Friday Spotlight: Michele Martin, Finance
Michele graduated with a BA from UCSB and quickly started her ascent up the corporate ladder. She quickly moved from accounting to marketing to managing top client accounts and developing software solutions to manage her own sales and support team. For the last 14 years of her career she specialized
Friday Spotlight: Melissa Cody, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
My father passed away when I was quite young and I watched my mother struggle to provide everything that she could for me, working as many as three jobs at once. As a result, I determined that I had to go to college and excel so I could provide for my family. And I actually […]
21 Affordable Summer Activities for Kids
Some of us Mom’s have a love/hate relationship with Summer Break. We love the first week, no rushing out the door, no packing lunches, no homework stress, the list goes on and on. Then a few weeks in we begin to feel the stress of having kids around 24/7 or we hear the dreaded “I’m […]
Friday Spotlight: Suzanne McCurdy, Diet Technician
Working has always been my passion. I get bored easily and need to stay busy. I began working at the age of 15 after begging my father for a job and literally hanging out at the motorcycle dealership I wanted to work at every day for a month. The owner finally decided to hire me […]
Tips for Moms to Thrive This Summer
Buckle Up Moms It’s Summer! Field Day, Volunteer Appreciation lunch, Principal retirement lunch, 8th grade beach day, 8th grade graduation practice, graduation, graduation dance, party and ½ days for the next two weeks. Somewhere in there you strive to schedule things for you. Workouts, personal
Friday Spotlight: Kate Shean
I have a Master’s degree from Northwestern University and have worked as an Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapist since 1998. I love working with people, teaching them how to get healthy, return to physical activities and ultimately live happier lives. But working in a clinic with patients required
Friday Spotlight: Dana Wikoff
I have always been a hard worker and at a young age worked in various management positions. I started in restaurant management at age 18, and then transition to the position of Warehouse Manager for a high-end women’s fashion line. Realizing I hadn’t found my passion, I returned to college full-
What Sports Taught Me About Balancing My Life
Growing up in San Diego, I was raised in a family of athletes. My Dad had a stint in the NFL, my brothers played in the NFL and the MLB and my mom is an avid golfer. Me, I grew up playing competitive soccer. In college, it was my dream to become a TV anchor […]
Friday Spotlight: Jennifer Becker
Jennifer Becker took an entire month last summer to travel with her husband and children. “My time was so well spent with my kids,” she says. “We were out in a cabin in the woods—it was the sort of thing I never would’ve been able to do in corporate America.” Jen isn’t saying that hypo
Bay Leaves: January 2016
Ladies with strong ties to Whitefish Bay are now bringing their business to the area for our local moms to benefit from. The founder and owner of Momsmakingsixfigures.com is Heidi Bartolotta, who started the company in 2008 when her two daughters were both under the age of five, and the family