Speakers SLC 2013

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Stefan Sagmeister was born in Austria and lives and works in New York. He has worked for the Rolling Stones, The Talking Heads, Lou Reed, The Guggenheim Museum and Levis. Exhibitions on Sagmeister's work have been mounted in New York, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Paris, Lausanne, Zurich, Vienna, Prague, Cologne and Berlin.

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Chris Anderson, 3D Robotics

Chris Anderson is the CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones. From 2001 through 2012 he was the Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine. Before Wired he was with The Economist for seven years in various positions, ranging from Technology Editor to US Business Editor. He's the author of the New York Times bestselling books The Long Tail and Free as well as the new Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. He currently resides in Berkeley, California with his wife and five children.

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Katie Sokoler, Color Me Katie

Katie Sokoler is well known for her interactive, colorful and smile inducing street art. She also works as a freelance photographer and actress. In 2008 she started sharing her happy projects on her blog, Color Me Katie, and although she thought only her dad would read it, it quickly took off and launched her career. Regardless whether through photography, art installations or film, whatever Katie creates and shares is a bright spot to readers everywhere.

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Darcy Miller, Martha Stewart Weddings

Darcy Miller is the editorial director of weddings at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. After receiving her degree from the University of Pennsylvania, she joined MSL as an editorial assistant, and has been actively involved with Martha Stewart Weddings since its launch. Darcy oversees every aspect of weddings coverage: in publishing and merchandising, on television, the web, and radio. She currently lives in NYC with her husband, three daughters, and more scrapbooks than she can possibly count.

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Emily Henderson, Style by Emily Henderson

Emily Henderson is the season 5 HGTV Design Star winner, host and designer of 'Secrets from a Stylist', founder and writer of the daily style blog, www.stylebyemilyhenderson.com where she writes about her flea market finds, styling tips and intense love for teen romances. She is a massive shopaholic, tends to forge inappropriate relationships with vintage furniture and insists that the perfect house, like the 'perfect’ person, is boring and to be avoided at all times.

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Erin Loechner, Design for Mankind

Freelance writer and HGTV.com talent Erin Loechner began blogging personally in 2001 and professionally in 2007 at Design For Mankind (recently honored as one of the London Time’s top 50 design blogs in the world). Erin’s work has been featured in Glamour, Lucky, Dwell, Refinery29, Nylon, Print Magazine and The Huffington Post. She has written over 1,349 blog posts with the word "awesome" enclosed.

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Scott Kurnit, Keep.com, About.com

Scott Kurnit is the founder of Keep.com, the new shopping site where all the items are crowd sourced by real people with unreal taste. Scott also founded About.com, which he grew to the 5th largest of all Web properties. He’s the holder of four patents, led the team that embedded the first Web browser into an online service, started the first Pay Per View cable network, and was the youngest program director in the PBS system.

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Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Apartment Therapy

Eight years ago, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan was known as the “apartment therapist,” traveling by scooter to his clients’ homes to help them make their spaces beautiful, organized and healthy. Today, Apartment Therapy, the website he started as part of his design services, helps more than 12 million unique readers per month accomplish the same goal for themselves. Soft-spoken and charismatic, Maxwell brings his readers and clients a nurturing aura and a well-honed philosophy of homemaking with origins in his childhood.

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Gabrielle Blair, Design Mom

Gabrielle Blair's site, Design Mom, was named a Website of the Year by Time Magazine. The site has also been recognized as a top parenting blog by The Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart, Real Simple and Parents Magazine. Gabrielle has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, Woman's Day and Ladies Home Journal. Gabrielle is a founder of Kirtsy, a popular inspiration site for women, and also a founder of Alt Summit.

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Tiffanie Jones Brown, Pinterest

Tiffani Jones Brown is a writer, editor and all-around content person at Pinterest. Before, she was a content strategist at Facebook, co-runner of design agency Things That Are Brown, and getter of a master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. She lives in San Francisco with a husband and two cats.

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Aaron Gowalt,

Co-founder & CEO at Seesaw

Seesaw is a new app for instantly getting your friends' opinions when making decisions. Previously he co-founded CoTweet, the first Twitter based social media management system for companies. Adopted by thousands of brands including Citibank, CocaCola, Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, and Starbucks, CoTweet helped shape the way companies operate on Twitter. It was acquired by ExactTarget in 2010. Aaron lives in San Francisco with his wife Jolie O'Dell and their dog Lt. Reginald Endicott Barclay III.

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Heather B. Armstrong, Dooce

Heather B. Armstrong is the creator and writer of the popular website dooce.com. She is the author of a 2009 New York Times best selling book. Armstrong was recently named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 30 most influential women in media. Time Magazine has twice listed her website as one of the 25 best blogs in the world. She has appeared on many TV shows including the Oprah Winfrey Show and the Today Show.

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Karen Walrond, Chookooloonks

Karen Walrond is a (nonpracticing) attorney, writer, photographer, TEDx speaker and creator of the award-winning site Chookooloonks. Karen is also the author of The Beauty of Different, a book that will convince you that the thing that makes you different might just be your superpower. She loves dark chocolate, a good rum, and she's wildly convinced you're uncommonly beautiful.

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Sarah Carey, Head of Everyday Food Brand

Whether developing recipes, appearing on MSLO’s programs, or other media outlets, Sarah Carey loves sharing her innate cooking passion and expert techniques. Her experience includes co-authoring Martha Stewart’s Cooking School, contributing to numerous additional MSLO cookbooks, and co-hosting the PBS cooking series “Everyday Food.” Starting in June 2012, she launched “Everyday Food with Sarah Carey” - a daily digital video series providing simple instructional demonstrations of delicious weeknight dinners.

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Jasmine Star, Jasmine Star

Jasmine Star is an international photographer and though she's garnered awards for her work and named Top 10 Wedding Photographer, her crowning accomplishment was making meatloaf for the first time last year. She developed her brand by leveraging social media and empowering readers to be the voice of her marketing by creating online evangelists. Jasmine's work has been featured in national print publications and she's the proud founder and Editor-In-Chief of EXPOSED Magazine.

