Briana McDonald
I have been doing hair in both Portland and San Diego for over 10 years. I went on a health journey in my personal life and it caused me to have concern about the fumes and chemicals I was being exposed to on a daily basis in the salon. I knew if the products I was using were potentially cancer-causing for me, my clients deserved a better alternative to traditional haircare too. Read more>>
Amanda Collins
As a little girl as that I wanted was to be in nature and connect with nature and if I had to go inside I would bring nature in with me. Plants, crystals, water features so I had been practicing feng shui even as a little girl. Read more>>
Sophia Da Silva Hopson
I come from a super diverse and multi-cultural family and I attribute my deep love of humanity and the unseen to these roots. Growing up I admired Oprah and my two aunts who immigrated from Brazil. I admired there perseverance and resiliency to learn a new language, adapt to a new culture and put themselves through law and medical school. Read more>>
Keith Thompson
I left the office for the trees. Big ones. After a year as a developer for an advertisement network, I took my dream job leading a summer camp for high school students in the Giant Sequoias. After a summer under the trees, I couldn’t get back to an office under the fluorescence, so I made my own business building websites and web apps. Read more>>
Alexandria Monette Cardenas
Photography was always a hobby for me and wasn’t something I believed could become a career! After high school, I went the traditional route of going to college and graduated with all my pre-med credentials and a B.S. in Biology. During my time in school at San Francisco State, I would take my roommate out on “model adventures,” as I like to call them, as a way to decompress from the chaos that was my student life. Read more>>
Sara Jankowsky
For the past 15 years or so, fear always held me back from going on my own! In the back of my head I had self doubt… what if’s… can I really have this dream? One day I walked into my healers office and she asked me why don’t I have my own business. Read more>>
