Phoenix 12.20.2017

Amy Hinderer Feltus

FIT4MOM was started in San Diego, California in 2001, as Stroller Strides. In 2004, FIT4MOM, then Stroller Strides, started granting franchises in other parts of the country. We opened in Phoenix in 2004. Since then, the company has rebranded as FIT4MOM with the addition of programs. Read more>>

Chad Shearer

Caren West PR was originally started in Atlanta, Georgia as a dual agency, focusing on public relations and graphic design. The company’s namesake and my business partner headed up the PR side of things, while I operated more as the CWPR’s creative director. Read more>>

Glen Floreancig, Daniel Floreancig

Me (Glen Floreancig) and my brother Daniel Floreancig started working for our dad (Aldo Floreancig) Rockford, Il., we have worked with very knowledgable employee’s including my dad, thinking one day we will take over the business, for one reason or another things always work out better then sometimes you have planned. Read more>>

Laura Gordillo

I was a 3rd grade teacher that loved to take pictures. People would comment on every day pictures I took with a regular point and shoot digital camera. I always had an interest in photography. My husband encouraged me to pursue photography. Read more>>

Brandon Dickinson

I’ve been in the Termite Industry since 2005 and started in Palmdale, Ca. From there I worked with 2 different termite companies in California and 1 pest control company here in Arizona. While working for that pest control company I became known for the quality of service I provided and from there decided to start my own business providing both Termite and Pest Control Services. Read more>>

Trevor Swanson

Growing up in a family of professional artists, I knew that it was a viable and enjoyable career. As well as challenging and rewarding. I tried my hand at multiple types of work and would always come back to art. It was actually at my wife’s urging that I went ahead and took the leap to showing my work in galleries and shows. Read more>>

Kris Volcheck

Upon graduating from Dental School in 1985, Dr. Volcheck opened a private dental practice in Globe, AZ. His patients ranged from 0 years to 80+ and he provided comprehensive dentistry to this small, metropolitan community approximately 90 miles east of Phoenix. Read more>>

Allen Patrou

My love of photography is tied to my love of art. I found out years ago in grade school how much fun it was and how much I loved creating beautiful images in my art classes. I explored all types of media from painting to sculpture to block printing and more. Read more>>

Bruce Leadbetter

I started guiding when I was 14; I worked for a hunting outfit as a “dogger”…basically I was the loud teenager that scared the animals to the hunters. After high school I decided to join the US Marine Corps; you know, a different kind of guiding & hunting. Read more>>

Francine Porter

We started Osmotics Cosmeceuticals in 1995 with the mission of creating scientifically based treatment products(for skin and hair) to target the visible signs of aging. In `1995, the Cosmeceutical category was in its infancy and just beginning; finding products that really performed and were backed by science was almost impossible. Read more>>

Franca Amoroso-Chang, Ana Toma

Italian married to a Chinese international civil servant, life has taken me around the world: meeting people of all ethnicity, religions and cultures. I am who I am today because of it. Phoenix was just another stop when I came for a friend’s wedding. My husband and I fell in love with the landscape, the friendly people and the climate at first sight. Read more>>

Scott Storry

It was in Minnesota, while in high school, I first started working in the restaurant industry. After graduating,later moving to Arizona, I worked for both Sysco Foods and Rykoff Foods as a Food Sales Associate. .In 2002, I opened my own restaurant, Ollie’s Omelette House, which had four locations in the valley. Read more>>

Thomas Turner

I started off when I fell in love with European dance music in the 90’s. I was totally blown away by the unity on the dance floor and it was the best party atmosphere I’d ever seen. I wanted to share it with my friends, but it was non-existent where I lived at the time. Read more>>

Pat Christofolo

My career in the food industry began at the family deli, Capistrano’s. Inspired by my father’s entrepreneurial spirit, I opened out to Lunch, the first of many successful food businesses in 1981. After detecting a need in the Phoenix market for a fabulous caterer, I founded Santa Barbara Catering Company in 1992. Read more>>

Jeff Carl

Whipples is a family-owned and operated business specializing in fun for the entire family. With attractions like laser tag, bumper cars, trampolines, Lazer Frenzy, arcade and Ballocity – a two-level climbing structure with slides, air fountains and cannons that shoot foam balls. Read more>>

Cynthia Gattorna

Seeing so many needy children in the Phoenix area enter kindergarten woefully under-prepared to be successful in school, a group of grass-roots activists led by Rev. Bill Smith of Shadow Rock Church, Marilyn Rampley and Eileen Hoard of Shadow Rock Preschool, created a new public foundation in 1989 called A Stepping Stone. Read more>>

Sara Nicholson

I always wanted to own a cupcake shop since I was 16. I started teaching myself to bake using recipes from online to cookbooks I got from the library. I tried my hand at large cakes and even took a cake decorating class at Hobby Lobby. Read more>>

Ashlee Halsell

I was in the corporate world, I had a fun and sexy marketing job but, at the end of the day, something was just missing. I am a nurturer, I’ve always loved taking care of people. I’ve always had the maternal instinct. Long story short, I went to a student acupuncture clinic and slowly fell in love with acupuncture. Read more>>

Natasha Amigo

I was in pharmaceutical sales for 12 years but when my mom took ill and was in hospice I resigned to spend the last few weeks we had together. Being a part of an Italian Family I learned to cook and bake with my mom and Grandma. They shared family recipes with me and helped me decipher them to make smaller quantities. Read more>>

Kevin Wathey

Yoga did not originally pull me in like it has in the past few years. Coming from an acting background, I was surrounded by many practitioners but it wasn’t until I was given the opportunity to perform and train my craft in Bali, Indonesia in the summer of 2014 that yoga took hold. Read more>>

Shirley Huntley, Kurt Huntley

Original pet sitting company established in 1987 by Gil Frederick. I began in 1989. My husband and I bought the company in 1996. Chores For You was the only petsitting business in the area in 1989. With small businesses there is always the thought you might not succeed. Read more>>

Pam Sweet

I became a therapist in 2003. I have worked in various environments…ie.. chiropractors, aestiticians a massage facility while also having my own outcall business. In 2013 I took the plunge and opened my own office which was doing well, then I ruptured my Achilles tendon and was unable to work full time for over a year. Read more>>

Bob Hittenberger

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and moved with my wife to Arizona in 1984. Being an entrepreneur I have owned and operated several businesses from contracting to food service. In 1991 I founded Best Glass as an auto glass repair and replacement company. Read more>>

Jim DesRochers

Dealers started 15 years ago as a niche wholesale auto auction competing with two of the nations largest chain auctions, Manheim and Adesa. Dealers created a niche in the sub-prime market and now serves a wide swath of Arizona dealers and consigns vehicles from major franchise dealers and national sub-prime lenders. Read more>>

David Walls

Both of my grandpas worked on cars, I payed attention. I had restored several old English car with my brothers while I was in high school. To pay for college I worked on friends and neighbors cars. When I graduated, I needed a job, so found an old gas station and opened a shop. Read more>>

Samuel Saks

I started Legal Aid of Arizona to help people that need good lawyer but have trouble finding them. Legal Aid of Arizona operates a free lawyer referral service designed to assist in obtaining representation at discounted rates. Our programming is free and open to the public. So far we have given out over 4,000 referrals. Read more>>