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Meg Keene, A Practical Wedding

Meg Keene is the Founder and Executive Editor of A Practical Wedding & Reclaiming Wife. Her first book, A Practical Wedding, was released in January 2012 and she has been the #2 bestselling author on the wedding bookshelf ever since. She is regularly interviewed by NPR, has written for outlets such as The Huffington Post, and has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Glamour Magazine, among other publications.

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Maggie Mason, Mighty Girl

Maggie Mason is an award-winning online publisher, co-founder of Go Mighty and Camp Mighty, founder of Mighty Goods, and author of No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for your blog, Her personal blog, Mighty Girl; was nominated for a SxSW Lifetime Achievement Weblog Award and she was named one of Silicon Valley’s Top 50 Influencers by Now Public. Her Mighty Life List has been has inspired hundreds of other women to create their own lists. That last part is the best part.

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Rachel Faucett, Handmade Charlotte

Rachel Faucett is a product designer and style writer, sharing her latest finds on her site Handmade Charlotte. Her family of 7 live on a farm near Atlanta, Georgia. When she is not in her garden or pottery studio she is moving furniture about the house. Writing daily for Babble, Momtastic, and Vitals, along with her own site.

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Jordan Ferney, Oh Happy Day

Jordan Ferney is a former event planner and author of the party and lifestyle blog Oh Happy Day which features party ideas and original DIY's. Jordan has worked (or currently works) for Anthology Magazine, Apartment Therapy, Cookie Magazine.com, Babble.com, Project Wedding, and iVillage. She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and two boys.

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Liz Stanley, Say Yes To Hoboken

Liz, founder and editor of the popular craft and style blog, Say Yes to Hoboken, was born and raised a New Yorker, but now perfectly happy to call the fairytale city of San Francisco home with her husband and son. Her work on Say Yes to Hoboken has been featured by The Huffington Post, Martha Stewart, Real Simple, and Parents Magazine. She also works as the Managing Editor of Minted's brand new lifestyle site, Julep, in addition to writing for Babble and Apartment Therapy.

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Ez Pudewa, Creature Comforts

Ez Pudewa is the editor and founder of Creature Comforts, a design and lifestyle blog celebrating the tiny details that make life sweet. Creature Comforts has been named one of the World's Top 50 Design Blogs by London Times online and has been featured in numerous domestic and international print publications such as Elle Decor UK, InStyle, Lucky Magazine and more. Ez has lived in Tulsa, OK for almost three years with her daughter and two dogs.

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Nicole Balch, Making it Lovely

Nicole Balch is the founder of Making it Lovely, a design and lifestyle blog about living a stylish life and transforming the so-so. Her work has been featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies' Home Journal, Time Out Chicago, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, and Everyday with Rachael Ray, and Making it Lovely was named one of the 50 World's Best Design Blogs by the London Times Online. Nicole lives in Oak Park, IL with her husband and two kids.

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Jaime Derringer, Design Milk

Jaime Derringer is founder and editor of modern design blog Design Milk, which has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York, San Francisco Chronicle, Sing apore Home & Decor magazine, and Real Simple magazine. Design Milk is one of the Google Engineers' Staff Picks and a Twitter influencer in Art & Design. She proudly lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter and their dog, Lulu.

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Camille Styles, Camille Styles

Camille Styles is the founder and creative director of popular lifestyle blog Camille Styles, where she shares the creative entertaining ideas that inspire her parties and her life. Camille is also a regular lifestyle contributor to media outlets like Cooking Channel, HGTV, DIY Network and works as a stylist for many national brands. Her modern aesthetic and eye for detail come together to create parties that are simply chic and all about fun.

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Jenny Komenda, Little Green Notebook

Jenny Komenda is a New York City based interior designer and blogger. Her daily posts on Little Green Notebook feature Jenny's DIY projects, client work, and bits of her family life as she and her family renovate their Brooklyn brownstone. Jenny's work has been recognized by editors at Elle Decor, Better Homes and Gardens, HGTV, House and Home, Lonny, House Beautiful and Vogue, among others.

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Natalie Bowman, @missbeaux

Natalie Bowman (@missbeaux) is a Marketing Director for Microsoft's Bing & MSN where her team creates evangelists through experiential events and building relationships with millions of social media fans. She was featured in a Facebook case study and teaches social media to bloggers via Alt Channel, Camp Mighty and others. When she is not out pinning, tweeting or gramming, she's home with her hilarious husband Jake (@stayhomepops), adorable daughter Violet and regal English bulldog Lucy.

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Wendy & Tyler, Blue Lilly

Wendy and Tyler and portrait photographers currently on a year long tour of the world, capturing families and landscapes as they go. They blog about their adventures, stories and images at bluelily.squarespace.com. Their work has been featured in the NY Times, Oprah and The Today Show. They have two children and homeschool on the road as they go.

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Becky Rosenthal, SLCfoodie

Becky Rosenthal loves Salt Lake City. Sometimes she attributes it to the four distinct seasons, other times it’s the skiing or even the summer evenings on the porch. However, most often, it’s the food. SLCfoodie exists to bring the emerging food scene to the food lovers of Salt Lake City. At the same time, followers will find out about many of the happenings around town, but most often food will be at the center of it.

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Allison Silber, Engaged & Inspired

After starting her career as a freelance writer at AOL and the Director of Communications for COLOURlovers Allison began working with tech startups on community, branding and social development. The other half of her life is dedicated to weddings as the founder of Engaged & Inspired where her staff of 10 brides blog about their journey to "I Do". She also co-founded a bridal event, The Lab, and is always dreaming up her next project.

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Victoria Hudgins, A Subtle Revelry

Victoria Hudgins is author to A Subtle Revelry where she shares her passion for the art of merry making. She is founding editor of Styled. magazine and editorial manager for the Alt blog. She is a craft stylist at heart and currently works for Project Wedding and Penguin Press Australia. Her work has been recently featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Elle Decor and Family Fun Magazine. As a mom to twin toddlers, she is often caught with a child at her side and balloons in her hand.

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Stacey Ferguson, Be Blogalicious

Stacey Ferguson (known online as Justice Fergie) is an avid veteran blogger, event producer, social media personality, public speaker, freelance writer, and Chief Curator of the Be Blogalicious community and conferences. As Founder of Justice Fergie’s Life IS the Party, she combines media, publishing & events to inspire women to ‘up their lifestyle quotient’ by living richly. Stacey is a wife, and mother of 3 and resides in the DC Metro Area.

