Tessa Arneson

Tessa Arneson is the founder of the Maven District, a neighborhood of 75-plus businesses in Salt Lake City. The district encompasses 100% locally owned shops, food, wellness, creative services and startups that also happen to be 75% female-founded.

Tessa is an entrepreneur, a girl mom, an angel investor and a real estate developer who builds community driven and attainable spaces for underserved founders. She is a daughter of a Utah pioneer and is aware of her white privilege and yet always trying to learn. She is a wellness and self growth junkie who has been in the healing world for a decade in her work at her fitness studio Maven Strong. Traveling the world inspires her design and expands her thoughts. Teaching and connecting with people feeds her soul. Parenting her two girls with a partner that’s always trying to be better lights her up. She is a self-proclaimed empath who feels all the feels and is recovering from a traumatic brain injury that’s taught her a lot.

She’s fortunate to be working in her purpose, which is to help women lead brave and intentional lives.