As a mountain lover, Meghan Ochs measures the number of years she has lived in Reno by its winters: โThis is my 13th,โ she says while we sit down in her living room in early spring. Originally from Pennsylvania, she considered herself โa casual skier.โ
Food is certainly fuel for Jesse Felker, a personal trainer and veteran quarterback on the Nevada Storm, Northern Nevadaโs female full-contact football team โ but itโs also about family, in all its forms.
Brian Duggan loves the French concept of mise en place, as it applies to preparing every ingredient and carefully planning a meal in the kitchen, but also at work. In both cases, heโs always looking to the future. He calls it a โpreparation mindset.โ
Steven (better known as Steve) Silva compares himself to a short-order cook when heโs making dinner for four children, ages 4 to 10, and his wife, Katie, director of digital marketing and communications at the Peppermill Resort Hotel in Reno.
We all come to the kitchen via our own path. I personally never dreamed of any greatness as a cook other than being able to make good dishes to eat for family and friends. I like to think I do an OK job of it โ better than some, not as well as others. I wouldnโt say I learned from the best, but I learned from the best I had: my mom.
Keenan Polanโs drive for sustainability can be found on the golf course and at home when he cooks. As the director of sales for the Barracuda Championship, Polan strives to change the way golf is played in the future.
Itโs obvious from the way they talk about food that Sean Fannan and Kele Song have been bitten by the culinary bug. Theyโve even given their dogs food names: Chili and Pinto.
Leadership experts would agree that a great leader knows how to empower others. Cary Groth is that type of leader. After all, in just one hour of conversation, she influenced me to want to try cooking on a salt block.
There is something about Vanessa Vancour that makes you feel like youโre talking to an old friend. Her warmth is evident in her social media engagements and her popular TEDx Talk, which has garnered more than half a million views.
Lauren Sankovitch is the embodiment of a modern Renaissance woman. Her career is as layered and fascinating as her geological studies as a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. T