Lara Galloway

Lara Galloway, The Mom Biz Coach is a sought-after business coach, speaker, writer and radio show host in the mom entrepreneur world. Her work has helped countless mompreneurs define success on their own terms and achieve it. Her signature training program, The Mom Biz Makeover, teaches mompreneurs how to create a sustainable business that fits into their family life.

Known for her pay-it-forward attitude and love of helping others, Lara uses her Engagement Marketing Strategy to take a passive approach to earning income and an aggressive approach to spending quality time with family.

Join her on Thursdays for her Audio Blog on BlogTalkRadio.com/MomBizCoach and on Tuesdays for her WoMEN: What Mom Entrepreneurs Need Teleseminar Series (a free series, but you must register for the calls by signing up at www.whatmomentrepreneursneed.com). And she’s nearly always in her “Twitter Office”: www.twitter.com/mombizcoach.

Blog: The Mom Biz Coach
Twitter: @mombizcoach

Aimee Giese

Aimee Giese wears many hats. Not on her head, but in her life. She co-owns a very successful web development and health education research firm in Denver (Klein Buendel, Inc.), maintains a fun and varied personal blog (greeblemonkey.com), manages to provide freelance photography sessions to anyone who will sit still long enough, travels as often as possible (most recently Puerto Rico), plays with clay at pottery class—all while raising her 7-year old son Declan with her husband Bryan. Dudes. That’s a lot of hats.

Blog: greeblemonkey.com
Twitter: @greeblemonkey

Frances Hall

Frances Hall is the senior director of development for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. In this capacity she oversees the revenue strategies for the national direct mail program, online revenue program and annual giving programs for the foundation. Frances has a 21 year background in fundraising with the organization and has served in various revenue generating and chapter support positions during this time. She is married, has three children and resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

Victoria Haller (VDog)

Victoria Haller, better known as VDog, is The Mouth behind Room 704, a monthly online women’s magazine. She is also a wife and mother who happens to blog and tweet but avoids facebook like the plague. In addition to throwing two Room 704 parties last year, Victoria, along with her partners Dawn Schnee & Leslie Flinger, led two sessions on blog building and advertising at the Type-A Mom Conference. Victoria is excited to be a part of the inaugural EVO Conference where she can share tips from her three years of blogging and make new friends.

Blog: VDog and Room 704
Twitter: @vdog

Naomi Hirabayash

Naomi Hirabayashi is a social media strategist at Attention, a NYC based contemporary Social Media Marketing Agency. Naomi specializes in social cause and new media programs and has worked on campaigns for TOMS Shoes, Do Something, Avon IWD, Estee Lauder for Breast Cancer, and more. Naomi regularly hosts non-profit training sessions to educate local organizations about the power of social media for cause awareness. Last July, she spoke at the BlogHer ’09 Conference in Chicago on the “Hope and Change in Action” panel where she discussed the powerful integration of social media for social change. Naomi currently lives in NYC and believes Iced lattes are the key to happiness.

Blog: Naomi Hirabayashi, blog.attentionusa.com
Twitter: @nhira

Cindy Hopper

Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education. Cindy has continued her love of art and has passed her creative skills on to her three children. Cindy’s personal blog, Skip to My Lou, has taken her love of a project to new levels. Postings keep the family busy -– from testing new recipes to designing and building floats for a neighborhood parade to making crayon rolls to creating themed parties. Cindy seems to have an unending supply of ideas for gifts, parties and rainy days.

Blog: Skip to My Lou
Twitter: @cindyhopper

Carina Hoskisson

Carina Hoskisson has been typing on the internet since before there was a www, which makes her really nerdy. Her career includes surviving the first dot com crash, PPC search engines, SEM and traditional marketing agencies, and helping to define and expand the branding and content experience for startup companies. Carina tweets as @jet_set and is the author of The Jet Set, where her wicked sense of style, wit, outlandish pretension, and distinctive voice have generated a devoted readership. She despises sleep, loves TV, and wants to invite you over for pie.

