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		<title>Lisa Roth: Creator of Rockabye Baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rebecca fernandez]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you combine an enormous void in a major market with a genius innovator, you have Lisa Roth and her brainchild, Rockabye Baby. Anyone with a child or even anyone who knows a child, knows their choices in entertainment can be annoying at best and ear-bleedingly awful at worst (is Barney still a thing??). Enter Rockabye Baby, a musical solution that makes everyone happy, and if you can make everyone happy, you&#8217;ve won at life. What gave you the idea to create Rockabye Baby? How did you know it was the right time to go for it? About two weeks into my job at CMH Label Group, I was shopping for a baby shower gift and saw nothing in the music department that I considered parent-friendly. I wanted to give something that an adult would enjoy, that had a sense of humor and a little irony. Working at the record label, I thought maybe we could do something about that. My co-worker at the time, Valerie Aiello, had a similar idea, and about a year later Rockabye Baby was born. Now, almost ten years in, Rockabye Baby is going strong as an internationally-known brand.   As far as timing, I guess necessity [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Zerlina Maxwell: Political Analyst</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rebecca fernandez]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the (very) off chance you have not yet heard of Zerlina Maxwell, allow me to introduce you. And please, mark my words, she will soon be a household name &#8212; so you should pay attention. Maxwell is a feminist force who takes on everything from politics, sexual assault and domestic violence to pop culture in one fell swoop. She&#8217;s been everywhere from the White House to the pages of the New York Times. She can seamlessly transition from commanding a room to starting a Twitter movement. If there&#8217;s a conversation about women&#8217;s issues happening, you&#8217;ll likely find Maxwell at the center of it, motivating her fans and followers to critically think about important issues and spread the message of equality as far as digitally possible. You received your law degree after obtaining a B.A. in International Relations. What was your motivation for seeking higher education? Education was something my parents saw as valuable, and so I thought was valuable from an early age. They didn&#8217;t really even have to tell me at a certain point to do my homework. I was just trying to be an over-achiever. I also was really fortunate because I grew up in a pretty [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lea Redmond: Author, All Lovely Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rebecca fernandez]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Lovely Things is not just a book, it&#8217;s a journey. Your journey &#8212; a catalogue of important items and moments in your life. It&#8217;s an interactive guide to yourself. Most of all, it&#8217;s beautiful and fun. Lea Redmond has used her unique talents to create a tangible collection of personal moments, which she uses to give her readers an opportunity to reflect and creatively explore their own moments in history. With All Lovely Things you can organize and recreate your lifelong collections of objects and memories, and thanks to Redmond&#8217;s extraordinary talent at bringing the unusual to life , you can delve into the inner workings of your own past. Click here to buy. What inspired All Lovely Things? Since I was a child, I’ve always been drawn to material objects &#8212; making them, collecting them, telling stories with them. As I grew older, I became fascinated by the difference between beautiful, healthy objects (such as ceramic tea cups and backyard kale) and the more questionably good for us objects of industrial culture (such as disposable cups and junk food). I started to ask questions like: can I make &#8212; or find &#8212; objects that actually help create a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Freya Estreller: Co-Founder, Coolhaus and Founder, Ludlows Cocktails</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rebecca fernandez]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a trendsetting entrepreneur, Freya Estreller has managed to dominate two American obsessions: ice cream and booze. Her first company, Coolhaus, which she co-founded with Natasha Case, is &#8220;architecturally-inspired&#8221; gourmet ice cream. With catchy names like I.M. Pei-nut butter, plus an ice-cream-mobile like nothing you&#8217;ve ever seen, they&#8217;re leaving an indelible mark on an industry whose most interesting advancement was previously the introduction of cookie dough. Her latest venture, Ludlows Cocktails, is proof that she isn&#8217;t afraid to embark on any journey, no matter how unchartered the territory. Their &#8220;jelly shots&#8221; are tasty, fun and, as luck would have it, conveniently purse-sized. Estreller clearly has a creative spirit and a brilliant business mind, but her dedication to helping other women see their professional dreams come true is where she makes her biggest impact. How did you know you had an idea big enough to take the leap and go for it? My first job out of college was as a Project Manager at Ryan Homes, a large top 10 homebuilder in the US. I learned a lot about training programs, employee retention, corporate culture, managing others, budgeting, and how to build large scale projects. I implemented what worked there at [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiring Sound: Molly Neuman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rebecca fernandez]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After years spent running Lookout Records and Indivision Management, it was a relief to accept my first position at eMusic. It was liberating to have a regular salary, benefits and an infrastructure that didn’t need to be built from scratch. Even with that liberty, however, I couldn’t help but start something new on the side, so I launched Simple Social Graces Discos &#8211; a tiny record label focusing on bands from Spain (with a few notable U.S. exceptions). My inspiration was that I had been spending as much time as possible in Spain, and had met some incredible people. I was hearing and seeing amazing bands that I wanted to share with the the world. 2006 was a tough time to launch a label though, physical sales continued their decline and digital music wasn’t at critical mass (and sadly it still isn’t). I released seven records and realized relatively quickly that I wasn’t in a position to make a go of it as a standalone business, but I was happy to have documented artists that I loved. When my full-time job at eMusic offered me the opportunity to live and work in London for six months, I saw it as a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercedes Helnwein: Visual Artist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rebecca fernandez]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Vienna and raised in Ireland, Mercedes Helnwein has a one-of-a-kind artistic identity that leaves an immediate impact on its viewer. She&#8217;s pursued art her entire life, from drawing and painting to filmmaking, and has found acclaim in every medium. In addition to her aforementioned creative abilities, she&#8217;s written a book, The Potential Hazards of Hester Day, that has been published in two languages, and she can play the strings off a banjo. Through her tireless and exceptional work, she has already created a legacy of enormous talent and vision, and her mark on her industry is sure to be indelible. The women in your work are very complex and seemingly secretive. What do you want them to convey to their audience?  I’ve always drawn girls and women — since I was about two-years-old. As a child I was fascinated by the beauty, mystery and elegance of women —including the clothes and trimmings that went along with them. Men, in comparison seemed so ugly and pointless.  In my mind women were far superior — no question about it. After hitting puberty, I began to see the value in men too, and now men make it into my work all [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiring Resilience: Noreen Springstead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rebecca fernandez]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I share with people that my 22-year professional journey has unfolded at one company, they’re quick to remark how unusual that is, especially today when workers hop from job to job. When they hear that the company is a non-profit whose mission is to end hunger and poverty, they often wonder why I chose to dedicate my life to a cause that can seem so unattainable. Since I was a child, I knew I wanted to make a difference in the world. Following in the footsteps of my mother who travelled to El Salvador as a young nursing student to give back, and guided by the stories of my Irish grandparents who talked of the “great hunger” in Ireland, I didn’t think twice about applying for an entry-level job as the receptionist for WhyHunger. I knew I wanted to start a career that was grounded in social justice, and had applied for dozens of positions upon graduating with a political science degree during the economic downturn of the early ’90s. With 33 rejection letters pinned to my refrigerator, I sent in an application for the position at WhyHunger, an organization focused on social justice and founded by the late [&#8230;]]]></description>
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