Carrie Rich understood from a young age that we build legacy with the help of other people. When her father asked what gift she might like to commemorate her hi...
Growing up on a remote ranch in East Texas, where long hours were spent doing thankless work that never seemed to end, Rob Rosenberger learned how to dream big....
The tectonic plates of Jeffrey Rossen's world converged in December of 2002.
“I was flying back from my honeymoon and I got a call from my boss,” Jeff explai...
David Samuels started his first business when, at the age of ten, he responded to an advertisement in Boys Life Magazine to become a sales representative for Ch...
Merrill was only 23 years old when she married Mark Shugoll, and though they didn’t have much, her mother-in-law taught her to save the breadcrumbs they came ac...
When a Baltimore engineering firm sent representatives to a local high school to talk about their work, teenage Allison Siegel didn’t even know what engineering...
Working in his teens in a rough neighborhood of downtown Baltimore, Joe Statter remembers the way people looked up to his father, who owned and operated an inde...
From before the time she knew English, Lisa Anne Thompson-Taylor would watch intently as her father flipped through the Peterson Field Guide to Birds and the Au...
When seventeen-year-old Paaige Turner told her parents she had gotten into college, they were shocked—not because they didn’t think she could do it, but because...
On the wide-open plains of Missouri, vast swaths of American farmland stretch out in all directions to meet unending blue sky above. If you were to look down fr...
