Krista Whitley Castellarin, CEO of “EGO”: Entertainment and Growth Opportunities!
As a serial entrepreneur, Krista created and grew Canada’s #9 fastest growing company only to have it implode due to a terrible corporate culture of profit before values. Having learned how important corporate culture is, Krista rebounded and created a hybrid engagement firm that secured huge clients less than two weeks from the day they opened. Krista has been on both sides of the camera, as a reality television star on Animal Planet and with her own reality television show in Canada on the Slice network, and winning two American Advertising Federation Addy awards for her video production work. A passionate entrepreneur and consultant, Krista is a shareholder in several companies and shares her adventures and misadventures in capitalism on her blog, The Mean Girls. As a naturally philanthropic individual, Krista is very involved with local charities and donates her time speaking to students about entrepreneurship.
Liza Huber is an award winning author and the CEO and founder of Sage Spoonfuls. She started the company in 2010 after not being able to find homemade baby food products that had the ease of use, quality and convenience she was looking for. Liza is thrilled to now see her products on the shelves of major stores nationwide. She is an advocate for healthy, non-toxic living and has been appointed a Parent Ambassador for Healthy Child Healthy World. Liza travels around the country speaking at events and loves talking to parents about all of the wonderful benefits homemade baby food can provide, like preventing food allergies and picky eating. She lives on Long Island with her husband and 4 wonderful children.
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Tami Reed has a keen eye for fashion and a razor-sharp wit. A red carpet correspondent an on-air talent, her engaging personality has caught the attention of major brands like Kmart, Ford, & Spanx and many others. For years, before planting her stilettos in the field of media, Tami owned a successful beauty enterprise. In 2005, she executive produced the eponymous talk show, “Talking with Tami,” where she introduced viewers to entrepreneurial ventures. She has always been passionate about women and business. Tami has been featured in national magazines like Essence, Glamour, and Family Circle. A wife and a mother to tweens, Tami gives back by mentoring at-risk teens and homeless women.
Stacey (also known as Justice Fergie) is an avid veteran blogger, event producer, social media personality, public speaker, freelance writer, and Chief Curator of the Be Blogalicious community and conferences celebrating diversity among women in social media. As Founder of Justice Fergie Lifestyle Media, she combines media, publishing, consulting & events to inspire women to live richly with strategies for turning personal passions into viable brands. She is also a tech attorney by trade and regularly consults with both startups and established brands on digital and brand strategy. Stacey is a wife, and mother of 3 and resides in the DC Metro Area. Stacey has been a vlogger personality for SheKnows.com’s Mommalogues, a contributor to Babble’s MomCrunch tech column, was named as a Babble Top 50 Twitter Mom, and has lent her social media expertise to events everywhere from MediaBistro’s Social Media Marketing Bootcamp to the BlogHer and ESSENCE Women’s conferences and beyond.
Today in History- 1451. Queen Isabella I Of Castile is born.
Isabella was daughter of the king of Castile, John II, and of the second woman of this one, the Portuguese princess Isabella de Aviz. In this marriage also Juan II would inflict the infante Alfonso, called the Innocent. But in regard to the succession to the throne, both brothers, Isabella and Alfonso, had the first son of John II, had in the first marriage of the monarch with Mary of Aragon: the future Henry IV of Castile, who then held the title of Prince of Asturias like successor of John II. For this reason, the first feature to highlight in the biography of Isabella the Catholic is that she was not destined to reign because she was not a firstborn, but rather that her future was destined to be given to an advantageous marriage with a member of high birth, as it used to be custom among the families of medieval royalty. Therefore, if Isabella managed to reign was, first, by a cluster of various circumstances, but also, no doubt, by his determined action to govern when that range of events put on a platter the possibility of being queen of Castile and Leon.
The 50-year-old mother of five says that she always dreamed of following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a police officer; “I saw it as a way to help people, and I loved the uniform!” she laughs.…
Bayaz first trained during the Soviet occupation, working as a police officer until Taliban fighters invaded the capital. September 26, 1996, is a day she says she’ll never forget. “When I walked home, I changed from a police officer to an ordinary woman,” she says. “The Taliban stopped everything. It was as if they had stopped life itself.”
Twice she was beaten: once for showing an ankle and another time for taking off her burqa before she entered her house, unaware anyone was watching.
After the Taliban left, she went back to the police force.…
A few miles away from Bayaz’s police station is the Kabul stadium where the Taliban publicly lashed women.
On This Day in Herstory November 10th 1293, Isabel de Forz, who inherited in her own right the earldom and feudal barony of Plymouth and the Lordship of the Isle of Wight, and the richest woman in England at the time, died at the age of 56.
Isabel de Forz or Isabel de Redvers, the eldest daughter of the 6th Earl of Devon, was born in July 1237; she spent the majority of her early life in Tidcombe, a small town in Devon. When she was 11 of 12 she became the second wife of William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle; he held extensive land in Yorkshire and Cumberland, and was Count of Aumale in Normandy; the couple went on to have six children, two of them died before William, all of them died before Isabella. In 1260 William died, and all of their children were underage, so wardship to their heirs and estates were passed to King Henry III. One third of William’s estates were granted to Isabella, and she was granted custody of her two remaining sons; the remaining two thirds went to the crown.
In 1262 Isabella’s brother, the 7th Earl of Devon, died without any children, and so she inherited his lands in Devon, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, and Harewood in Yorkshire. From this point she used the titles “Countess of Aumale and of Devon” and “Lady of the Isle.” With the death of her father, husband, and brother, Isabella was the richest woman in England and she was only 25; at this point she became a very sought after wife. In 1264 the 6th Earl of Leicester was acquired the rights to her remarriage from the King and she hid from him; in 1268, the son of Henry III acquired the rights to her marriage as well, and when she objected he married her daughter instead. Her daughter Aveline married the King’s son in 1269, but she died 4 years later at age 15.
The monarchy had been after Isabella’s estates for some time, and in 1276 the King asked that she sell her lands in southern England that she inherited from her brother, she did not comply. After the death of her daughter, and last surviving heir, a man named John de Eston was found to be her next heir, and in 1278 John transferred her lands in the north to the crown. In 1293 while travelling from Canterbury, Isabella fell ill. One of the King’s servants rushed to her bedside and drafted a charter to confirm the sale of the Isle of Wight to the King, Isabella agreed; the sale of the Isle of Wight is contested to this day. She died in the early morning of November 10th 1293, at age 56.
