Feature Friday: Julie Hightower + A Better Day With Julie
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Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! The #feature today is Julie Hightower of A Better Day With Julie! Julie's background is in sales and she started A Better Day With Julie as a way to connect with women about things that Julie loves! A Better Day With Julie is a weekly web series for the women who lust after the $4,000 designer dresses in magazines, but have to buy the $100 version; for those who yearn to feel beautiful and powerful, but must often find that power within thems

Feature Friday: Emily Nejad + Bon Vivant Cakes
Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! Emily is the creative genius behind Bon Vivant Cakes, a Chicago bakery (that will be expanding to LA soon!) that specializes in out-of-the-box, never-before-seen, lavish, artistic cakes that also taste AMAZING! Honestly, the taste is as insanely good as the design. Bon Vivant Cakes was born only about a year ago after Emily decided to make a cake for her friend's birthday (I think we all need more friends like Emily!). The cake was giant: fiv

Feature Friday: Emily Douglas and Jenna Heerdt + The Little Birds
Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! Toda's feature is the two women from the band, The Little Birds, Emily Douglas and Jenna Heerdt. The Little Birds are an indie/folk duo out of, you guessed it, #Chicago! Over the past year they have been focusing on writing original compositions and creating cover videos of today's popular music. Jenna and Emily met in 2008 at the Janice Borla Vocal Jazz Camp before their freshman year at North Central College. Upon their first day of meeting

Feature Friday: Lauren Nolan + Lake Shore Lady
Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! #LocalLadyboss being featuring today is Lauren Nolan from Lake Shore Lady! Lake Shore Lady is a food and fashion blog brought to you from the Windy City. Lauren's blog provides original step-by-step recipes, cooking videos, personal style, shopping tips, wellness inspiration and lot of love for #Chicago. Before moving back to the midwest, Lauren lived in New York for about 3 years and was desperately seeking a creative outlet. During that tim

Feature Friday: Jessica Baumgart + Round The World Couple
Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! Today's #LocalLadyboss is Jessica Baumgart, 1/2 of the Round the World Couple! Yep, you read that right - round the WORLD. #travelgoals Jessica is a former nine-to-fiver (she used to do Communication for a Chicago hospital) turned world traveler. In January 2016, she quit her job in Chicago and sold everything she owned (seriously!) to travel the world with her husband. She chronicles her adventures on their website. What's most amazing about

Feature Friday: Gretchen Bohling + Gretchen Bohling Design
Happy #FeatureFriday #ladyboss! #LocalLadyboss to be featured today who is CRUSHING it is #Chicago designer Gretchen Bohling of Gretchen Bohling Design. Gretchen Bohling Design is a Midwest based clothing brand designed for feminine and flirty women of ALL body types. Designer Gretchen Bohling aims to provide women with clothing that makes them feel beautiful and confident by accentuating their silhouettes. The brand also provides the creative ability for women to have an imp

Feature Friday: Katie O'Connor + Shine Fertility
Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! The #LocalLadyboss being featured today is Katie O'Connor, the founder of the nonprofit Shine Fertility, whose mission is, "through support, education, and advocacy; to create a community, empower through knowledge, and be the voice for a proactive approach to fertility and women’s health."
Shine Fertility's goal is to take the shame and stigma out of dealing with fertility and women’s health issues and create an environment where women can