Jenny Alday Townsend, 33

Jenny Alday Townsend discovered her career aspiration when she was a student at USF in 2009.

She didn’t find it in college, per se, but when she was a server at a Lee Roy Selmon’s in Sarasota. It was there that Townsend served a table of people in a rock band, who complained there was no place to practice and jam. They wanted someplace where they could just be — and not spend a lot of money to do it. “There was nothing in the area that offered something like it,” says Townsend. “I saw a need and an opportunity.”