Meet Gurus

Primp Doggy was launched by Donna Angevine in April of 2006 and was inspired by a funky little Boston terrier named Pez. After searching unsuccessfully for masculine, tasteful clothes to dress Pez in for special occasions, Donna began to make his clothes herself. She knew she was on to something when strangers started commenting on his outfits and asking where she bought his clothes. She threw her hat into the ring and launched Primp Doggy with a vision to create distinctive, stylish, fashion apparel designed to accommodate a dog’s unique anatomy and to celebrate their inimitable personalities.

Wyatt Bardouille is an executive producer and co-host of WhitneyandWyatt.com, a web TV talk show for women. She is also a film producer, director, editor and actor. A dynamic, effective and creative individual, Wyatt spent many years building international e-commerce solutions for Microsoft and Expedia.com. After her time as a techie, she left the software world to be one with the camera. She now combines her passion for filmmaking and the performing arts with her technical skills to create provocative and entertaining films and web TV.

Ali Basye is an arts and entertainment, fashion, travel and lifestyle writer and the editor of Seattle Bride Magazine. A contributor to Crave: Seattle (Crave Party, 2004), she has also written articles ranging from sex advice to fashion tips for magazines such as Seattle, Los Angeles, Sunset, San Francisco Bride, Virtuoso Travel + Life, Lexus, Northwest Home + Garden and NWA World Traveler, as well as a number of Web sites. Her first book, The Long (and Short) of It: The Madcap History of the Skirt, was published by HarperCollins in January 2007. Checkout Ali’s BLOG for recent news and updates.

Shannon Borg, Lifestyle Editor, Seattle magazine Shannon is putting her International Sommelier Guild fundamentals certification to work, pairing stories ABOUT Washington wine with stories from Food + Dining Editor Sara Dickerman. Native to eastern Washington, Shannon has lived in Utah, Hawaii, California, Texas and London. She holds a doctorate in poetry and literature from the University of Houston and has published a book of poems, “Corset,” Cherry Grove Collections, 2006. At Seattle magazine, she oversees all stories about food and wine, shopping, home design, entertaining and the magazine’s popular Flash/Talk party pictures page.

Kathy Casey is a delicious blend of the dynamo chef’s myriad passions. Her culinary playground and much-sought-after private event space, Kathy Casey Food Studios®; her stores and specialty product brand, Dish D’Lish®; her role as a celebrity spokesperson; and her status as a respected national food and beverage consultant reinforce her influence as a true trendsetter. Kathy’s easy and fun entertaining style and philosophy help to make you shine! You can catch up with Kathy in her monthly column, Dishing, in the Seattle Times, on the airwaves, or right here at KathyCasey.com!

Bettie Edwards has always fostered a passion for creating a great shopping experience and celebrating the people who step into her world. Fresh from her corporate fashion director post with Nordstrom, Bettie purchased The Little House in 1978 and never looked back. She stepped in with her business acumen from working a fast-paced retailer and applied it to her new gift shop, and savored the slower pace of the island that allowed for “face time” with each customer. Energy and optimism are contagious, Bettie says, and when applied in a retail setting, magic things happen. Next year The Little House will mark 30 years of successful operation and whole generations of Vashon Islanders entering through its front doors.

Janelle Elms is an engaging and inspiring educator, writer and consultant. She is a eBay University instructor & creator and instructor of the highly successful eBay 101 and 102 classes taught nationwide. Janelle is a Silver PowerSeller on eBay and author of numerous eBay books, including the best-selling “eBay Your Business” book. She specializes in coaching individuals and companies how to build successful eBay businesses and maximize their profits. More than 75,000 people have benefited from Janelle’s depth of knowledge and expertise in eBay sales, marketing, customer service, and customer retention strategies. Visit www.janelleelms.com to learn more.

