We love asking the folks that inspire and excite us about what inspires and excites them. Check out their responses below.

Cortney Casillas | Customized Gifts Business Owner, College Student, and Mother

Back in the fall of 2019, I left my corporate job to pursue degrees in Nursing and Business Administration. It was quite the risk, but I felt like I wasn’t being challenged at my job and I knew I was capable of more growth and opportunity. I got one semester in, and then the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Read more>>

Jazmin Hornbeck | Licensed Esthetician

For years I found myself unhappy in the job I was doing before I found Esthetics. I’ve always kn0wn I wanted to take care of people in some way. I love meeting new people & to help whenever & however I can. I remember there was one day I realized I could do that through Esthetics. Read more>>

Shawn Peacock | Leather crafter

I come from a long line of entrepreneurs. My father stated his own transmission business in his early twenties, with mothers help. Peacock’s Transmission remains a successful business today. Read more>>

Ena Estrella | Singer of Lost Sacrament

Lost Sacrament was inspired by many progressive and power metal bands such as Evergrey, Dream Theater, Nightwish, Epica and Sonata Arctica (as well as many others). Each of these influences motivated us to make our own a distinct sound that is very rarely found or encouraged in our area of Texas (or the United States). Read more>>

Andrea Schvaneveldt | Artist & mother

I am inspired by relationships. The connection we find with other humans, the love & intensity of feelings we are capable of. Even the very relationship we have with ourselves. We are emotional beings & vastly complicated. I also find myself overwhelmed by the inspiration I find in nature. Read more>>