Phoenix 04.26.2018

Renee Daredia

Dressed & Darling Blog started off as a hobby and spiraled into something so much more. I talk about everything from fashion, interior design, and even (maybe too much) about my dog. With the intentions of starting a blog as a hobby and initially never getting paid for posts, it was pretty easy in the beginning. Read more>>

Brian Helton

Helton Brewing Company is a small brewery designed to add to the ever growing Arizona love of craft beer by leveraging the skills of the founder, brewmaster, and Certified Cicerone, Brian Helton. Brian has won multiple World Beer Cup Awards and The Great American Beer Festival Awards. Read more>>

Ana Melikian

I’m Ana Melikian, the host of the MINDSET ZONE podcast and the CEO of AMAZE Coaching LLC. I love to help service-based businesses grow. I have a soft spot in my heart for self-employed professionals who are great at what they do, yet hate to market and sell. Read more>>

Thomas Barr

In 2007 I spent several months living in Tijuana, Mexico volunteering for a non-profit that built homes for families in poverty stricken areas. I lived on $20 a week and slept in a tent, eating whatever the families ate that I spent each week with. It was my first time experiencing extreme poverty and I saw the best and the worst of people. Read more>>

Nicky Hedayatzadeh

Art in all its forms has been the biggest motivation in my life, but to choose it as a career was not what I had in mind. I’m a first generation immigrant, and although this is not true for every child of immigrants, a career in the arts is not encouraged by most immigrant parents. Read more>>

David Allan Paul

My interest and aptitude in art was something that was always present from a very early age. My introductory award of recognition was a first place honor in a citywide competition when I was ten years old. Working art classes into the typical middle and high school curriculum kept me exploring my creativity, while developing those skills on my own time also. Read more>>

Rudy Jaime

The original Electrik Needle was opened in 1974 in Phoenix when there were only 5 tattoo shops in the whole metropolitan Phoenix area. In 1992, I started my apprenticeship at the Electrik Needle under Cookie’s supervision. One night when I was driving home from tattooing all night I was hit by a drunk driver. Read more>>

Christoph Kaiser

I am a Phoenix native, for the most part. My mother is German so we spent our summers in southern Germany as I was growing up, a place I also studied architecture later in life. Having this constant exposure of two very different environments and cultures provoked me to consider the way things are with more curiosity at a young age than I think I would have without two worlds to compare with each other. Read more>>

Angel Jannasch-Pennell

KOI Education is a Phoenix-based company that has it roots based at the ASU Skysong Innovation Center. KOI partners with educators and educational organizations to deliver practices and solutions that result in positive academic, behavioral, and social achievement in the K–12 environment. Read more>>

Danielle O’Reilly

I was a PE teacher & fitness instructor at the time my coworker and friend Tracy Carey showed me a video of POUND Fitness. Within 15 seconds of watching it, I knew this was my “soul mate” workout, and brought both of my worlds together: fitness & percussion. Read more>>

Rykelle Kemp

Rykelle’s current works of art is a representation of the knowledge she has attained through her personal studies of her tribes and working under her father (Renowned Native Painter/Printmaker Randy Kemp) as a printmaker from the age of 12. Read more>>

Chadwick Campbell

Our tennis adventure started when my family lived in London, and we enrolled our daughters in tennis lessons. The UK has had—for many years—a great junior tennis development program called Mini Tennis. It is to tennis what Little League is to baseball. Read more>>

Angie Estep

I had done customer service my whole life. I decided to leave Milwaukee and move to Phoenix. When I got here finding work wasn’t easy and moved home. I started working with a close friend at the Tattoo Shop she managed. I did typical customer service like answering phones, greeting customers and doing their paperwork. Read more>>

Debbie Waitkus

I had never given this much thought until one sunny Phoenix morning a few years ago, as I gazed out the window in my corner office. I was president of a $130 million company in the corporate financial world and life was very good. Read more>>

Taryn Dibler

Before I had even taken my first yoga class, I felt a calling to be a yoga instructor. I always admired the Zen lifestyle and have been reading books about Buddhism since I was 16. I enrolled in my first yoga class during my freshman year of college. As expected, I fell in love completely. Read more>>

Michelle Talsma Everson

I have wanted to be a journalist since childhood. I did the high school newspaper and yearbook, and then went to Northern Arizona University (go Lumberjacks!), where I was on the student newspaper and radio station there. Read more>>

Kimberly Waigwa

As a child and all through my adolescence, I was always interested in music. My first instrument was the violin, then the guitar, and I’ve always been fascinated and played around on the piano. However, it wasn’t until I moved from Texas to Tucson, to study at the University of Arizona, that I fully discovered my interest in voices. Read more>>

Ammon Bundy

Valet Fleet Service started in the summer of 1998. Ammon (the owner) built a custom service unit with the latest equipment that allowed Ammon to service fleets onsite and in a very efficient way. He started servicing many local fleets and soon found that the fleet owners and managers needed assistance in tracking and maintaining their fleet services in order to keep the repair expenses down and keep the units reliably on the road. Read more>>