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Chelsey Andrews, The Paper Mama

Chelsey is the Portland blogger and illustrator behind The Paper Mama, and is a contributor to the Better Homes and Gardens Style Spotters Blog. A lover of all things creative she likes to experiment with hair styles, DIY's, and photography. Most days you'll find her with a camera in one hand, her daughter in the other, and glitter in her third hand. Wait, three hands?

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Alison Faulkner, The Alison Show

Alison Faulkner writes, creates tutorials and spends an unhealthy amount of time filming herself for her site and channel: The Alison Show. She has years of professional experience in advertising design and copywriting, and uses them to create sassy and accessible tutorials for her site and many others. She is co-author of A Hip Handmade Holiday, part of TheCraftPack.com, and appears regularly on her local news station as a DIY and party guru.

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Laura Mayes, Blog Con Queso

Laura Mayes is an Emmy-winning writer, and a co-founder of the Mom 2.0 Summit, the Mighty Summit & Camp Mighty, Go Mighty, as well as Kirtsy. She has worked with Kirtsy to curate national art exhibits and to run nationwide programs to educate women about social media, She speaks regularly at gatherings including SxSW, ALT Design Summit, Evo converence, TribeCon, and Interactive Strategies. Laura records her daily adventures at Blog con Queso.

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Nicole Hill Gerulat, Nicole's Classes

Nicole Hill Gerulat is a commercial photographer and founder of Nicole's Classes -an online education company teaching photography, photoshop, craft and design-based courses. Nicole's Classes offers over 20 courses and its blog has been a wonderful online resource to thousands of creatives. Nicole's photography clients include Real Simple, HGTV, Us Weekly, Parents, Kiwi and more. Updates and behind-the-scenes are posted at Nicole's blog, A Little Sussy.

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Erin Souder, House of Earnest

Erin Souder is the founder and editor of House of Earnest. She is a Columbus-based creative who specializes in creating memorable events. Always able to make ‘something from nothing’ she’s best at manipulating common items to make them special. Her projects have been featured in Chantelaine Magazine and Design Sponge, and she is a contributor for Houzz and Etsy. Erin spends her spare time renovating an old farm house with her husband and their dog.

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Melanie Blodgett, You are my Fave

Melanie writes daily at her blog You Are My Fave - a mix of projects, parties and fave finds. Her work has been featured on sites such as Apartment Therapy, Fossil, Martha Stewart Crafts Department, Design Sponge, and A Cup of Jo. You can also find her posting frequently at Babble, Disney Baby and Julep. She currently resides in Denver with her husband Ryan and their jolly baby boy, Beck.

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Matt & Julie Walke, Tiger in a Jar

Tiger in a Jar is a film production company run by husband and wife team Matt and Julie Walker. Their work is inspired by everyday life and the joy found in simple but meaningful activities. They love the process that comes along with collaboration and have worked with such clients as Kinfolk, Anthology, and Babble.

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Kirsten Krason, 6th Street Design School

Kirsten Krason is an Interior Designer and blogger based out of Utah. Her blog 6th Street Design School follows her journey of being an Interior Designer. She loves sharing her client work with her readers as well as projects in her own home. Her colorful style and inspirational interiors have been recognized by Design Sponge, Adore Home Magazine, Apartment Therapy, and iVillage among others.

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Lana Frankel, Lana's Shop

Lana Frankel is an illustrator and custom stationery designer based out of her Denver studio. Her company, Lana's Shop, has done illustrations for Vogue events, Shopbop, lovely brides from all over and One Kings Lane. Her illustrations have a bright, chic edge stemming from her past experience as a graphic designer in the fashion world. Her favorite part of the job is to see how happy a finished product makes her client.

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Alma Loveland, Ollibird

In 2007, Alma Loveland, together with her husband Mike, founded Ollibird, a company that produces digital artwork. She literally wrote the book (or at least A book) on using Adobe Illustrator and she teaches a growing curriculum of Illustrator-based online classes at nicolesclasses.com. Alma's designs have been produced in women's fashion, stationery, and online media.

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Mike Loveland, Ollibird

Artist, teacher, and photo manipulator, Mike Loveland works with his wife Alma, at Ollibird. As a digital artist, he has processed and improved countless images, formerly as director of post production at a stock photography studio, and currently at Ollibird. Since 2007, Mike has been teaching online Photoshop classes through Nicole's Classes.

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Meg Biram, megbiram.com

Meg Biram is a digital media and brand consultant, and the founder of lifestyle blog megbiram.com. Her site, originally founded in 2007 as MIMI+MEG, covers fashion, interiors, art, and business. Prior to consulting, she was a senior designer at Hallmark Cards, Inc. Her curated aesthetic evolved over years of art classes and magazine subscriptions. When she's not blogging or consulting, she's encouraging others to follow their passions in life, traveling, or painting.

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Mina Brinkey, Bohemian Vintage

Decorating and design blogger, Mina Brinkey, works as a Social Studies high school teacher by day and authors and edits the Bohemian Vintage blog by night. Mina has been featured in various publications, such as The Tampa Bay Times, Nesting Newbies Magazine and Apartment Therapy. She has also been featured as a design expert in Allison Serrell's book New Cottage Style. She lives in sunny Tampa Bay with her husband Bill and their daughter, Savannah.

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Stephanie Morgan, Modern Parents Messy Kids

Stephanie Morgan is the founder and managing editor of Modern Parents Messy Kids as well as the resident Education and Activities Expert for eHow.com. MPMK, recently voted Best Craft Blog in Parents Magazine, provides daily inspiration to thousands of parents on how to simplify their life, find their style, and engage their kids. The site's mega popular "Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life" series spawned an eBook to be released in early 2013.

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Mitra Morgan, Joss and Main

Mitra Morgan is a cofounder of Joss and Main. She indulges her love for exploration, discovery and the thrill of the find every day. Mitra is also a working mom (with an MBA!), and knows firsthand how elusive the concept of balance can be. Fortunately, she’s a problem-solver at heart, and is thrilled that her day job lets her continually bring fresh home ideas and carefully curated collections to an audience of design enthusiasts like herself.

