Five years before Abi Caswell opened her own bakery, she had never made a single cookie. Today, she owns and manages two bake shops that bring in seven figures in sales, she says. Caswell, 30, is the founder of Batter, a bakery with two storefronts in Hammond, Louisiana and in …
For Dawon Matthews, pursuing entrepreneurship has always been a “no brainer.” After he was charged with a felony at age 19, Matthews couldn’t find a job in the corporate world, so he decided to carve his own path, he says. “Once they see a felony behind a person they don’t …
Louisa Serene Schneider has never been short on business ideas. She once started a yoga-wear company (“long before Lululemon existed,” she says) and at another point tried to launch a language tutoring business. Neither of them stuck, but ideas kept coming. Then, in 2017, Schneider came up with an idea …
When Matt McClanahan and Lauren McChesney found out that their local drive-in theater was in danger of being sold to developers, they knew they had to preserve the beloved neighborhood hub — and a crucial piece of film history. Opened by Wilson Shankweiler on April 15, 1934, Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theatre …
On January 22, Andrew Nettels spent the morning onboarding for his Honors Program role with the Department of Justice. Later that day, an email put his future on hold. The third-year law student at George Washington University had his full-time offer with the Department of Justice rescinded due to the …
The first time Victor M. Sweeney observed an embalming, it was for an 18-year-old woman who had died in a car crash just before her high school graduation. At the time, Sweeney was just 18 years old himself. He had seen dead bodies before, but this was his first “hands-on …
