The smell of freshly brewed coffee awakened Lucretia Marsh each morning when she was a child. Her hard-working mother, a devoted coffee enthusiast, brewed a fresh cup every day. By age seven, Marsh shared her mother’s love for coffee. Tempted by the lingering smell of roasted beans, she would sneak downstairs to finish the coffee left at the bottom of her mother’s cup. In 2017, Marsh’s mother passed away unexpectedly. As she struggled to process her grief, Marsh found comfort in each cup of...

As a teenager, Amie Dworecki was a health and fitness enthusiast, serving as a personal trainer and fitness instructor and finding joy in accelerating others’ wellness journeys. When navigating adulthood, Dworecki explored several time-intensive corporate roles across the tech, business and media industries. After her father passed away, she was determined to “look back at life as having been an adventure instead of a grind,” and returned to wellness as a focus of her professional life. She...

Jannyell Hines has served South Bend’s elderly and disabled communities as a professional caretaker since she was 19. Over the two decades she worked in the field, she noticed a persistent problem in local home care. While caretaking is a profession that requires personable and communicative service providers, caregivers hired to perform these tasks often do not strive to meet these basic standards of the profession. “Many times, clients won’t even know the name of their agency,” Hines...