Mary McCarthy is a mom of four and the creator of the humor blog pajamasandcoffee.com. She has been a professional writer for 17 years, including work in the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, many regional magazines and newspapers, and online at Suite101.com, with 30 million monthly visitors. She has appeared on the Today Show, is a regular contributor to ABC's TV show "Moms Get Real" with Juju Chang, and she spoke at BlogHer '10 in NYC. Mary is currently the Editor in Chief of Chesapeake Family magazine. When not hiding from her kids in her car, Mary can be found eating Slim Jims and drinking Jack Daniels... or if she's feeling classy, a Grey Goose Dirty Martini.
Debba Haupert
Debba Haupert is passionate about social media! Starting with over 20 years of corporate marketing, she has focused her marketing efforts on social media to help companies reach/build their ‘communities.’
She built the online community of women called: GIRLFRIENDOLOGY (http://girlfriendology.com). ‘Addicted’ (in a good way!) to social media, Debba has over 22,000 Twitter followers and 15,000 female Facebook Fans. She/Girlfriendology has worked with Biz, Kroger, Frito-Lay, Healthy Choice, Crystal Light, International Delight and other brands.
She teaches/speaks on social media marketing. She/Girlfriendology can be found at: http://girlfriendology.com, http://twitter.com/girlfriendology, http://facebook.com/girlfriendology and http://linkedin.com/in/debbahaupert.
Allison Kulage
Allison Kulage has worked in the SEO field for 12 years and currently is the president of Bare Knuckle Marketing, a digital marketing firm that she founded this year, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over the past 12 years, she has worked with a variety of clients in industrial as well as consumer oriented businesses, such as Apollo Heating Cooling and Plumbing, Gilkey Windows, Snappy Tomato Pizza, and several small local businesses.
Throughout her career, Allison has participated in numerous SEO/SEM related conferences such as Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, and AdTech. She is a Bruce Clay Inc., Certified SEO Analyst for 5 years and continues to train yearly to keep up with the changes in the industry, as well as search engine optimization standards and best practices. She has also been a speaker for organizations including the Circuit, Cincinnati Entrepreneurs Organization, Bad Girl Ventures, and the Digital Hub Non-Conference. Allison was also a finalist for Bad Girl Ventures Class #2.
Passionate about SEO, Allison enjoys bringing success to the variety of clients she works with. Adhering to a strict SEO code of ethics, she also enjoys generating success for her clients through ethical search engine optimization, social media marketing, link building, local search marketing, email marketing, and metrics analysis.
Bare Knuckle Marketing, LLC: http://www.bareknucklestrategy.com
Bare Knuckle Blog: http://www.bareknucklestrategy.com/blog
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BareKnuckleStrategy
Twitter: @bareknucklemktg
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonkulage
Hollee Temple
@holleeinbalance
http://thenewperfect.com
Hollee Schwartz Temple is a journalist-turned-lawyer-turned-professor at West Virginia University College of Law. She and her partner in crime, Becky Beaupre Gillespie, are the authors of Good Enough is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood (Harlequin Nonfiction, Spring 2011), a nonfiction book that chronicles how the mothers of her generation are redefining success and feminism by refusing to settle for lives they don’t want. Like so many of the women she and Becky have interviewed, Hollee forged a non-linear career path, taking detours in her quest to balance work and family.
After graduating at the top of her class with a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Hollee headed to Duke University School of Law. She graduated in 1999, and then began a four-year stint as a litigation associate at a large Pittsburgh law firm. After her first son was born in 2002, Temple returned to her firm on a part-time basis before joining the WVU faculty the next year. A frequent conference speaker, Hollee lectures on a wide variety of topics, from email etiquette to legal issues for bloggers to work/life balance in the age of availability anxiety. She blogs about parenting and work/life issues at http://thenewperfect.com.
In 2008, Hollee celebrated ten years of marriage with John Temple, a journalism professor and author of two narrative non-fiction books. She is constantly amused and amazed by her feisty redheaded sons, Gideon, 8, and Henry, 6.
She built the online community of women called: GIRLFRIENDOLOGY (http://girlfriendology.com). ‘Addicted’ (in a good way!) to social media, Debba has over 22,000 Twitter followers and 15,000 female Facebook Fans. She/Girlfriendology has worked with Biz, Kroger, Frito-Lay, Healthy Choice, Crystal Light, International Delight and other brands.
She teaches/speaks on social media marketing. She/Girlfriendology can be found at: http://girlfriendology.com, http://twitter.com/girlfriendology, http://facebook.com/girlfriendology and http://linkedin.com/in/debbahaupert.
Allison Kulage
Allison Kulage has worked in the SEO field for 12 years and currently is the president of Bare Knuckle Marketing, a digital marketing firm that she founded this year, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over the past 12 years, she has worked with a variety of clients in industrial as well as consumer oriented businesses, such as Apollo Heating Cooling and Plumbing, Gilkey Windows, Snappy Tomato Pizza, and several small local businesses.
Throughout her career, Allison has participated in numerous SEO/SEM related conferences such as Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, and AdTech. She is a Bruce Clay Inc., Certified SEO Analyst for 5 years and continues to train yearly to keep up with the changes in the industry, as well as search engine optimization standards and best practices. She has also been a speaker for organizations including the Circuit, Cincinnati Entrepreneurs Organization, Bad Girl Ventures, and the Digital Hub Non-Conference. Allison was also a finalist for Bad Girl Ventures Class #2.
