Name
Stephanie Ott
Company/Organization
Owner of Base Bowls & Company
What Does Your Company/Organization Do?
Base Bowls & Company provides high-quality fresh and flavorful salads, acai bowls, sorbet bowls, smoothies, as well as other tasty options. We take pride in waking up every single day sourcing fresh ingredients. We use many local suppliers and try our best to give back to the community as much as possible. Base Bowls & Company enjoys making sure all of our company feels at home when they enter our doors.
Age
27
Accomplishments
- Opened Base Bowls & Company
- Guided over 20 local high school student athletes through the college recruiting process resulting in them receiving thousands of dollars in college scholarships.
- College Sports Recruiter of the month. (August 2021)
- Helped thousands of families and student athletes with the college athletic recruiting process worldwide.
- Employee of the month Miami Dolphins (October 2016)
What else do you hope to accomplish by the age of 40?
I hope to:
- Get married and start a family of my own.
- Grow Base Bowls & Company and have many stores throughout many states.
- Change as many lives as I possibly can through the college athletic recruiting process.
- Mentor as many young entrepreneurs as possible.
Education
- Bachelors in Sports Management
- Bachelors in Sports Communications & Media — University of Miami 2016
- Berrien Springs High School — 2013
- Saint Joseph High School 2009-2012
Residence
St. Joseph, MI (My favorite city in the world)
Where were you born?
St. Joseph, MI
What was your first job?
Cook at Vickie’s Sandbar at 12 years old
Best advice you ever got?
You can accomplish anything in life if you work hard and take the right steps to accomplish it. Dream On!
Who inspires you most?
My entire family inspires me! Each and every single one of them! I am so inspired by my dad in Heaven, my incredibly hard-working mom, my sisters that are like moms to me, my nieces and nephews, my aunts, my cousins, my granny that just pushes and pushes me. Wow! Thank you all for inspiring me to be great and do my best every day!
That one thing about you we’d be most surprised to learn.
I am ambidextrous!
What do you love to do in your downtime?
I love to:
Watch sports, spend time with family and my dog Rizzo. Travel to new places in Michigan and explore our amazing state.
Love, love, love spending time with my boyfriend and exploring the world with him.
What book are you reading now?
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Volunteer activity you love the most.
I love to volunteer my time to our community as much as possible by guiding our local high school athletes through the college recruiting process.
What motivates you to give back to your community?
What motivates me to give back to my community is when someone thinks they can’t and they turn that “I can’t” into an “I can” and go farther than they ever imagined!
What Superpower would you most love to have? (for example, the ability to fly or to be invisible, or incredible strength, etc)
If I could have any super power I wish I could have the ability to make us all live forever.
What would you like to leave behind as your legacy once you are gone?
When I am gone I hope to leave behind the act of being kind, helping others, and spreading positivity every chance we get because life is too short and it is not that hard to make someone’s day!
What does the honor of being named to the 40 Under 40 most mean to you?
Wow! I feel like I won a Grammy Award, A Nobel Prize, this is an incredible honor that means the absolute world to me. I am truly humbled to have been selected as a nominee of this award with all the incredible people in our community. Being a part of the 40 under 40 Class of 2022 gives me the drive to continue to work hard and give back to others as much as I possibly can.
