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More than 10 years ago, while I was working as the head of a direct-to-consumer division at a large footwear manufacturer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, my husband came up with this idea while playing around in the Maker space. At the time, Kirby owned a small coffee company called Direct Trade Coffee Club, where he sourced, roasted and fulfilled coffee orders for consumers and companies. His idea came about because he saw that his customers had a hard time accurately ordering and reordering their coffee online because all subscriptions are based on time vs. consumption. While at the Maker space,…
Lifelong entrepreneur. Started New Venture Escrow almost 10 years ago with the idea to change how buyers and sellers experience a 30 day contract period before buying or selling a home. We have built a culture around celebrating, fun, technology, innovation, and health and wellness. We have grown from $0 revenue to over 10M in that time.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles in the Crenshaw District. Growing up, education was always at the forefront of my family. My father is a teacher and my mom is a sign language interpreter, as a result I have always had great role models for what I can do in life right in front of me. With that being said, “Work before play” is the motto I go by but don’t get me wrong I am also such an outspoken person who loves to be involved in any way that I can. Anyone who knows me knows how…
I am a songwriter, composer, and musician in the band Avenue Army. My mother told me that I was always keeping rhythm and tapping my hands and feet to the beat of the music, even as an infant. Besides banging on pots and pans as a toddler and running around signing and playing a toy guitar in my early childhood, I began playing violin and saxophone in third grade, but neither one of them lasted. My mother bought me an electric guitar for my ninth birthday, and I began teaching myself to play right away. I wrote my first complete…
Since I was a child, my mother Rony has been an amazing cook. I can remember always being in the kitchen watching and learning. Friends and family would always ask her to cook for special events and parties. As time went on, my mother and I would talk often about owning a restaurant one day. I (CiCi) moved to Utah at the end of 2019 and after working a crazy amount of overtime, I decided that I wanted to go back home to San Diego and invest the time I put into someone else’s business into a business of my…
I am a Independent Artist out of Los Angeles, CA. I’ve been making music for about three years now, I use to work at Roscoes and had a friend named Chill who owned a studio so he would let me come and work on some songs after I clocked out. I started making covers and eventually decided that I would try to write my own songs. Now 3 years later I have a EP out with seven songs on it all written by me. It took a lot of patience to get to where I’m at today and I still…
As a child I was exposed to death, divorce, an incarcerated drug-addicted parent, homelessness, abuse, abandonment, poverty, hunger, gangs, and absentee caregivers; making grief a big part of my life’s narrative. Much of my grief was disenfranchised (not socially acknowledged or supported) so I reconciled my pain alone. I was a kid who lacked access to resources and appropriate adult guidance and support. My coping mechanisms manifested in an unhealthy way at an early age. As a teen, I had formed a serious drug addiction which led to a drug overdose that almost ended my life when I was 17.…
My name is Gabe Rosales and I am a professional musician and activist of 20+ years. I am the first generation of a Mexican immigrant on my father's side and 2nd on my mother's side. I grew up in the Orange County area but when my parent's divorced when I was 8 years old, I ended up moving to Northern California with my mother when she got accepted to a Master's program at University of California, Santa Cruz. My father was battling with alcoholism and my mother was also wary about leaving me to grow up with him. In Santa…
I was born and raised in Brooklyn New York to a humble Puerto Rican family. At the age of 17 I joined the United States Marine Corps. I traveled the world as a Marine for 10 years. Half way through my career as a Marine I had a beautiful little daughter named Khaleesi Rivera. I became a Marine Corps Drill Instructor where I graduated top of my class and made 350 Marines. In 2014 I began my journey to become a Professional Wrestler. Since then I have traveled all over wrestling in as many states and countries as I can.…
SDVoyager – San Diego FEBRUARY 24, 2020Meet Vincent Richmond Local StoriesLOCAL STORIES Today we’d like to introduce you to Vincent Richmond. Vincent, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? I’m born and raised in San Diego. I grew up around wrestling my entire life so naturally, that’s the path I took in my life until I graduated high school. After I had finished my senior season, I decided that I wanted to go through a different path in college and in life. In the time where I was applying for college, I…