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Jenny Batt, Hank + Hunt

Jenny Batt is a mom of two boys, the editor of Hank + Hunt, tutorial maven, content provider, decorations designer and director of the Alt Channel. Since officially starting production of DIYs in January 2011, she has been seen on iVillage, Apartment Therapy, Real Simple, The Crafts Dept., Glo Magazine, Babble, Mollie Makes, Buzzfeed and Good Housekeeping. Oh, did we mention she is a regular contributor on The Sweetest Occasion, Oh Happy Day, and Hellobee?

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Capree Kimball, My Adventure is Your Advantage!

Capree has a deep love of Victorian-era “fancy lads”, 19th Century anatomy drawings, and tin robots. Capree writes and blogs about her obsessions on My Adventure is Your Advantage! You can also find her at the helm of Dog Milk, a site dedicated to modern dog design, as the Managing Editor. When she's not gushing about cool dog stuff, she's sharing awesome DIY and craft ideas on Curbly and Wantist.

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Jessika Hepburn, Oh My! Handmade Goodness

Jessika Hepburn has been kickstarting creative communities and innovative businesses for over a decade. As editor of Oh My! Handmade Goodness, she has built a welcoming online community of over 40 contributors that engages thousands of creative entrepreneurs daily to connect and create. You can find her reigning as Mayor of Creativille at the #OMHG chats every Thursday, spreading community goodness online, or living up village life in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia with her two daughters.

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Mariah Danielsen, Oh, What Love

Mariah is an award-winning graphic designer and marketer who discovered that she could build a business around what she loves: weddings, stationery, vintage details and DIY projects. She is the owner of Oh, What Love, a wedding decor and vintage rentals website for bohemian, indie + vintage brides, and she is the co-creator of The Create+Connect Project, a program that helps creative entrepreneurs turn their passion into profit.

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Susan Petersen, Freshly Picked

Susan Petersen is the one-woman-show behind Freshly-Picked‚ an inspirational and crafty blog. She also makes moccasins for the rich and famous (or at least their kids) and runs an online shop that sells fine leather goods under the same name, Freshly Picked. She is part of The Craft Pack and co-author of A Hip Handmade Holiday. She lives in Utah with her husband and two small children.

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Adrienne Arieff, arieff.com

Adrienne Arieff is a digital media and public relations strategist, and the founder of lifestyle and design marketing communications firm - arieffcommunications. She is author to The Sacred Thread and co-authored SPA and has a new book coming out on entrepreneurship. When she's not writing, she's being a mother to her twin girls or traveling to far way places trying to teach her children to sit on an airplane for more than an hour.

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Susan and William Brinson, House of Brinson

Susan and William Brinson craft and curate the blog House of Brinson a creative partnership on lifestyle and style in their everyday lives. Susan is a senior art director and designer and William is commercial photographer. In their live/work loft in NYC they collaborate on projects with each other and for individual clients. Susan art directs and designs and William uses the space for photo shoots.

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Chris Gardner, Curbly

Chris Gardner is the editor-in-chief of Curbly.com, a DIY home decor web community dedicated to creating and sharing how-to projects for those who love where they live. He's also the founder of ManMade, a site that explores the craft and handmade scene from a guy's perspective. He's a regular contributor to BobVila.com, and has appeared in ReadyMade, SewHip, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives and makes messes in Columbus, Ohio.

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Melanie Burk, Fifth & Hazel

Melanie Burk is the founder of Fifth & Hazel, a company that produces websites, branding, digital magazines, apps, and surface design. She also sales digital downloads at Caravan Shoppe, and teaches at Nicole's Classes. With a belief that art impacts people, Melanie aspires to create good design that invokes change for the better. She loves the outdoors, the ocean, march madness, photography, surfing, hiking, traveling, and her small family.

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Nathan Williams, Kinfolk Magazine

As the founding editor of Kinfolk Magazine, Nathan Williams works with a contributing team of photographers, writers, illustrators and designers in a collaborative effort to encourage a natural approach to entertaining. He often partners with brands such as West Elm, Anthropologie, Steven Alan, and Williams-Sonoma and coordinates a dinner series across the USA and other countries.

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Dana Willard, MADE

Dana Willard authors the popular DIY sewing and design blog MADE, giving a relatable voice to modern sewing. Her designs have been featured in multiple creative books, magazine publications, online communities, and in award circles. Her first book Fabrics A to Z was published recently and is essential for any sewist, new and old. Dana lives in the hot city of Austin, TX with her husband and three kids.

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Chelsea Costa, Lovely Indeed

Chelsea Costa is a blogger by day and a musical theatre performer by night - or sometimes vice versa. Her blog, Lovely Indeed, focuses on a DIY lifestyle and all of the happiness that comes along with it. It's a place where readers go to find fresh and (dare we say) hip DIY projects, along with inspiring posts on style, travel, and food. Chelsea's also a regular contributor at Poppytalk, Society Social, and The Neighborhood.

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Beth Giles, Salvage Life

Beth Giles is the owner and curator of the online shop and blog, Salvage Life. Her shop is filled with beautiful, affordable, high quality vintage products that are relevant to a modern lifestyle. You can find Beth blogging about DIY projects using vintage materials and how to mix vintage into your wardrobe. Salvage Life has been featured in People Magazine, on the Today Show, Clever TV and products have been worn by Taylor Swift.

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Kelly Beall, Design Crush

Kelly Beall began the blog Design Crush in 2007 as a love letter to the design community and she hasn't looked back since! Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Herman Miller, and Etsy among others and she has had the honor of working with such brands as Electrolux, Traditional Home, and Nissan. Kelly also works as a graphic designer and creative consultant when she's not chasing her two dogs and two cats around her Oklahoma City home.

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Danielle Krysa, The Jealous Curator

Danielle Krysa has a BFA, and a post-grad in Design. After years of looking at beautiful contemporary art and thinking "Damn, I wish I thought of that", she decided to say it out loud, and The Jealous Curator was born. She writes daily posts showcasing artwork from around the world, and is currently writing two books. The Jealous Curator has been featured by Sunset Magazine, Frankie Magazine, Apartment Therapy and Glamour Paris.

