Taylor Abeel
My photography career began the moment I processed my first roll of film by hand in high school. As soon as I saw my vision come to life through the medium of film I was hooked! My passion for storytelling through imagery launched into a full-time career after graduating from Brooks Institute of Photography with a BA in Advertising Photography, 14 years ago. Read more>>
John Long
This is a brief description of how I got started. Back in 1996 I was a musician in a band that toured an average 25 days per month. After a year of this (1997) we decided to slow down to only travel 2 weeks per month. As a musician I wasn’t making a lot of money and I needed a part time job. Red more>>
Grace Schlesier
In the 80’s, when my children were in school, I picked up a paint brush and never looked back. Painting on location and in my studio is my muse and my passion. I paint to spread the joy of beauty and feel surrounding oneself with beautiful art heals the soul. Read more>>
Donato Pompo
Donato Pompo’s career in the ceramic tile and stone industry began when he graduated from high school and went to work as an installer for a Los Angeles-based union tile contractor. His career ambition was interrupted for a time when duty called and he joined the United States Army. Read more>>
Philip Lozano
I grew up playing trombone until I went to SDSU and put my horn away for twenty years until my oldest Graduated high school and I thought playing in a band together would helps keep us close . My current Band Bump City Brass started out as a reinvention of my family band Bump N Brass which started back in 2014 as both my daughters Jasmine and Camille had graduated High school and had been singing in another band in which I played some Trumpet and Trombone. Read more>>
Pamela Enciso
I was born and raised in Puebla – Mexico, and moved to California in order to complete my training as Pilot. In California I became a mother and this opened a new worlds to me. It change my life and brought me to a new profession. Read more>>
L.J. Pocsi
I am a born and raised Jersey girl turned California. I grew up playing sports and dancing. I played soccer 365 days a year from the ripe age of nine, I played softball from five years old, I ran track in high school, I danced most of the years I played sports, and I even played bassoon. Read more>>
Tawny Platis
Tawny is a full time professional voice over talent/coach, comedian/comedy writer, podcaster/marketing supervisor on the Orbital Jigsaw Network, and marketing/business consultant in San Diego, California. During her senior year in high school, Tawny began the process of purchasing her first brick and mortar retail store (Baby Go Round) after realizing medical school was just a tad expensive. Read more>>
Shara Fisler
While most non-profit education organizations start small, few start small enough to fit into a closet. That’s exactly how Shara Fisler began Ocean Discovery Institute in 1999 – with its laboratory space shoehorned into a 250-square-foot kayak closet along San Diego’s Mission Bay. Read more>>
Jessica Dawson
My career as a writer and publisher started in quite an unconventional way. I had been working for Whole Foods Market, when I was suddenly struck with a rare illness in 2012 that left me hospitalized for a month and physically disabled for several years afterwards. Read more>>
Bethany Chaffin
The Rock Rose Village School began in 2006 as a small study group of parents and teachers committed to helping their children develop using the latest brain research. Recognizing the need to reach more children than just those in our group, we started a non-profit Parent-Child program in Escondido and a parent co-op Kindergarten in Ramona. Read more>>
