“I’m 100 percent unemployable,” says Jenna Soard, laughing out loud. “It’s not that I don’t have the skills. It’s that I don’t always follow rules.” A yearlong stint as a designer at Nike—a dream job, she admits—convinced the Portland trailblazer that she needed to strike out on her own. Soard started You Can Brand, where she […]

One of Teri Johnson’s early childhood memories was traveling to St. Louis to see her glamorous aunt, who had once lived in Saudi Arabia. “Whenever I would visit her, I would run into her boudoir and smell her perfumes from around the world,” Johnson says. Her aunt, who traveled throughout the Middle East and Europe, […]