Caryn Backman
NASE Member Caryn Backman owns BarCoda Music in the small town of Tillamook, Ore., where she grew up.
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Jere Smith
Smith, a member of the NASE Women’s Advisory Council, has been self-employed for four years. With a Masters in Business Administration, she held several positions doing accounting work in Liberty, Mo. But as her son, Julian, grew, she started considering self-employment. Smith wanted to be home when the nine year old got off the school bus, and quit her job in March 2000.
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Cathy Denison-Wicke, Ph.D.
Cathy Denison-Wicke, Ph.D., MBA is a member of the NASE Women’s Advisory Council and has been self-employed for over four years. She received her Masters Degree in Business Administration from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA, and her Doctorate from Louisiana State University.
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Carol Sheppard
NASE Member Carol Sheppard, a sole practitioner attorney in Georgia, talks about the decision to open her own law practice and how peer mentoring helped.
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Crystal Titus
NASE Member Crystal Titus tells us about starting and expanding The Pilates Studio
at Plum Blossom Wellness Center, LLC, in Austin, Texas, where she
conducts private lessons and classes for fitness and rehabilitation.
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Chris Krupinski
Chris Krupinski talks about her graphics and fine arts business in Fairfax, Virginia, why she enjoys being self-employed, and how she overcomes marketing challenges.
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Nancy Dugan
Nancy Dugan, a member of the NASE Women’s Advisory Council and self-employed for nine years, tells the NASE about her businesses.
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Patty Burnard
Patty Burnard, an NASE Member from Fall City, Washington, tells the Women’s Resource Center about her business, IdeaPartys.
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Shonda Parker
Shonda Parker knows a thing or two about the challenges
of being a woman entrepreneur. Parker owns and runs Naturally Healthy – a natural
health consulting firm -- out of her home office in Fayetteville, Ga.
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Trina Hoefling
Trina Hoefling talks about her consulting business, Group One Solutions, and her vision for the Denver, Co., company.
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Susan Waldman
Susan Waldman knew there had to be a better way of living and working in the early 1990s. Back then, Waldman – who now runs her own marketing consulting firm – had worked in the corporate world for nearly 15 years and was experiencing the pinch of life working for a large organization.
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Anne Alberg
Anne Alberg’s vision of the potential of social networking seems as big as the landscape of her home territory, the Great Pacific Northwest. Her reputation as a keen practitioner and consultant on the topic has been built on a full and varied career spent coaching women and men on the art of cultivating relationships as the foundation for business success and personal fulfillment.
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Rosemary Ulrich
NASE Member Rosemary Ulrich is President of PrimeDesign
Corporation in Austin, TX, and serves on the NASE Women’s Advisory Council.
PrimeDesign began offering their clients the opportunity to outsource design and
drafting (primarily AutoCAD) services in 1998.
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Chris Medley
NASE Member Chris Medley owns Crow Designs (www.crowdesigns.com) in Pennsylvania.
She’s a graphic designer, artist, tutor and author. Like most self-employed individuals,
she’s seen her business evolve over the years.
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Robyn Wheeler
Robyn Wheeler owns The Creature Teacher, www.thecreatureteacher.net, in Mabank, Texas, just east of Dallas.
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Leslie Raber
Leslie Raber tells us about why keeping family in the business is so important. She is the president of her family-owned seafood business, the New England Fish Company and Ocean Spray Seafoods operating from Portland, Maine. The company supplies bait to the lobster fishermen of New England and exports food fish to Europe.
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Lola Boyers
NASE Member Lola Boyers owns Lalajava Coffeehouse in Shrewsbury, Mass. and offers customers a friendly, high-energy, “feel like you’re on vacation” start to their day. It has also been awarded “best coffee” readers’ choice awards.
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Sister Act
NASE Members Penny Castagnozzi and her sister, Nancy Telian, own Reading with TLC, www.readingwithtlc.com, with offices in Stoughton and Weymouth, Mass.
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