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 Real Mom Stories - Eleanore Magarelli |
| This McGraw-Hill administrative assistant has triumphed over infertility, money woes and a crooked building contractor. |
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By: Suzanne Riss,
Photo: Matthew Hranek
It was a seven-year roller coaster of hope and disappointment for Eleanore Magarelli. She saw many friends and relatives start their own families while she underwent surgeries, an ectopic pregnancy and nine rounds of IVF. “She was truly happy for each and every one of us,” says Elle’s best friend, Denise Corpion. But the drugs, injections and missed opportunities took ...
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Stephanie Ruhle Hubbard  |
| With sleeves rolled up, three phones in hand and high heels clicking, Stephanie Ruhle Hubbard navigates the testosterone- infused credit-trading floor with an easy confidence. ... |
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| Anna Nazaruk |
| If there’s one place most of us would rather not revisit, it’s junior high. But Anna Nazaruk does that every day. A graduate of Westlake ...
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| IBM's Inhi Cho Suh |
| A sea of faces, almost none like hers; a blur of signs she couldn’t read; the jumbled sounds of a language she didn’t understand—these are ... |
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| Daunielle Jones | |
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This single working mom tells how she makes it through.
The day is new, and Daunielle Jones has barely missed a moment of it by the time she is up flipping home-made pancakes in the kitchen. The hour is seven a.m, the number of eager-for-breakfast children is three. Soon, her three girls, Skylar (10), Symone (8), and Sydni (7), will be off to see relatives, and Daunielle must get to a doctor’s appointment by 8:30 a.m. She’d like some time between cooking and departing, but her girls seem prepared to ...
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| Disney's Imagineer Mom | |
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Colleen Meyers counts on her colleagues
Creativity, for Orlando-based mom of two Colleen Meyers, is just part of a day’s work. A show production designer for Walt Disney Imagineering , she belongs to a hands-on team dedicated to fabricating the virtual reality that makes the Magic Kingdom such an intoxicating experience for kids all ages. Colleen is the one who, to the delight of her 4 year-old daughter Katie, gets to paint Cinderella’s castle. How cool is that? And the artistic fulfillment she finds in her ...
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| Cisco's Youngest Female VP | |
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Blair Christie says she lets humor and advice from her mother guide her through stressful times.
Blair Christie’s mom used to encourage her to close her eyes, imagine what she wanted from life and then go after it. Blair fully believed this would work, because it’s just what her mom did to get back on her feet after a difficult divorce. “She truly believed that if you could see it, you could achieve it,” says Blair. “I owe all of my success in life to her.”
Topping the list of Blair’s many successes: a ten-year ...
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| Ringling's Mom Cannonball | |
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Circus performer Tina Miser gets a bang out of motherhood.
Most moms would probably describe their daily lives as a circus act – juggling schedules, taming the wild beasts also known as children, balancing on a tightrope without a safety net – and working mom Tina Miser, 33, would agree. As the human cannonball for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Tina travels 50 weeks out of the year while also raising her 5-year-old daughter, Skyler.
Tina began performing in her hometown of Peru, Indiana at an ...
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| Emily Klyachman | |
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36, senior manager, Department of Professional Practice, KPMG,
36, New York City; Husband Alex; Daughter Gabriella, 3
In the face of detours that might have caused others to pull over and curse the road, Emily Klyachman simply mapped a new route.
As life took her down many a winding path—from relocating to the United States from Russia at age 17 to false starts in medicine and law to miscarriages—she remained flexible. “I’m definitely a planner. That’s what makes it work for me,” says Emily, 36, who speaks perfect English with just a hint of a Russian ...
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| Anucha Browne Sanders | |
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46, senior associate athletic director for marketing, University of Buffalo
Anucha Browne Sanders wore her game face the day she made history. The six-foot-one former college basketball star stood unmoved as the judge awarded her damages of $11.6 million in her sexual harassment lawsuit against former New York Knicks general manager Isiah Thomas, Madison Square Garden and James L. Dolan, chairman of Madison Square Garden. Having fought and won the truculent and very public landmark case, this former executive for the Knicks waited until the judge, jury and press filed ...
