Featured in “A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.” – Shawn Hitchcock Ania Bartkowiak’s journey began when a trusted supervisor, Hettie Jans Wortelboer, saw something in her that she hadn’t seen in herself. She was...
Featured in Carina Schell was in first grade when she first laid eyes on a tutu. From that moment on, she began a journey that would soon become her lifelong career. She enrolled in ballet shortly after and continued to dance throughout her childhood. When it came...
Great things come when people work together. That’s how it’s always been for Mid-America Aerotech. Formerly a subsidiary of Moog (a worldwide aerospace defense and manufacturing company), Mid-America Aerotech was originally founded as a maintenance/repair...
The story of Total Balance begins with one unlikely object: a gumball machine. It was this gumball machine that inspired Dr. Dan Johnson to open the doors to his entrepreneurial mindset and propose his business plan idea to his peers on the school bus: purchase 1,000...
Megan Wold loves coffee. Not just the taste or the variety of options, but the experience and atmosphere that coffee brings to the world. Whether it’s enjoying a cozy, warm cup on a winter day or going out with friends to a local coffee shop to catch up over a...
Featured in Craig Helberg has always had a knack for fixing and repairing things. Even as a child, he was constantly taking things apart, figuring out how they work, and putting them back together. It wasn’t until many years later, when he had a wife and family of...
