By: Will Dias

Located in sunny Aptos, Calif., Tradewinds Tanning & Day Spa was founded in 2003. Steve Hilleary purchased the salon in 2006 when he saw an opportunity to diversify into something new. He decided to buy the salon and finally give it the backing it deserved.

Hilleary is no stranger to running his own business. Straight out of college, when he was just 25, he and his father Jack started a business training people to brew their own beer called Be Your Own Brew-master or B.Y.O.B. The long hours eventually became too much to manage, so the men sold the business and moved on…….READ MORE