Anne-Marie Faiola is the owner and founder of Bramble Berry Inc, (www.brambleberry.com), Otion - The Soap Bar /www.otionsoap.com) and Teach Soap (www.teachsoap.com), an instructional site. Anne-Marie originally wanted to be in the FBI and had a brief, but unsuccessful stint as a correctional officer that convinced her she wanted to be self-employed. She founded Bramble Berry in 1997 with the goal of providing quality soapmaking products to the soapmaking community. From humble beginnings in her living room with just 15 products, Bramble Berry has grown to encompass a diverse product line with over 2500 items, employs over 30 people, with revenues over $3 million per year.

Victoria Fann is the owner of Guided Wisdom, a spiritual consulting service offering spiritual healing and life guidance. She’s been working directly with clients since 1985, first as a licensed massage therapist, then as a motivational workshop leader, group facilitator and life coach in which she’s assisted hundreds of people in reconnecting with their dreams. In addition, she’s a published writer, whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and online publications throughout the country. To learn more about her and her work, click here.

With wisdom in her youth and poetry in her prose, Amanda Ford is a rare human being and a beautiful writer. In her latest book, Kiss Me, I’m Single: An Ode to the Solo Life, Amanda examines the existential crises that arise at the prospect of being alone, whether that means a single Saturday night without plans or many months without a single prospect to smooch on the couch. Amanda’s work has appeared in The Seattle Times, The Chicago Tribune and Real Simple magazine. When Amanda isn’t writing she likes to dance and ride her bicycle. Visit Amanda at her website, www.oholive.com.

Inez Gray is the visionary behind Habitude, Seattle’s premier salon and day spa with locations in Ballard and Fremont. She opened Habitude in 1996 after two successful and diverse decades in the beauty industry. Gray created a culture that emphasizes high-quality, cutting-edge services, as well as devotion to environment, community and employee satisfaction. Her staff of 150+ is treated like an extended family, with the emphasis on living wages, education and opportunities for advancement. Habitude evolved from Gray’s desire to incorporate her creative and artistic energies into a career focused on wellness, beauty and caring for people.

Jimm Harrison is an innovative educator and consultant whose unique approach to beauty is the culmination of years of in-depth research on natural and nutritional holistic beauty principles. Jimm is best known for his work on Global Healthy Aging, a unique beauty program focused on total body health, wellness and beauty. Jimm has written numerous articles on the subject of healthy aging, holistic beauty and cosmetic safety. He is the co-founder of Spirit of Beauty Nutritional Skin Care and OHA Bio-Active Skin Care, healthy aging products for skin using organic botanicals, nutrients and essential oils. Jimm is the author of Aromatherapy: Therapeutic us of Essential Oils for Esthetics.

Gail Hilderbrand is a Certified Nutritional Counselor devoted to holistic healing through whole food nutrition and healthy lifestyle guidance. Gail offers a comprehensive nutritional counseling program that provides guidance and support in creating a lifestyle of healthy eating & living. Her clients learn how to make small, practical changes in their diets that radically improve their lives, resolves specific health concerns and provides tools for a lifetime of balance. This unique approach provides meaningful, lasting results. Visit www.feelingbetterthanever.com to learn more!

In my past five years of goal setting I have achieved what I never thought possible. I spend my days surrounded with people I love and admire. I wake up to a life I choose. During my five year career with lululemon I have been involved with the global expansion as a team member in our Training Department. I travel the world, sweat regularly, and love to teach all I have discovered. My core values are learning, impact and adventure.

Dina Jewell hosts and produces “Fitness Facts” on KIDO 580 News Radio in Boise, Idaho. Dina is the author of “The Oat & Wheat Bran Health Plan”, published by Bantam Books, which had a 4th printing in several foreign languages. Dina has a Master’s Degree in Education & Communications. Dina hosted the daily fitness show “15 Minute Fitness” for 12 years with United Cable TV, was Woman’s News & Health Reporter at KPBS Public Radio in California, and AFNT Armed Forces Radio, Taipei, Taiwan. Dina is a member of SAG & AFTRA. Dina and her husband, C.T. Jewell MD are at home in Boise and Sun Valley, they have 3 grown children. Dina is Ms. Idaho Senior America 2005.