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Laurie Smithwick, LEAP Design

Laurie Smithwick is a design addict, collector of things, french fry lover, cilantro hater, neglectful writer, wannabe chef, mom of twins, happy wife, and loyal friend. By day, she’s an award-winning graphic designer who founded LEAP Design in 1998. Before that she honed her skills in the music industry where her work was nominated for a Grammy. Laurie is also a co-founder of Kirtsy, and blogs at UpsideUp. She lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband, twin daughters, three cats, and one of those pygmy frogs in a box that is apparently going to live forever.

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Merrilee Liddiard, Mer Mag

Merrilee Liddiard is the founder of Mer Mag. As an illustrator under the pen name Tuesday Mourning, Merrilee has worked for various publishers and has worked with GAP Kids, National Geographic Kids, Parent & Child magazine and Ruby Studio. Her work has been seen in Family Fun Magazine, Daily Candy, Handmade Charlotte, Apartment Therapy, Design Mom, and more. She is currently working on her first kids craft book with STC Craft, due out in 2014.

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Melissa Esplin, ISLY

Becoming the mother of a precocious little girl & cuddly baby boy, has dramatically shifted Melissa's focus. Some things, however, have remained the same: She absolutely loves being creative with graphic design, calligraphy, sewing, bookbinding, painting, decorating and anything that keeps her mind & hands busy. ISLY is Melissa's declaration to all things creative that, “I Still Love You”.

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Brittany Watson Jepsen, The House that Lars Built

Brittany Watson Jepsen is a crafter/designer/blogger/paper flower maker of The House that Lars Built, her blog and Etsy shop. She has contributed to design*sponge, Oh Happy Day, Kinfolk, Martha Stewart Craft Department and currently contributes to Brooklyn Bride and Etsy Weddings. Her work has appeared in various publications including Living, Etc., House Beautiful, Vogue.com. She is thrilled to be back in America after living in Copenhagen, Denmark for the past 2 1/2 years.

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Erica Dublin, Wayfare Magazine

Wayfare Magazine is a brand new online and print publication founded by Erica Dublin. Every element of Wayfare highlights how travel should be: motivating, accessible, and delightful. Erica is a longtime entrepreneur in digital media, a freelance journalist, and a marketing professional specializing in branded content. Erica’s work has been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Real Simple, Rachael Ray, Shape, Momfilter, Cookie Magazine, and Fitness Magazine.

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Erin Kennedy, My Thirty Spot

Erin Kennedy is the founder and editor of My Thirty Spot. She is a thirty-something gal sharing tips and advice for women to live the best 30-life they can. Erin took her love of writing and started a blog which has since turned into her profession. Erin currently resides with her husband and two adorable kitties in Phoenix. Her interests include dressing chic on a budget, sharing anti-aging tips, cooking, and capturing life through photography.

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Helen Jane Hearn, Helen Jane

Helen Jane Hearn is the Director of Content Operations at Federated Media. She has spoken about creativity and the Internet at SXSW, Mom 2.0, EVO and the Foodbuzz Festival. She also has contributed to Serious Eats, Amex Open Forum, Women & Co., Style United and Home Made Simple. Writing a personal blog at helenjane.com, her enthusiasm for personal publishing knows no bounds. She lives and plays in Napa Valley with her husband and two toddlers.

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Jessica Turner, The Mom Creative

Jessica Turner is wife, mom, marketing professional and founder of the lifestyle blog The Mom Creative. There she documents her pursuit of cultivating a life well-crafted, through posts mostly on parenting, memory keeping and frugal living. Jessica is also an (in)courage writer, co-host of the Bloom Book Club, a blogger for World Vision and a Big Picture Classes teacher. She and her husband Matthew live in Nashville, Tenn. with their two young children, Elias and Adeline.

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Guinevere de la Mare, Chronicle Books

Guinevere de la Mare is senior community manager at Chronicle Books. She launched the publisher's social media strategy in early 2009 and has been the online voice of the brand ever since. When she's not in San Francisco crafting visual stories on Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram, you can find her on the beach in Hawaii with her husband and young son. She blogs about books and art at Paper is Poetry.

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Mara Kofoed, A BLOG ABOUT LOVE

Mara Kofoed founded A BLOG ABOUT LOVE just over a year ago to help people face their challenges with life, love & relationships. She receives emails daily from all over the world from people saying that she’s helping them change their lives. She learned through her own divorce & 8 years of infertility that it was possible to still be happy, despite undesirable circumstances. She tries to help other people to do the same. She resides in Brooklyn with her husband Danny.

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Cyd Converse, The Sweetest Occasion

Cyd Converse is the founder and creative director of The Sweetest Occasion, a lifestyle and design blog where she shares her passion for all things entertaining, style and DIY with a focus on simple yet beautiful living. The Sweetest Occasion has garnered mentions by prominent publications such as BRIDES, Country Living and New York Magazine. Cyd is also a lifestyle contributor to Babble's The New Home Ec and Family Style.

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Maddie Eisenhart, Hart & Sol Photo

Maddie Eisenhart is the Managing Editor of A Practical Wedding & Reclaiming Wife and the leopard-clad half of the bi-coastal wedding photography studio Hart & Sol Photo. When not immersed in weddings, she spends most of her free time spooning her giant dog and comparing her dreamy husband to a young Paul Newman. She has never been quoted by a major media outlet, but one time she interviewed Hanson, and she's pretty sure that totally counts.

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Jennifer Cooper, Classic Play

Jennifer Cooper is like a one man band, except she doesn't play harmonica. Or kick drum. Or guitar. Actually, maybe she's nothing like a one man band. Instead, she's a blogger and entrepreneur, with a mom title thrown in for good measure. She celebrates a creative family lifestyle on her blog Classic Play and launched the micro toy company ebkrobots.com. Her digital footprint includes Apartment Therapy, Daily Candy, and Babble.

