“Time became the thing we identified as the ultimate privilege,” said Atiya Jones, a visual artist in Pittsburgh.

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

John Gibson, a director at Chobe Holdings, said that although the U.K.’s COVID travel bans hurt business, bookings are starting to pick up.

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

Jessica Shaw founded a company that brings play into workplaces to cultivate the human connection.

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.

Adella Colvin began her yarn-dyeing business, LolaBean Yarn Co., after noting how few makers of color there were in the industry.

The co-owners of “A Good Used Book” in Los Angeles, California, are back in their retail space and looking ahead to the future.

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