Archive for July 18th, 2008

thestarpress.com:
A team now in more ways than one, Lydia and Chris run Underwood’s Fine Finishes.
A single mom in between jobs, Lydia (Kaderly) Underwood hardly seemed the type to open a business a few short years ago.

But she did.
“My dad encouraged me,” said Lydia, who subsequently found a partner for her specialty painting business — and [...]

East Valley Tribune:
A childhood of homelessness, starvation and illness doesn’t make for stand-up comedy, but Lisa Ann Oliveira has turned her life into a stream of schtick.
It all falls under her new life philosophy: “There are no victims, only volunteers.”
For the past two years, the Scottsdale real estate agent and single mom of four kids [...]

C|Net:
Just three years ago, she was one of “three chicks with credit cards” trying to form a consortium of female bloggers.
Now, former CNN journalist Lisa Stone is championing a network of 2,200 blogs in a fresh strategic partnership with iVillage, taking on a new $5 million investment from iVillage-parent NBC Universal, and playing host to [...]

Before she had a family, she had her fuzzy friends. Then she met the man who would become her husband and when she had her son, she decided she wanted to become a full time mom, and start up her own business; Camp Run-A-Pup Doggie Day Camp.
Wanting to make sure her day camp would [...]

Those who have a child in daycare are most likely to have experienced the exact same situation as Pia Callesen did with her son. Many times when she’d show up to pick up her son he’d have someone else’s pacifier in his mouth and his would be nowhere to be found. Determined to [...]