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Mariah Bruehl, Playful Learning

Mariah Bruehl is a parent, educator, and author of the book Playful Learning: Develop Your Child’s Sense of Joy and Wonder. With over 15 years’ experience working in the field of education and a Master of Science degree in Education from Bank Street College, she brought her expertise online, creating the Parents’ Choice Gold Medal award-winning Web site Playful Learning. In 2011 she launched the Playful Learning Ecademy, which takes virtual-learning experiences to a new level.

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Kirsten Grove, Simply Grove

As an Interior Stylist and an Interior Blogger for Simply Grove, Kirsten Grove most loves taking dated designs and transforming them into modern masterpieces. She has a passion for diagnosing clients design styles and giving them the tools to transform their space. Her work has been featured by Anthology Magazine, Lucky Magazine, Design* Sponge and HGTV.com, to name just a few. She also contributes to sites like 2Modern, BHG Style Spotters and Cool Mom Picks.

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Laura Lee Mattingly, Chronicle Books

Laura Lee Mattingly is a lifestyle editor at Chronicle Books, an independent publisher in San Francisco. Her title list includes Decor8blog founder Holly Becker’s Decorate, Nichole Robertson’s Paris in Color, blog-to-book sensation Dads Are the Original Hipsters, and inspiring craft titles including Stitched Gifts and 1, 2, 3 Sew. She is interested in working with first time authors and established bloggers and brands. She blogs about books and publishing at A Tad Bookish.

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Annie Selke, Fresh American

Annie Selke believes your home should make you happy. For nearly 20 years, she's been designing luxurious, livable, lovable bedding, rugs, sleepwear, and home furnishings through Pine Cone Hill, Dash & Albert Rug Company, and Annie Selke Home fabrics. The 2010 Massachusetts Small Business Person of the Year, Annie is the author of Fresh American Spaces, the founder of the popular blog Fresh American, a member of the Domino Style Council, and a media favorite.

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Emily Frame, Small Fry

Emily Frame is one-third of the children's lifestyle blog Small Fry, which launched September 2012 to rapid success. She currently works as a stylist and runs the handmade boutique, Bijou Market. She was named one of Alt's up and comers in 2012 for her blog Ruffling Feathers, which chronicles her life and having two boys 16 months apart. Saying “no” is not one of her strengths in work or life.

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Megan Gilger, The Fresh Exchange

Megan is the editor and curator behind the design and lifestyle blog, The Fresh Exchange where she shares current inspiration, recipes, and personal thoughts on her life as a creative entrepreneur in Michigan. Because of her passion for the growth of the blogging community Megan built Blog Brunch with two other partners as a place where bloggers can grow amongst one another. She also works beside her husband running their brand experience studio, Hitch Design.

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Michelle Edgemont, Michelle Edgemont

Michelle Edgemont is a wedding and event designer who specializes in quirky, modern decorations that help couples throw conventionality out the window. Her work has been featured on Brooklyn Bride, Style Me Pretty, Southern Weddings Magazine, Say Yes to Hoboken, and HGTV. She blogs for her business about life behind-the-scenes, snapshots of recent projects, and life in Brooklyn. She loves a good collaboration and has learned that the only thing holding us back is fear.

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Rachel Shingleton, Pencil Shavings Studio

Graphic designer Rachel Shingleton of Pencil Shavings Studio has never met a color she didn't love. Blogging since 2007, she added shopowner to her job description in 2011 with the launch of Pencil Shavings Studio on Etsy. Her colorful & whimsical tech accessories, home decor items, and paper goods have caught the eye of numerous publications and national retailers including The Limited. When she's not designing, she's scheming with her husband about trips to Paris.

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Kaelin Zawilinski & Joanna Linberg, BHG

Kaelin Zawilinski and Joanna Linberg met at Drake University and instantly became friends. After graduating with degrees in magazine journalism, they jumped into editor roles at BHG.com at the time, a burgeoning part of the industry. Together, they've launched Better Homes social media presence and blog initiatives, and have collaborated on countless print and digital efforts. Both are thrilled to attend and speak at Alt for the first time.

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Promise Tangeman, Promise Tangeman Creative

With a passion for marketing, a killer creative process, and even bigger hair, Promise Tangeman develops unique visual identities, websites, and other graphic elements to empower small businesses. Promise is the founder and designer at SiteHouse designs and Promise Tangeman Creative. She also founded the GO LIVE workshop, where attendees build and launch their website in 2 days flat! She resides in Phoenix Arizona with her husband Brian Wurzell and their puppy named Parker.

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Sandra Harris, Raincoast Cottage

Sandra Harris is a "recovering artist" who spent far too many years putting her creative passions on the backburner. After finally figuring out that it didn't have to be one or the other, she blogs at Raincoast Cottage where you'll find inspiration to create your art and live a creative life. Think of it as a place to hang out, get inspired and learn new ways to think about creating, whatever you make.

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Katie Anderson, Modern Eve

Katie Anderson is founder and creative director of Modern Eve, a lifestyle blog about trends in fashion and home décor. In 2012 she co-founded to & from, a holiday gift guide magazine. Katie also offers freelance social media and online marketing consulting to small businesses and lifestyle brands. She lives in Dallas, TX with her husband of five and half years and their two cats, Chloé and Goliath.

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Whitney Johnson, Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson is a leading thinker on driving innovation via personal disruption, the co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm, a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and an advisor to early stage start-ups. Whitney is also the author of Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream and is listed on Inc Magazine’s 12 People to Follow on Twitter in 2012 and Business Insider’s 54 Smart Thinkers Everyone Should Follow on Twitter.

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Amanda Hill, recycledconsignanddesign.com

Amanda Hill is the owner of the hippest vintage consignment boutique in Southern Utah and the writer behind recycledconsignanddesign.com. She can also be found on the Southern Utah website Aliveutah.com posting about emerging design trends. While a wife and mother to 3 kids, Amanda still finds time to appear on the local TV program Fresh Living to discuss helpful design tips. Amanda lives by the words, good things happen to those that hustle.

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Amy Anderson, Parker Etc

Amy Anderson is the voice behind Parker Etc where she highlights her fashion escapades, design inspiration and junior varsity DIY projects. She co-founded Blog Brunch as a place for bloggers to learn and grow together. Parker Etc has been featured on Refinery 29, Vh1, Kmart Fashion, Apartment Therapy + Krrb and worked with brands like Old Navy, Brahmin, Ernest Alexander and Nordstrom. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with her darling husband.

