West LA 2.6.2017

Michael Albarian

I spent 27 years at IBM right out of college rising to the executive level of Director at IBM’s Global Services Division for the Western United States. I was able to retire at a young age. Read More>>

Daniel Shemtob

TLT Food is a Fast Casual restaurant that was born from The Lime Truck. The Lime Truck started in 2010 and won multiple accolades including; Top 10 trucks in America – Yahoo, Best Food trucks in LA – Thrillist, and The Great Food Truck Race- Food Network. Read More>>

Chris Guillemet

Velofix is a Mobile Bike Shop. Basically a full-service bike shop in the back of a Mercedes Sprinter Van. Our customers book a service or delivery on their smartphones and the Bike Shop comes to them, their home or office or wherever they are. Read More>>

Jenette Goldstein

First of all, in 2009, when we opened our first store, I didn’t know anything about business. I was an actress. My husband is an artist. This was entirely personal: frustrated with a shocking lack of options for my figure (small gal, large bosoms), my husband and I opened Jenette Bras close to our home in East Hollywood. Read More>>

Juan Carlos Alvarez and Kelly Alvarez

Wave House Cleaning started with a passion for providing a trusted and reliable cleaning service and the belief that a clean home creates a happy life. Founder Juan Carlos Alvarez was looking to create a solution that was on point and well priced while eliminating the need for our customers to worry about hidden fees or supervising the work. Read More>>

Tal Leylian

L&P Development was founded in 2014 on the principal that customers are the most valuable asset of a company. That is why we strive to have 100% customer satisfaction. Read More>>

Janice Hou

Scott and I got into real estate sales independently in 2004 and partnered up a year later when we realized we made a great business duo. Since then, we’ve experienced the high, low and then high again of the market cycle. Read More>>

Liana Ayranian

We started the company about 7 years ago when the realtor who was selling our own home asked if we I was willing to stage a few of his properties. Our home was well decorated and almost every agent who walked through the doors asked if they could have our “stager’s” phone number. Read More>>

Sabrina Rodriguez

My interest in photography all started when my parents got me my first digital Kodak camera. I was so fascinated that I could take pictures and instantly print them with the little portable printer it came with. Read More>>

Margie Woods

I have been an artist and photographer since I was a child. As an adult, after finishing my masters in psychology, I found a way to combine it all and pursue my passions as a “job”. I teach creativity workshops and also am a portrait photographer. Read More>>

David Mangold

I graduated in UCLA with a degree in Business Economics and a minor in Mandarin Chinese in 2013. That summer my then business partner and classmate, Vincent Ho, started Koala Tea, Inc. Having gone to UCLA for four years and having frequented Sawtelle many times while in school, we both felt that the (Westwood) Village could use some more boba and Asian/Chinese options and saw many classmates felt the same way. Read More>>

Jenny Chang

I would be more than happy to walk you through my career journey. Thank you for the opportunity to speak out LA Voyage. How I started my journey really just came from a desire to succeed in this career bad enough. I don’t have the story that started in planning my family or friend’s wedding. Read More>>

Norman & Heather Jones

I was raised in the suburbs just outside of Cleveland, Ohio by a single mom who was a saint of a woman and taught me all about service & compassion for humanity. My two loves growing up were sports & music. Read More>>

Janet Robin

Janet Robin can be defined in a single word: musician. Many people attempt to make music, but few earn that illustrious title. Those in this business reserve that label for the rare individuals who consistently demonstrate a high level of talent, perseverance, taste and sensitivity over a period of time. Read More>>

Brian Averill

When I was 8, when my mom gave me her old Kodak Instamatic and I began a series of ridiculously elaborate shots of my Star Wars figures. Pretty sure my folks thought I had a screw loose. A decade after shooting Chewbacca dangling from dental floss over Darth and his stormtroopers, I wound up in the only place in America where this behavior is considered normal. Read More>>

Alison Ashley

My journey started with Electrolysis in my late teens. In my early twenties I decided to go to school to become an Electrologist. As a teenager i was battling unwanted hair and I made it worse by tweezing and waxing. I was like there has to be another way. Read More>>

Diana Ralys

Diana’s passion for skin care started in her teen years, as most teenagers, she suffered from problematic skin and even more so she had extremely sensitive skin, also known as Rosacea. Read More>>