Kristen Kahlen is the founder of Bold Move: Personal Presence Coaching. She is a former professional model and has a background in business, design, fitness and writing. Kristen’s customized services show you how to navigate modern culture with timeless grace and style. Think “Yoda meets Prada.” Kristen is also the principal of MEMO Communications (memocomm.com), a boutique agency that refines visual and verbal expression in the marketplace. She developed her style and savvy during many years living abroad in Europe and Asia. Visit the Bold Move website here.

Joan Kelly is the executive producer of Fashion First, Seattle’s premier annual fashion show and charity fund-raiser now in its fifth year, organized under her company Joan & Jared events. With 22 years of fashion experience, Joan is known as the “Go-To Girl” for industry and product information in Seattle. Her commentaries have been featured in the New York Times, Inside Edition, Seattle Magazine, and numerous other publications. For the past five years, Joan has been an instructor at the Art Institute of Seattle in the School of Fashion Merchandising where she teaches courses in salesmanship, buying, fashion styling and event production.

Whitney Keyes is one of the executive producers and co-hosts of WhitneyandWyatt.com, a new TV talk show for women on the web. Whitney started her career bagging groceries but dreamed of ditching the paper-or-plastic for a camera-and-microphone. She spent the first part of her career managing her family’s art gallery. Her passion for growing businesses bloomed into an ability to help hundreds of small start-ups and big corporations like Microsoft do things like flirt with the media and court customers. She’s now a multi-media journalist and producer. An engaging, entertaining and motivating speaker, Whitney is quick to share the zigs and zags of her life and career with spunk and humor.

Sharelle Klaus is the developer of DRY Soda, a sophisticated, non-alcoholic, subtly sweet beverage line. This entrepreneur, food lover and mother of four preceded her DRY Soda venture with over a decade of professional experience in finance and technology, with particular expertise in airport analysis and practice. In 1999, Klaus founded PlanetSquid Inc., an investor-backed secure online community for “tweens” (10-14 year-old children). She also served as president of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, where she drove strategic development of programs, events and fundraising for the organization’s 250+ Seattle-area members.

Susan M. Kleiner, PhD, RD, FACN, CNS, FISSN is an international columnist and speaker on the subject of nutrition, sports, and fitness and has consulted with professional teams and elite athletes in all sports. Her latest book, THE GOOD MOOD DIET: Feel great while you lose weight, is an international bestseller featured on the Today Show, Time, “O” and Cosmo Girl. Dr. Kleiner is a founder and fellow of the International Society for Sports Nutrition, a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, The American Dietetic Association and The National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Brian Kurth is the founder of VocationVacations, the only company of its kind that offers clients a hands-on career immersion experience, allowing them to test-drive their dream job under the tutelage of expert mentors. He started the service in 2004 after a decade in the corporate world, having worked his way up in the telecommunications industry with AT&T and Ameritech. A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Brian graduated with degrees in Political Science, History and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin before moving to Chicago to earn his Masters Degree in Political Science from Loyala University.

Laura Leist, owner of Eliminate Chaos LLC., provides professional organizing services to corporations, small businesses, and individuals as well as helping them achieve computer literacy. Laura primarily helps small businesses get organized while also assisting them in achieving computer literacy. She designs systems based on each client’s strengths and custom tailors these systems to their particular needs. Purposely not industry specific, Laura recognizes that while her clients have similar needs. In this age of computer technology and information, she has found that the great majority of her clientele count on both her organizing skills and her sophisticated knowledge of computer programs.

Karen Lorene, Owner of Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, this year celebrates 37 years in retail. She has created promotional events that include the production of a literary magazine, writing and publishing a book on antique jewelry, opening four different stores with champagne, an ice sculpture, and once a New Orleans style marching band. She has done it all with a sense of joy and exploration. Almost four decades of retail, and she still can hardly wait to get to work each day! www.facerejewelryart.com.

