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February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Ever at a loss of what to get someone?  Want to share kind notes to the ones you love?  KindNotes is a great gift product/service that allows you to be unique in giving your love notes as gifts.  You can select the jar (prices start at $27.95), pick your color filling, select your envelope design, your color of ribbon and finally, you can select 31 messages from their 500+ message library or you can opt to have blank message paper sent to you so you can write your own personalized messages.  They are great for birthdays, mother day gifts, fathers day gifts, graduation gifts…the list goes on.  Next time you are struggling trying to figure out what to give the special person in your life, they will without a doubt, love the gift of KindNotes!

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Market Mommy – Learn How to Advertise for Free

August 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Dawn Berryman is the founder of Market Mommy, an online marketing resource for mom business owners. Her goal is to help other moms understand how and where to market their businesses on a limited budget.

Market Mommy offers free marketing advice via their blog and e-newsletter. In addition, they offer a wide range of marketing, advertising and printing services that are specifically aimed and priced for mom entrepreneurs on a budget. Recently, Market Mommy underwent a site redesign and now features an interactive forum and free business directory.

Berryman holds a bachelor’s degree in English and communications and a minor in journalism. She has worked in the field of marketing and public relations for the past several years. She has been a mom business owner since 2006 and founded Market Mommy in June of 2009. She and her husband live in rural Northwest Ohio and have two pre-school aged children.

We will be updating our website to include our podcast interview! :)

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Radio Show Interview: Kathleen Lockwood

August 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Major League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark details the triumphs and tribulations of family life within Major League Baseball. It exposes the all pervasive pressure that accompanies the privilege of competing in America’s National Pastime and spotlights the inner strength of the major league wives who support each other over the long “home alone” season.

Major League Bride is a diary of growth, a journal of struggle, an account of bizarrely truthful stranger-than-fiction events involving eccentric teammates. It offers a glimpse inside family waiting rooms across the country. It is a manual of survival but most of all it is a story of love.

Major League Bride

  • Offers a rare feminine insight into the personal lives of athletes.
  • Expounds on the value of female friendships and the loneliness of moving and the difficulty of adults fitting into new groups.
  • Presents a behind the scenes historical perspective on the role of Marvin Miller and the empowerment of the Major League Baseball Player’s Association.
  • Focuses on the strength of committed relationships and the importance of trust in a world full of pressure and temptation.

Kathleen Lockwood’s Bio:
Days after graduating as an English Major from Regis College in Weston, MA, I walked down the aisle of Holy Cross Church in Springfield, MA to marry Skip Lockwood and stepped into the world of Major League Baseball. My honeymoon was spent on a road trip to Tiger Stadium in Detroit and Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium where I received a totally different education provided by the major league baseball community as a Major League Baseball Bride.

I spent the next twelve years in the company of some exceptional women on six different teams all across the country as my husband was periodically traded, sold, sent down, brought up and finally released.

A sixteen year breast cancer survivor, I am the mother of 5.  Skip and I will celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary this summer

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Radio Show: Erika Oliver – Positive Communication

June 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Erika Oliver is an expert in Positive Communication, an author, and creator of the “Communication Miracles Model”,a non-linear, positive approach to effective communication. As a “recovering pessimist” her mission to help teams and organizations achieve results using a positive approach.

Did you know that of the 40-60,000 thoughts we have each day, 80% of those thoughts are negative?  By assuming the worst, we create a negative story for ourselves and we feel crappy. If you want to create a positive story for yourself, your family, your work team, or your organization …Happy Crap: The Power of Positive Assumptions is a must have with 8 tools to help choose positive assumptions no matter what the situation.

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Radio Show: Author, Frances Cole Jones – How To WOW

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Do you want to learn how to wow? Ace that job or television interview? What are the most persuasive words that you should use during your interview process?  Deliver speeches that will be memorable? Our guest, Author of “How To WOW, Proven Strategies For Presenting Your Ideas, Persuading Your Audience, And Perfecting Your Image”, Frances Cole Jones will show you how to land that dream job!

Frances is a best selling author with three “How to Wow” books, she is a media coach, speaker and career expert.  She is the founder of Cole Media Management which is focused on cultivating clients’ inherent strengths to develop the powerful communication skills that will enhance his or her professional and personal performance.  Clients have appeared on shows such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The View, and yes, Oprah!  She is the person who will help you prepare for television and print interviews and she is here with us today!

