Through selling software, technology enabled services and software development services globally while living overseas for 32 years, I came to realize that I have three passions: connecting people, starting and growing businesses, and golf…

This year will mark 20 years since I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. At the time of my diagnosis, I was a young mother with a three-year-old and one-year-old waiting 10 days for pathology to…

  I am a professional opera singer and baker based in Carlsbad, California. For the last few years, I have been able to explore more and more of the SoCal area and have found so…

I am a father of two amazing boys, a husband to an awesome woman, a youth baseball coach, and a business owner. I decided to start a toxin free, natural laundry soap company called Bloop…

  We are identical twin sisters born in Transylvania Romania. We came to the US to study neuroscience at UCLA. We also do a lot of modeling together.     About Gilia Gadaleanu and Sorana…

  I am a wife, a mother, grandmother, successful Real Estate Broker for over 30 years and a philanthropist supporting many causes to make our community a better place. I am passionate about art and…

Karen Fernandez has lived in North County, Carlsbad for over 25 years. She has taught locally in the Poway Unified School District, Carlsbad Unified School District and Encinitas Unified School District. She was involved in…

  I was born and raised in the south of the Netherlands. Even though I wanted to go to art school, I went for an engineering/science career. When I was a PhD student at the…

  I was born in Escondido in the same hospital where I had my son 25 years later. As a kid, my family lived in San Diego County, California with the exception of when I…

  Like so many success stories, Write Away Books got started with two good friends, a simple idea, and a love of giving back to others. In our case, the catalyst came from the Rotary…