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Jill Nystul, One Good Thing by Jillee

Jill Nystul is the creative force behind the blog One Good Thing by Jillee. She launched her site in 2011 on a simple premise – to sort through the clutter of life and share one good thing with her readers each day. She has been featured on the Huffington Post, Apartment Therapy, Bon Appetit and is a regular contributor to Do It Yourself, Viewpoints, and BonBon Break. Jill and "the hubster" have 4 kids and live outside of Park City, Utah.

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Janette Crawford, Storenvy

Janette Crawford is a writer and curator who loves good design with a good backstory. That's why she joined the founding team of Storenvy, the free store builder and marketplace for the world's most creative businesses, and why she started the ethical fashion blog Fashion Loves People in 2007. She has operated in e-commerce since then as a retailer, wholesaler and merchandiser, most recently with the online pop-up Fashion Loves Babies, inspired by her 1-year-old.

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Jenean Morrison, jeneanmorrison.net

Jenean Morrison is an artist and surface designer based in Memphis, Tennessee. Her vibrant, joyful artwork has been licensed for a wide range of products including wallpaper, rugs, scrapbook kits, and fabric. Clients include Gelaskins, Free Spirit Fabric, The Rug Market, and C.R.Gibson. She recently designed and published the Pattern and Design Coloring Book, which features 50 of her original designs for coloring.

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Jess Lively, JessLively.com

Jess Lively hails from Chicago and is on a mission to help people design lives, homes, and businesses with intention. You can find her daily on her blog, JessLively.com, writing about living authentically, being proactive, and her favorite thing of all time: decorating her home. You can also find out more about her consulting and traveling workshops on BusinessWithIntention.com.

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Tiffanie Turner, Corner Blog

Tiffanie Turner is a licensed California architect who is currently specializing in motherhood and housewifery. She writes at Corner Blog, a clearinghouse for all of the things she makes and does, hoping to provide envy-free inspiration. Projects from her blog have been featured on Design Mom, the Martha Stewart Living blog, and Apartment Therapy, among others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.

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Lindsey Johnson, Cafe Johnsonia

Lindsey Johnson has always loved photography and food. The two successfully come together on her blog, Cafe Johnsonia where she documents all of the deliciousness that comes out of her kitchen. Lindsey has been a regular contributor on numerous websites and blogs, including Design Mom, where she writes the Secrets To Living Well column. Her recipes and photography have also been featured on television, newspapers and magazines in Utah where Lindsey lives with her husband and three children.

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Michelle Hunt, Twig

Michelle Hunt is a mom to Shirley Temple's twin by day and a small business owner, alongside her husband Steve, by night. Steve & Michelle run Twig, a creative online boutique that specializes in childrens' toys and furniture design. They are best known for their wooden toys that mimic many of today's popular tech devices. This year they were named one of Babble's Top 50 Etsy Parents and are passionate about the handmade community.

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Miya Hirabayashi & Elisabeth Thurston Fraser, YOU + ME

Miya Hirabayashi and Elisabeth Thurston Fraser are the co-founders of The Equals Project. We encourage people to connect to the varied and interesting things women of different backgrounds, in different circumstances, and living different lifestyles think about, do, make, and discuss. Our online project, The Equals Record, is a collection of narrative nonfiction, essays, stories, and photography from women across the world. We live 2,911 miles apart but try to live like we're right next door.

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Morgan Shanahan, The818.com

Morgan Shanahan is a professional lifestyle blogger and screenwriter living in Los Angeles‚ San Fernando Valley (aka The818) with her toddler daughter, dashing hubby, and farting trio of dogs. In addition to over-sharing her personal life (complete with curse words) on The818.com, Morgan is BlogHer's Entertainment Editor and a Babble Voices columnist. She also tweets, pins and instagrams like a boss.

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Piper Toth, One Sydney Road

Piper Toth happily took the leap, left the corporate world and hasn't looked back! She founded one sydney road, first as a blog, turned it into an online boutique, then added in her wanderlust to create city-based online pop-up shops. She has now turned her efforts over to helping creative entrepreneurs, artists & aspiring shop owners, do the same. Piper's work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Martha Stewart online, DailyCandy, Anthology & Rue magazine.

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Ruth Harding, A House in Holland

Ruth Harding is a freelance writer and virtual assistant who works behind the scenes of several blogs creating graphics, researching, ghostwriting, and anything else her clients need. She blogs for fun at A House in Holland and for hire at Windmill Words. Ruth loves having a job that lets her look at pretty houses all day in her pajamas. She lives in Northern California with a husband, three children, and a very happy dog.

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Amy Turn Sharp

Amy's a poet working on a 365 Poetry project and trying to bring poetry back to the people. She's been featured on NPR and writes for publications like Ladies' Home Journal and numerous blogs. She and her husband started the popular toy line, Little Alouette. The brand has been featured on The Today Show, in Martha Stewart magazine and Apartment Therapy, among others. She likes martinis, radishes and being the queen mother of her little boys.

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Carrie Kiefer, Ampersand Design Studio

Carrie Kiefer of Ampersand Design Studio creates patterns and graphic design along with biz partner, Morgan Georgie in Kansas City. After a decade designing for Hallmark Cards, Carrie left her corporate job to live her dream of running a creative business. Ampersand's signature style, lifestyle blog, and colorful shop have earned recognition by numerous sites and publications including AIGA, Design*Sponge, HGTV and Real Simple. Their work has been produced on everything from textiles to stationery.

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Morgan Georgie, Ampersand Design Studio

Morgan Georgie of Ampersand Design Studio is one half of the duo behind Ampersand, a pattern & graphic design studio, etsy shop and lifestyle blog, After holding varying positions at Hallmark Cards including Designer, Art Director and Creative Strategist, Morgan joined forces with Carrie Kiefer to launch Ampersand DesignStudio in 2009. Ampersand's signature bold designs have appeared on textiles, paper goods, home decor, and fashion and been recognized by HGTV, Real Simple, Apartment Therapy, Design*Sponge and Print Magazine.

