The Great Calorie Drive To Benefit United Nations World Food Programme And Feeding America

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(Photo Credit: Zumba)

Zumba fitness recently joined the worldwide movement to merge philanthropy and fitness. They created The Great Calorie Drive to help end world hunger, which secures donations through participation in Zumba fitness classes. You are required to download the Zumba application to your smartphone. When you arrive at your Zumba class [...]

Exclusive Interview With Mary Waldner of Mary’s Gone Crackers

Mary Waldner, Founder & CEO of Mary's Gone Crackers

Mary Waldner, Founder & CEO of Mary's Gone Crackers

With gluten free foods becoming all the new rage these days I wanted to interview someone I believe to be not only a thought leader in the gluten free food industry, but an admirable business woman. I had the honor of interviewing Mary Waldner, [...]

Passionate Living: Kaitlin Sighinolfi

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I always meet the most interesting people when I take my clients to the News Channel 8/ABC 7 studio. Last time I went, I met Kaitlin Sighinolfi, a staffer for Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine. Kaitlin told me that her non-Hodgkins lymphoma is in remission, and that she was going on “Let’s Talk [...]

Meet The Vogue 100 Member: Lesley M.M. Blume

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Lesley M.M. Blume

A week or so ago, I introduced my readers to New York Jewelry Designer, Lisa Salzer of Lulu Frost who is on The Vogue 100 with me. Thus far, the roster of 100 accomplished women hand-selected by Vogue to be part of The Vogue 100 has been unpublished and secretive. [...]

Passionate Living: Cyla Weiner and Helen Kestler

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Helen Kestler and Cyla Weiner at SyLene of Washington

Cyla Weiner and her sister, Helen Kestler grew up around lingerie. They spent their weekends and school vacations working in their parents’ New Jersey lingerie shop. Cyla came to Washington to attend American University, and after college she worked as a buyer for [...]

Meet The Vogue 100 Member: Lisa Salzer

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Lisa Salzer (photo courtesy of Style.com)

I plan to highlight as many of my fellow The Vogue 100 members as possible over the coming months.

Today, I’d like my readers to meet Lisa Salzer of Lulu Frost. Lisa fell in love with jewelry and design through her grandmother, Elizabeth Frost who worked [...]

Paws, Purrs & Exotics Animal Hospital Profiled in Washington Times!

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Vice Mayor Kerry Donley, Dr. Nia Perkins, Mayor William D. Euille, Redella S. “Del” Pepper, president and CEO of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce Tina Leone and Dr. Elton Vyfhuis. (Photo Credit: Stephen Bobb of FidoJournalism.com)

For those that didn’t attend “A Day in the Park” last Saturday, which marked the opening of [...]

Passionate Living: Lezlie Hiner

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Brandon Rease, Kareem Rosser, Kevin Jones, Daymar Rosser, Richard Prather

Lezlie Hiner (photographed at left speaking at The Courage Cup’s Courage & Hope Gala in 2008) embodies “passionate living”. She has taken polo, the ”sport of kings,” to help Philadelphia at-risk youth stay in school. Many would ask, “Why polo?” [...]

Passionate Living: Stacey Vaeth Gonzalez

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Stacey Vaeth Gonzalez

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Michelle Obama: A Revolutionary Icon

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I read a very interesting article by Vanessa Williams on The Root today. She writes, “It’s true: A lot of black women fell for Barack Obama the moment they saw his wife. If a black president represents change, a dark-skinned first lady is straight-up revolutionary.” Having grown up in the South, I am [...]

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