“Local is real. It is real people. It is your community and your neighbors.” For Jennifer Williamson, those words are the foundation beneath The Neighborhood Hive, the Sugar House market she created with her husband, Derek Williamson, and their friends and business partners, Tiffany Rainwater and Jed Matthews. Together, the four of them have built something that is part shop, part coffee bar, part event space, part business incubator, and part neighborhood living room - a place where more than sixty small businesses can find a home under one roof.

“We can make that, and we can make it better.” For Amelia Paulson, owner of Rebel Paw - with her partner, Nicholas Black - the instinct to create, to work with her hands, to take something simple and turn it into something meaningful, has always been there. Growing up in Salt Lake City, she was constantly making something: dolls, handmade books, chocolate truffles tucked into little boxes. “My whole family is very entrepreneurial,” she says. “It just seemed to be the way I go.”