Marianna Hemmen

May 2018

Marianna Hemmen

About Me

Marianna Hemmen attends Teutopolis High School and is involved in basketball, softball, along with math club, volunteens, and National Honor Society. Outside of school, she is currently waitressing at Cracker Barrel. In her free time she loves spending time with her family, friends, and her dog, Manny. Marianna plans to attend a four year university and major in business.

“CEO is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I am extremely happy to be apart of this year's class. I look forward to learning more about the businesses in Effingham County and building skills that will help me now and in the future. I am excited to meet new people and create new relationships.”

About My Business

Marianna Hemmen created a business called Messages by Marianna, which offers high quality, beautiful locket necklaces. Marianna started this business because she has a love for jewelry and never wants to forget the things she loves. This business doesn’t just provide locket necklaces, but a service for minimizing a picture of the customers choice and placing it into a locket as well. Please feel free to contact Marianna at hemmen.marianna@gmail.com. Next year, Marianna will be attending the University of Illinois majoring in actuarial science. Mentored by Julie Everett with Smith Moore financial.

My Featured Journal Entries

"After hearing Ann Deters talk about finances, I couldn’t wait to see what her business was. We got to tour Vantage Outsourcing this week, and it was an excellent tour. We did a group activity where each group was given a business problem to solve. My group had the supply shortage problem, and we had to figure out how we were going to get more supply and where we were going to store it. It was a unique activity we did, and I realized that every business will run into problems like that. I learned that you just can’t let it happen, you have to take action and do something about it."

02/09/2018

On Wednesday we got to meet the CEO board members. I can tell that we are super lucky to have Steve, Noah, Karen, and Lucas on our board. They truly care about our future and are trying their hardest to make sure we get to have the opportunity of a lifetime. Steve said, “Culture is a huge part of business.” That stuck out to me because that’s what makes a business so unique. It’s what makes it special in its own way. If you don’t have culture then you most likely don’t have a good business.

09/07/2017