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By Constance, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 0 comments

When she started booking Ashland Coffee & Tea’s bands a decade ago, Kay had no experience and agents weren’t jumping to book the unknown venue. Kay imagined a Listening Room like the Birchmere in Alexandria, where music took center stage. “Audiences treated bar-bands like background noise, so it was a hard sell.” She perfected AC&T’s acoustics, wheedled her way into a music agent’s roster and gambled on unknown talent like The Avett Brothers.

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By Constance, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 0 comments

With tweezers, glue, and synthetic eyelashes, Kendrick’s built a thriving business and earned a devoted clientele. “Eyelash extensions hit California via Korea six years ago, but they’re still relatively unknown,” she says of her signature service at Pandora’s Lashes, her tiny Carytown salon. One-by-one, she glues lash-extensions along clients’ natural lashes, creating a better-than-mascara look.

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By Constance, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 0 comments

 

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By Skirt.com, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 0 comments

Gretchen takes the cake for creative confections. Her custom fondant cake designs have included a three dimensional movie reel, an iPhone, igloo, bottle caps, and a fondant icing mommy-to-be figurine perched on triple layers. She’s even whipped up imaginative cakes for women’s toy parties! The stay-at-home mother of 4, 5, and 7-year-old boys says she’ll get an idea and think “there’s no way I can do that,” then sets out to prove herself wrong—usually at midnight when everyone else is sleeping.

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By Skirt.com, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 0 comments

Tracy didn’t always have her life mapped out, but she says, “As a kid I used to break out the atlas and just start drawing.” Thumbing through National Geographic one day, Tracy saw a map and realized “someone” had to create it. Inspired, she earned a Masters in Geography and landed an internship with “Nati G.” Now a freelance cartographer she admits, “National Geographic has come full circle.

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By Skirt.com, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 0 comments

“Why won’t my cat use the litter box?” “Does my dog like my boyfriend?” “Is my pet happy?” Those are the most popular questions people ask Shelly, a pet psychic who realized her gift very young but suppressed it until several years ago because of society’s “standards.” “I’m just a bridge between you and your animals,” she says. “They want to talk to you.” Younger generations, she feels, are much more in tune with animals, pointing out her 11-year-old daughter is more gifted than she is.

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By Skirt.com, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 0 comments

You could definitely say Joy is a conduit for success. Ten years after launching Service One, Inc. at age 28, her $15.5 million electrical contracting company is Knoxville’s third largest and the fifth largest woman-owned company based on employment. On Jan. 1, 2001, she started with five employees. Her husband, Barry, is Vice President and lead contractor. Service One, Inc. now has 115 employees, down from nearly 200 two years ago. “The stress of all the lives you’re responsible for is unbelievable,” she admits.

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By Skirt.com, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 0 comments

Allison’s job may not be considered odd for long, now that social media is taking the business world by storm. A self-described “social media addict,” the stay-at-home mother of four has turned it into a career, launching her company, Island Networking, to help businesses maintain a presence on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter (follow her: @islandnetworkin). “I’ve always wanted to find my niche,” she says. “I love it so much and I have so much passion for it. And I believe in it.

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By Skirt.com, Thursday, March 11, 2010, 0 comments

Mary Kay can recall many first visits with patients who “are in tears because they are so miserable.” Board certified in emergency medicine, Mary Kay has been making waves (and making people feel much better!) through her work in age management medicine and bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. She's one of our skirt! girls with an odd job this month. 

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By Chris.Kuhn, Monday, March 8, 2010, 0 comments
Many of us say we wish we volunteered more, but how many of us actually do anything about it? Rachel Coleman wasn’t content to attend networking groups and take part in the occasional fundraiser. She wanted to do more to give back and felt that enough other women in the Tampa Bay area felt the same way. She and longtime friend Jessica Grimsley put their heads together to launch a new nonprofit organization. The result?
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By annamullins, Friday, March 5, 2010, 0 comments

Jessica Lauren believes in ghost, and she’s willing to show you where to find them. For the past two years, she’s been a tour guide for the Haunted Memphis Walking Tour, a leisurely excursion with stops at historic, and presumably haunted, spots downtown. “It’s just fun. Get a beer, bring a camera, and let’s go, that’s what I say!” She started the job as a temporary gig, but as a trained actress and lover of local history, she found the odd job was a perfect fit.

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By annamullins, Friday, March 5, 2010, 0 comments
As Mariah Green models her new red party dress, she beams with a special pride. The eleven year old designed and built this dress herself, with the help of the Future’s Fashion Entrepreneurial Women program. Before she attended the F.F.E.W. summer camp, Mariah was just a fashion lover, not a fashion designer.
Memphis
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By annamullins, Friday, March 5, 2010, 0 comments

As someone with competing interests in counseling and art education, Catherine Harris was pretty thrilled to learn the field of art therapy existed. Many people may think art therapy is an odd job, but only because they’ve never heard of it. “I spend a lot of time explaining to people what I do,” Catherine confesses with a smile. She now has her own practice in Memphis, using art work in service of others.

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By annamullins, Friday, March 5, 2010, 0 comments

Adult day care is a new concept to many, and as Executive Director of Page Robbins Adult Day Care Center, Herbie Krisle is letting families know there is a positive alternative to nursing homes. Her work in the field actually began in her own home. While caring for her mother who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, Herbie realized she had certain abilities and a passion for care giving.

