According to Landon Croome, he was always making money, any way he could. “I was always the kid with the lemonade stand or a snow shoveling business,” he remembers. When his father was too busy with his plumbing business to capitalize on a side-line in retractable screens, Landon saw an opportunity. He begged his dad to show him how to [...]

Frank Barry doesn’t know why he felt compelled to ride dirt bikes. Actually, he was so good at it, he was riding at a pro level by the age of 15. That’s not to say his passion didn’t come without a price. In fact, while practicing for his very first race, Frank broke his arm. “That’s how I started my [...]

A s a top 10 tennis player in Moscow, Andrei Metelitsa had to decide whether to quit school and follow his passion… or to quit tennis and follow a career. “In Russia, unlike North America, you have to make a decision very early in terms of your athletic career,” Andrei explains. So, he chose the career route. He was 12 [...]

Growing up on a farm near Eckville, Alberta., Gregory Bott probably never expected he would be where he is today. The 27-year old has received over $50,000 in scholarships and funding, and embarked on two very successful business ventures. In 2001, he enrolled in the Business Management program at Red Deer College, where he met his now business partner Shaun [...]

Kristine Aanderson found a way to develop a career and volunteer programs around healing with pets. The 29-year-old owner of Aanderson Animal Assisted Counselling and mom to two-year-old daughter Valkyrie likes to keep busy. “I have always been an animal nut,” Kristine laughs. “I was so excited when I started my Bachelor’s degree to discover that there was a profession [...]

What haven’t you done?” That’s really the only question to ask Justine Barber. She’s put more into her 26 years than most fit into a lifetime: from studying abroad… to monitoring sea turtles for signs of cancer in Costa Rica… to learning French in Quebec and Portuguese in Brazil… to preparing a position paper for the Conflict Prevention Program to [...]