Phoenix 04.12.2018

Justin Hodge, Josh Jurhill

Josh Jurhill and Justin Hodge met at the Boys and Girls Club Osborn Branch in Old Town Scottsdale in 1994. From 1994 to 1999 they competed in everything from dodgeball to basketball (usually on separate teams which started a lot of fights.) BGCS was torn down around the year 2000 to build Scottsdale Stadium where the SF Giants now play baseball. Read more>>

Madalyn Nault

I started sewing when I was very young, my mom taught me and allowed me to use her materials. I made doll clothes from felt and little stuffed animals from scrap fabric. I started making purses in high school, I was awkward and had black and purple hair and nothing was cool or unique enough so I made my own bags. Read more>>

D’Lisa Shayn

D’Lisa Shayn began her career in 2002 and attended the Oregon Institute of Aesthetics. Her first job was at Destination Laguna in Las Vegas, a full service salon and spa with 100 staff members and 7 other locations around the city. From there she moved back to Phoenix, her home since 1989. Read more>>

Jeff Malkoon

The idea for Peanut Butter Americano came while I was living in South America several years back. I was working with a non-profit organization called A Roof for My Country (TECHO), which helps build housing in impoverished communities, and then runs job training programs to help locals find jobs and get back on their feet. Read more>>

Michael Howard

The best place to start is at the bottom. I was a champion wrestler who gave up on his sports dreams because of injuries, flunked out of college after getting a presidential scholarship to NAU due to not showing up to classes, I was experimenting with a few things I shouldn’t have been, and once I was back at home, I still wasn’t going to my community college courses. Read more>>

Luis Gonzalez, Lydia Valenzuela

We stated from nothing but a dream to run our own business and a passion to sew and serve, we worked for the sewing industry in California where we got a good taste of clothing manufacturing , we moved to Arizona and i worked for an embroidery company and learned the trade as well as the designing part of it. Read more>>

Angela Harrolle

Angela Harrolle came to be the CEO for the 100 Club of Arizona in a very unconventional fashion. From rural Minnesota, Angela strived to see the world. This vision led her to Arizona State University to obtain her B.S. degree in Justice Studies and Business in 1997. Read more>>

David Scott Peters

David Scott Peters founded Smile Button Enterprises, LLC in 2003 to train and inspire restaurant owners and managers on the appropriate skill sets and “SMART Systems” they need to realize their dreams in the competitive restaurant business. Read more>>

Rachel Aurora Hudgens

I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Surrounded by art, signs, professional sports gear, murals, graffiti, advertising…. the alphabet is what stood out to me and drew my eye. My spot in the back of our oversized 1971 white Chevy Caprise was on the right side in the back seat. Read more>>

Abbey Messmer

I love sharing with people that my dream as an 8 year-old was to become “an artist and a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.” I grew up in Texas and ended up following the art side of that dream to earn a Fine Arts degree from the University of North Texas. After graduating, I moved to Phoenix to start the next chapter of my life. Read more>>

Maraion Douglas

After working in Corporate America for almost 30 years, I had questioned my purpose. Even after leaving Kansas City and moving to Phoenix in 2004, I did not pursue my dream. February 2007, I again questioned my purpose, so I resigned from my position at American Express and began the journey of making the dream of MOMA’s House a reality. Read more>>

Kendra Riley

After graduating from The University of Arizona in 2005, I was lucky enough to have a PR position created for me at a non-profit that didn’t have anyone spearheading public relations efforts. From there, I transitioned into the agency world, where I was able to work on larger scale campaigns. Read more>>

James Nwobu

I remember the first time I purchased a camera. I was a sophomore in college, living in the athlete’s dorm as an RA. I remember thinking then that I felt like I should own a camera because I should keep memories of things happening around me. I bought a small kodak camera, which I never really used. Read more>>

Jamison Weddle

Jamison started his journey as an engineer by working as an intern at the Phoenix based boutique recording studio, CHATON studios. There he moved into an engineering spot, recording and mixing artist from across the state and the nation. Read more>>

Steve Stein, Nathalie Ane, Jason Licamele

“We grow fish that help grow plants which help feed people” We felt a common thread among us (partners) in the importance for implementing sustainable agricultural practices to conserve our environmental resources and reduce environmental impacts associated with conventional farming methods. Read more>>

Zack Merhavy

The Grand Canyon University Chapter of HOSA Future Health Professionals was founded on the GCU campus back in 2009. Since then, we have grown to be the largest international collegiate chapter of HOSA with over 700 members. Since we are a larger chapter, we structure our chapter very differently from most others as a way to be sure we are helping students of all pre-health fields. Read more>>

Linda Jo Wallace

Hello, I am Linda Jo Wallace, celebrating 16 years since graduation from Crestone Healing Arts Center in Crestone, CO. I came to my massage career rather late, I wasn’t one of those kids who knew what they wanted to be at age 7 and have reinvented myself many times. Read more>>

Caitlin Green Cheney, Elizabeth Wood

Elizabeth and I met at a mommy and baby fitness class. After some time, we both noticed a troubling pattern of moms arriving visibly exhausted, stressed, hurting, and depleted. While moms had been “cleared” by their health care provider to work out, more often than not, mom had not been screened for common post-birth issues such as pelvic floor dysfunction or diastasis recti. Read more>>

Tonya Saidi

As a little girl I loved dessert, so much that I had to have a dish of chocolate ice cream before my dinner or I wouldn’t eat any food. My mother was nice enough to accommodate that demand! So I was always baking something from an early age. Read more>>

Kari Spencer

I started the Micro Farm Project in 2009 while my husband Lewis was deployed by the U.S Navy for several months. While he was away, I passed the time by transforming ourr quarter acre of dirt and rocks in to a lush garden. Read more>>