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Alexandra Buckley Voris and Maggie Jones Patton are the founders of the NY-based kids’ food company, Bitsy’s Brainfood. After many years of working in education and non-profit, they got to a point where they realized that they had to solve some of the problems that they kept seeing over and over. They decided to go into the business of making the world better for everybody! They wanted to create a food brand with
With bathing suit season right around the corner, I thought Hilary Genga, Founder of Trunkettes Swimwear, would be a timely fit for “3 Things”. The inspiration for Trunkettes? Hilary used to pair her husband’s swim trunks with her cute bikini tops. She was tired of waiting for women’s swimwear to catch up, so she decided to create her own line. The collection now consists of their staple feminine spin on traditional men’s swim trunks, tankinis,
OC-native, Michelle McCloskey is no different. With three successful businesses under her belt, she decided to start Run Around Betties, a company that puts a unique twist on personal assistants. Run Around Betties is the brainchild of this former overworked assistant and caters to multitasking moms and
Not that long ago, I made a mistake that essentially turned out to be a publicists’ worst nightmare. I sent an e-mail in confidence to an editor, and it happened to have a careless typo in it. The e-mail (typo and all) was published very publicly accompanied by remarks about how no one should ever hire me again. At the time, I was mortified (I still sorta cringe when thinking about it) because
When Elke Govertsen was 25, she died. Flat lined in a hospital-the whole nine yards. But, let’s start from the beginning because Elke’s story isn’t typical. She grew up in poverty in Alaska, and her first job was as a welder. After that, she traveled the world helping at-risk groups, including starving families and prostitutes. During one of her journeys, she contracted typhoid fever, which is how she ended up fighting for
From a young age, Katie Ganshert knew she loved to write. After spending time in Kenya doing HIV/AIDS outreach, she was haunted by some of the devastation that she saw. She used writing as an outlet for her experience. Even though she managed to write a full length novel, she realized it was harder than she thought to get published. In 2008, while spending Valentine’s Day in NYC with her husband, she knew that she had
I really admire Maura because she was able to turn a challenging life event into
Patti Pao had a major “aha” moment when visiting a salmon hatchery in Norway. They do say that you can find inspiration everywhere! While on a sight seeing tour, Patti noticed that the workers’ hands, which were submerged in water all day, looked smooth and ageless. She soon discovered that this was the result of a remarkable enzyme that occurs in nature to help salmon eggs hatch. Patti, a beauty industry veteran, knew immediately that she could Stacy Lyon has always been an entrepreneur. Her first business venture was when she was 9 years old; she sold worms to Shawano Lake (Wisconsin) fishermen. Then, in college, she started an entrepreneurs club at the University of Wyoming. Now, she is the founder of healthy hoohoo, which is a revolutionary line of natural freshness products for women. There is no question about it: Stacy has created a very successful brand with products that might not be the sexiest to talk about. Her line is now carried at Whole Foods, natural grocers, spas and wellness clinics
This is really only a question I suppose a 40 something can answer and after perusing this site and reading some of the posts I whole-heartedly agree with their advice. It’s all very sound and practical and wise. None of which I usually am, and I especially wasn’t in my 20’s. I had a great career, made good money, had a couple a great boyfriends. Then, I lost the good money and broke up with |
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