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Jared Smith, 39, was born and raised in Boise. After high school, he served missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Florence, Italy and in New York City. He learned to speak Italian fluently, taught ...

  When Wyatt Schroeder, the son of a mushroom farmer, was growing up in Kennett Square, Penn. – “the mushroom capital of the world – like most boys, his future eye was on baseball. “I wanted to play second base ...

When Vishal Saxena, 36,  was a boy growing up in Lucknow, India, he was mostly “into computers and robots. I dreamed of being a scientist, an engineer.” Talk about wish fulfillment. Today, Saxena can don several hats without exaggeration – ...

  When Brienne Sandow, 37,  was in high school, nursing was far from her mind. What she was interested in, was drag racing. At first, she went to watch a boy she was dating at the time, but then “I ...

  Philip “Flip” Kleffner, 30, who in college “walked on” to the University of Idaho football team, grew up dreaming of becoming a professional athlete “of whatever was in season,” he says. Later, at the halfway point in his college ...

  Sarah Haight, 33, had what you might call a pretty normal childhood. Growing up, she danced both in ballet and jazz. In high school she played the flute in band and played volleyball and track. It was her interest ...

  Patrick Geile, 37, sees his bankruptcy work as chance to make a tremendous difference in people’s lives. “This work helps transform a person from feeling like a failure to seeing it as time of new opportunities,” says Geile. “As ...

In the new economy, millennials aren’t lining up to be hired into existing positions; they expect to create their own jobs, said Kevin Learned, the keynote speaker at Idaho Business Review’s Excellence in Finance Power Lunch. About 150 people attended ...

Idaho Business Review‘s CEOs of Influence awards event felt like a high-energy party May 11, with movers and shakers from yesterday, today and tomorrow on the guest list. It was the sixth gathering for the event. With the latest group ...

In record-breaking numbers, applications flew into the Idaho Business Review’s Accomplished Under 40 email inbox. More than 130 completed the application process. That made the selection process harder than ever, said several past honorees who sat on the 11 selection ...