Blog: The Jet Set
Twitter: @jet_set

Helen Jane

Blogging about creative living since 1998, Helen Jane Hearn documents her life and parties at helenjane.com. Inspiring creativity through celebration is Helen Jane’s passion. During the day, she runs Maplevine, a design consultancy specializing in wineries.
Founder of the national cheese club Cheesewhizzes, Helen Jane’s bimonthly cheese potlucks have been called “Napa’s Best Parties” by Food and Wine magazine (December 2009). As a founder of the Broad/Mighty Summits, she produces conferences perfect for small scale networking. In May, 2010, Helen Jane published “Themed Potlucks,” a collection of entertaining ideas and recipes from her bocce team in Napa Valley.

Blog: helenjane.com
Twitter: @helenjane

Elizabeth Kartchner

Elizabeth Kartchner is the creator of the colorful blog “Dear Lizzy” where she shares inspiring craft ideas, beautiful photography & snip-its of adventures in being a busy mommy. Dear Lizzy began with a monthly column in Creating Keepsakes magazine where she answered readers’ crafting questions. She recently teamed up with American Crafts to launch the “Dear Lizzy” craft line including fabric paper, crochet flowers & other vibrant accents. She also authored the book “52 More Scrapbooking Challenges.” Elizabeth enjoys connecting with other creative women through her blog and has been invited to teach all over the world.

Blog: Dear Lizzy
Twitter: @dearlizzy

Marie LeBaron

Marie is the founder and managing editor for Make and Takes, a top rated parenting site featuring kids crafts, home crafts, recipes, and parenting tips. She graduated with an Early Childhood and Elementary teaching degree, where she taught kindergarten for 4 years. She’s now a stay-at-home mom of 3 goofy children and one computer geek husband, living in Salt Lake City, Utah. She’s a regular contributor at Kelloggs and Craftzine, started the blogging women’s running team Eat Blog Run, and is a hostess of SocialLuxe Lounge. When she’s not crafting with her kids, she loves to run, read, and blog!

Blog: Make and Takes
Twitter: @makeandtakes

Jen Lemen

Jen Lemen uses photography, storytelling and illustration to explore the power of dreams and the essence of hope. Her current projects include Mondo Beyondo, an online class about dreaming big, and Picture HOPE, a global photography assignment that carries her around the world finding stories of radical trust and remarkable courage. A chronic doubter and aspiring mystic, Jen is learning what it means to be vulnerable and brave, fragile and strong–all at the same time. Jen writes about her children at PBS Supersisters, a child development blog she hosts with her two real life sisters, Kristen and Patience.

Blog: PBS Supersisters
Twitter: @jenlemen

Lisa Leonard

Lisa Leonard grew her handmade jewelry business from a hobby to a career though blogging and building relationships online. She is mommy to two boys (6 and 7 years old) and wife to an amazing husband, Steve. She also loves photography, lazy mornings at the beach and chocolate chip pancakes.

Blog: Lisa Leonard
Twitter: @lisaleonard

Barb Likos

Barb Likos is the founder of ChaoticCommunications.com, which is the parent company of four top ranking online communities. A former elementary school teacher with a Master of Arts in Education, Barb combined her specialty of working with kids along with her strong social networking skills to create BeTweenTalk.com, a top ranking and unique online community that provides a safe environment for the 8-13 year old crowd, in 2007.

Barb also gives to others through several charities that she and her two sons participate in. She was the first Chapter President for Mom It Forward, an organization designed to empower women to achieve success through service.

Blog: ElementarySpirits.com
Twitter: @comchaotic_barb

Alma Loveland

Although Alma Loveland studied English and editing, once she bought the Adobe Creative Suite she became obsessed with design and the creative process. She ultimately ditched the editing career altogether after realizing that she could earn a living doing what she loved. Since 2007, Alma and her husband Mike have been teaching Adobe programs to individuals and corporations all over the United States both in person and online.

