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Member Spotlight: Debbie DeClue

6/23/2022

 
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Name: Debbie DeClue

Business Name: DeClue Portrait and Design

Please list 3 of your favorite likes: Chocolate anything, photography & the beach

Please list 3 of your least favorite things: Social Media (it's a love/hate thing), seafood & peas/lima beans

Where did you go to school (high school or college): Ft. Zumwalt North High School (formerly just Ft. Zumwalt High School)

What is your favorite movie? I don't have a favorite movie but I love crime dramas.

What is your favorite sports team? The Cardinals

What do you enjoy most in life? Vacationing with my family & friends on a beach

What is your biggest accomplishment? Earning my Certified Professional Photographer's degree.



Member Spotlight: Katrie Spink

6/8/2022

 
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Name: Katrie Spink

Business Name: Anthology of Wildwood Assisted Living Community

Please list 3 of your favorite likes: Family Time, Green Bay Packer Football, Antiquing

Please list 3 of your least favorite things:  Missouri Humid Summer Days, The Chicago Bears, Sushi

Where did you go to school (high school or college): Rolla Senior High, Go Bulldogs!

What is your favorite movie? Grease or John Wick, can't pick between them

What is your favorite sports team?  The Green Bay Packers

What do you enjoy most in life? Time with my family

What is your catchphrase? Always Savage, Never Average

What is your biggest accomplishment? Happily married for 31 years to my best friend.

Tell us anything else you would like us to know. I love to laugh, love helping people and I still like the music turned up loud!

Member Spotlight: April Porter

5/25/2022

 
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Name: April Porter

Business Name: Ask April Porter

Please list 3 of your favorite likes:  Dancing, Singing, Laughing

Please list 3 of your least favorite things:  Peas, Bullies, Being Cold

Where did you go to school (high school or college):  (Southwest) Missouri State & WashU Law

What is your favorite movie?  Gone with the Wind and Terminator 2

What is your favorite sports team?  Cardinals

What do you enjoy most in life?  Traveling

What is your catchphrase? Live with SWAG! (Sanity, Wealth & Gratitude)


Tell us anything else you would like us to know. I believe that we have one purpose on this earth, which is to evolve into the very best versions of ourselves before we leave it - mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually as leaders, givers, and light bearers, illuminating the way for those that come behind us.

Member Spotlight: Jackie Ginther

5/18/2022

 
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Name: Jackie Ginther

Business:
 The Wellness Life

Please list 3 of your favorite likes
: The beach, being by any kind of water, camping with my family

Please list 3 of your least favorite things
: Cold weather, nails on a chalkboard, sound of chewing with your mouth open

Where did you go to school (high school or college): 
Nerinx Hall High School

What is your favorite movie? 
10 Things I Hate About You

What is your favorite sports team? The Cardinals

What do you enjoy most in life? Anytime I can relax. I am going almost all the time so relaxing is few and far between.

What is your catchphrase? 
 No is just a not right now.

What is your biggest accomplishment? 
My 4 amazing children

Tell us anything else you would like us to know. I am very determined and persistent. When I get my mind set on something I go all out until I make it happen.

Member Spotlight: Lindsay Castello

4/29/2022

 
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Name: Lindsay Castello

Business Name: Pampered Chef and Detail Driven Carwash

Please list 3 of your favorite likes: Travel, live music and my 3 Australian Shepherds or Aussholes as I call them

Please list 3 of your least favorite things: Unkind people, slow drivers in the fast lane and emptying the dishwasher

Where did you go to school (high school or college): Wentzville High School before it was Holt and Westminster College

What is your favorite movie? 
Almost Famous

What is your favorite sports team? St. Louis Cardinals

What do you enjoy most in life?
Traveling the world!

What is your catchphrase? Good vibes

What is your biggest accomplishment?
 Getting my health under control by losing 50 pounds in the midst of COVID.


