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
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Full name?: Jamie Walker
Position / Job title?: CEO and Founder, SweatGuru and Fit Approach
1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
When I was a kid I wanted to be a lot of things – a pro athlete, a Fly Girl on In Living Color, the editor of Vogue, an NFL cheerleader or a TV personality. As I grew older, I started to
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NAME: Julia Kalachnikoff
Position / Job title?: Accessories Director, Lucky
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? An archaeologist. I was obsessed with ancient Egypt.
Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position?
Internships! I interned starting my sophomore year- I studied Photography at Parsons but half way through my BFA I wanted to explore other creative career options.
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January 31, 2014 by Claire Hardee in Career, ETC.This infograph came to me at a very timely moment. If you didn’t know, my husband is currently in training with the Marine Corp to become a pilot. He’s learning a lot in his classes…but what he fanatically reports to me every single day are the perils of flying. Seriously, E-V-E-R-Y-D-A-Y he explains to me and shows me YouTube videos of how jets and other military aircrafts have crashed.
Wouldn’t you know, Pilot is 3rd on the list of most dangerous jobs in the US.
He’s flown already, and I guess in someways it’s reassuring that he’s learning what NOT
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 Full name?:
Alyse Mason Brill
Position / Job title?:
Founder, Fit Approach
Founder, SweatGuru
1) When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
So many things! I wanted to be a veterinarian until the first time I saw our vet take my cat’s temperature – that was a real deal breaker for me. After that, I wanted to be a teacher, a writer, and like every kid,
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January 27, 2014 by Rebekah in Career, ETC., Fashion
In 2010, Carol Han and Alexandra Weiss took the ultimate plunge: they left their cushy fashion jobs to start CA Creative, an agency focused on growing brand identity and business by maintaining attention in digital spaces.
Before they decided to go off on their own, Carol worked for Elle and StyleCaster, while Alex was at Ralph Lauren. With their combined years of editorial and fashion experience, they felt like should combine forces to provide brands with innovative content and cool social media strategies.
While the decision to
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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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January 21, 2014 by Claire Hardee in Career, ETC.If my kids choose not to go to college, I might be more proud of them that way. If you’re shocked and appalled, bear with me here…
My husband and I have been talking about the value of trade schools. We’ve been talking about them in the sense that we’d like to encourage our future kids to consider a trade school if it makes more sense. More generally, we were talking about how great it would be for the general public to stop devaluing the path to a well-paying blue collar job instead of glorifying a debt-laden education.
It’s not
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 Photo credit: Michael Mallard
Full name?: Kelly Holt
Position / Job title?: Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Austin Phoenix
1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Wait, which part of my childhood does this refer to exactly? Could it be the time when I wanted to be the founder of an environmental advocacy organization (to save the neighborhood trees), or the time when
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January 16, 2014 by Rebekah in Career, ETC.
I was pretty excited when I received an e-mail about financial columnist, Kimberly Palmer’s new book, The Economy of You: Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Recession-Proof Your Life. As soon as I saw it, I knew I needed to get in touch to see if she could share her wisdom with us!
Her whole book is about turning your hobbies (or entrepreneurial side gigs) into income making machines. This is probably the #1 question I
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