Tempe 04.05.2018

Tracy Dempsey

I worked as a pastry chef for a number of local, independently owned restaurants before an economic shift made it clear That I ought to look to doing something on my own or something else. I started TDO in 2009 as a packaged confection business working from a friend’s bar kitchen and then another friend’s restaurant which enabled me to provide dessert service to several chefs opening restaurants who didn’t have th budget for a pastry chef. Read more>>

Roze

I have been an entrepreneur since I was 15 years old, selling pot to the kids who teased me in middle school. I became a professional singer song writer in the nineties until I broke my wrist, and couldn’t play guitar anymore. I decided to go to film school and wouldn’t you know it, LionsGate released my second feature film about 10 years later.  Read more>>

PJ DeCoste

I started this mobile car detailing business when I was a sophomore in high school. Originally I was business partners with a close friend and we would go door-to-door in Verrado trying to get people to let us detail their cars. After about six months the business was left entirely in my hands. Read more>>

Alissa Dawson

I received my first baking book on a chilly Christmas morning 18 years ago. Ever since then I have been baking scrumptious desserts from scratch. Around 3 years ago I decided to marry my passion for desserts with my background in sculpture. Read more>>

Joy Lechner

I grew up in the desert with my family at a children’s home on 100 acres in Mesa that had been founded by my great grandparents. My nontraditional Christian parents, who worked there in multiple capacities, raised me to have an appreciation and curiosity about natural medicine and a healthy lifestyle. Read more>>