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
I like to cook, really, I do. Actually, no I don’t. Planning meals, shopping for meals, cooking the meals and then scrubbing all the pots that I used to make the meals – not my kind of fun. I can cook if I really wanted to (sort of) but I
I just wanted a photo book of my trip to Portugal. Was that too much to ask? Given that I didn’t even know how to download the photos from my phone, that would be the first thing I needed to learn how to do. The last photo book I made
When I ask an entrepreneur how they feel about the fact they’ve created an income producing venture out of thin air, the responses are similar but they all have the same theme – they’re really happy. Through my blog VentureMom, I’ve had the privilege to interview and profile over 300 female
How did two sisters take their advice to each other about fashion forward clothing and turn it into a blog? Lisa Dale once worked on the advertising campaign for Duracell Batteries and then got involved with Classic Sports Network as one of their first employees. Kristen Grace first was an
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
She likes to say she went from cashmere to cookies, but how did Andrea Greene go from designing clothing at Ralph Lauren to running her own bake shop? Andrea spent 16 years designing clothing for several big firms, her favorite being Club Monaco. “After 9/11, I moved back to Columbus,
Sign up for the VentureMom Free ELetter to hear about a Coupon Code for this VentureMom coming soon! She couldn’t find a job in fashion down South, so she built her own company. When Anjali Kamra moved to Richmond, Virginia, for her husband’s job, she had to give up her
SHOP NOW When she was on vacation in Spain, Lil Guerrera came across a pendant that spoke to her. “I loved that this piece represented something meaningful and I wanted to share that experience with friends and family through other meaningful symbols.” This began Lil’s mission to create
She had been writing for her entire career but it was one specific topic that created an entire venture. As a child Laura Vanderkam loved to tell stories and she wrote all through school, even completing a novel in 5th grade and a collection of short stories in 10th grade.