Leslie and Brian Lane
During my junior year at Dallas Baptist University, I took a trip to Israel. My love for photography began on that trip. Brian and I started photographing weddings together while we were dating and engaged. After several years of wedding and family photography, my passion turned to photographing newborns and that is my whole focus now. Read More>>
Katie Brown
I have always been interested in art. My great grandmother painted, and my grandmother is a self-taught tango dancer/sculptor/painter/pottery maker. Growing up in choir I always thought music was going to be the only art in my life, until I got into high school. My sophomore year I traded in choir for photojournalism and instantly fell in love. The smell of the chemicals in the dark room was exciting and it felt like home Read More>>
Jennifer Crossland
I started in the restaurant business shortly after graduating college. I got a job in Santa Monica at Houston’s Restaurant and just loved everything about the industry. After working my way into kitchen management, I was sent to Napa Valley to train in the kitchen of Rutherford Grill. From there I worked in multiple stores for the Hillstone Company in New York, Southern California and Dallas. Read More>>
Vic Segura
Nobody grows up thinking “I want to be a lawn mower man!”. A long time ago I thought I knew what I wanted to do. Join the military and go in to Law Enforcement. I wanted a break though and took a summer job after high school with Sears & Roebuck at a repair hub in Arlington, TX. Read More>>
Aaron Deaton
I’ve worked on cars all my life. My first job was working at a tire store. Through the years, I worked at a number of auto parts and accessory shops. I’d buy cars on the side, fix them up, and turn them for a profit. It wasn’t long before people were telling me to open my own shop. Read More>>
Janice Ford Grimes
I didn’t get pets until late in life. 13 years ago, I had a cat die of mercury poisoning and he got it from licking me! I didn’t even know I had it and he died from it! It changed who I was! A few years later I started working on Spa Paws. Read More>>
Bart Rose
I started with music in the 9th grade as I was forced to join the school Choir at Carter-Riverside High School. The next year I started playing guitar. A lot. John Sanderson, my stepfather, was very supportive of my musical endeavors. He challenged me to a bet. Read More>>
Jan and Charles Norton
We have always shared a passion for history – particularly local history. Fort Worth has a rich and interesting history. It is Where the West begins. It had pioneers, gun fights, Hell’s Half Acre, cattle drives, oil booms (and busts), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Bonnie and Clyde. Still we were concerned that we would have a hard time finding a market for just a history tour that would be sustainable. Read More>>
Janice Dotti Townsend
I have always loved coffee, since I had my first good cup in Honduras in 1999. After going to school in Nashville, Tennessee, I fell in love with the independent coffeehouse scene. Most of my free time was spent hanging out in coffeeshops. Read More>>
Lynn Wendeborn
5 years ago, after retiring from American Airlines / Sabre (25years of service) I went to school to become certified as an interior decorator (my life’s passion) and started my business. My project management and client management skills have been an asset in helping my clients stay in budget and keep our projects on time. I’ve built up numerous talented resources to help me with all aspects of remodeling and decorating. Read More>>
Robin Burrill
Rob Mathews, my husband, started our company in 1995. At the time, he was a paramedic/flying on Cook Children’s helicopter and since he has so much free time, he was keeping busy by doing small remodels/handyman work. Once he had to pull his first permit in 1995 he had to get what was called a business license then and his company was formed! Read More>>
Holly Pils
We have been in business since Feb 2000. My business partner, Lisa Underwood and I started the business together and named the business after her son, Jayden Underwood. His nickname was Boopa. We ran our business together until Feb 2005 when Lisa and Jayden were killed in their home. I would not still be in business with the foundation Lisa and I started. Read More>>
Cheryl Abrams
I began my childcare journey when my husband was in the Military. I got out of the Army and did not want to go to back to work because we had 2 small children. After getting out of the Army I attended intense classes on childcare and became a Home Daycare provider for the Ft. Lewis Washington childcare system. Read More>>
Meagan and Duane Mainville
Duane and Meagan started The Pizza Buffet after owning an advertising franchise for 15 years. We wanted to get away from the “corporate” side of things and create our own future. We met in the restaurant industry and fell in the love with the buffet concept so we decided to put the two together and created The Pizza Buffet! Read More>>
Andrew Walker
I started the journey to being the Executive Director during a freshman seminar at Bowdoin College. My art history professor gave a moving lecture on Michelangelo’s fresco, The Last Judgment. Not only was I moved emotionally by my professor’s words, but a fire burned that perhaps I could make a living inspired by the great bursts of creativity across time. Read More>>
Scott Smith
Having been in the advertising field for more than 25 years, I have the experience to promote entrepreneurs and businesses alike. I have worked in the newspaper, direct mail and directory advertising industries in promotion and design (layout). Working in the cyber world is the next step in my journey to advertising excellence. Read More>>
Brooke Hamblet
I began teaching yoga in 1999 at gyms and community centers – wherever facilities were open to the idea. By 2002 I luckily landed a “real” yoga job at Fort Worth’s very first dedicated yoga studio, Soul Fitness. During that time, I cleaned out my garage apartment and made room for a little private yoga studio that held 8 mats. Read More>>
Branden Smith
I started my career by going to a two-year trade school TIJT “Texas Institute of Jewelry Technology” in Paris Texas back in 1997. My first job was with Charles Cohen Jewelers in Fort Worth, a Mom & Pop jewelry store that has since closed. Then worked for a more commercial jewelry repair store for three long years, and then ended up working for another Mom & Pop store in Pantego for 14 years until they couldn’t afford to keep me any longer. Read More>>