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| Margo Georgiadis | |
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This Discover Financial Services Exec shares her strategy for worklife balance
“I don’t try to be a superhero – they only exist on TV.” So admits Margo Georgiadis, working mom and the woman responsible for the Discover Card brand. “It’s hard to do it all – you have to make choices.”
As Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Discover Financial Services, Margo has been instrumental in developing consumer-friendly products that help people save time and put more money back in their pockets. “I’m driven by the opportunity to ...
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| Raysa Penelope Abreu | |
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32, executive assistant, Vornado
Realty Trust, New York City; single mom to Martín Salvador Ortega, 10
When doctors told Raysa Penelope Abreu that the man who was her life partner, her mentor and the father of her son had something more serious than shortness of breath—it was cancer, and he had less than three months to live—she didn’t cry or despair. She rose to her feet, picked up her handbag and had one thought: “I knew I needed to get him out of that hospital to a place where he’d survive.”
So began a three-year ...
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| Kim Reome | |
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Vice President of the Kenrich Group, LLC, mom to 5 year old twins Katie and Emily, Chicago, IL
“Since I started working, meeting my career goals has been a top priority and I always saw myself on a professional track. Having my daughters only intensified this belief.”
While litigation consulting isn’t considered a walk in the park, compared to infant twins, it might as well be. “Without a doubt, caring for two babies at once has been harder than any consulting project I’ve worked on,” says Kim, who can count oil companies, financial institutions and government contractors ...
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| Nancy Phelan | |
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39, executive director, consumer communications and e-marketing, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA; husband Robert and children Greyson, 9, and Ashlyn, 4
When Nancy Phelan’s parents split, her stay-at-home mom morphed into a working mom overnight. It was a transformation that would have a life-altering impact on her four kids. “As a musician, my mom’s schedule was dictated by the weddings, concerts and events she was playing,” recalls Nancy. “I helped out a lot, more than I would have willingly signed up to do.”
Though only 9 at the time of the divorce, Nancy, the eldest child, suddenly found herself taking ...
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| Shannon Eusey | |
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38, President, Co-Founder Beacon Pointe Advisors, Newport Beach, CA
She’s one of six kids and has four of her own. Her grandfather was one of the original Little Rascals. And her husband, whom she met when she was 18, is a stay-at-home dad. Shannon Eusey has some great stories to tell.
Now, however, the biggest story to tell is about how the American market is in a downward spiral, which makes Shannon’s job even more vital. “The unprecedented turmoil in the financial sector over the past few months ...
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| Comedy Helps This Bi-Coastal Mom Of Two | |
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Sunda Croonquist, Comedian, Los Angeles/New York
“There’s a word for someone who has two kids in two years,” comedian Sunda Croonquist quips.
“Suicidal.”
This working mom tells jokes like it’s her job…probably because it is! Mother to Aviva Joy, 7, and Tovah Alyza, 5, Sunda splits her time between her family and the stage—she has been a stand-up comedian for 15 years, and is currently the host of “All Star Comedy” at the world-famous Laugh Factory in Hollywood. Sunda has appeared on HBO’s “Chris ...
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| Jennifer M. Lee | |
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37, managing director at the Neuberger Berman division of Lehman Brothers, New York City.
When Jennifer M. Lee was growing up in Dayton, OH, a quiet minister’s daughter, she never imagined that one day she’d be a towering Manhattan banker with a dry sense of humor and an insatiable travel bug. “I always wanted to be a petite cheerleader who was cute and confident in size five shoes and had a boyfriend or two,” reveals Jennifer, 37, mom to Reid, 10 months. Instead, she topped out at six-one when she was 14 years old, ...
