When my favorite jeans were feeling a bit tight, I went on a lock down with my food intake. But I knew I needed some guidance. By chance I met Jacqui Justice at an event and she told me she was a nutritionist. A VentureMom to the rescue! I asked
Sometimes you take a step back and say wait a minute. Debbie Barry had that feeling one day. “I was just going through the motions in my life. How did I get here? What am I doing with my life? Who am I?” This moment in time sent Debbie on
An injury lead her to her life’s work. Dori Nissenson dislocated her kneecap in college and spent a lot of time in physical therapy. “That’s was my first experience with a profession that would become my career.” Dori got her graduate degree and spent 16 years at New York Presbyterian
After her kids were launched, she brought her husband’s dermatology practice into the current century but how did that lead to her own business. Becky Robinson met her future husband, Bruce, while studying to become a nurse in Texas at the University of Texas Medical Branch. After dating long distance,
How did running away from a broken heart lead this girl from Ireland to her next life and a new business. Ciara Fritsch traveled to Nantucket to work for only one summer, but when she met her future husband in the first month on island, all that changed. Now she
Teaching English for 8 years lead this VentureMom to her new venture. When she was a little girl, Lindsay Hayes Hurty played school. She loved school supplies, and crayons were her favorite thing. A few weeks before the birth of her first child, she realized she wouldn’t be able to
It was her son’s skin condition that lead her to a new business venture. When Yvonne Oxley’s son was in his 20s he developed eczema and the commercial soaps in the marketplace only worsened his condition. The doctor prescribed a steroidal cream and this bothered Yvonne so she did some
Was it her high school volunteer experience as an EMT that led her to her current venture? Anne McGuire was a member of the local ambulance service in Darien, CT, called Post 53. After obtaining her nursing degree, her first stop was as a surgical trauma nurse at Yale New
In her Bikram yoga class, she noticed women putting drops of oil on the edges of their mats and wondered why. Cheryl MacCluskey learned that the women were using essential oils for the calming effects created by the aromas. This sent her on a quest to learn more about these
Eastern medicine has moved to the forefront in world of healing, health and pain management. When I heard about this VentureMom, her nutrition practice and her integrative hands on healing techniques, I had to give it a try. ( And it worked!!!) In her previous life she worked on