“I know that art is something that I’m very interested in, but I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to make money doing it,” says Devin Tormey.

Hobie Pileski, co-owner of Argonne Parades, is looking forward to in-person holiday festivities after over a year of putting events on hold.

This San Francisco antiques business got its start by looking to the past. Now it’s trying to prepare for an uncertain future.

Aminah Shafiq, senior water quality advisor for Severn Trent Water, noticed her helmet wasn’t fitting properly, so she designed the first PPE-specific headscarf.

Megan Bucholz, founder of Local Table Tours, watched her business grow for a decade. Then the pandemic closed everything down.

When the pandemic halted classes at Jennie Tang’s ceramics studio, she turned to other ways to keep the operation thriving.

A New Orleans business set up an order form for Nan Parati’s signs. “We got over 1,000 orders in just a couple weeks,” she says.

Although prices for aluminum and zinc are ticking up, Adam Schaller, vice president of a Michigan metal foundry, says business is growing.

Candice Huber, owner of Tubby & Coo’s, is concerned about printing delays and hoping customers order soon for the holidays.

Milli Pintacsi’s child care operation was expanding, and enrollment had reached full capacity. Then the pandemic shut down the business.