Rebecca founded les Egoistes in 2000 and has 18 years experience in fashion and event production. Rebecca’s skills run the gamut from production, public relations and marketing services to art direction, styling, costume design, choreography and visual display. Her expertise has been honed by working with clients both locally and nationally in non-profit, retail, clothing manufacturing, TV/film, theater and the arts industries. Currently, les Egoistes focuses their creative energy on most anything that requires a “look or feel”; including personal image consulting. As Co- Founder of the Sustainable Style Foundation [www.sustainablestyle.org], Rebecca continues to merge her passion for giving back with her style industry experience. Rebecca holds a BA in Marketing with an emphasis in Clothing and Textiles.

Jumping out of her life, her houseboat and her successful real estate career, Joyce Major decided to celebrate her life with the gift of freedom for a full year volunteering in 11 countries working with wildlife, on conservation projects, teaching English, as a reporter and much more. A year packed full of change and new experiences! With no passion to return to her real estate career, Major turned to writing focusing all of her energy into writing a book, Smiling at the World. She also writes freelance articles and teaches classes at local Seattle colleges on how to travel as a volunteer.

Shelly Mazzanoble’s short stories and essays have appeared in The Seattle Times, Carve, Whetstone, Skirt!, and SomeOtherMagazine.com. She has had her plays produced in Seattle and New York City. Her book, Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress: A Girl’s Guide to the Dungeons and Dragons Game was published in September 2007 by Wizards of the Coast. When not over-editing her collection of short stories, she enjoys watching HGTV, walking dogs, and designing clothes for her D&D minis. Originally from Upstate New York, she now lives in Seattle. Visit her online at www.shellymazzanoble.com.

Deemed by the media as “Style Psychotherapists” and “Canadian Oprahs” Carrie McCarthy & Danielle LaPorte are the creators of Style Statement. Your Style Statement defines your authentic self - two words to use as a compass to design your life from the inside out - from your wardrobe to your relationships, your living room to your business plan. They have worked with nearly six hundred Style Statement clients, and regularly advise young business women. Their book, Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design, will be released next April ‘08 by Little, Brown & Company, and later this year they will be launching their own on-line daily magazine. You can find them at carrieanddanielle.com.

Jasmine Moir is the editor of DailyCandy Seattle, a free daily e-mail subscription that provides the scoop on everything fun, fashionable, food-related, and culturally stimulating in Seattle. Jasmine was lured away from sunny L.A. by a graduate fellowship at the University of Washington in 2003 and has since worked as a freelance lifestyle writer and editor for Seattle magazine, Seattle Bride and various other local publications.

Kelley L. Moore is a lifestyle and entertaining expert with a simple mission: to inspire people to connect and build relationships through the environment that they create. With an education in social service, Moore’s desire to combine her passion for design with her social service background led her to found her own event design and production company. Her signature productions are sought after in Seattle, LA, NY, London and Paris. Moore has been mentioned in People magazine, featured in the Wall Street Journal and appeared on the Ellen Degeneres, Tyra Banks and the Today Show. She is a regular columnist for Seattle and Northwest Home + Garden magazines and hosts style and entertaining segments on King 5 News on Kong. www.kelleylmoore.com.

Kelly and her high school best friend Courtney armed themselves with their personal stories, industry knowledge, love of wine, and a handful of helpful and fun books, they formed Financial Free-Dumb: A Financial Support Group and Book Club for Women. It’s time for women to socialize about their investments & money just like men so candidly do and to educate each other towards more independent financial success. Courtney has a Law Degree from Gonzaga School of Law. Kelly Nolan has a degree in Economics from University of Washington, and is a VP Investments at Washington Asset Management. financialfreedumbgroup@gmail.com

After spending 10 years working in Internet advertising in San Francisco and Seattle, Amanda Rosenthal decided she was through with corporate America. Forever obsessed with clothing, she dreamed of opening a clothing boutique similar to the shops found in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Sensing a void in the Seattle shopping scene, Rosenthal felt the Emerald City needed a store that featured up-and-coming designers that no one had seen before. She took this inspiration and became a self-taught entrepreneur, throwing open the doors of La Rousse in 2005.

