When she renovated her home, she finally had a proper mudroom…..but still lacrosse, field hockey , and ice hockey sticks magically multiplied and ended up on the floor. Kim Genzburg needed a solution so she built one. Taking a small wooden table, she drilled holes in the top and painted
What if you were on vacation and needed to wire funds to cover a child’s college tuition within the next 24 hours? What if your mom was admitted to the hospital and you needed to provide the emergency room doctors with her medications, allergies, and primary care information – and
Arthritis side-lined her from her passion of gardening, but figuring out what to do with all of her lavender and calendula plants led Indie Lee to a big venture. It was 2008 and her sister was pregnant. Indie decided to create some baby beauty products using the plants from her
She wasn’t a crunchy granola type but when Kathy Monahan’s husband moved the family to New Hampshire, she explored that side of her personality. Spending countless hours outside with her kids, hiking and skiing, Kathy felt she was getting back to nature. She even began teaching yoga and Pilates. Eating
Like so many ventures, this one started with a pre-school auction. When Janine Vairo donated a children’s birthday party including everything from paper goods to party favors, her friends said you should do this as a business. Coming from an advertising background, she had some experience in packaging and marketing.
Who knew they could launch a business while running together. Both Tara and Michelle have backgrounds in fashion on 7th Avenue in New York CIty but kids pulled them out of their careers for a while. They had always said that when they got their first child off to college
When she couldn’t find the birthday invitations she wanted for her son’s party – she created her own. Gretchen Davis was an equity trader for 8 years before leaving to stay at home with her children. Necessity being the mother of all invention and in this case creation, led her
Getting in line at 5am and waiting for hours in the rain for the Henri Bendel “Open See” was her first exposure to selling her own creation. When Ann Lansing took her belt in to be considered, Bendel’s said yes. Initially working in sales and PR for high tech products,
On the day her daughter went to kindergarten, she knew she had to quit her job. Jennifer St. Jean had a big job on Wall Street but when she thought about all she would miss with her girls, then 5 and 1, she left to be a stay at home
The vistas she saw in her native country of Denmark inspired her to paint. Charlotte Sabbagh had always been creative and loved design. Working as a project manager on the interiors of the W Hotel in Honolulu, Charlotte says , “I saw the way art can complete the look of