Alma and Mike run Ollibird, a company that provides digital artistic services ranging from corporate design to high-end photo retouching, to illustration. Check out their work and services at ollibird.com.

Blog: Ollibird
Twitter: @Ollibird

Lindsay Reed Maines

Lindsay Reed Maines is a writer, teacher, and social media consultant. Her clients range from first time authors to Fortune 500 entertainment companies, but the common thread is they’re all trying to learn how to operate successfully in the brave new world of social media, while being true to their brand and premise.

Lindsay’s background in print journalism and experience in business-to-business marketing creates a unique skill set. She learns intensely about each client’s market position and industry, and doesn’t make one size fits all recommendations based on common wisdom.

Her print work’s appeared in The Washington Post and Brain,Child Magazine, and is forthcoming in Redbook. She’s spoken at Jeff Pulver’s Social Communication Summit and #140Conf on digital moms and their influence, and is in the process of selling her first non-fiction book, “Rock and Roll Mamas”, about moms keeping their identity post- baby. It’s a topic near and dear, as her husband plays bass for a rock band that tours internationally six- nine months of the year, and they have three children.

She blogs regularly at www.rockandrollmama.com, and is the “Just For Fun” editor of www.lifetimemoms.com. (A division of Lifetime Digital.) Her favorite thing about social media: knowing she’s not the only one up at 3 am.

Laura Mayes

Laura Mayes is an Emmy-winning writer who records her daily adventures at Blog con Queso. She is a co-founder of kirtsy.com, a user-generated content aggregator for online news from 30 editors and an awesome community. Kirtsy sponsors nationwide programs to educate women about social media and released a book last year titled Kirtsy Takes a Bow: A Celebration of Women’s Online Favorites (Bright Sky Press). She also co-founded the Mom 2.0 Summit, and is gearing up for the third annual conference in New Orleans this February.

Blog: kirtsy.com, thequeso.com, mom2summit.com
Twitter: @lmayes

Jane Maynard

Jane Maynard is a wife, mom, blogger & graphic designer living in the Bay Area. A busy mom who loves good food & simplicity, Jane shares weekly menu planning ideas & other delicious inspiration on her food blog, This Week for Dinner™. Jane has also written for many other websites, including but not limited to Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Make and Takes, Snackpicks.com (a Kelloggs entity) and RealSimple.com. Jane is a co-founder of SocialLuxe Lounge, an annual event held for hundreds of bloggers where the BlogLuxe awards are presented. Jane’s branding and graphic design background have provided a solid foundation for becoming successful food blogger and in helping run the SocialLuxe Lounge business. Jane loves eating…chocolate, cannoli and H&H bagels are her top foods of choice.

Blog: This Week for Dinner™
Twitter: @janemaynard

Debbie Millman

Debbie Millman has worked in the design business for over 25 years. She is President of the design division at Sterling Brands. She has been there for nearly 15 years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of global brands for Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Colgate, Nestle and Hasbro.

Debbie is President of the AIGA, the largest professional association for design. She is a contributing editor at Print Magazine, a design writer at FastCompany.com and BrandNew.com, and Chair of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 2005, she began hosting the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet. The show is titled “Design Matters with Debbie Millman” and it is now featured on DesignObserver.com.

She is the author of three books, How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer (Allworth Press, 2007), The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (Rotovision, 2008) and Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design, (HOW Books, 2009).

Blog: Sterling Brands

Casey Mullins

Casey Mullins writes about her life on the Internet. Sometimes it’s pretty, sometimes it’s ugly but it’s most certainly always honest. She thinks writing in third person makes her sound crazy and believes that cameras should be allowed everywhere. She likes to take pictures and kiss her husband. You can find her at moosh in indy dot com or lurking on flickr.

Blog: moosh in indy
Twitter: @mooshinindy