Darrah Brustein
I’ve spent the last decade crafting and integrating my life and work intentionally, not choosing one over the other. I’ve come to learn that my hypothesis was true: you can create a life and a career you love…at the same time…without losing yourself in the process, or succumbing to the fable that you must burn out and sleep when you’re dead. Read more>>
Caleigh Allen
After gradutaing with a BA in Musical Theatre, I realized my love for performing could take me in so many directions! So in 2013 I started my tiny little dream called Ever After Entertainment! In the past five years my company has grown from a group of friends making children’s dreams come true to 40+ employees with corporate clients and and amazing opportunities! Read more>>
Andre Brown
I started my photography business in January of 2015, photographing my first wedding in April 2015. I’d made the transition over to photography after many years of working in the music business managing song writers and producers. During that time I’d been on many photo, movie and television sets which is when my initial interest in photography began. Read more>>
Chuck Perry
I grew up in central Kentucky and spent a lot of time in my grandparent’s gardens as a child. I have a lot of fond memories of helping them in the garden. They took the time to teach us what we were planting, how it needed to be planted and what to expect when it grew. Read more>>
Diana deLatour, Suzanne Szabo
Be Hot Yoga Atlanta has been in business for over 18 years. We were the first Bikram style hot yoga studio in Atlanta. The original owners, Jason and Cristina, created an amazing community and a very successful studio – voted Best of Atlanta in 2017! Read more>>
Katie Leikam
I knew I wanted to be a social worker since high school. I had a long college career because I took time off school to work. I graduated from the University of Georgia when I was 29. Throughout my career, I have worked in hospice, with foster children and with adults with mental illness who found it difficult to live on their own. Read more>>
Kristen Hard
Chocolate has been a passion for Kristen since her early childhood years. While her vision was to create some of the best quality chocolate one could offer, in her endeavor to do so, she encountered many issues such as poverty, lack of knowledge in quality and no transparency in an industry that seemed to be so well established that the shift for change had proven difficult. Read more>>
Joshua D. Lorenz
The Metro Atlanta Association of Professionals (MAAP) was first launched in May 1992 as the Atlanta Executive Network (AEN) by 15 people. The committee was led by founding president Allen Jones, who believed that gay and lesbian business professionals had much to offer each other and the community. Read more>>
Bakari Height
I am originally from Jesup, Georgia, a small town between Savannah and Jacksonville. I came to Atlanta in 2009 to go to Georgia State and pursue a degree in Public Policy. Living in Atlanta was my first exposure to a major metropolitan area, as well as a transit system. Read more>>
Jenna Nia
I’ve been designing and sewing clothes since I was a teenager and launching my own line was always my dream. I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri but even as a child I knew I wanted to live in Atlanta after I graduated from high school. When I was applying to colleges my senior year, a dual-major fashion and business program at Clark Atlanta was at the top of my list but I made a tough decision to accept a full academic scholarship to Saint Louis University, a prestigious school in my hometown that doesn’t have a fashion program. Read more>>
Robert Burke Jr.
My journey from making $40k a year to building a multi-million dollar firm has been very interesting. I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. It was instilled in me from a young age working with my father in his carpet cleaning and janitorial business. I recall many days as a kid, no more than 6 or 7, being woken up by my father before sunrise to serve as his assistant. Read more>>
Monica Lage
The idea for Break Into Business was born when I was a senior in college, studying business at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. During my four years in the program I had completely fallen in love with business, and was off to a great career in Management Consulting after graduation with global firm, The Boston Consulting Group. Read more>>
Gregory Walker
My path to architecture came late, after I’d been in college for two years and realized my plans to become a doctor were not going to pan out. I spent a summer in California working construction on a church and kept thinking the whole time ‘why is the design like this? Read more>>
Liliana Leahy
I was born and raised halfway across the world in Jakarta, Indonesia. I moved here in 2006 and married my husband in 2007. In 2012, our family was blessed with the birth of our rainbow baby, Jackson. I remembered my husband said when he was little he had very few baby pictures and asked that we need to make sure that he has tons of pictures. Read more>>
Tiffany McKenzie
Vibe Ride opened in the spring of 2015. We opened the studio to fill a void that existed amongst fitness studios and gyms of Atlanta. We wanted to bring the fun and diversity that Atlanta represents to a fitness studio. We wanted to embrace all different races, sizes and sexual orientations in a way that made people feel comfortable to start, continue and be successful in their fitness journeys. Read more>>
Louie Northern
My professional career began in design. I graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelors degree in Landscape Architecture, and I practiced as an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect for ten years. I designed projects all over the world, with a specific focus on Resort Design, and in 2013, I encountered my first UAS/drone. Read more>>
Kevin Foote
Fun activities like travelling, music, movies and going on adventures always have been my passion and my escape from daily routine whether school or work. I have always loved exploring world cultures, mountains, nature, food, art, history and urban places. Read more>>
