Bruce B. Mayer, Denise E. Mayer
Denise graduated from the Deloux Cosmetoloqv School in San Diego in 1980 she worked for a few salons for tile next 13 years building her clientele then opened her first salon in 1993 in La Jolla. Within a few years she was bought out by Vons who wanted the property. Read more>>
Toni Robin
I originally intended to be a sports reporter and studied Journalism and Broadcast Communication is Washington DC. Instead, I went right into PR after college and never looked back. After 9 years as Communications Director for the Fine Arts Fund in Cincinnati, I returned to San Diego in 1996 and got a job right away handling PR and Communications for the San Diego Performing Arts League. Read more>>
Courtney Preis
My name is Courtney Preis and I am a singer songwriter based out of San Diego, CA. I moved to SD from the east coast 5 years ago with the plan of pursuing my music dreams. Of course, this dream is still in pursuit but life has thrown me some unexpected turns in my path. Read more>>
Joanna Kinsman
I grew up in a small town in Maine and loved to design. I was a college athlete and went to school for entrepreneurship in New Hampshire. I moved to San Diego sight-unseen in 2009 from Boston and got a job working in internet marketing as an executive assistant. Read more>>
Curtis Alexander
A little over a year ago I founded a non-profit called New Paths Paved (NPP), with a goal of doing whatever I could to help those who were homeless transition back into the community. I’ve always been involved in community outreach, whether it be through work or on my own. Read more>>
Sarah Young
Some of my earliest childhood memories are designing things. They are also some of my happiest. I remember using my imagination as far back as 7 years of age for various projects. I would recruit my little sister into helping gather berries, grass and leaves for me to make pretend “plated taco dishes”. Read more>>
Caroline Abkar
People are often surprised to hear that I left a decade long career as a successful software engineer / project manager so I could pursue my calling of making a direct, positive impact in people’s lives through real estate. Read more>>
Joelle Julian
You know I used to hate this question because I never thought I had a great story of how I began my photography career…I feel like it just happened. However, last year I came across old photos I took in college while studying abroad and I had (somewhat creepily) taken dozens of photos of couples sitting on benches, holding hands, taking it views or sharing a sweet moment. Read more>>
Taylor Rhodes
My brothers and I were raised in Spokane, WA, where we grew up sailing, water skiing and wake boarding on the colder lakes of the Pacific Northwest. During that time we always joked around about putting a hot tub in our boat. Read more>>
Caroline Gillingham
I started my candle making journey in 2012 by double-boiling wax on my stove and pouring it into repurposed jars. After giving the home-crafted candles as gifts, friends and family wanted more. Around the same time my hours were cut at my full-time job so I started selling at local farmers’ markets. Read more>>
Matt Lingo
I was really into skateboarding growing up and through college, and had a small camera I would take pictures with to turn into stencils for my board and my friends. After a bad fall put me out of action for a while, I started shooting photos of my friends that their sponsors started buying from me, so I figured I’d take a stab at trying photography professionally. Read more>>
