The Dowling Financial Group Presents: “VentureMom.com Stories.” A series of ‘Authentic” interviews with successful entrepreneurial businesswomen to give others insight into their business decisions that worked and didn’t. Today’s star entrepreneur is Laurie Tuck, Founder of Wear & Away designs! They create and manufacture sustainable clothing and accessories for post sunless tanning. Who loves this? Spas, Salons, Tanning Salons ,people who tan for physical competitions, and of course the bridal world! Laurie never dreamed she would be in the manufacturing business. After college, she worked for IBM, raised 3 children and pursued a passion for gardening. It was a self-inflicted clothing disaster after a Spray Tan appointment that inspired Laurie. She decided to try and invent a garment that could serve as an alternative and better idea than ruining clothes after spa treatments. She unearthed her daughter’s sewing machine from the basement vault and went for it! A few months later, Wear & Away LLC was born. Laurie hopes to grow Wear & Away into a business that promotes sustainability while also providing products that solve common problems with function and fashion in mind. She is committed to keeping this business in the US and providing much needed jobs in the process. GO LAURIE!
Tune in at 10:20am eastern to meet Laurie Tuck along with Wim Luddington below from The Dowling Group CPA + Wealth Advisors. Love that he and his company stepped up to sponsor this fabulous series on my show. They are ‘authentic” and you should go see them and have a chat because they offer sage financial advice, an unpretentious environment, and also do taxes which is rare , so they keep everything under one roof so you can relax under your own roof.
The Dowling Group CPA + Wealth Advisor
VentureMom.com
Wear & Away LLC
www.wearandaway.com
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What Makes a DIFFICULT WOMAN? Award Winning Author Karen Karbo Finds It Hard To Believe That In 2018… Many women still have to choose between being true to themselves, or being accepted and loved. She writes about 29 women who refused to choose. “In Praise of Difficult Women ? Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules – (published by National Geographic Books) by bestselling author Karen Karbo (The Gospel According to Coco Chanel), delivers a smart, sassy,sometimes disturbing collection of essays that delves into the “difficult,” often surprising and delightful traits of twenty-nine women in politics, the arts, and media who’ve inspired Karen and many of us by living life on their own terms. Women like Nora Ephron, Hillary Clinton, Carrie Fisher, Shonda Rhimes, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Gurley Brown, J. K. Rowling, and more – all spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for social or cultural expectations. Their histories are provocative lessons to live by.
Karen Karbo is the author of multiple award-winning novels, memoirs, and works of nonfiction. Her “Kick-Ass Women” series includes Julia Child Rules (2013), How Georgia Became O’Keeffe (2011), and the international bestseller The Gospel According to Coco Chanel (2009). Her work has appeared in Elle, Vogue, Esquire, Outside, the New York Times, Salon, and other magazines. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she continues to kick ass being the Difficult Woman she is.