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| How This Breadwinner Survived A Lay Off | |
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Jennifer Zipp, 32, Denim Research and Development, Calvin Klein Jeans, Brooklyn, New York
When Jennifer was little, she was one of those young girls who seemed so fragile. She was sweet and quiet, and always managed to be the one who got hurt on the urban playgrounds where she grew up. Stylish from the beginning, her first documented look was feminine dresses worn in kindergarten and 1st grade, before teasing by the boys made her swear off girly things, in exchange for matching sweatpants sets. She wore her pin straight hair with blunt ...
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| How This NASCAR Mom Let Her Kids Follow Their Dreams And Found Her Own Along The Way | |
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Cindi Coleman, 49, President, Beauty Cosmedics, NASCAR mom, Houston, Texas
Mother to NASCAR driver Brad Coleman, Cindi has to sit in the stands and watch her 20-year-old son fly around a racetrack at 200 miles an hour. She admits that she's terrified for him every time he climbs into that car, but the mom-of-three would never try to stand in the way of her son’s dream.
"As a mother, I want to scream to him to get out of there. But I can't do that," she explains. "It's his ...
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| Mia Galison | |
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45, President and Creative director of eeBoo, New York City
Mia Galison has three kids, but has never set foot inside a Toys “R” Us. The creative brains behind New York-based eeBoo, Mia managed to build her very own toy company from the ground up…while she had three children under the age of two toddling around. Meanwhile, her husband, Saxton Freymann, was also channeling his creativity as an artist and children’s book illustrator, and the family had to hustle to make ends meet.
“I ran my business out of ...
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| Senator Amy Klobuchar | |
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48, Minnesota Senator, Washington, DC
Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to fighting for what’s right, but outside of the Senate chamber, she's a typical working mom raising her 13-year-old daughter, Abigail, with her husband, John Bessler.
While being a working mother certainly isn't a unique situation, in the senator’s case, it actually is—she's one of only five other senators with children under the age of 15, and they all have families in the Washington, DC ...
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| Melissa Bianchi | |
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38, partner, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC; husband Manny Pastreich and children Elena, 9, Julia, 6, and Sam, 20 months
When she was pregnant with her first child, Melissa Bianchi got a none-too-pleasant taste of what life as a female lawyer could be like. A male supervisor at one of her first jobs would wander into her office and make comments like “Don’t you think women make up this whole morning-sickness thing?” Melissa was still in law school and didn’t have a lot of work experience, but she knew this was not the supportive environment she wanted. “The experience showed ...
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| Anya Ponorovskaya | |
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38, GirlCat boutique owner, designer, New York City, New York
She’s a single mom who arrived in America a Russian refugee. She vacations with her ex and his girlfriend. And her preferred method of transportation is her bicycle. Who is this eclectic woman? Anya Ponorovskaya, a one-woman entrepreneurial powerhouse!
Anya’s mom was just twenty-four-years-old when she left Leningrad with her two young kids. “I cannot imagine having the life she'd had and always be so positive the way she is.” Anya shares. “She survived living in a communist country ...
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| Deirdre Carey | |
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40, Director of Account Services at Kel & Partners, Marketing & Public Relations Agency, Franklin, Massachusetts
Deirdre Carey was stricken with cancer when she was 32-years-old, but it wasn’t her who was given the diagnosis of less than a year to live, it was her almost six-month-old son, Charlie. But for Deirdre, hearing the unthinkable helped her achieve the impossible. Children are our joy; we would stop at nothing to help them live full and happy lives. And the this family found ways to move mountains.
Deirdre’s journey was documented in her highly compelling and ...
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| Kelley Earnhardt Elledge | |
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35, General Manager for JR Motorsports (NASCAR), Mooresville, North Carolina
Where are all the women in NASCAR? Behind-the-scenes making everything run smoothly. Supermom Kelley Earnhardt Elledge not only manages her brother, the sport’s favorite son Dale Earnhardt Jr., she instills Sprint Cup-worthy values into her two-daughter household.
