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  Heather Collins suffered from problematic skin. When she couldn’t find any successful treatments, she took matters into her own hands and created her own soap company, Indie Goat Soap, with her business partner, Amanda Marino. Originally from Pennsylvania, Collins ...

Bob Whipple has become so knowledgeable on the topic of trust that he has earned himself the title “Trust Ambassador.” Like many other locals, Whipple spent 31 years working for Kodak. Always fascinated by leadership, he spent much of his ...

People are paying more attention to what they wear on their feet. And I’m not referring to shoes. Jeff Rogers noticed people were turning away from plain old black or white socks and advertising funky sock patterns. An entrepreneur by ...

  For Bobbie Goheen, helping others achieve their goals is her bread and butter. Goheen is a leadership consultant who launched her own business, Synthesis Management Group, in 2000. Before setting out on her own, she spent 18 years working ...

As the first generation in her family to attend college, Jodi Rosenshein Atkin has a deep appreciation for higher education. Decades later, she has now found herself in a career centered on helping others navigate their path toward higher education. ...

Michael Caceci was once a transplant who knew little about the Rochester community beyond the walls of Xerox Corp. Today, however, he is a well-connected small business owner who has networked with thousands of professionals inside and beyond Rochester. Caceci ...

  Anthony Imburgia joined the Profeta Painting team as a project manager in April 2016 and just a year and a half later he and his brother, Nick, are co-owners of the business. The Imburgia brothers purchased the business from ...

No matter what the job, Lauren Goetz has always been dedicated to her work. But after her fifth tap on the shoulder in April 2016, she decided to take her determination and pour it into developing her own company. Exactly ...

Reenie and Stan Feingold hoped that their small business could withstand the test of time, but when rapidly advancing technology forced them out of the 35mm slide duplication business, they switched gears and launched Store Smart in 2007. Located at ...

Only a fortune teller could predict that David Lanni, owner and president of Cable Systems Inc., would expand his business into the same building where his first telecom job was located 40 years ago. Lanni began his career in the ...

When Mandy Newell began printing funny T-shirts for her daughter and her friends’ children, she did not expect it to lead to her designing a children’s clothing line. Newell comes from a family of boaters, and her father owns a boat called “Amorita.” Newell and many of her friends have kids around the same age, so she began having T-shirts printed locally that read “Future Amorita Crew.”

A self-proclaimed Jill of all trades, Sandy Sloane’s career has been far from a linear progression. Hailing from Long Island, Sloane obtained her undergraduate degree in occupational therapy from Tufts University. After briefly practicing in the field, Sloane decided that ...

For Daisie Nichols Stanley, “What you see is what you get.” Before getting into hairstyling and owning her own salon, Stanley chased an interest in photography. “I decided I really liked taking pictures of things, but things weren’t going to ...

Kate DeBiase felt inspired to open a business when she found herself longing to reconnect with something that has brought her great joy throughout her life: dance. DeBiase opened Roc Dance & Yoga, a studio exclusively for women, in June. ...

When Marla Pelletier found herself struggling to maintain her yoga practice, she was inspired to leave her desk job and turn her passion into a career. After receiving her yoga teacher certification in India, Pelletier came back to the U.S. ...