Zoe Dillman
My interest in photography came at a pivotal age. I picked up a camera at fourteen, initially taking photos around the neighborhood and of my family. My attraction to music photography drove me to shoot my first show in July of 2014. At fourteen, I was definitely the youngest person in the photo pit. Read more>>
Halee Lopez
I started Sugar. by Halee Cake Company in my tiny apartment kitchen with just a hand mixer, my grandmother’s recipes and a big dream. I am a one-woman show and proof that with a little determination (and a lot less sleep) you can truly do anything. Today I have clients across Texas and into parts of Oklahoma. Read more>>
Bobby Cornelius, Ray Nickles
Our story started about seven years ago. I (Bobby) was working a side job as a manager of a teeth whitening Kiosk in the mall. While trying to build my photography business I had taken several side jobs. Even cleaning apartments and organizing homes. Read more>>
Lisa Huszar
Tastefully Yours Catering is based on my husband, Andrew Huszar’s unique culinary background. Andrew was trained in Australia. Andrew came to the states and met me in Chicago in 1988. He was highly sought after and worked in many of the popular restaurants in Chicago. In 2007 e decided to go into business for ourselves. Read more>>
Mark Murphy
I’ve been in the Running Shoe Industry since 1993, even while on different career paths I always had a position in a run specialty retail store. The fellowship between runners has always amazed me, it is a very individual activity, but to a runner everyone cheers for you and wants you to succeed. Read more>>
Allen Mederos
My wife, Elise, and I listed our garage apartment on AirBnB over 5 years ago and at one time it had the most stays in Fort Worth. This experience has allowed us to meet people from all over the world and we love being able to introduce them to Fort Worth and share our favorite things about the city. Read more>>
Dabney Poorter
When I was 13 years old my brother was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (TID). I still remember during his hospital stay hoping to be a nurse that could play a role in making the life of a newly diagnosed TID and their family easier. I played college sports- basketball and track- and had the opportunity as a Kinesiology major to co-teach a sports nutrition class. Read more>>
Tammy Salter
My history starts as 21 years with Kmart in big box retail as a store manager, and 15 years with Office Depot as a store manager lastly. I have spent my whole life in retail and customer service, it is my passion. I have always worked for someone else and had to follow their theory of “customer” service. Read more>>
Leslie Barrows
My parents reared me to have a serving heart. While in college I volunteered answering a sexual abuse hotline for women. I continued helping women who were abused and then started helping legal aid draft protective orders for women who were victims of family violence. Read more>>
Dr. Hannah Winn
I was born and raised in Fort Worth, TX. Being one of eight children, there was never a dull moment. My younger sister, Kaylah, was born with a rare chromosome disorder (Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome 4p-) when I was 5 years old. Read more>>
Alison Reeves
My story is as straight as the most twisted road. After graduating from the University of North Carolina with a Business degree, I entered into the workforce as a commercial banker. When I relocated to Boston, MA, I ran an Executive Education Program for the renowned Harvard Business School. Read more>>
Riley Kiltz
Craftwork was started due to an intellectual curiosity that I had with the shifting workforce and how it interacts with the world. As a young 20-something, I was eager to prove myself in my career (I was working for a New York based private equity firm), so I was working long hours frequently on the road and often alone. Read more>>
Cheneya “Charlie” Cruze
In January of 2016, we lost our home and almost all of our belongings to a house fire. While the fire itself was small, the smoke and heat damage made everything inside our house was extensive. Only the items in our garage and attic above your garage were undamaged. Read more>>
Stephen & Carrie Fitzwater
Over twenty years of designing and developing home products and interiors, the husband and wife team, Stephen and Carrie Fitzwater, have combined their talents to fill the void of ‘what’s been missing’ in residential (and now hospitality) lighting… Cordless lighting that can go anywhere. Read more>>
Daniel Katsük
My name is Daniel Katsük and I am the creator of a lyrically potent world fusion group based out Dallas/Fort Worth, called KatsüK. My story begins with finding a musical footing with the help of my first group, the Spoonfed Tribe and touring the country with this wildly uproarious carnival for about eight years. Read more>>
Alyssa Jeandron
I have come to find my mission- to preserve your legacy for future generations through the art of photography and printing. Our generation invests so many hours and energy in online posts, and we don’t realize that this is not somewhere your grandchildren will be looking! Read more>>
Casey Thomas