From her website:

Prior to founding Cole Media Management, Frances worked at St. Martin’s Press, Viking Penguin, Doubleday, and Broadway Books as an editor of commercial nonfiction. The experience of helping authors translate their ideas into books that retained their unique voice is what makes her valuable to her clients. “There’s no point in my writing a perfectly crafted sound bite that you have to strain to remember,” Frances says. “You have to sound like you-you on your best day.

For more information, visit: thewowfactor-thebook.com

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You Can Be A BuffMother Too!

June 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Michelle Berger (aka BuffMother) is truly a revolutionary in the field of women’s psychology and fitness.

Between 1999 and 2003 she had 4 children including twins by C-section.  Then, in 2004 she did what many considered to be impossible. She changed roughly 11,000 diapers, washed approximately 6200 bottles, slept 3 hours a night… and WON 5 FIGURES TITLES!  The ravages of caring for a family of 6, forced her to invent a faster, more powerful way to conquer life’s challenges and get into her best physical shape ever. She calls it Hormonal Timing and says it works by harnessing the power of a woman’s Natural Hormonal cycle to create dramatic changes.

Her story has inspired thousands of women and helped them believe that anything is possible if they live a “Hormonal Timing” Lifestyle.  This mentality has sparked a new trend among mothers who are eager to shed the “Soccer Mom” label.  According to Michelle, “Hormonal Timing goes way beyond fitness. You can be an awesome mother and still be HOT!” Michelle is on a mission to show every busy woman that Hormonal Timing is the shortest distance between who you are, and who you want to become!

To learn more about how you too can become a BuffMother, visit www.buffmother.com

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Biz Blast – jb-justbe.com

May 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Just Be is a state of mind, a way of life, and a philosophy. It is a line of apparel and accessories not meant to inspire…but to Just Be. Each Just Be item has its own Just Be saying—be beautiful, be organic, be flirty, be sweet, be cool, be green, be punk, be a sk8r, be natural, etc. Just Be gear allows people to show the world how they like to Just Be.

Just Be is being built around an online community for people to share how they Just Be. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are used, along with a customized website and blog at www.jb-justbe.com. People share and show how they Just Be by uploading photos and videos to the blog and the other social networking sites.

There are tees for the whole family–men, women, kids and infants. We have a line of 100% organic cotton tees as well. All Just Be tees are printed on combed ring-spun 100% cotton tees with a soft-hand technique printed with water-based ink. This means that there is no “plastic-y feel” to the design. In fact you can’t feel the design at all and it is also better for the environment.

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Biz Blast – 4ksdesigns.com

May 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

4KSDesigns is an Online Baby Boutique specializing in Custom memory books. We email parents once a week starting at baby’s birth until the first year. They get a newsletter with tips on keeping baby safe, recalls, product reviews & recommendations and a quick form to fill out about baby’s milestones, special outings, appointments, etc. we then gather this info and send them a complete professionally printed memory book with a handcrafted unique fabric cover designed only for them, a ribbon closure, and is book store quality bound. No more blank pages, scribbled out words, or forgotten memories!

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Biz Blast – ClosetFly.com

May 31, 2010 By 1 Comment

Mayna Sgaramella is a Wardrobe Consultant and Personal Stylist with Closet Fly. She specializes in educating men and women on dressing for their body type, choosing the right colors for their skin tone, and teaching them how to maintain a wardrobe that works for their lifestyle. Her mission is to help you look your best while doing more with less.

As the owner of Closet Fly, she shares valuable fashion advice speaking at seminars and workshops for local businesses to help companies represent a more professional image. She is also the creator of Girls’ Night In-Style home parties that teach women “what to wear, how to wear it, what to purge, and when to splurge!”

But before rummaging through her clients’ closets and helping them shop, Mayna worked as a business consultant helping teams get results, and applies this training to her business today.

She is also a volunteer for Dress For Success Seattle, dressing disadvantaged women in donated professional attire. Mayna is great at making her clients feel comfortable in an otherwise vulnerable situation. She believes that anyone can look fabulous regardless of their size, shape, age, or profession if they know “the rules” to proper fit and color.