At press time, JR Motorsports is not only celebrating their first win of the season for the number 88 and driver Brad Keselowski in the Nationwide Series, but Dale Earnhardt Jr. ended his 76 week no-win drought, bringing the Sprint Cup number ...
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| Gina Neely | |
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42, co-host "Down Home With The Neelys," Memphis, Tennessee
With all aspects of her life deeply rooted in family, Gina Neely knows the secret to making it all work. “If there’s one thing I would stress,” Gina says, “it’s that you must take time for yourself no matter what. We have to stop feeling so guilty about that.” And she’s right. When we caught up with her, she was in Memphis playing catch-up after being knee deep into the second season taping of “Down Home With The Neelys,” which ...
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| Phebe Neely | |
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30, senior manager, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, New York City
It wasn’t unusual for school to be canceled because of typhoons, earthquakes and military attacks when Phebe Neely was growing up in the Philippines. “I didn’t know anything different,” she says. “Being the daughter of a military officer makes you adapt to uncertainty. It seemed like a big adventure.” But when she was 13, the adventure took a frightening turn: Volcano Mt. Pinatubo erupted, wiping out homes and food and water supplies in the area where Phebe and her family ...
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| London King | |
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41, Owner and sole employee, Push Love, Professional Labor Support Doula, Personal Trainer, Holistic Heath Counselor, Stress Management/Mediation Specialist, New York City
Motherhood, for busy holistic health professional London, helped develop many skills crucial for her work. Chief among them is a deep compassion for others. The natural positive energy she possesses is perfect for her role as doula, a career that until recently hasn’t been well known. “I’ve been a personal trainer for the last 13 years,” London shares. “About four years ago, one of my clients wanted to get in the best shape of her life before she became pregnant. ...
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| Carina Menzies | |
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32, Founder, Everyday Minerals, Austin, Texas
“Launching a business is a misnomer to me,” Carina says. “Everyday Minerals didn’t have a big majestic ‘launch’ but rather set to the sea of commerce without much fanfare.” But that modest approach is no longer the case for the cosmetic company founder. After several years of conceptualization, the line came together, and it’s a line built with good ethics. That’s right…makeup that won’t harm your skin or the earth since there are no harsh ingredients—it’s all natural.
Every ...
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| Jennifer Baum Lagdameo | |
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37, Owner and Designer, Ananas Handbags, Jennifer Baum Lagdameo, New York, NY
Jennifer Lagdameo embraces the spirit of environmental responsibility with her eye-catching spring eco-line, but she also instills it in her son, seven-year-old Eli.
“Eli is obsessed with ‘the three R's'—reuse, reduce, and recycle,” Jennifer tells us, and he has a true appreciation for nature; he even strikes up conversations with the farmers at the farmer's market the family frequents. “He carries his eco-tote and chooses new fruits and vegetables every time.” Jennifer tells us. There’s no fooling Eli—he once ...
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| Julie Hudak | |
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39, president of TEIS (Therapeutic Early Intervention Services), Pittsburgh; mom to Benjamin, 6, Lillian, 4, and Sarah, 2
The keeper of hundreds of heartbreaking stories, Julie Hudak sees her job as ensuring happy endings. Cut to Margie Kondrich. When her daughter, Chloe, was born with Down syndrome, it rocked her world. Margie, then 40, was in complete shock since several ultrasounds had not detected any problems. “Margie would cry on my shoulder,” says Julie, a licensed physical therapist and mother of three, who’s often the first professional to visit a family in their home when they have a ...