Passionate about SEO, Allison enjoys bringing success to the variety of clients she works with. Adhering to a strict SEO code of ethics, she also enjoys generating success for her clients through ethical search engine optimization, social media marketing, link building, local search marketing, email marketing, and metrics analysis.
Bare Knuckle Marketing, LLC: http://www.bareknucklestrategy.com
Bare Knuckle Blog: http://www.bareknucklestrategy.com/blog
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BareKnuckleStrategy
Twitter: @bareknucklemktg
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonkulage
Hollee Temple
@holleeinbalance
http://thenewperfect.com
Hollee Schwartz Temple is a journalist-turned-lawyer-turned-professor at West Virginia University College of Law. She and her partner in crime, Becky Beaupre Gillespie, are the authors of Good Enough is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood (Harlequin Nonfiction, Spring 2011), a nonfiction book that chronicles how the mothers of her generation are redefining success and feminism by refusing to settle for lives they don’t want. Like so many of the women she and Becky have interviewed, Hollee forged a non-linear career path, taking detours in her quest to balance work and family.
After graduating at the top of her class with a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Hollee headed to Duke University School of Law. She graduated in 1999, and then began a four-year stint as a litigation associate at a large Pittsburgh law firm. After her first son was born in 2002, Temple returned to her firm on a part-time basis before joining the WVU faculty the next year. A frequent conference speaker, Hollee lectures on a wide variety of topics, from email etiquette to legal issues for bloggers to work/life balance in the age of availability anxiety. She blogs about parenting and work/life issues at http://thenewperfect.com.
In 2008, Hollee celebrated ten years of marriage with John Temple, a journalism professor and author of two narrative non-fiction books. She is constantly amused and amazed by her feisty redheaded sons, Gideon, 8, and Henry, 6.
Sara Broers
Sara Broers is an Iowa Mom~ married for 24 years, with 2 sons - 16 and 20. She blogs at All In An Iowa Momʼs Day. Through her activity on social media she found herself employed! Yes, you can get a job through Twitter. This Mom is proof. Sara was writing for a company one day and soon she found herself tweeting and posting for them. Word of mouth traveled....She now manages three different companies social media pages.
All because of Twitter, this Mom found a new outlook on life. It was through a life changing experience that she was forced to find a job from home.
Life has tossed Sara many different challenges, and she has risen to make the best of them. She has published an E-Book as well, Bootstrapped in Iowa. Parenting, work, and family make life challenging, but the connections we now have in social media make everything and anything possible!
Lucinda Cross
Lucinda Cross is the author of Corporate Mom Drop Outs. She will guide you through unique self-discovery and your own business start-up. Lucinda's innovative methods provide pathways through the vital processes of self discovery, decision making, and the actual start up or expansion of your own business.
Lucinda is impactful, passionate, stimulating and a thought-provoking speaker. Her real talk, straight to the point, practical approach to inspire and challenge the audience equips and motivates individuals to seek their God-given potential and purpose by supporting them to step into their greatness.
Lucinda Cross is a key note speaker, author and mompreneur. Founder of Corporate Mom Dropouts, host of Whats Your Story on MomTV and Business Birthing Consultant. She is also the co-creator of Super Mom Entrepreneur Annual Conference. For several years, she has made it her life’s mission to uplift, inspire and change women’s lives. She likes to call herself a catalyst for change. Known as the Business Midwife Lucinda shares her gifts as a marketing strategist, mentor and writer. She uses that wisdom and insight to motivate moms to create a better life, a better community and a better business. She has been featured on ABC News, NBC, NY1, LA Business Week and more, she is also a contributing writer to several publications and blogs including NBC Momtourage, Lifetime and more.
You can also find Lucinda at LucindaCross.com
Amy Tobin
Amy’s introduction to a lifetime of entertaining occurred when she was 12 years old, at the magazine rack of her local supermarket.
Smitten by the beautiful image of a chicken dish on the cover, Amy purchased the publication with her own money, studied the recipe and then prepared it — for a party of 10 delighted family members.
She has been stirring up inspired ideas for living ever since.
Amy grew up in Michigan, the youngest of six in an artistic, progressive household. Her parents were both architects and her mother loved to entertain and recreate food from her travels. It was not unusual to have a French businessman or Russian architect at the dinner table and Amy, as a girl, dined on ratatouille before many Americans had ever heard of it. Her mother made birthdays special for each child, decorating beautiful, celebratory cakes.
Since then, Amy moved to Chicago and then Cincinnati, where she made a name for herself as a lifestyle consultant. On the way, she renovated a turn-of-the-century Victorian, operated an interior design business, owned a culinary school, wrote magazine columns, hosted television and radio programs and raised two children. Her cookbook, “Amy’s Table: Food for Family and Friends,” was published in 2007 and benefits the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Today, Amy runs Taramy Enterprises, a company that provides expert product consultation, recipe creation and relevant media presentations for some of the best-known brands in food, culinary education and lifestyle entertainment.
Amy hosts a weekly radio show, “Amy’s Table,” on Q102 FM (101.9). She also is the Culinary Director of EQ at the Party Source in Northern Kentucky and offers regular lifestyle tips and recipes on the weekly TV show HomeWoRx with Gary Sullivan, as well as on his radio show, At Home with Gary Sullivan, which airs in 152 markets and on XM Satellite Radio. Amy also is a culinary consultant with several food brands, including Dole, J.M. Smucker and Pillsbury.
Amy lives with her husband in Cincinnati, Ohio.