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Melanie Biehle, Inward Facing Girl

Melanie Biehle is the creator of Inward Facing Girl, where she blogs about contemporary art, design, photography, and life in Seattle with her husband and son. She offers social media and branding consultations, graphic design services, and coaching at genuineMIX. Melanie has a Masters degree in psychology and 15 years of marketing, project management, and research experience. She's worked with major motion picture studios including Paramount and Warner Bros., and technology leaders like Microsoft.

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Lauren McGrath,

Lauren McGrath is the Development Coordinator for Scripps Networks Interactive. Within her role, Lauren is responsible for identifying and developing new talent for Scripps' upcoming lifestyle video portal site as well as working with top production companies to develop entertaining and innovative show concepts for the site. Previously, Lauren spent two years in the Alternative Television department at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), where she specialized in news and lifestyle clients and honed her eye for spotting promising talent.

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Vivian Mansour, ish and chi

Vivian Mansour lives in Sydney and is the founder of ish and chi, a design blog about sharing the creative journey of turning a house into a home. She is studying her final year of Interior Design and Decoration and shares her personal and client design projects with her readers. Vivian's work has been featured both locally and internationally including Real Living magazine, Adore Home and Apartment Therapy and she was names as one of Kidspot's Top 50 Bloggers in 2012.

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Angelin Borsics, Potter Style

Angelin Borsics is an Associate Editor at Potter Style, an imprint of the Crown division at Random House, where she focuses on decorating/design, gardening, personal style, beauty, and gift books. Her authors include DwellStudio founder Christiane Lemieux; actor and designer Bryan Batt; stylist, photographer, and creator of the acclaimed Sunday Suppers classes Karen Mordechai; Peak of Chic blogger and House Beautiful contributor Jennifer Boles; and AphroChic blogger and innovative textile designer Jeanine Hayes; among others.

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Christine Castro Hughes, Darling Studio

Christine Castro Hughes delights in color, simplicity, and a good cup of coffee. The designer and writer founded Darling Studio in 2005 to bring smart, beautiful design to small businesses and boutiques. Christine has chronicled her life online for over 12 years, first on Webby-nominated maganda.org and now on Brunch. She works and plays in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

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Helena Swyter, SweeterCPA

A licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with her Masters in Taxation from the University of Illinois, Helena Swyter helps people turn their passions into careers. After seven years with Deloitte, Helena formed SweeterCPA - a company dedicated to providing tax, accounting, and business advisory services to creative entrepreneurs and independent small businesses. Helena handles the finances, allowing her clients to focus on following their dreams. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two cats.

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Emily Meyer, Tea Collection

Emily Meyer is co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Tea Collection, a globally-inspired children's apparel company based in San Francisco that has been on Inc's list of the fastest growing companies in the US for 5 straight years. She loves traveling abroad with her team to discover inspiration for the next collection, and is animated by the thought of little citizens exploring the world through Tea's fashions. In her spare time, she adores laughing with her two children, daydreams about interiors and landscaping, and indulges in a Pinterest addiction on her iPhone.

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Katy Carrier, Law for Creatives

Katy Carrier is an attorney specializing in services for creative professionals. Formerly a professional wedding planner and graphic designer, Katy has parlayed her knowledge of creative business entrepreneurship into a number of law-related ventures aiming to educate creative people about building sound businesses. Katy is the founder of Law for Creatives, a website offering contract templates and educational information, as well as Carrier & Associates, a law practice catering to creative businesses.

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Ashley Rose, Sugar & Cloth

Ashley Rose is the writer and creator of Sugar & Cloth, a blog full of DIY's, desserts, and all of the pretty things in between. She began blogging in 2011 after a cross-country move to the busy city of Houston as a newlywed, and has since been featured on sites such as Martha Stewart Living, The Huffington Post, and WIRED to name a few. When she's not crafting, she's scouring town for macrons and coffee.

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Marigold Haske, Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!

Marigold Haske is the designer, sewist, and author behind the craft blog Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky! where she offers practical creations for the domestic lifestyle that always carry a quirky and fun twist. Chock-full of tutorials, inspiration, sew-alongs and irreverent humor for the DIY mama, Marigold writes for an ever-growing community of artful souls who embrace the handmade life. She lives the good life in Southern California with her charming husband and their two sons.

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Mark Clark,

Mark is an internet attorney with over 23 years of experience and works in areas of copyright and online defamation at Traverse Legal PLC. Mark enjoys the futile effort at attempting to keep pace with his three teenage boys, 18,17, and 15 and their energetic mother. They all enjoy sailing, snowboarding, kiteboarding and fun outdoors in general.

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Amanda Schreyer, Fierst, Kane & Bloomberg LLP

Amanda Schreyer is an intellectual property and media attorney representing bloggers and other creative people and their businesses. She provides a wide range of legal services related to online and offline endeavors, including contract negotiations, copyright and trademark protection, and general business advice. When she’s not working or reading blogs, Amanda spends time playing with her 2-year-old daughter or trying to recreate craft projects from Pinterest.

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Dan M Brown, Proven Strategies Consulting

Dan earned his accounting degree at Texas and his MBA at Colorado. He has extensive business experience both in the corporate world and as an entrepreneur, founding Proven Strategies Consulting in 2003. Dan considers himself a client’s silent partner, providing accounting, tax and consulting services needed to run their business successfully. Dan lives in Colorado with his wife and has 6 daughters.

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Doug Solstad, HintonBurdick CPAs & Advisors

Doug Solstad, CPA has been the tax preparer and advisor for Altitude Summit since inception. He is a Senior Manager who has specialized in tax and business consulting for over ten years at HintonBurdick CPAs & Advisors, the largest Utah-based CPA firm. He serves as Chairman of the Board for the St. George Area Chamber of Commerce and is on the board of directors for the Washington County School District Foundation.

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Naoise McNally, One Fab Day

Naoise is the co-founder and managing editor of One Fab Day. She started her career at Ireland's best known website, Daft.ie, when it was just a start-up. Over the course of one year she helped build it to become one of the most successful online companies in Ireland. Since then as Digital Project Manager, she has led on a number of high-profile projects including an online system for volunteer management and a national campaign to educate the Irish people about economic information.