A quiet, well set-up office with the mantra live core confident—this is where clinical psychologist Melissa Gressner started her safe space to help people. Gressner, who began her a private practice on South Pearl Street a few years ago, explains the ins and outs of her career.

 

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Inquisitively floating through her living room, Molly Woodhull readjusted furniture and tidied before settling down on the couch of her home beneath a lamp illuminating her welcoming smile. This smile sees and speaks with handfuls of people each day, as a guide. Woodhull is not your typicalguide, however; she communicates with people to elevate themselves in the business world through intentional mindfulness practices.  Continue reading →

Throughout her career, Shari Erickson has worked for “big” agency advertisers, small shops, and has worked to help get a start-up agency established. As we connected on the phone from many miles away, she answered excitedly, eager to share her story and experience with the next generation of creatives and advertisers.

Erickson, now based out of Portland, Oregon, started out of Kansas with a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design. 

Carolyn Bishop wakes up every morning greeted by the Seattle dew and breathtaking view of Lake Washington. She’s in the office by 6 a.m. that sits on the water front of the infamous lake and she sips her daily mocha while checking on the space needle. Not a bad place to endure ten hour days.

But Bishop didn’t always have it like this. For the first 14 years of her career she was the first one in the office and the last one to leave. She even worked full days at home on Saturdays. 

“I didn’t even see a movie in theaters for over ten years because I was so focused on my work.” 

DENVER- What was once known for its close proximity to so many ski mountains and for its pioneering recreational cannabis legalization, Denver is now being viewed as one of the largest hubs for real estate opportunities in the United States.

In 1985, founder and owner of Elkco and Michigan native, Steve Elken saw Denver’s real estate potential well in advance and capitalized.

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My FaceTime call connects and Patty’s face greets me with a warm smile. It’s late evening and she is in the middle of filling out documentation for a patient visit she had that day. Patty Sylvia is a medical social worker; she works for Hope Hospice in Bristol, RI, but this hasn’t always been her career.

At 21 years old, Sylvia left for London on her first international flight hoping the modeling agent she was about to meet would like her.

Curiosity, tenacity, and an ability to read and write are the key ingredients to finding success in the news reporting industry, says Mary Ellen Keating. Keating was a news reporter for 10 years after college, gaining experience as a beat reporter and eventually hosting her own talk show and news reporting program. 

“You cannot be a great writer without being a good reader” says Keating. 

After graduating from Marywood University in 1979 with a degree in communications with a concentration in television news and public relations, Keating knew that she wanted to be on TV. 

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It was a sunny, bright day in the state of Louisiana and Leah Haile was leaving her job at Lamar Advertising in Baton Rouge early due to LSU competing in the National Championship football game in New Orleans. Around the office, everyone could feel the excitement of the game they had been anticipating all season long looming that night. Before departing, Haile was asked to be on call for the game, which meant she had a small window of time after the game to put up a “creative” on all billboards in New Orleans if LSU won. For Haile, this was the exact moment she realized that the digital advertising field never stops, even beyond her daily in-office demands. 

A night out at the newest restaurant in town is a treat for most people. It means forgoing the grueling work of scrubbing sauce stained dishes, instead plates are whisked away once every bite has been taken. Moment’s like these reflect birthdays, celebrations and liberation from the typical day. However for Matt Antonation being surrounded by the excitement of a restaurant environment has him celebrating in a unique way as it can solidify the topic of his next article.

A young boy sits in a classroom, trying to read what’s in front of him, but struggles. He thinks to himself how he hates school because he can’t seem to read like some of the other kids. But when he exits the classroom and looks through a camera, he escapes into a world where he can be himself and finally see clearly. Photography becomes his outlet, part of his identity.

For RJ Sangosti, he was that young boy. From a young age he has been highly dyslexic, where reading and writing has just always been a struggle. But even through experiencing that ‘setback,’ Sangosti soon discovered that visual expression was what he was good at. 

“My dad gave me a camera when I was five or six years old. I remember my mom saved up to get my dad this camera, but he then gave it to me because he could see that I was traumatized, and it just became part of my identity,” reminisces Sangosti.

After realizing that photography was something he was good at and made him feel good about himself, Sangosti chose to go through the art program at Colorado State University. It was there that he joined the Collegian, a student run newspaper on campus, and started gaining the experience that would soon lead him to where he is today, working as a photojournalist for the Denver Post.

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