My Job Is Running a Successful Calligraphy and Bottle-Painting Business
Michelle Clemen left a nursing career for creative work, and assures the skeptical that “you can make a living from being an artist.”
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Michelle Clemen left a nursing career for creative work, and assures the skeptical that “you can make a living from being an artist.”
Profiles of 12 local companies that won our 2023 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Awards for their ingenuity, grit, service, perseverance or all of the above. Plus two inductees into the 2023 Hawai‘i Small Business Hall of Fame, each more than a century old.
2025 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Award winner: Roy and Kathy Sakuma operate four studios on O‘ahu, and would “never say no to any parent.”
2025 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Award Hall of Fame: Pua and Heather Rochlen run the family business started in 1964, with six stores across three islands.