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Feature Friday: Ellegra Davis + Jewels A Nail Box

Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! Our #LocalLadyboss being featured today is Ellegra Davis, nail artist and co-owner of Jewels A Nail Box, an artistic nail design salon! #ladybosses - get ready for your new obsession. Ellegra is INSANELY talented. Ellegra told us her love for nails started when she was a kid and she remembers mixing nail polishes to create custom colors. Her nail art obsession stepped up in high school when she was in boarding school. Ellegra and her roommate

Feature Friday: Katie Rotundo

Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! Katie is a 25-year-old transgender woman who has been transitioning from male to female for almost a year now (10 months). She is a self-proclaimed "tremendous geek", who loves to talk all things gaming, movies, and pop culture. Katie used to write professionally about video games and is currently attending college at Columbia College Chicago , and streams video games on twitch.tv a couple days a week. Katie has always been passionate about e

Feature Friday: Sommer Austin + Green Shirt Studio

Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! #localladyboss featured today is Sommer Austin, co-founder and owner of Green Shirt Studio! Sommer is a certified instructor of the Meisner Approach to Acting and has made her mark in the improv/comedy, theatre and production worlds. Austin received her Bachelor’s in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa and has a Master’s of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Austin has worked with theatre luminaries incl

Feature Friday: Erin Diehl + improve it!

Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! Our second #localladyboss being featured today is Erin Diehl, owner of improve it! Erin started improve it! after her decade plus of corporate experience in casting, experiential marketing and recruiting, led her to believe that improv could be a useful tool to any company’s culture. In 2012, she created a workshop to explore the impact of using improv techniques in business and presented it to teams at United Airlines. The workshop was a suc

Feature Friday: Dinah Grossman + Spinning J

Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! Dinah opened Spinning J Bakery & Soda Fountain with her husband, Parker Whiteway, in July 2015. Prior to that, Dinah had owned a business called Cheap Tart Bakery for 4 years, a pie and pastry delivery service that operated out of a commissary kitchen. Grossman, a pastry chef, had worked in restaurants in Maine, Massachusetts, and Alaska before moving to #Chicago in 2008. In Spinning J's first year of business Grossman and Whiteway grew the b

Feature Friday: Eileen Seigel Kahana + Room2Improv

Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! Today we're celebrating Eileen Siegel Kahana, founder of Room2Improv! After retiring with an accomplished career as a teacher and mentor from Chicago Public Schools, Eileen challenged herself to take an improv class at The Second City. That one class turned into a two year life-changing experience and inspired her to create Room2Improv. She combined all of her unique academic and life experiences to create a model education program dedicated

Feature Friday: Natalie Horbatko + Natalie Sitter City

Happy #FeatureFriday #ladybosses! You know what that means! It's time for some well deserved shout outs about local women who are CRUSHING it all around the world! The first #ladyboss we're featuring today is Natalie from #NatalieCitySitter. Natalie is like so many of us #ladybosses and is still working her full-time job WHILE working on her side hustle! Natalie now lives in Colorado, but will always consider #Chicago a home. #NatalieCitySitter is a dog walking and sitting se

Feature Friday: Julie Hightower + A Better Day With Julie

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

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