Farhad is a mix between George Clooney, Elon Musk, and a UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug mascot. He is revolutionizing the car repair industry with his company Green Drop Garage and its membership-based model that now has over 1,600 monthly members.

Living in Uganda at 22 yrs old + managing 200 women workers brought Julie Sullivan face-to-face with labor strikes + advocating for women's safety. She matured decades in just a couple years and came back to Portland, Oregon to start Ground Up PDX - an almond + cashew butter company that is all about social good, too!

Growing up in the England, Rebecca Armstrong learned when to go with the flow and when not to. In the creative agency world, it's adapt or die. On a whim, she decided to hop the pond all the way to Portland, Oregon in 1992 and has been here ever since. She runs a bad ass branding agency called North.

As an 8 yr old boy, Eli Caudillo moved from Mexico to a tiny town in Washington called Trout Lake, near Mt. Adams. He was the first in his family to go to college and figured out from a standardized test that he was always meant to be a Designer!

Coach of one of world's top competitive Cheerleading Team + eROI Senior Strategist, Cher Fuller shares her life story of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Climbing the world's tallest fire-lookout tree in Western Australia in semester abroad at college changed Morgan Armstrong's life forever. Overcoming that fear of certain death has propelled her to new heights. The most human of Human Resources Directors, Morgan Armstrong shares her life story of knowing since she was a little kid that she was always going to grow up to be a BOSS. And guess what? She is a boss.

Digital Designer Elijah Graham shares his journey of Parkrose High School in Portland, to being first in his family to go to college. He played basketball at a California college and then finding his home at George Fox University and excelling in design.

Design Manager Nick Escobar talks about overcoming massive fear in public speaking to be an accomplished stand-up comedian and how that has helped him overcome challenges in becoming a leader in his design career.

Lead Software Engineer Heidi Olsen shares on all the things growing up in Minnesota that made Heidi who she is. Heidi talks about leaning into being uncomfortable in college and pursuing her passion in African-American studies and then into journalism, design, and how her career took her into coding and development of websites and marketing campaigns. We also explore what all of us as consumers should expect from brands on how we'll be influenced to buy things in the future.