Alma Avery Rubenstein is the founder and creative director of The Professional Dater a full service singles agency in Seattle. She was a professional actress in Hollywood for ten years and acted in movies like Just Married and Basketball. Not only has she made film appearances, but she has also been on ABC’s The Bachelor. Locally she has appeared on Evening Magazine, Northwest Afternoon, The Mountain Morning Show, the Dr. Pat Show, and NPR radio. Nationally her services has been recognized by USA Today and she also writes a singles column Single in the City, giving top expert dating advice. Visit her website.

Pepper Schwartz has her Ph.D, from Yale University and is presently Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She is the author of fifteen books , the most recent of which is Prime: Adventures and advice about sex, love and the sensual years.In 2007, the New York Times profiled her and her work in their Science section. She has appeared many times on Oprah, the Today Show, Dateline and a number of television specials, including The Science of Love , a collaboration of NBC and Perfectmatch.com, (where she is the resident relationship expert and co-developer of the Duet Personality Profile matching system). To learn more click here.

Elisabeth Squires, aka The Boob Lady ™ , is the author of bOObs: a Guide to Your Girls, a humorous and informative owner’s manual. Her book includes women’s “mammoirs,” together with advice from experts on how to put your best breast forward at every stage of your life. She has appeared on Good Morning America and is a nationally recognized speaker on the subject of breasts. Elisabeth’s website, www.booksonboobs.com provides a forum for women to talk and learn more about their own pair.

Kim Trimmer. M.Ed. is an experienced yoga teacher whose teaching is infused with compassion and humor. Kim focuses on breathing, body awareness and proper alignment. Kim’s style is calm and encouraging; the ideal teacher for anyone who is just starting yoga, or who has felt intimidated by previous yoga class experiences. Kim created “Realize Your Radiance”, a day long retreat for women designed to challenge our culture’s limited definition of beauty. Kim also recorded a CD entitled “Stop, Breathe, Choose Consciously”. The CD was designed for use in her women’s groups and specifically geared toward individuals struggling with compulsive eating.

Pam owns InspireU – peak performance business consulting and coaching. She specializes in assisting “trapped entrepreneurs” and “overworked employees” turn their dreams into reality. Pam is a 20-year entrepreneurial veteran who has built and sold a $12M company. She has experience with startups, midsized service and product companies and franchising. Her passion is “dreammaking,” a proprietary process combining the best in business and personal development to move professionals from where they are….. to where they want to be. Don’t defer your life or your dreams anylonger-Stop by her booth and experience a complimentary “Crave” dreammaking consult!

Maggie Winkel has built a successful career in the competitive world of fashion by finding and driving entrepreneurial opportunities in corporate environments. Whether it was creating the Charter Club Cashmere and I.N.C. lines for MACY*S, being part of the inaugural team that created the LOFT stores for Ann Taylor, or creating new classifications of men’s pants - Cargo and Utility - for Old Navy, Maggie has been a “Startup Junkie” in her own rite. Now, this Brand Evangelista is excited to guide women on a journey to meet their manifesto destiny with startupjUNKiE!

Jennifer Worick has co-authored or written more than 20 books, including The Prairie Girl’s Guide to Life, Backcountry Betty: Roughing It in Style, The Action Heroine’s Handbook, Girl Group Confidential, and The New York Times Best-seller, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex. Jennifer has appeared to promote her books on The Today Show, Montel, and NPR’s Weekend Edition, and lectures at colleges nationwide. She lives in Seattle. Check out Jennifer’s BLOG.