Grechen Huebner is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Kodable.

She is a self-taught designer. Grechen also has a big interest in computer science but she never had the opportunity to learn. A Westly prize winner, member of Forbes 30 under 30, and Business Insider’s Women to Watch under 30. Grechen was inspired enrich the lives of kids and adults.

She always though she was bad with technology growing up. When Grechen reached college she realized she would have to improve her tech skills to get a job. At the University of Louisville she had several internships while in school because she taught herself web design. Since she learned those skills she could financially support herself. Grechen wished she would’ve had the chance earlier. She wanted to give the chance to kids on how to do web design.

In 2012 Grechen and her co-founder Jon Mattingly founded Kodable in his Louisville dorm room. She pitched the idea to Jon Mattingly, and he also believed in that kids should have the chance to learn at a early age. They both decided on to give “teaching kids how to code” and they created Kodable.

With Kodable the team has kept the teacher’s needs in mind. Kodable has scripted lesson plans to automated assessment tools. Their goal is so everything is designed to help educators and kids.

Are you scared of bees? Well Mikaila Ulmer was also scared of bees but she overcame that fear.

When Mikaila Ulmer was four years old she got stung by a bee and also got stung again less than a week later. That is how she became scared of bees. Later on, she started to do some research on bees and became fascinated with bees. She learned about what bees do for her and our ecosystem.

Then Mikaila’s family started to encourage her to make a product for a children’s business competitions. Which were the Acton Children’s Business Fair and Austin Lemonade Day. She started to think of ideas, and she thought of her Great Granny Helen that had a cookbook. She found a recipe for flaxseed lemonade. She then thought of something that would help honeybees and use her Great Granny Helen’s recipe. Mikalia decided to add honey to her great grandma’s lemonade recipe. She started her lemonade stand out in front of her home, she also donated a percentage of her profits to a local/international organizations fighting hard to save the honeybees.

Now Mikalia’s 15 years old and her little idea continues to grow. It has grow about 500 percent since the beginning. Today the Me & the Bees Lemonade five flavors are on the shelves of Whole Foods Market, The Fresh Market, World Market H-E-B stores across Texas. In Houston the Me & the Bees Lemonade is also at Kroger. It is also available at restaurants, food trailers, and natural food delivery companies.  She continues to save the bees.

(1) Me & the Bees – The Story – YouTube 

Have you ever seen beautiful wedding invitations?

Well Victoria Carpenter is a self taught artist, designer, and stationer that lives in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Her love for weddings started in 2014. She started to plan her own wedding for June 19, 2015. She then realized that planning for a wedding allowed her to be creative while also celebrating. She loved fitting everything they loved and their personalities into their wedding. Now she has the opportunity to do that for couples. She has a beautiful business called  Oh Joyful Day.

With her creativity you can get a wedding package every stationary you can think of like save the dates, invitations, envelopes, place cards, programs, menus, seating charts, welcome signs, and thank you cards.

You can follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest @ohjoyfulday.

Did you know only four out of five herbal supplements don’t contain the listed ingredients?

If you take supplements this should concern you.

Calloway Cook is a young entrepreneur who founded the company Illuminate Labs.

The company is based on herbal supplements to solve issue in the dietary supplements market. He invested in this company in early 2019. He saw a gap in this market so that’s what drove him into starting a company that is tested and safe supplements. He found this was a problem because he heard people voicing the same concerns about the online market. In the end he launched Illuminate Labs as the solution of transparency and safety issues in the dietary supplements.