Colleen McClafferty

My story in Beauty begins at birth. Both my grandmother and my mother are cosmetologists. My grandmother Blanche was the first women to own her own business in our small Pennsylvania town, and my mother followed in her footsteps. Everyone in town came to Blanche’s to get their “hair done” and of course all the trimmings like nails and skin care. Read More>>

Jess Lawrence

We opened Azure AVEDA Salon in September 2013. There was no Aveda Lifestyle salon anywhere on the Westside. So we figured what better place to promote environmental conscienceless in the beauty industry than by the beach !? Our location has served us well. Read More>>

Andrea McLennan

I’ve been studying alternative therapies and natural ways of healing for many years. As a child and teenager I suffered a few debilitating accidents that left my body almost paralyzed. Being the eternal optimist that I am I searched far and wide for ways to help my body heal – realign, and come back into balance. This started my journey into massage therapy, yoga, and detox. Read More>>

Angela Walitt

I’ve always loved beauty and being around beautiful things.In 1994 I was a Registered Dental Assistant practicing in Beverly Hills. My cousin owned a day spa in New York City where she was an esthetician to the stars. I visited her and felt inspired. Read More>>

Mindi Walters

I’ve been doing skincare for 14 years, it’s all I’ve ever done. I moved to Los Angeles 10 years ago, I worked at a skincare clinic in Beverly Hills before I decided to go off on my own. Read More>>

Liz Gardner

I started working in the makeup industry when I was 16, over the years I have worked as a salon director at Kim Vo salon in the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas as well as Christophe salon in Beverly Hills before venturing on my own. Read More>>

Denise Hoooper

I have been a makeup artist for over 20 years in the film & TV business. I have always been into makeup and perfume. I loved watching my mom put on makeup with her lighted makeup mirror and admiring her collection of perfumes that sat on her dresser. Read More>>

Corynne Lynch

My love affair with hair started when I was 7 in my backyard beauty salon. My first client (besides the sweet haircuts I’d give myself, sorry mom) was our family dog, Jessica, who would be the unfortunate beneficiary of my favorite cut – the mohawk. Read More>>

Susie Nino

Susie Nino is an LA hairstylist and makeup artist who started her career about eight years ago. After graduating beauty school she started her beauty career in one of the best salons in Santa Barbara. After a few years, she moved to LA to pursue her career there. Read More>>

Tueykay Jew

Over 20 years ago, I started out practicing massage therapy, specializing in Shiatsu-style massage. I felt that there was more to learn about the body and it’s ability to heal itself. Read More>>

Heather Guercio & Michelle Valentine

We started out in 1987 as a family run business, in 2010 we purchased the business from our father. We now run the business together and pride ourselves on our customer service and friendly staff. Read More>>

Ruth Steinberg

When I came to LA from South Africa, I worked for many years as a prop stylist. Eventually, I felt the need to be in a less transitory and superficial world. Styling and design were a huge addition to my experience but I began to miss being in natural environments. Read More>>

Sean Murphy

With an education in accounting and finance, family background in travel and a lifelong passion for surfing it seemed a natural progression to establish a surf travel agency in the mid-1990’s. Read More>>

Gretchen Lightfoot

My husband, John Lightfoot , and I run Goorus, the only dedicated yoga studio in Pacific Palisades, CA, (pop. 20,000) which is sandwiched between Malibu and Santa Monica. We took over the space in June of 2015 after YogaWorks vacated the former Jiva Yoga. Read More>>

Kevin Cloutier

It all started at UCLA. My brother Dave and I were camp counselors at the Alumni Family Camp, and we also started a DJ business. During one of our parties, a TV producer asked us if we would be interested in making up games for one of his shows. Read More>>

Kai Sanson

Growing up on Point Dume in Malibu, surfing, diving, spearfishing and other ocean sports have been a part of my life since day one. In 1906, my great-grandmother came to Los Angeles and in 1948 she had the vision to make the waters of Southern CA a central part of our family’s life. Read More>>

Lana House

I went to college at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts to study drama. While there I was exposed to all different types of movement including Tai Chi, Tai Kwon Do, Capoeira, Yoga, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Pop and Lock and Pilates was also on that list. I immediately loved the way I felt warm on the inside from the work in a way that no other form of movement or exercise gave me! Read More>>