Meet Brita DeStefano // Pediatric Physical Therapist & Owner, Progress Through Play
Brita DeStefano traded pre-professional ballet for pediatric physical therapy after a single mentor showed her how the body's systems connect. Now she runs Progress Through Play, a Denver practice built on the same idea. Brita talks infant feeding and reflux, building a team from scratch, saying yes before you're ready, and lending anxious parents her confidence until they find their own.
Meet Lena DeChamps // Artist & Owner, boneBLACK
By day she coordinates care for kids at Children's Hospital Colorado; by night she's screen printing in her garage until 3am. Lena DeChamps talks her first mural at the Thompson Hotel, learning to outsource creative control, painting custom apparel, and the real cost of "doing it all.”
Meet Kylie Bearse // Meteorologist, FOX31 Denver
FOX31 Denver's morning meteorologist is up before the sun, and somehow does it without coffee. Kylie Bearse talks early mornings, her Colorado obsession, building a hiking community from scratch, and navigating online criticism.
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