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Phoenix-based marijuana entrepreneur Marvina Thomas’ love for Egypt, women’s empowerment and cannabis inspired her to collaborate with designer Korto Momolu to create Queen of the Nile, a line of women’s clothing under her Fourtwenty Collections label.

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Every time Amanda Gunderson visits New Orleans, she leaves inspired. The mixologist – who splits her time between Phoenix and Los Angeles – is CEO and co-founder of Valley-based nonprofit Another Round Another Rally, an organization that focuses on helping small businesses in the hospitality industry. What better place to immerse oneself in that culture than in The Big Easy? “The hospitality there is second to none,” Gunderson says. At last year’s Tales of the...