Rising Startup Stars

“I used to work for the U.S. intelligence community, and it was a dream job,” says Taylor, 41. “I absolutely loved it.”

Traveling the world, Taylor met her British husband-to-be in Afghanistan. They lived in the United Kingdom and North Carolina as she transitioned out of her intelligence career.

“I found myself moving a lot and going from one admin job to another,” Taylor says. “It was while I was in one of those jobs that I was introduced to tech skills, and I really enjoyed it. I didn’t have a tech background, but I just Googled and YouTubed as much as I could to learn as much as I could and ended up starting my own business offering some of those skills as a service, primarily web design and digital marketing.”

Taylor soon had “a business that I could do from anywhere,” so she and her husband moved into an RV in 2018 and hit the road for 18 months. “People on social media asked how I was able to do it,” Taylor says. “That’s where GeekPack came from: I started teaching other people the same things that I taught myself.”

Taylor and her husband found a new hometown in the process. “Toward the end of 2019, we found Durango and fell in love,” she says. “We’ve been here ever since.”

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