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| Erin Lynne Meunier | |
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27, Owner and Designer, Elm Studios, Orchard Park, NY
Working from home with two small children is no easy feat, but Erin Lynne Meunier managed to not only build her business after having baby number one, she found it taking off after baby number two. Elm Studios’ designs are sold on Etsy, an online marketplace for buying and selling all things handmade. Here you’ll find unique items crafted by talented individuals from all over the globe. Erin’s shop showcases delicately beautiful jewelry and enchanting pottery, and the way in ...
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| Jennifer Terban | |
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31, Co-Owner, East Side Ink, New York City
Plumbing has played a large role in Jennifer Terban’s life. Her fiancé, Tim, proposed after they chose toilets in a home improvement store, their beach wedding was postponed after finding out the cost of portable potties, and Jen’s water broke while meeting with the plumber for her soon-to-open tattoo shop, East Side Ink. But her perseverance wasn’t about to be flushed away.
With two partners, Jennifer wanted to revive one of the first tattoo shops in NYC, a shop ...
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| Kelly Neal Marotti | |
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38, president and chief designer,
Green Frog Art, Ponte Vedra
Beach, FL
When she launched her own children's furniture design business 12 years ago, Kelly Neal Mariotti had some notable disadvantages: She had no design background whatsoever and had never worked a day in the furniture business. "I'm completely self-taught in the industry," she says. "Needless to say, there was a lot of guesswork and trial and error involved." Of course, Kelly also had some impressive advantages: an accounting degree, a law degree and two years of working in mergers and ...
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| Johanna Allio | |
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26, property manager, Los Angeles; single mom to Isabella, 6
Johanna Allio has had several stressful weeks while the luxury apartment building she manages in Los Angeles undergoes a face-lift. During renovations, toilets have overflowed and air-conditioning units have conked out. On one particularly bad day, an electrician rewiring an air conditioner shocked himself so badly he flew off the ladder and lay shaking on the floor in front of two horrified young tenants and their visiting moms. Fortunately the electrician got up and was fine, but "the moms flipped ...
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| Nicole Clapp | |
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34, Executive Specialist at American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC
Nicole Clapp, 34, is finally getting some sleep. But it took 16 months for her twin daughters, Kennedy and Jordan, now 2, to sleep for more than two and a half hours at a stretch. And it took this single mom three episodes of jarring herself awake at the wheel—just in time to keep from rear-ending the car ahead of her—to have an epiphany about what she could and couldn't do on her own. "I was too tired to ...
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| Elizabeth Warren | |
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Elizabeth Warren, 32, ninth-grade English teacher, West Haven High School, West Haven, CT; mom of two
Most of us, if we're lucky, have had that one remarkable teacher—the
one who nurtured us, pushed us, listened to us and taught us lessons
that went beyond the boundaries of the classroom. This teacher took the
time to notice what was unique about each student, so that they all
knew, even those who felt like outcasts most of the time, that at least
in this one class, in this one place, they were just as valuable as
everyone else. For students at West Haven High ...
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| Melisa La Tour | |
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34, publicist, makeup artist and founder of MTL Communications, a boutique marketing and communications company
Melisa La Tour starts each day with the best intentions. She makes intricate lists to stay organized as she cares for her almost 2-year-old twins, Venezia and Rocco, and works at her Hoboken, NJ, home-based PR company. But as most moms find—especially those raising twins—the best-laid plans often go awry. On this morning, Venezia is bawling because Rocco has swiped her Big Bird book, and she retaliates by grabbing a fistful of his hair. As Melisa tries to intervene, ...
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| Shannon Brouillette | |
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34, Chief Executive Officer, CFO Strategic Partners, Orlando, FL
If you ask Shannon Brouillette what she's like—as a mom, as a wife, as a business owner—she'll answer you modestly. She'll tell you she feels guilty about not being there for every one of her 4- and 6-year-old sons' school events, when all the other moms seem to manage to find the time. She'll say that she has employees at her Orlando, FL-based company, CFO Strategic Partners, who are better and brighter than she is, though she's the one who ...