Member Spotlight: Samara Mitchell

12/10/2021

 
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Name: Samara Mitchell
Business Name: Mitchell Realty group powered by Move
Please list 3 of your favorite likes: The beach, sushi, and Selling Real Estate
Please list 3 of your least favorite things: Gloomy days, cleaning, and negativity
Where did you go to school (high school or college): Lindenwood University
What is your favorite movie? Ever After: A Cinderella Story
What is your favorite sports team?  The Saint Louis Blues
What do you enjoy most in life? Spending time with my family
What is your catchphrase? Make it a great day
What is your biggest accomplishment? It's a toss up between these two...
It's a toss up between these two...
  • At the age of 16 I was a high school dropout living on my own, working fulltime to cover the cost of the bedroom I rented. After accepting a position in retail, I quickly worked my way into management, where I was the youngest individual in the organization's history to achieve manager of the year at the age of 20.
  • In 2018 with a full time career and four kids, I earned a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration with honors from Lindenwood University.
Tell us anything else you would like us to know. I love to learn, help others in need (both humans and animals), and truly believe that you can accomplish anything that you are willing to work hard for. I aspire to write a memoir, and share my story as living proof that your past doesn't have to define your future.

Member Spotlight: Sarah Hall

12/3/2021

 
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Name: Sarah Hall

Business Name: Faith Through Fire

Please list 3 of your favorite likes: Exercise, Connecting with people, Plants

Please list 3 of your least favorite things: Onions, stepping on legos, closed minded people

Where did you go to school (high school or college): Hickman High School, UMSL, SLU (grad school)

What is your favorite movie?  Anything with Leonardo DiCaprio, or Gone with the Wind

What is your favorite sports team?  Blues

What do you enjoy most in life? Watching people grow, seeing my children learn

What is your catchphrase? It's fine, I'm fine, we are all fine :) - At least this is what my bestie says I say all the time to diffuse anxieties in others.

What is your biggest accomplishment? Saved a woman from another spinal fusion, beating cancer and now thinking it was the best thing to happen to me, having two babies, master degree, anytime I do something that someone said I couldn't do


Member Spotlight: Wendy Hausman

11/28/2021

 
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Name: Wendy Hausman

Business Name: Minuteman Press- St Peters & Hausman for Missouri

Please list 3 of your favorite likes: Bracelets, candles and vanilla

Please list 3 of your least favorite things: Onions, snakes and bugs

Where did you go to school (high school or college):  Eastern Illinois University

What is your favorite movie?  The Notebook

What is your favorite sports team?  Whatever team one of my children is playing on.

What do you enjoy most in life? 
 Hanging out with friends

What is your catchphrase?  Go concur the world and make it better!

What is your biggest accomplishment?  I made five really amazing human beings.

Tell us anything else you would like us to know.  
It has been a life long dream of mine to be a member of the house of Representatives. In 2022 I plan to be on the on the ballot for State Representative in my district.

Member Spotlight: Kristine Teague

11/20/2021

 
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Name: Kristine Teague

Business: KT Creative

Please list 3 of your favorite likes: flowers, birds, nature

Please list 3 of your least favorite things:  bugs inside the house, dishonest people, someone else's mess

Where did you go to school (high school or college):  Highland Park High School in northern IL

What is your favorite movie?  Avatar - love the relationship between all living things

What is your favorite sports team?  not into sports

What do you enjoy most in life?  Being out in nature

What is your catchphrase?  There are too many little things!

What is your biggest accomplishment?  Starting life over 2 years ago.

Tell us anything else you would like us to know.  I love being in LBB!

Member Spotlight: Sara Chinnock

11/5/2021

 
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Name: Sara Chinnock

Business: Sara’s Boxes and Boards

Please list 3 of your favorite likes: Entertaining, spending time with my family, traveling

Please list 3 of your least favorite things: Doing laundry, grocery shopping, finishing the details of a project

Where did you go to school (high school or college): Birmingham-Southern College

What is your favorite movie? Dirty Dancing

What is your favorite sports team? Alabama

What do you enjoy most in life? Family

What is your catchphrase? If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all

What is your biggest accomplishment? I’ve always dreamed of having my own business

Tell us anything else you would like us to know
. I love to cook and would prefer to eat at home then go out to eat

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