Lauren Davenport, 27

Lauren Davenport says the most adventurous thing she’s done was jump out of a plane at 14,000 feet. Perhaps the story of how she got there is even more adventurous: picking up her business and moving it to Tampa without knowing a soul. Three days later, she met her future husband by tripping over his dog, Chance, in St. Petersburg. Their first date? Skydiving.

Jumping right in is Davenport’s specialty. While attending Middle Tennessee State University, Davenport worked at a bar to help with tuition payments. At the time, only students with a college email address could post on a new social network called Facebook. Davenport persuaded the bar to let her post on its behalf. It quickly became the fastest growing bar, and before she knew it, she had 15 clients in the Nashville area — all before she had a degree.