After picking up the piano at age 19, Casey overcame the fear that it was too late for him to pursue music as a career & proved the phrase that “it’s never too late” to learn anything especially when dedicated and passionate. Graduating with a Hospitality Management degree from UNT, he also studied in the prestigious music classes there and focused on classical, jazz, blues, composition and improvisation, developing a voracious appetite for learning an instrument, and even sharing a practice room & some blues licks with Norah Jones. Read more>>
Kristen Hess
I painted my first oil painting as a freshman in high school, developing my skills, techniques and experience so that by the time I graduated, I had several art awards and my first commissioned pieces. My art teacher to this day is one of my biggest cheerleaders. Read more>>
Lanny Lancarte
Fourth generation restaurateur and great-grandson of Joe T. Garcia. Grew up in restaurant business, travelled extensively and lived in Mexico being immersed in Interior Mexican cuisine before attending CIA at Hyde Park and landing a job working for Rick Bayless at Topolobampo and Frontera Grill in Chicago. Read more>>
Nick Meagher
It all started with my interest in video games and computers at a very young age. I was never really a great student and ended up spending a lot of time inside on the computer simply because I was bored. Growing up I always pictured myself doing something more active and never really saw myself sitting behind a desk all day, it sounded horrible at the time. Read more>>
Sadeeriyah , La Quana “Lei”
La Quana and Sadeeriyah met years ago while working as Massage Therapists for a company in the Dallas Ft. Worth Area. As the years passed, they went their separate ways and work independently in their field. They kept in touch and discovered they both had a passion for helping others through holistic healing and wellness. Read more>>
Mike Reed
SAFE Solutions began when Mike Reed got really sick of retail management… literally, with pneumonia. Mike was tired of working long hours for salary pay, and never having the flexibility and time to dedicate to his family. One day, Mike had enough. He decided to start something new! Read more>>
Katie Faith
When I look back, it’s kind of funny, because becoming a photographer was not a dream of mine. Even more ironic is the fact that while in high school I took art classes, drawing and painting, and I didn’t even consider photography an art. It just didn’t seem okay that I could spend 4 hours drawing a tree and someone else could walk up, click a button, and call it a masterpiece. Read more>>
Jim Byrd
I was/still am an artist. Back in high school, I did drawing, painting and sculpting. Thought I wanted to be a graphic artist. Had that planned for college, as well. But life has a way of doing things, you know? Ended up needing money to finish college, and enlisted in the Navy. Got the job of Navy photographer. Read more>>
Betty Wills
Betty Wills has over forty years combined experience as a publisher, television producer, director, editor, video photographer and creative writer of over 300 scripts for television and video. She is an award-winning writer/producer/director of nature programming for PBS, and equestrian and water sports programming for cable and commercial television. Read more>>
Denise Schrader
In 1997, when deciding on a name for our Dallas-Fort Worth fence company, we wanted a name that would describe our customer service philosophy and express our slogan, “We Promise a Lot and Deliver More.” We wanted to convey a new attitude in the service industry, and in particular the fence industry. Read more>>
LaTasha Thomas
God placed it on my heart to start a Girl’s Mentoring Program 9 years ago. I tried to avoid doing it for several years, but God continued to reveal to me why the program was needed. So finally I said “Ok, I’ll host a 1 day workshop or Girl’s Empowerment Conference and that should be good enough”. Read more>>
Tara Torres
After I had my first child, I started selling women’s clothes and assesories on social media. I had mostly out of state orders thanks to Instagram. I loved being able to keep inventory at home and print shipping labels from home as well. After I had my second child, (I have three total) I was buying more and more personalized kids clothes from other people. Read more>>
Brandon Wong
My Name is Brandon Wong. I am a Father, Husband, Marine and Founder of Veteran Circles as well as Veteran Realty Group. I got started in entrepreneurship in 2008 when I read a copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad during a sand storm in Ramadi, Iraq. This book inspired a matrix-like awakening in me, leading me into entrepreneurship. Read more>>
Alexander Beaverhausen
My name is Alexander Beaverhausen I am born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. I was inspired by Steven Meisel and his photographs that was on the cover of Vogue in May 2009. It was a considered an “Artistic Critique”. Investing more time into books and magazines, I learned what art can mean to many people. Read more>>
Kathryn Jacob
I grew up in Chicago and was fortunate that my parents prioritized service work – they truly drilled this into me, that we have a responsibility to care for our neighbors in this world. After studying social work in college, I was gratefully accepted into the United States Peace Corps. I worked in Turkmenistan, between Afghanistan and Iran, with women on issues that rang true to them. Read more>>
