Sports & Outdoors Entrepreneurial Profile Stories
About Founder and Owner of Palmetto State Armory, Jamin McCallum Two tours of duty in Iraq while a member of the South Carolina U.S. Army National Guard, where he witnessed first-hand what society can look like when a country has lost its freedom and fallen apart, ignited a passion in Jamin McCallum. His last deployment…
Read MoreAbout Ambition Fit Studio CEO, Katie Daniel It all started with a dream and a passion for helping others. Today, the mission-driven Ambition Fitness is a state-of-the-art fitness facility assisting women in achieving their fitness goals. The story behind Katie Daniel’s success in building her successful Louisville, KY, women-only gym brand from the ground up…
Read MoreAbout InsideOut Body Therapies The team at InsideOut Body Therapies is committed to helping the Durham region of North Carolina find a new source of healing through movement. The team at InsideOut Body Therapies deeply believes in the methodologies that they promote, and regularly participate in their own procedures and techniques to help provide the…
Read MoreWho Is Slade Johnston? To a passer-by on the street, Slade Johnston comes off as a regular guy, passionate about hunting and the outdoors. However, his passion runs deeper than your typical weekend hunter. He lives and breathes the outdoors, and loves to connect with anyone who has similar interests. His dedication and love for…
Read MoreRoadRUNNER Magazine An Austrian-Made, Triad-Grown Motorcycle Touring Publication With an endless well of information about national and international motorcycle tours, RoadRUNNER magazine has managed to become one of the top niche publications in the United States, and more broadly in North Carolina. Complete with product reviews, new motorcycle analyses, and picturesque rides, RoadRUNNER has established…
Read More“We want to turn the Prius into a pickup truck.” For many entrepreneurs, where they live is almost as important as what they do. Tom Dempsey is one of those entrepreneurs. Dempsey is an avid outdoorsman and entrepreneur known to fit mid-day mountain bike rides into his daily routine. Given his love of everything outdoors it…
Read MoreRicky Proehl, who played four years of Football at Wake Forest, and was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in 1990. Proehl went on to play an incredible 17 years in the NFL, including three with the St. Louis Rams as an important piece of “The Greatest Show on Turf”. His NFL career brought him back to…
Read MoreEmployee Owned & Pedaling Hard To The Finish It’s not often that you see an international corporate business turn into a local brand, but Cane Creek Cycling Components is just that. Lured to the United States by the beautiful mountains and golf courses of Western North Carolina, Cane Creek Cycling Components began as a Japanese…
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