We love asking the folks that inspire and excite us about what inspires and excites them. Check out their responses below.

ZacharyRay | Chief Bean at Desert Sun Coffee Roasters

If you’re lucky enough, you’ll have moments in your life that someone helps you level up. If you’re grateful enough, you’ll know that the best thing you can do is to pay it forward. I’ve had these moments that changed my life and leveled me up. In my younger adult years, after I had been helped by someone I never met to get through college, I got the opportunity to meet fair trade coffee farmers from around the world. Read more>>

Glenda Hoon Russell | Forest Bathing Guide & Author

Nature. Nature is such an incredible teacher and the more I listen the more I learn. She teaches beautiful life lessons in impermanence or the idea that nothing stays the same. I think as a culture we understand this but we are so programmed to hold on and grasp people, places, things as if they will last forever. Read more>>

Akari Lewis-Iburi | Wedding Photographer & Small Business Owner

I’m most inspired by love, storytelling, and the art of being human. As a wedding photographer, we ride the waves of so many emotions in one day and are lucky to work with people willing to share that experience in front of our lens. A wedding celebrates both the love between a couple and the layers of love that surrounds them. Read more>>

Jennifer Benson | Wedding and Event Planner

I’ve always been a bit of a daydreamer, and I think that’s because I find so much inspiration all around me every single day and it’s difficult not to get lost in it! But if I take the list of the people, places, and things I’m most inspired by, a few themes emerge. Read more>>

Kelly Tanner | Photographer, licensed massage therapist and Reiki practitioner

The world around me inspires me. Whatever catches my eye really. I have a camera or phone with me everywhere I go, just in case. You. You may find something interesting in the unlikeliest of places. But really it’s about preserving time through photos. Read more>>