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By skirtSteph, Thursday, March 4, 2010, 0 comments

Sonya Yong James Sonya’s parents met during the Vietnam War and he moved his new bride back to his home state of Tennessee. Soon the couple had Sonya and moved to Atlanta when she was about 6 months old. (Which makes her practically a native now at age 38!)

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By Skirt.com, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 0 comments

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By Skirt.com, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 0 comments

The stallion manager at Midway’s Three Chimneys Farm, Sandy is in the business of breeding million-dollar babies. She oversees 12 stallions standing at stud at one of the world’s premier thoroughbred operations and holds the distinction of being the only woman in that role at a major Bluegrass farm. She chats regularly with tour groups. She’s even met the Queen. Sandy works with big-timers like Smarty Jones and Big Brown, handling the business of “live cover”—real horsey hanky-panky.

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By Skirt.com, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 0 comments

Within the white-walled, stainless-steel environment of Lexington’s Coldstream Laboratories, Angela Harrison is busy growing bugs—the germy kind. Angela, a microbiologist, helps deliver small-batch injectible cancer drugs for clinical and commercial use by first proving they are sterile and free of organisms that could harm patients. That involves conducting pre-tests and handling and growing cultures of some bad-boy bacteria, including Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus aureus and certain strains of E. coli.

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By Skirt.com, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 1 comments

Odd Jobs After 13 years as an academic librarian, Jeri is an expert at finding the answer to just about any question. Need a comprehensive comparison of similar products on the market? She’s your girl. Spending a week in Florence for work, and want to maximize your small amount of time for sight-seeing? Jeri will create and produce a custom guide for you, down to the tiniest details.

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By Skirt.com, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 0 comments

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By Skirt.com, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 0 comments

“I never set out to have a nail file company,” says Colleen, the entrepreneur and visionary behind Top Notch Nail Files. “It was totally women’s intuition.” After spying glass nail files for sale, Colleen figured that crystal, being stronger than glass, would make the files even more durable. She promptly went home, came up with a design, located a crystal manufacturer, and spent her rent money on a stash of them.

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By kpatrick415, Monday, March 1, 2010, 0 comments
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By kpatrick415, Monday, March 1, 2010, 0 comments

Within the white-walled, stainless-steel environment of Lexington’s Coldstream Laboratories, Angela Harrison is busy growing bugs – the germy kind. Angela, a microbiologist, helps deliver small-batch injectible cancer drugs for clinical and commercial use by first proving they are sterile and free of organisms that could harm patients. That involves conducting pre-tests and handling and growing cultures of some bad-boy bacteria, including Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus aureus and certain strains of E. coli.

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By noranc, Monday, March 1, 2010, 0 comments

If you’ve eaten in one of the 90 restaurants across the state that use cheese from Goat Lady Dairy, you’ve probably sampled Carrie’s work. As a cheese maker for the Climax farm, she starts her day at 6am to produce the 40,000 pounds of cheese Goat Lady sells each year, from the fresh garlic-chive Chevre to the mold-ripened Camembert.

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By noranc, Monday, March 1, 2010, 0 comments

Walk into Terra Blue, Sarah’s downtown store, for a cup of coffee, and you may leave with a new outlook on life. Her official title may be owner, but for many of her customers, Sarah is also a sounding board, spending hours with someone who is, whether they knew it or not, looking for guidance.

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By noranc, Monday, March 1, 2010, 0 comments

 It’s not every day that an elderly man asks you to pierce his testicle, but for Wendi, it’s all part of the job. The piercer and owner of Kingpin Studio has been in the business for 11 years, ever since she discovered her small, ambidextrous hands made her perfect for the job.

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By noranc, Monday, March 1, 2010, 0 comments

Need your dog walked, your kitchen organized and your business promoted? Call Leigh Anne and Paula. The owners of You Time Solutions (youtimesolutions.com) coined the phrase lifestyle logistics to describe their array of services, which cover everything from adjusting a chair to helping launch a nonprofit. “We are the solution for people’s busy lifestyle,” says Paula, who founded the company in 2007.

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By Gary Mills, Monday, March 1, 2010, 0 comments

 

There’s no doubt that two-time Emmy Award-winning actress Heather Tom’s star is on the rise; her lengthy list of credits include film, television and Broadway. Her day job, playing Katie Logan on the daytime television series “The Bold and the Beautiful,” keeps her busy, but not so busy that she doesn’t have time to support the causes she believes in.

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By writin4alivin, Monday, March 1, 2010, 0 comments

 As a 16-year-old, Jennifer Poss Taylor began praying for Ashley. At the time, she just didn’t know how much her little girl would need someone like her.

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By sLogan, Monday, March 1, 2010, 0 comments

When Linda got started in the winemaking business over 30 years ago, she had never tasting the nectar she sought to make. The self-taught winemaker at RagApple Lassie Vineyards broke into the business when there were few female winemakers. “It’s an interesting business because even when I was the only one, it didn’t make any difference. I was never treated any differently [because I was a woman],” she says. Today, women are still a minority in the industry, but Linda is working to kick that statistic.

 
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