Our city is home to so many incredible businesses and so we asked the founders how they came up with the ideas for their businesses and have shared their responses below.

Mickee Caputo | Holistic Bodywork Practitioner, Birth Doula, Yoga Teacher & Sound Healing Guide

Mickee Yoginee Wellness stemmed from a very real need to heal my own body and has evolved multiple times over the last 9 years. At the age of 20, my spine was deteriorated in two places leaving me in excruciating pain. The doctors’ recommendation for my healing was to take heavy doses of Vicodin and Soma, which as a college student simply did not work because they made me so sleepy I couldn’t make it to class. Read more>>

LaSheree Bennett | Woman of God, Mom, CEO, Philanthropist

Contrary to my own belief, “Haus of LA” forced itself upon me. At the end of 2019, I managed to build an empire all while being broke and broken. Here I am; a single mother whom had recently hit rock bottom, I’m talking so low that I never thought I would see up again. But whew; If “God will give you double for your trouble” was a person. Read more>>

Esther Barajas | Entrepreneur and Special Education Educator

Since I was in High School I have been really into fashion. One of my electives was fashion design and we got the chance to make our own dresses and get our own models to model them for us at a fashion show created for our High School. Once I graduated I decided to pursue a teaching career instead. I got married and had my son in 2017. Read more>>