Cassandra Schaeg
After laying roots in Escondido (3 years ago), I realized I wasn’t spending my time or money in Escondido. With the city in its redevelopment stages, I decided to immerse myself in the community by opening a wine bar. I’m an avid wine drinker ( grew up in Temecula) and wanted to start a business that was representative of the area and supported by the wine expansion in Escondido. Read more>>
Adam Carruth
Honestly, I started out brewing beer. My story is basically a lifetime of playing around and experimenting with fermentation, first with beer and then later wine. As time went on the quality kept growing, which resulted in the quantity growing. Read more>>
Andrea Van De Vort
I was a bio-chem major in college and on the path to go to Dental School. It hit me one day that following my passion was more important than doing something that yes, I was good at, but not passionate about. I graduated early, packed up my Toyota Celica, and moved to LA where I started working as a showroom sales rep for a denim line. Read more>>
Ellen Im
I grew up in Orange County, California, where I graduated from the University of California, Irvine. I ventured east to attend dental school and received my Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at the University of Maryland. Following dental school, I married my husband who I met in dental school (who coincidentally also grew up in Orange County, CA) and completed my specialty training in Pediatric Dentistry in Washington D.C. Read more>>
Rosy Stolow Meyerowitz
For the past five years, I have dedicated a large portion of my career to training law enforcement officers on the proper use of firearms. When I began training these officers, I realized quickly that neither they nor I were adequately protected for the hours spent on the range training, thus exposing our ears to high decibel blasts. Read more>>
Roberto Chavez
Originally from Chicago, i spent thr majority of my adult life working jobs in retail, construction, the night club industry, and warehousing. fortunately i would need to pull from my experiences in each of those fields for my current position. Read more>>
Kait Cole
Kait is a native San Diegan, who has a deep passion for improving her community through educating our next generation on sustainable practices and environmental science. It was Kait’s grandfather who seeded her interest in cultivating organic food, which grew into a genuine care for our planet. Read more>>
Jonathan Bosco
I’m skilled in three areas: Video & Audio Production, and Choreography. I’m one of the few dance teachers and choreographers that teaches dance and combine it with Film and Music, whether it would be Mash-Up or Original content. My community knows me well by fusing Indian Performing Arts with Western influences. Read more>>
Eve Sieminski
We started out home brewing (big surprise lol) in 2006 after a family vacation to Europe. After a couple of years our beer really became popular among our friends and family to the point that they wanted to purchase the beers we brewed. Read more>>
Joeryll Irchirl
My career as a DJ started back in 2007 as a soldier in the United States Army while stationed in Belgium. While stationed there, In order to get away from the stresses of being a soldier, a lot of us would get out on the weekend and go to Brussels, Belgium. Read more>>
Robert Timmons
I am from the Toronto area of Canada and I immigrated to the USA just 2 years ago actually. About 10 years ago I watched this documentary called Sharkwater and learned about the mass decline of sharks in our oceans and how that will not only impact the ocean but impact humans as well. Read more>>
Kate Joiner
I took the long road to get where I am today and maybe this is why I have so much to say in my art now. In 1987, I was at SDSU working my degree in Graphic Design. One day I remember a professor who I idolized, Janet Cooling, mentioned how artists don’t have much to say until they are 50. Read more>>
Ruby Balaram
I was working as a paralegal in Washington, D.C. when I met Turk, my co-founder. This was back in 2012. Turk was launching another startup called Level Up Meals, a company focused on making and delivering fresh, healthy food here in San Diego. Read more>>
Vera Stepina
I came to the United States from Russia in 2004. I was 21, didn’t have a stable job (as a matter of fact I barely spoke English which didn’t help with finding a job), din’t know anyone in this country and din’t have rich parents who would send me money to live here. Read more>>
Rachel Justice Crowder
The owner, Rachel Justice Crowder grew up in a career military family. Born here in San Diego, she spent the next 40+ years moving around the country with her family, then with her own career in corporate America. Rachel graduated from North Carolina State University and spent the next 15 years in sales, marketing, business development and consulting in information technology. Read more>>
Justin Mund
Justin Mund, Winemaker and General Manager of Orfila Vineyards and winery, grew up in the heart of wine country in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California. He earned an A.S. degree from Santa Rosa Junior College, focused on wine and viticulture, the scientific study of grapes. Read more>>
Jeff St. Thomas
