling butter and eggs from the back of a horse-drawn cart. Roth’s parents married 1959, and his father, Sheldon, expanded the butter and egg business into a full-line, food distribution company. Read more>>

Allan Inocencio

I began my career in IT as a software engineer, quite distant from the culinary environment I am in now. I love the challenges that the IT world offered and stayed in it for more than a decade. I had my love for cooking since I was a kid and had to put it in the back burner for a better paying job in computers. Read more>>

Brian Hines, Thom Barbour

We started in 2014 after years spent in the corporate world. Brian always had a passion for cooking and a transition into the local food scene seemed a perfect fit. After researching what people in the Valley were doing we felt bringing our Arizona raised meats and provisions to farmers markets was the perfect way to get started. Read more>>

Jim White

I realized that there was a unique opportunity in Medical Billing. After extensive research, I purchased a (shall remain nameless) Medical Billing franchise. I was extremely disappointed with the franchise offering and decided in short order to open my own business. Read more>>

Kira Krick

Both Brian and I worked at a mental health hospital and saw the troubles these people face and how inadequate the mental health system is for them. He had the idea to provide walk-in available mental health support for those who need it when they are going through crisis and really need the support. Read more>>

Lydia Sweetland

I’ve been working on homes all my life, I guess my family has been flipping houses since I was a child. My father was military and, being transferred a lot, always bought the worst house, on the best street, that we could afford. We’d fix them up and sell them when the next transfer came through. Read more>>

Nanci Cowles

Years ago when I staged homes, I shopped at Everything Goes. I loved the idea of store vendors renting spaces, promoting individuals to create their own business within a business. My mother and I decided to rent a space together. Read more>>

Jose Gamiz

In 2014 my wife and I became vegetarian for the animals. By late 2014 we had become vegan. When we became vegan and started looking for Mexican vegan food we couldn’t find any restaurants that was both Mexican and vegan. Seeing this void in the Phoenix metro area we decided to launch Mi Vegana Madre. Read more>>