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There are so many things you can do to make vegan food seem more palatable and accessible
Meera Iyer Food scientist I became vegan around freshman year of high school, so around 1999 or 2000. The options that were there for...
Apr 8, 2024
I put myself in that headspace and close my eyes and take a deep breath… what do I smell?
Trisha Hanudel-Lopez San Pedro Soapworks I guess I’ll start with how all this came to be. It started in 2016, even before that… let’s put...
Mar 16, 2024
How do we translate your vision into reality, using paint?
Shadia Derbyshire Muralist I was in kindergarten and you know how you learn about different professions? I remember there were flash...
Feb 26, 2024
We’re taking that moment in time that Mother Nature gave us and we’re putting it in a bottle.
Barbara Haskins Heavenly Honey Company | Ojai, CA When I was a little girl there was a place over by where we lived in Canyon Country, up...
Nov 22, 2023
I love a wedding because you can play everything from Frank Sinatra to the latest dance hit.
Wendy Walker DJ I was an absolute nerdy little kid, I loved music, I would on Saturdays listen to Casey Kasem Top 40, but I would write...
Nov 1, 2023
That’s what life’s about, being able to bring joy to other people.
Erica Pietrzyk Pietrzyk Pierogi | Detroit, Michigan I used to bartend and I was working in Hamtramck, which used to be a heavily Polish...
Aug 22, 2023
When you’re piercing something, it’s like a hot knife through butter.
Kayla Rouse Piercer | 454 Tattoo and Body Piercing When I first started thinking about doing something, anything, after high school, I...
Jul 9, 2023
Consent is something that you can revoke at any time.
Annie Spong Intimacy Coordinator I landed in intimacy coordinating five or six years ago at the birth of the Me Too movement. Up until...
Jun 19, 2023
I like to show somebody how one item can be so many different things.
Cat Cass Costumer/Sutler I’m a costumer. I sell costumes at the Renaissance fairs and a number of other types of reenactments. I do a...
May 21, 2023
We have to create opportunities for ourselves because no one else is going to create them for us.
Sharniece Chantal Coupes + Pigment How I got into the business that I have now – which is the paint and sip events and doing mobile...
Mar 10, 2023
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