The heart of our mission is to find the amazing souls that breathe life into our communities. In the recent weeks, we’ve had the privilege to connect with some incredible artists, creatives, entrepreneurs and rabble rousers and we can’t begin to express how impressed we are with the incredible group below.
Kent Rayfield
While our strength was in the dealership market, we revolutionized the retail spectrum by offering repair services, scheduled maintenance plans, & our signature pick up & delivery services. Since we established a great relationship with the Jim Hudson Automotive Group, I decided to focus our efforts on growing with their organization alone. Read more>>
Rebecca Nappi
After being homeschooled from elementary school through high school, I began attending Greenville Technical College during my senior year. I graduated in 2010 with my associate degree in nursing and completed my bachelor’s degree several years later. Read more>>
Nishikwa Brown
I entered real estate in December 2017 while still working in corporate consulting at a Big Four firm. It was always a dream of mine to work within real estate. At the time, I was craving work that felt more meaningful and aligned with my natural desire to help people. Read more>>
Joanne Lee
I began my interior decorating journey through a genuine love for design and transforming spaces. What started organically evolved into a professional practice centered on creating refined, functional interiors tailored to each client’s vision. Read more>>
Javy Pagan
I have been an artist for as long as I can remember. From an early age, I was always creating in some form—daydreaming about magical worlds, writing stories, drawing and coloring, and, most notably, singing and acting. Read more>>
Stefany Di Manno Ceccato
I was in CA at the time working as a Corporate Flight Attendant full time and I knew I didn’t want to be a full time flight attendant forever. I wanted to stay connected to travel and also help create ‘Bucket List’ trips for others as I have been fortunate to have had many of mine realized over the years being in this industry. Read more>>
Blair Boyd
My name is Blair Boyd, and my path to nonprofit leadership was anything but traditional. In college, I was a dental hygiene major; however, almost immediately after, my career took an unexpected turn into the beverage and hospitality industry. Read more>>
Britni Mullins
I spent the last 13 years in the corporate world working in marketing, and while I gained invaluable experience, I eventually reached a point of deep burnout. I went to art school, and at my core I’ve always been someone who needs creativity to feel fulfilled. For a long time, I was searching for what could truly fuel that part of me again. Read more>>
Phil Pendergrass
So a little back story, we have 9 children, 3 biological and 6 that we have adopted from the foster care system. All of our adopted children had come to us with disabilities due to their upbringing or abuse. I’ve always desired to have our own business and especially a business where all our kids could participate even the ones with disabilities. Read more>>
Asa Gladstein
I interned for the company I now own about 10 years ago while I was in college. I always loved cars and events and people and this was the perfect vessel to combine all of that plus giving back to charity which is always good. Interned in 2015-2017, graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2017 and moved to Boston to figure my life out. Read more>>
Sterling Savage
Previously I was an educator and mentor for 13 years before transitioning into the life insurance industry. I originally went into the financial services industry via life insurance as a way to increase my income as I had just proposed to my now wife and needed to make more money. It was a journey navigating this industry but I absolutely love it. Read more>>
Matt Silk
I actually got my start in photography really young—around seven years old. My uncle had founded a mail-order film processing company called Film Corporation of America. This was the early ’70s, when people mailed in their rolls of film and waited for prints to come back. The company took off pretty quickly, and Canon eventually reached out about working with them. Read more>>
Justus Calkins
First job out of college I was working for an engineering company called Lanmark (great job and team) and helped them expand into the majority of the US. Yet after a year they hired a marketing company to help them grow and get more leads and interactions (designed a new site, etc). However it did nothing for the company. Read more>>
Beyond Handcrafted
This opportunity all began with Christian Royal, a young man in the Charleston community with Down Syndrome. Christian was taught the fine art of pottery by professional potters John and Jan Myers. These fantastic individuals gifted Christian with the tools and skills to create beautiful ceramic pieces. Christian and Beyond BASIC crossed paths in the spring of 2018. Read more>>
Aliece Christopher
I have worked in the field of physical therapy for 11 years after earning my Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2014. I have a deep love for outpatient rehabilitation, with a special passion for pelvic floor therapy for men, women, and children. Read more>>
Jamie Irby
The first time that I ever rode a horse was when I was 6 years old. Horses have been my passion ever since. I was a competitive Hunter/jumper rider competing up and down the East Coast. During my final junior year riding (1994), I rode a 13.3 Hand Large Pony to Large Pony Champion and Grand Pony Champion at The Washington, D.C. Read more>>
Ed Ball
For me, this company wasn’t born out of convenience — it came from years of hard work in the HVAC and plumbing industry, learning every part of the trade from the ground up. I started out in the field, doing the work with my own hands, fixing equipment that other companies said wasn’t repairable, and helping customers who felt overlooked or taken advantage of. Over time, I realized two things: Read more>>
Susan Heintzman
Over the last five years, we have also been deeply immersed in the health space as Certified Health Coaches, helping nearly 2,000 people transform their lives through metabolic health, weight management, and lifestyle change. Through our own personal and family health challenges, we realized how essential proactive wellness truly is. That calling is the heart behind Flo & Glo – to help people get ahead of their health instead of reacting to illness or waiting for crisis. Read more>>
