The Atayners

Ever wonder who is behind the brands and products you buy? Well here we are. Our stories are very different up to this point but, one thing is for sure, we are all Atayners.  Interested in joining the team? Don’t send us your resume or cover letter! That is not our style. Find another way to get our attention.

Nickname: Hugga

Job: Chief Pacesetter

Birthplace: The Way Life Should Be

Favorite piece of trash:  Any CD or Record that someone else doesn't want.  One person's trash, is another one's treasure.

When not working I:  Run, Hike, Bike, Ski, Go Outdoors.  I'm always listening to music!

Favorite toy: My Motorcycle

Guilty pleasure:  Beer (Gritty McDuff's)

Music: Pearl Jam, U2, Colin Hay, The Killers, Kings of Leon, My Morning Jacket, Harry Chapin, Johnny Cash, The Shins, Ray LaMontange, Snow Patrol, The Cold War Kids

Movies:  Good Will Hunting, An Inconvient Truth, Garden State, Brave Heart, Rocky

Books: The Catcher in the Rye, Born to Run, On the Beaten Path

Title of my life memoirs:  The Chronicles of a Treehugging, Steel Horse Riding Cowboy

Words to live by: “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” -Albert Einstein

Nickname:  Haven’t had one since college...and that one I’m not volunteering

Job: Jill of all trades for Atayne, fellow at the Aspen Institute

Birthplace: Land of the Cheese Heads

Favorite piece of trash: Anything sparkly that represents a celebration

When not working I: make lists, house hunt, plan a wedding, get outdoors, practice yoga & attempt to meditate, experiment cooking with new ingredients

Favorite toy: my Bianchi bike acquired via barter

Guilty pleasure: dark chocolate and paperback novels with no literary value

Music: anything with acoustic guitar (fan of Indigo Girls since age 16); listen to classical (Baroque) when I need to concentrate or write

Movies: romantic comedies, foreign flicks set in Asia, movies by director Mira Nair, The Bourne series. Ones that I can watch repeatedly include: True Lies, Top Gun, & Emma

Books: Can’t live without. Usually reading 2-3 at a time, mix of fiction and non-fiction.

Title of my life memoirs: Confessions of a Nomad

Words to live by: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

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Nickname:  Self-Proclaimed Rock Surfer

Job: Social Chair

Birthplace: The Clipper City

Favorite piece of trash: None - interrupts my running : )

When not working I: Run Trails, Hike, Read, Dream...Snowshoe race this year

Favorite toy: My Subaru Outback

Guilty pleasure: Cheezits, Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, Coffee...and lots of it

Music: All kinds; Martin Sexton, Ray LaMontagne, Kings of Leon, Warren Haynes, Pearl Jam, Cold Play, Michael Franti...long list

Movies: Again, All kinds; Big Lebowski, Shawshank, American Beauty, Apocalypse Now, Godfather, Good Fellas, Fargo, Best in Show, Vacation, Fletch...

Books: Once a Runner, Born to Run, The Fountainhead, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, This Side of Paradise, Poet of Tolstoy Park, Sacred Balance, Monkey Wrench Gang, anything Thoreau, Emerson, Hemingway, or Muir

Title of my life memoirs: Explored. Dreamed. Discovered. Laughed My Ass Off!

Words to live by: In the end, all you have is your story.