The Face of Chicago Business

The Vice President of Tax & Beyond [a full service accounting firm providing a wide range of services to individuals, closely held corporations and nonprofit entities], Paola Meinzer is no stranger to overcoming adversity. Yet, in meeting Paola you’d never know that  through her positive attitude on life.  

Carlos Gaytan, world-renowned chef, sits down with us on a special episode of The Face of Chicago Business to share his story.

Driven by an incredible story of her own, Alexandra Sossa is the Executive Director of FLAP, the Farm Worker and Landscaper Advocacy Project. An organization committed to improving working conditions and opportunities for low-income workers and their households in the cannery, farming, greenhouse, landscaping, meat, nursery, packinghouse, poultry, restaurant, and snow plowing industries.

Chef Noah Zamler, currently the chef at The Press Room in West Loop, joins us on this episode of TFOCB Podcast.

Angela Cox joins us on this episode of The Face of Chicago Business Podcast to tell us more about her story.

On this episode of The Face of Chicago Business Podcast, Odell Mitchell sits down with us and tells his story of growing up in the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis to an Entertainment Attorney in Chicago.

Stephanie Welter is a Chicago girl through and through. Growing up in Jefferson Park with her siblings and neighborhood friends, everything about her upbringing, according to Stephanie, was pleasant. Her mom had a saying that always seemed to bring everything into perspective: “I know a bad day and this ain’t one.”

True unsung heroes are few and far between and Edgar Montiel is toward the top of the list. Growing up in Cicero as the oldest of five boys in a low income family, Edgar and his brothers found their after-school safe haven in the Boy’s Club of South Cicero.

From a small town in Albania to Chicago, Andis Combi shares his story as an Eastern European immigrant turned businessman.