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| Vicki Engel | |
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34, family physician and partner, Drs. Weeks and Engel Family Medicine, Kingston, NY
Dr. Vicki Engel steps into the examination room, and before she even takes out her stethoscope, she has a pretty good idea what's going on with her patient, a working mother like herself. "I can spot them right away," says Vicki, a part-time family physician in Kingston, NY. "I'll ask them how they're doing and I'll get 'the look'—that happy-tired smile that says, I love my life, but I'm so exhausted." Vicki suggests vitamin supplements, stress-reduction exercises and offers ...
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| Karen Tse | |
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42, founder and CEO, International Bridges to Justice, Geneva, Switzerland; mom of two
It's 6:00 a.m., and Karen Tse is at home in Geneva, Switzerland, fielding calls from government officials and advisors in Asia and the United States who can help in her life's mission: defending human rights. An hour later, husband Alex Wong, 40, gets their 3-year-old son, Noah, ready for school while Karen nurses their 8-month-old, Nathaniel. Most days, work and family are pretty much interwoven for this attorney and founder of International Bridges to Justice (IBJ), which develops criminal ...
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| Soledad Obrien | |
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Soledad O'Brien, 40, Anchor of CNN's American Morning, New York, NY
Soledad O'Brien's spirited manner is a perfect fit for anchoring a
national morning news show, but it can sometimes deflate, say, at the
local pizza parlor. About six months ago, she, her husband, Brad
Raymond, and their four kids—Sofia, 6, Cecilia, 4, and twins Charlie
and Jackson, 2—went out for dinner. "All of us were wiped out," Soledad
says, cringing at the memory. "And this woman at the table next to us
says, 'This is the happiest time of your life.' I nearly burst into
tears. ...
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| Jennifer Scully-Lerner | |
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36, vice president, private wealth management, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
With a dozen
investment portfolios in her care, each with an average value of about
$35 million, Jennifer Scully-Lerner can't afford to leave even the
smallest market detail to chance. Before the clang of the opening bell
on the New York Stock Exchange at 9:30 a.m., she's perused today's Wall
Street Journal, examined the results of after-hours trading, analyzed
the action on the London, Tokyo and Hong Kong exchanges, checked the
prices of gold and oil and scanned the values of several currencies. Of
course, the 36-year-old ...
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| Karrie Claytor | |
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39, relocation manager for Accenture, Chicago, IL; single mom to Caitlin, 12, and Colin, 6
Whether she's at work or at home, single mom Karrie Claytor, a
relo-ca-tion manager for the international consulting firm Accenture,
keeps people moving—including herself! The Kentucky native assists some
of the hundreds of employees each year who require transfers. It's a
position that demands strong organizational skills, a knack for
problem-solving and the ability to keep your head, no matter how
stressful things get—the same qualities that serve her well as a
divorced mother of two.
From her office on the eighteenth floor of Accenture's Chicago ...
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| Leanne Alonso | |
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Leeanne Alonso, 42, vice president of the Rapid
Assessment Program, Conservation International, Arlington, VA
If there's one thing that's changed about Leeanne Alonso since having her twins, Antonio and Miguel, six years ago, it's that she's no longer as likely to catch snakes with her bare hands. For her boys' sake, she's unwilling to chance a poisonous bite. But work like hers is never entirely risk-free. As an international conservationist, she travels deep into the wilds of countries like Ivory Coast, New Guinea and Nepal—locales so remote that it takes days to reach them ...
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| Holly Lambert | |
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35, Owner, Director and Teacher, Harmony Family Preschool, Hanover, MA
At Harmony Family Preschool, two of
the teachers' aides are furry and occasionally bark, while another
whistles and sports colorful feathers. The two dogs, Chief and Blue,
and the bird, a parakeet named Squankie, belong to the family of the
school's owner and director, Holly Lambert. A mom of five who is also
one of the school's two teachers, Holly enlists her furry and feathery
friends to help the 25 students-ages 2 to 4-learn about responsibility,
make strides in their emotional development and even get through ...