About Closet Fly:

Closet Fly provides you with services and information to easily maintain a wardrobe that works.  It can be as basic as helping you find an outfit for an event, or as detailed as organizing and creating a new wardrobe to fit your lifestyle.  Sometimes, all you need is someone who is honest and supportive as we go through your closet, learn how to shop efficiently, and coordinate outfits for a complete, fabulous wardrobe.

Investing in yourself and in your appearance is just one of the many ways to improve the quality of your life.  You deserve it!

Mayna believes you can look great at any shape, size, age or profession.  Through her services at Closet Fly, she will share with you valuable fashion advice that many have applied at home and at work.  She communicates that “every day we are sending a message to the world through our appearance, so it is important for us to evaluate whether or not our message is aligned with our intentions.  Maintaining a wardrobe that enhances the way you present yourself to the world can help you look your best, and more importantly, you’ll feel amazing.”

Visit: www.closetfly.com for more information.

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Interview: Leslie Hunt & Ann Marie Boskovich from American Idol

May 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Today I will be interviewing two past American Idol contestants with one of my clients, and guest co-host, Janie McQueen from SusuAndJohn.com! I am so excited!  Let me tell you a little about each one!

Ann Marie Boskovich – Top 36 of American Idol 8

A native of the Ventura, Calif., area, Ann Marie made her public performance debut at age 5, singing Over the Rainbow at her great-grandmother’s funeral. At age 13, she appeared on the soundtrack for Disney’s direct-to-video feature The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, singing Part of Your World over the closing credits. She also sang God Bless America at the 2003 NBA All-Star Game.

Here is her latest work, “Everything Is Beautiful” from the “Letters To God” soundtrack. You can see more of Anne Marie by visiting her MySpace page.

Next up is Leslie Hunt! This American Idol Season Six Top 24 Contestant, has a new record out Your Hair Is On Fire (Ellenel Records) is a product of passion and tragedy, helped along by the talents of drummer Vinnie Colaiuta (Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock) and bassist Vail Johnson (Stevie Nicks, Herbie Hancock). She auditioned for American Idol in Los Angeles. She says the disease Lupus has been the toughest obstacle in her life. Lesie Hunt is a musical phenomenon. Her impressive performance history (onstage with familiar names like Kenny Rogers, Rick Springfield and Ides of March/Survivor?s Jim Peterik) is equal to her keyboard talent and her prolific self-composed song catalog. Her style emanates pop, rock and soul, with influences including Bjork, Joni Mitchell, Feist, Fiona Apple, Jeff Buckley, Ben Folds Five and Stevie Wonder, without taking away from the sheer originality of her sound, not to mention the power and control of her distinctive voice. www.lesliehunt.net


  • MommyMentor at 11pm with Leslie Hunt and Ann Marie Boscovitch
  • Time for R and R Noon with Kinnik Sky and Paris Bennett and Mishavonna
  • Not So Soccer Mom 1pm with Kris Allen and Carole MacIntyre (mom of Scott MacIntyre) and Becky O’Donohue
  • Believe in Fairytales 2pm with Jessica Sierra and Becky O’Donohue

Wednesday, May 19th

  • Learning and Laughter with Louise 9am with Carole MacIntyre (mom of Scott MacIntyre) and John Stevens and Becky O’Donohue
  • Paying it Forward 10am with Carole MacIntyre (mom of Scott MacIntyre)
  • keeping it together Noon with Paris Bennett
  • Dare to Dream 5pm with Leslie Hunt and Becky O’Donohue
  • Getting It Done at 9pm with Mishavonna

Thursday, May 20th

  • Living the Dream Moms at 10am with Becky O’Donohue and Tatiana
  • Mommy on a Shoestring at 2pm with Leslie Hunt

Friday, May 21st

  • What’s Your Story 10 am with Mishavonna
  • Kitchen Chat with Carole MacIntyre (mom of Scott MacIntyre) and Jessica Sierra
  • Random and Unscripted 3pm with Natasha with Stevie Scott and Mishavonna
  • Dara on Radio at 7pm with John Stevens and Carole MacIntyre (mom of Scott MacIntyre

Get more info on the guests - http://louisesattler.wordpress.com/179-2/

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