Arlin Kethley
In 2012, after working for other Houston companies, I knew I wanted to have my own company. The window industry has been in my family for two generations already so I thought I’d make it three. Paul Ryan Windows’ first commercial project was the Rise at Northgate in College Station and was a huge accomplishment for us. Read more>>
Greg Brainerd
In 2001, I got married to my wife of 16 years in Tucson, Arizona. I was working for a small computer company that was very similar to Braintek. Unfortunately for me, at the time, I was laid off. I started looking for work in Tucson, Phoenix, and in California. Read more>>
Dr. Julie Beth Yelin
I usually surprise people when I tell them my journey to my current preventive medicine practice. Originally, I trained to be an ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgeon and I practiced as one for a decade. Although not the main focus of my practice, I often gave my patients medical advice to prevent disease so they would not have to come to me to treat it. Read more>>
Gary Walston
Back in 1995, I was working for a bank marketing firm that required a lot of travel…windshield time. While traveling through Oklahoma, I came up with an idea. Unlike other ideas of the past that you think of, but don’t act upon, and later regret when you see it in the market, I thought this time will be different, I’m actually going to do something about it. Read more>>
Terry Munoz
I started out in the outdoor hospitality industry in 1988 while a student at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. As a college student looking for a part-time job, I heard about an opening with Thousand Trails RV Resorts and applied for a part-time seasonal position. Read more>>
Susanna Dussling
I was always a creative person who had a flair for fashion, design, and decorating, at least that what others tell me. When I graduated from college, I began a rewarding and challenging 20+year’s career in retail management. Then, it happened; I was fired. Read more>>
Frank Ledwell
Ha! Great question. I suppose it all started during the summer of 1999 while working in Estes Park, Colorado between my Junior and Senior years in college. At the time I enjoyed being outdoors but didn’t consider myself to be an “outdoors” type person. However, after spending that summer working in the mountains and enjoying the fresh mountain air while on a hike, mountain bike ride, or rock climb my love for the outdoors began. Read more>>
Lori Wisdom
Lori started her medical career in EMS as a volunteer ECA and progressed to a Licensed Paramedic, a license she still holds today. Many nights and weekends were spent providing volunteer emergency medical care with Cypress Creek EMS and Harris County Emergency Corps. Read more>>
Heidi Herfurth
Five years ago, we came to The Woodlands and experienced the need of a magazine in Spanish, so we created the only magazine that caters to the Hispanic consumer in The Woodlands and Houston area. Viva! targets the cosmopolitan, affluent and prosperous Hispanic upper middle and upper class. Read more>>
Mary Williams
In 1972, Billie Hardee, deceased, gathered some Tomball area friends together. Those seven women decided the area needed a genealogy group, and formed the ‘Labor of Love Genealogy Society’. The first formal meeting was September 18, 1972. By December 1st of 1972 there were 47 Charter Members. Read more>>
Elizabeth Gray
My grandpa asked if I had ever thought about making boots. So after college I went and learned boot making from a great boot maker out of Coleman TX., Tex Robins. Read more>>
Will Cox
My father Willard Cox Sr., founded Cox Fan Manufacturing Company, located at 10766 Highway 59, Houston, Texas at Littleyork Road around 1950. I was a small boy who helped keep the shop clean and I followed my dad’s example as best I could at that early age. Read more>>
Rhondalyn Riley
I grew up in the construction industry. My father is a Class A Mechanical contractor, developer of office/warehouse projects, general contractor, and home builder. That is how I knew I never wanted to be self-employed in the construction industry. After working for a plastering materials supply company for several years. Read more>>
