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Modern Mompreneur: Ingrid Carney Transforms a Tube Top Into a Must-Have for Moms
Women always ask Ingrid Carney how she came up with the idea for her product, the BellaBand, a simple-yet-ingenious elastic band that allows pregnant women to gracefully wear their favorite clothes as their bellies expand. Like so many creators before her, Ingrid says that necessity was the mother of her …
The Modern Mompreneur: How Do I Find My Clients?
When I first started my business I was a general life coach helping people with career issues. My first clients I coached for free and they were all people who knew me: a publicist, a colleague, a friend of a friend. After our free sessions were over some of them …
Modern Mompreneur: Karen Staitman of Good Fortunes Cookie Company Shares Her Recipe for Success
The average person would crack open a fortune cookie in hopes of finding good luck. But Karen Belasco Staitman likes to think bigger than thata lot bigger! Back in 1995, I was a party planner and I had made some gigantic fortune cookies for party invitations, she recalls. One day …
Road Scholars: Teach Your Kids While You’re Driving
Given how much time the average parent spends driving their kids around, its a bit of a surprise that more people arent into carschooling. The concept, the subject of a book published five years ago by homeschooling authority, columnist and author Diane Flynn Keith (www.homefires.com …
10 Questions: Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
It’s hard not to love a mom whos a successful actor, an advocate for such causes as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the wife of a superstar athlete and a fully involved parent at her two young sons coop. But thats a pretty apt description of Bridgette Wilson, 34. The Oregon …