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| Cherie Palmer | |
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35, owner, Keep It Reel, and VP of operations, Palmer's Ace Hardware, River Edge, NJ
It's 2:00 a.m., and Cherie Palmer's
home computer is still humming. She scans in a photograph. Then
another. With the click of a mouse, she drops in a video clip and sets
it all to music. Voil ...
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| Caroline Cheng | |
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37, Attorney, Deloitte & Touche, New York City
Caroline Cheng defies all the stereotypes. For one thing, her suits are
professional-looking yet fashionable and flattering—hardly the
buttoned-up style one might expect to see on a corporate lawyer. For
another, the willowy 37-year-old is brash, funny and quick to speak her
mind—far from the cliched image of the reticent Asian-American woman.
And as for fitting into some notion of a harried, conflicted working
mother, the wide smile on Caroline's face when she speaks about her
love for her job and her family takes that idea, ...
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| Sarah Landrum | |
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32, Director of Promotions and Sponsorship, Capital One, Richmond,VA
Sarah Landrum was a picture of poise
as she attended an office meeting six weeks after having her son,
Turner. Just a couple of hours, she told herself, and she'd be home
with her baby. Then her cell phone rang."All I could hear was Turner
screaming-my husband could not get him to eat. I felt so guilty,"
recalls Sarah, who's a marketing mom at the financial services company
Capital One in Richmond, VA. She darted into the restroom, stifling
tears. "I went back into the meeting ...
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| Amanda Poses | |
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29, Owner, Fill-r-up, New York City
Red-carpet events used to be all about who wore what. But now the
morning-after buzz is often about what was in the celebrity gift
bags—and no one is more aware of this than Amanda Poses. "We've even
done gift bags for a celebrity dog party—Diddy's and Beyonc ...
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| Martha Ruiz | |
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33, Accountant, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Los Angeles
Martha Ruiz emerges confidently from the back of a long black
limousine and places her sparkly, strappy sandals on the red carpet—the
red carpet. Minutes later, Oprah is to her right, Clint Eastwood to her
left. It's everything Martha ever imagined Oscar night would be: the
ultimate glam and glitz in a sea of photo flash and snap. "So, I was
standing next to Oprah Winfrey, trying to be calm and cool on the
outside," recalls Martha, an accountant and mom to 18-month-old
daughter Monet Catherine. ...
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| Michelle Swittenberg | |
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40, vice president of marketing and sales for
Verizon's New York region, Maplewood, NJ
With 2,400 employees and $250 million under her charge, Michelle Swittenberg is unabashed about her choice to be a working mother. "I'm one of those moms who, though I love my son to death, couldn't wait to get back to work after he was born," says this VP of marketing and sales for Verizon's New York region. "Reese has been in day care since he was about eight weeks old, and some women might judge me for that, but it's ...
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31, Radio City Rockette, Evanston, IL
Each night during the holiday season, Cassady Chiarelli waits in the
wings, sparkling like a snowflake. But before she and her fellow Radio
City Rockettes high-kick it onstage, the mother of two scrambles for
her cell phone. "The hardest thing about my job is that I don't get to
put my kids to bed many nights," she says. "So before I go on, I call
them, sing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' and say good night."
This holiday season is Cassady's eighth with the world-famous ...
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30, Manager, Process Excellence
Johnson & Johnson, Raritan, NJ
At Carla Calizaire's desk sits a 12-inch cast-iron swine with wings
and a sign that reads: "I can fly." It's a gift from a coworker who saw
it and thought, " 'That's so Carla. She's always saying anything's
possible." "That's right," says Carla. "Hang around me long enough and
pigs will fly."
Carla works in a consulting role as a manager in process excellence for
Johnson & Johnson. That means she helps various operating units
throughout the pharmaceutical giant streamline, focus and strategize to
be ...
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