Meet Anna Zesbaugh, Founder & CEO, Corpse Reviver
Anna Zesbaugh was furloughed from her luxury hospitality job in 2020 and stumbled into building not one, but two beverage brands — the latest named after a 19th-century hangover cure. Anna Zesbaugh talks trading Denver for Brooklyn, WSET-certified taste buds, reformulating Corpse Reviver 2.0, and landing shelf space at Whole Foods and Erewhon.
Meet Brita DeStefano // Pediatric Physical Therapist & Owner, Progress Through Play
Brita DeStefano traded pre-professional ballet for pediatric physical therapy after a single mentor showed her how the body's systems connect. Now she runs Progress Through Play, a Denver practice built on the same idea. Brita talks infant feeding and reflux, building a team from scratch, saying yes before you're ready, and lending anxious parents her confidence until they find their own.
Meet Lena DeChamps // Artist & Owner, boneBLACK
By day she coordinates care for kids at Children's Hospital Colorado; by night she's screen printing in her garage until 3am. Lena DeChamps talks her first mural at the Thompson Hotel, learning to outsource creative control, painting custom apparel, and the real cost of "doing it all.”
Meet Lindsay Covert // Stylist
A furloughed dream job turned Lindsay Puckett Covert's ten-day honeymoon into a three-month "honeylife,” and gave her the final push to style clothes for a living. Lindsay talks going freelance, why bridal styling is her love language, growing up around fashion in Boulder, and building confidence through personal style.
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