Brittany and Jeremy Bay
Jeremy and I were dating, both at a job that we hated. I came home in tears one day and said “I can’t keep doing these meaningless, thankless jobs that I hate for the rest of my life!” We had also been discussing having babies one day and that I would not be working, or at least working from home for the first year of our children’s lives. Read more>>
Stephen Levin, Maximilian von Brand
Max and I co-founded the Lamborghini Club of Dallas in 2015. When trying to coordinate events with a bunch of Lamborghini’s, parking was always an issue. We originally created ParkUpFront as a mobile app much like OpenTable for high-end cars to give the owners the ability to reserve up front parking directly with the valets at upscale venues in DFW. Read more>>
David Mason
I started my Blog: DFitJunkie because I grew up passionate about fitness..not only as a means of staying in shape, but as a life style. I’m also a male blogger who isn’t involved in the fitness industry as a primary career. Read more>>
Andrew Jackson
Innovative started in 1995 as a Corporate Search Firm, focused on Accounting, Finance, Technology and Sales positions. Our primary customer focus was start-up and small-to-midsize companies, and response to their multiple hiring needs we designed custom staffing projects that helped fit their budgets. Read more>>
JT Barnett
I started shooting television in 1999. I field produced the reality show “Cheaters” for Bobby Goldstein for about 10 years. During the time I worked there, the program grew from a local Dallas show, into syndication in over 200 markets internationally. I left Cheaters in 2009 to pursue other projects and programming. Read more>>
Natalie Anne Constable
Stacy and I were introduced and started the firm in July of 2011, mid-recession with one designer (the one who had introduced us). We worked on small projects, quite a few select service projects, in which we had never been involved before. Read more>>
Shelley Kurian
It was the summer of 2009 and I had hit a low. I felt unaccomplished, and my life up until that point had been characterized by complacency and a string of unmotivated, convenience-based decisions. I had been working a mundane 9-5 which I had just gotten laid off from, my marriage was falling apart and having been in and out of school for a few years, I didn’t hold a degree, which put me at a disadvantage when it came to looking for a substantial job. Read more>>
Araceli Vazquez
I was born in Mexico City and moved to the USA a few months after finishing my Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology. Since then, I have encountered numerous challenges including the process of acculturation, language acquisition, financial hardships, degree equivalencies, and so on. Read more>>
Jenny Torry
As a child, I was always very creative and had a huge imagination. One of my earliest childhood memories was in first grade, my art teacher gave us an assignment to draw two things that we want to be when we grew up, and after thinking about this long and hard, I remember drawing a picture of a painter holding her paint brushes and a clown to represent my funny side. Read more>>
Kerrie Smith
It was Spring of 1998, I was getting married. My sister, only 16 at the time was my Maid of Honor. At some point throughout the day she told me we were going to have a wedding business in the future. Fast forward to 2006, my sister a recent college grad, working in corporate America and not loving it, came to me with her desire to start this wedding planning company. Read more>>
Chip Rosales and James Loomstein
My career story has its beginnings in corporate America. I started out wanting to be THE evening news anchor (back when that was a thing) but found my start in a communications consulting company. I was young, wanted to try new things but this company consulted on medical plans and creativity and new were taboo. Read more>>
Cassie Watson
I started Performer’s Edge Dallas eight years ago with 3 voice students, my best friend, Stephen Brodie, who happened to be a great business consultant and talented web designer, and one goal. That goal was to provide inexpensive, private voice lessons that focus not only on sounding pretty, but strengthening the student’s voice and really telling the story behind the songs they sing. Read more>>
Evan Hale
Oddly enough, I started TruMaid after reading a post on Reddit. I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit, and a friend showed me the post at a time when I was looking for my next project. The author walked readers through exactly how he started his maid business, and 3 weeks later, TruMaid was born. Read more>>
Marianna Zimmerman
It took me a long time. As a single mother for a long time, I always worked two jobs on & off, from the time I was 19 until my mid-30s, so I started late in life, but I was always taking Design courses and classes on the side, always pursuing my Design degree. Read more>>
Jon Lucas
It all started in the mid 2000’s a friend and I had the wild idea of starting a company while we sat around the coffee table after we finished studying for college. That dream soon became a reality. We started off by buying a few properties in need of repair, renovating and selling them. Read more>>
Bri Crow
Currently, I am an Account Executive with Zyston, an Information Security Advisory firm, who I’ve been with since day 1 when we launched in May of 2016. I got involved with women in tech initiatives in 2012 when i was early in my career as a recruiter in technical staffing and looking to learn more about technology. Read more>>
Travis Lux
I grew up training hunting dogs in Iowa with my father. I knew I had a passion for dogs and wished to continue my career training Dogs. I’m 2007 my business partner and I started All Dogs Unleashed, at that point I asked myself who was the best dog trainer in America? After lots of research, I found a guy who was dominating all the national obedience competitions, So I started attending many of his workshops. Read more>>
Adan Ventura, Yasmin Valladares
Our company was founded in the spring of 2017, born from the idea of creating a new concept of catering live cooking and at the same time an unusual gastronomy in catering such as traditional Spanish food, specializing in Paellas and Tapas. It was in the city of Valencia, Spain where I learned the art of making paellas, as I describe it is not simply cooking rice, it is an explosion of flavors combined with the traditional technique of cooking it. Read more>>
