Mike and Heather Medina
We created Yoga Motion with the mission to educate children about the practice of yoga and how to use yoga to inspire positive change in themselves and those around them. We decided to accomplish this by offering educational, fun, and engaging yoga classes that have been designed with children, parents, and schools in mind. Read more>>
Linda Queally
In 2012, my internal alarm went off in a big way. Time to follow my dream. With both kids tucked safely away in college, I quit my full-time office job, moved out of my apartment, put everything that would fit into a 10’x10′ storage space, and sold or gave away the rest. Read more>>
Eric Kezirian
My entire career has been dedicated to the surgical evaluation and treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea, and this interest started early. When I attended medical school, the University of Pennsylvania was one of the few places in the country that included sleep medicine in the classroom curriculum, so I had an exposure that piqued my interest then. Read more>>
Esther Kang
Avocado was born from one simple thought, As You Are. We grew tired of anyone telling us what we could wear and when, how to feel about it and why we weren’t enough to wear whatever trend a few people dictated. In a time where our culture celebrates the curation of self-image, lifestyle, and “what I ate today”, we cherish the idea of keeping things simple and easy. Read more>>
Michael Fischer
I was born and raised in the South of Germany as the son of a pastor. For the last four years of high school I went to a boarding school, which was early training for studying theology at university. As the rebel I usually was, I decided to do something totally different after graduating. Read more>>
Karen Wong
As a young girl and daughter of immigrant parents, I sought out to fulfill every Asian parent’s dream: go to college and become a doctor or a lawyer. I found dentistry to be the easiest in terms of years of study. (I never said school was my thing) but after working as a dental office assistant for a week and some classes at PCC, I quickly decided that it wasn’t the career for me. Read more>>
Andrew C. Park
I am a Korean-American and LA native. I grew up in the small suburbs of South Pasadena with my parents, brother, and Yorkie, Perry. An Economics and Administration major from the University of California, Riverside, I saw real estate as an opportunity to help people achieve their dreams in Los Angeles. Read more>>
Joel Muniz
Filmed a friend’s wedding for the fun of it & after that I filmed a WHOLE lot of free weddings which finally lead to a paid wedding & fast forward 5 years later, here we are! No! but it’s definitely part of the journey. We’ve had years where inquires and bookings were at an all time high and some years were below average. Read more>>
Jean Marilla
My life journey took an unexpected turn when I met and married my husband. He was raised here in LA while I breathed thirty years of my existence from the other side of the continent. Getting married to my husband meant having to reside in a different country with him. Read more>>
Asher Brown
Pollution is a digital content agency, specializing in telling stories across a wide variety of platforms. We cut our teeth making music videos, and many of our directors still shoot with the biggest names in the business. Those roots taught us to tell branded stories (the musician as marketer) and to embrace creative collaboration. Read more>>
Kristine Schomaker
As an artist, I had always been focused on creating the work rather than the business side of it. I would sell work on Facebook or to friends, family and coworkers, but I worked a full time job in the medical field and so wasn’t as concerned with promotion. Read more>>
Alex Capriotti
My career has a strangely straight trajectory, and not one that I planned out from the beginning. My museum career started in 2007 when I was accepted into a Getty-funded multicultural internship program at the Skirball Cultural Center while I was still in undergrad at UCLA. Read more>>
Dave Farrar
I have been a Police Officer for over 25 years and am looking to retire soon. I had always been active in the art field in some way either drawing sketches for my co-workers or becoming my police department’s first forensic sketch artist. While thinking about what I was going to do after police work I thought why not do something completely different, so I turned to one of my passions since childhood, comic books and comic book art. Read more>>
Dave Muesbeck
I always had an interest in photography and enjoyed taking photos. Finally in 2012, I decided to pursue photography further and bought a Canon Rebel camera kit from Costco. Within 6 months of purchasing my camera, I started David Daniel Photography. Read more>>
Hal Mooney
I started the company 5 years ago. There were about 9 breweries in all of Los Angeles including Monkish, Strand, and Eagle Rock Brewery. I wanted to start doing brewery tours, so I sold my car and bought a 15 passenger bus while I was working at a tv production company. Read more>>
Aaron Hemmelgarn
We started in 2006 in Long Beach, California and moved to Los Angeles in 2010. Understanding web technology and how search engines and Google worked helped us to stay at the top of search since the start of our company. We do very little paid advertising because we are on top of Google search for our eCommerce niche. Read more>>
Kenton Rivas
Started Aquaman while substitute teaching and the beginning of getting my teaching credential. I thought it would be a good part time job or a part time summer job. Once I got my teaching career going… a few months in, we started realizing the need and potential for what we created… Read more>>
Devin Schumache
Graduating with a Finance degree from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder, I went into banking. Unfortunately, it was 2009 and the financial industry wasn’t doing too well (understatement). I found myself a job with JP Morgan Chase and quickly became a private banker in their Chase Private Client department. Read more>>
