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Michelle Rathman is the founder of Impact! Communications based in Geneva, Illinois. She started her business in 1989 as a Chicago-area public relations, advertising, and marketing firm. The company represented clients from a variety of industries and provided high-level PR services. This included booking published authors on national television … [More...]
Zero dollars. When they read the number on the check, their hearts sank. After a month of physically exhausting work, the owners of Duivenvoorden Farms received absolutely no money in return. That was thirteen years ago, when the northern … [More...]
A New Beginning After being dismissed following 12 years at Kraft Foods, Paul Scharfman was at a crossroads. The Wisconsin resident … [Read More...]
She was a go-getter growing up in her small town. A straight-A student, Madeline Moore was involved in her community and school programs. She … [Read More...]
Before Sam Lillie founded a rural startup, he took a hike. It was a five-month, 2,653-mile hike to be exact, down the Pacific Crest trail … [Read More...]
Michelle Rathman is the founder of Impact! Communications based in Geneva, Illinois. She started her business in 1989 as a Chicago-area public relations, advertising, and marketing firm. The company represented clients from a variety of industries … [Listen...]
Nisan Trotter is an entrepreneur, public speaker, author and owner of TROTFITNESS in Lewisburg, Penn. (population: 5,730). Trotter was raised in … [Read More...]
Duivenvoorden Farms is a third-generation family-owned dairy farm in northern California. Originally started by partners Jerry and Rita Duivenvoorden, … [Read More...]
Heath Guinn is an entrepreneur, community advocate and strategist based in Northeast Tennessee. Guinn has launched multiple successful companies … [Read More...]