I am second generation Californian. I was born and raised in Glendora, a small suburb just outside Los Angeles. At the time, my mother was a stay at home mom and my father was an engineer with the Apollo space program. When I was two my parents decided to build a cabin near Big Bear Lake. Read more>>
Rita Reade
I have been a vendor of vintage and handmade for many years and in 2010 we had a recession and my husband lost is job, my sister in law Christie Repasy (an artist herself) and I decided to invite a group of vintage, antiques and handmade dealers to join us in a quarterly outdoor market in her private cottage garden in Fallbrook, Ca. Read more>>
Jasmin Tafreshi
My artistic journey began at the age of 13 when my grandfather passed down my first film camera. I remember holding the camera in my hand absolutely amazed with all the buttons and knobs that were all unknown to me. Since I was a toddler I would always snatch my parents cell phones and take photos of literally anything in site, from flowers to forcing my playmates and little brother to pose in front of the camera. Read more>>
Brian Kent
Truthfully, I never thought I would be a photographer. I started my career as a photo-journalist at my college newspaper, and I was having too much fun to consider photography as a serious career. Before I worked at the newspaper, I studied abroad in Spain where at every turn there is a charming cobblestone street or gorgeous 400-year old cathedral. Read more>>
Don Hein
I had been working for a company in LA for over 10 years and had worked my way up to managing a small team when suddenly I was told I was no longer needed. This was not a faceless corporation either, I knew the owners and could speak to them personally. Read more>>
Corey Villicana
I’m a natural light photographer living just north of San Diego. I’m a wife and the mother to two young boys. We live in a tiny little house with a gigantic yard, which both serve as my creative space and outlet. My work at home is never done; I like it that way. Read more>>
Taylor Carpenter
In April 2014 I came up with the idea of making chalk bags as a passion project to learn how to sew. My grandparents gave me my first sewing machine for my birthday and after 3 1/2 days I made the very first STATIC chalk bag. Read more>>
Natalie Hill
Delicate came to life in Katy Texas. Stationery and personalization is a big part of the south. I started creating from home and soon saw the opportunity to open a boutique shop. Our store soon became a local shop for people who had a love of paper and wanted to work with a designer in person. Read more>>
Diana Benedek
I thought I give you the info from another article, you could take info from it. The Why “As doctors start to understand that many diseases are associated with food allergies, the number of people that seek gluten-free foods is increasing,” asserted Diana Benedek, PhD, founder and CEO of 2Good2B Bakery & Café in Encinitas and Gaslamp. Read more>>
Edward Aponte
My story begins in my early teens when I made my first trip to Dayton Ohio from Puerto Rico in the Late 80’s which was the heart of the Ninja Boom in the west. As a a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do I was fascinated by Stephen K Hayes first book that chronicled his training odyssey in Japan searching to become the first westerner to be accepted by Dr Massaki Hatsumi 34th generation Ninja Grandmaster. Read more>>
Alfred Shihata
I am an M.D physician with 35 years of experience specializing in women’s health. I spent half of my time doing research and the other half working in my clinic for women. Through my experiences in this field, I realized that women had two basic unmet needs in reproductive health. Read more>>
Elizabeth Galloway, Krissie Simek
Well, it is a fun story! We actually met in 2009 in a certification program at San Diego State University for meeting and event management. However, we can only say we “kind of” met as we actually never worked together or sat near one another in the program. Read more>>
Sonia Kanner
Newly divorced , single mom of three I had to re-emerge in the work force. I created an activewear company and quickly realized there was a lot of competition in the market. I found myself trying to think of products that didn’t already exist. Read more>>
Emmanuel Guisset
No it has not. Getting the first space was very tough especially while being a foreigner without credit. I had to put all my savings to get the first property. We also made some mistakes in hiring people not really committed to the business at the beginning. Read more>>
Natalie Schwartz
I started Themodernmamahood.com In November of 2016 so that I could have a creative outlet for the way us moms parent in today’s world, it’s not the motherhood of our mothers. This blog is where the modern mama can come let her hair down, pour a glass of wine, and grab a vegan recipe or two while having a laugh at the day to day struggles of motherhood. Read more>>
Michael LeClerc
Michael LeClerc is a Canadian singer/songwriter with a style reminiscent of Van Morrison, Dave Matthews or Jack Johnson. His sweet and soulful voice penetrates deeply, with a dream-like quality against an acoustic guitar that drifts between deftly executed finger-style to jangly strumming, and segues easily from love ballad to upbeat rocker. Read more>>
