Columbia Home Magazine - October/November 2013

Work & Play Page 68

Women at

Work A look into the lives of six of CoMo's hardest-working women Page 62

Skipping Gym

Studio fitness takes off Page 44

You've come a long way Page 38

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Mommy Chronicles goes kid-free with Jill Orr Page 37

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Publisher’s note

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Life's a juggling act As women, we wear many hats, and along the way we pick up more and stack them one on top of the other until, literally, it’s a balancing act to keep them from toppling over.

There’s the mom hat, wife hat, friend hat, sister hat, daughter hat, manager hat, mentor hat… The list goes on.

This issue celebrates women in our community who, like most of us, wear many hats. Some of these women I’ve had the privilege of knowing for many years, and others I’ve gotten to know through putting this issue together. One thing I know for sure: We all work hard to keep the hats from falling on the floor.

In an attempt to take make juggling our hectic lives a little easier, the wonderful staff here has put together some great outfits that help us go from work to play (without losing a single hat in the process). I’ve learned so much as well. When I found out that White House Black Market takes appointments and will have a dressing room ready with clothing in my size, I was smiling from ear to ear. That’s my kind of shopping! Making multiple outfits from just a few basic items is a breeze!

It never ceases to amaze me how our community is always willing to jump in and help those in need. When Fabiola Hidalgo faced the diagnosis of ovarian cancer and not having family support nearby, local businesses donated their services and products to make her life easier by redesigning her space. Sherry Hockman did an amazing job and pulled the Room of Hope project together in less than two weeks. Changing lives is an amazing thing, so why stop with one family? We are continuing the Room of Hope project in every issue of Columbia Home. Please view the video online at columbiahomemagazine.com to see Fabiola’s reaction to seeing her new space.

Also, thanks, Jill Orr, for your always-wonderful sense of humor and for reminding those of us moms who wear the “perfect mom” hat — you know, the full-fledged, wide-brimmed one with beautiful feathers along the side — to take that sucker and throw it, even if it’s just for one day.

Put on your “me” hat, and have some fun!

Please write, call or email me with any ideas or events that are important to you. I am passionate about making Columbia Home a magazine that matters to women in our community, and I am honored to be Columbia Home’s new publisher.

Angela Huhman

Publisher

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Sarah is the managing editor of Columbia Home — or, as she puts it, “the collector of all things.”

An MU graduate, she has worked on projects for the Travel Channel and NPR, among others, and is currently teaching at the Missouri School of Journalism. She enjoys traveling, eagerly welcomes a challenge — especially in the kitchen — and also finds time to salsa dance with her boyfriend, Brian. If you see Sarah around town, tell her what you’re up to.

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When Columbia newcomers Lee and Danyale Williams began their house-hunting journey, they invited the team at HGTV to join in the search.

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68 Work and Play

Take stock of women’s role in the changing workplace, with stories of local businesswomen who’ve indeed come a long way.

Specialized fitness studios are rising in popularity.

Jump into the trend with Pure Barre and Sumits Hot Yoga.

in every issue

After a difficult year, Fabiola Hidalgo receives a home makeover by CH interior design editor Sherry Hockman.

Six of the city’s hardest-working women show how dedication, creativity and an excellent support system make doing it all look surprisingly easy.

Yes, you can look good while working! These inspired looks will take you from the office to a night out in a matter of minutes.

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Skipping Gym

STUDIO FITNESS TAKES OFF

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YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY

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Mommy Chronicles goes kid-free with Jill Orr PAGE 37

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October/November Columbia’s must-do events Mizzou Homecoming

Fall Into Art What: Don’t miss out on Columbia’s fall cultural affair! Fall Into Art is celebrating its fourth year with more than 40 artists displaying their work for sale, in addition to the work of emerging area high school artists. The event includes live music and an evening reception.

WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 17 WHERE: Parkade Center, 601 Business Loop 70 W. INFO: Contact info@FallIntoArt.org for more information.

Hardest-Working Women Luncheon What: Whether you dress yourself in a power suit each morning before the office or work from the comforts of your own home, join us for a lunch date to celebrate Columbia’s hardest-working women. Featured speaker Kat Cunningham will give some words of wisdom, and lunch will be provided, thanks to Columbia Country Club and our sponsors, William Woods University and Moresource.

WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 3 WHERE: Columbia Country Club, 2210 Country Club Drive INFO: Tickets are $20 each; $5 of the price will be donated to Susan G. Komen. Visit columbiahl.com to purchase tickets.

WHAT: It’s a celebration of more than 100 years of tradition, Mizzou pride and Tiger spirit! Wander through the streets of Greektown with your family, and take in the artistic talents of Campus Decorations. On Saturday, make sure to be downtown early to enjoy the Homecoming parade, and dress yourself in game-day gear as the Tigers take on the South Carolina Gamecocks.

WHEN: Campus Decorations, 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 25 Homecoming parade, time TBD, Saturday, Oct. 26 Homecoming football game, time TBD, Saturday.

Oct. 26 WHERE: Campus Decorations, Greektown on the MU campus Homecoming parade, downtown Homecoming football game, Memorial Stadium Info: Campus Decorations and the parade are free; ticket prices for the football game vary.

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Calena’s Fall Fashion Show, Meadowlake Acres Country Club, Noon, RSVP required

Friday, Oct. 4

Citizen Jane Film Festival, location, time and ticket prices vary by film

Saturday, Oct. 5

4th Annual Harvest Hootenanny, 1209 Smith St., 3 to 8 p.m., suggested donation $5 to $20 The Color Dash 5K, Stephens Lake Park, Noon, $50

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Women in Business Awards, Stoney Creek Inn, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., $30/ticket or $250/table

Friday, Oct. 11

Artrageous Weekend, Downtown Columbia, 6 to 9 p.m., Free Mature Living Festival, Parkade Center, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Free

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Okt-Beemer-Fest, Joe Machens BMW, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., $20

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MU Tiger Football vs. Florida, Memorial Stadium

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Take Steps for Crohn’s and Colitis Walk, Stephens Lake Park, 2:30 to 6:30 p.m., Fundraising encouraged University Concert Series: World Blues, Missouri Theatre, 7 p.m., $19 to $39 Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, 1800 Nelwood, 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, $8 to $10

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Winter Trout Fishing, Cosmo-Bethel Park, 6 a.m., Free

Neighborhood Watch Training, Parkade Center, 7 to 8 p.m., Free, online registration appreciated

Saturday, Nov. 2

Wednesday, Nov. 13

MU Tiger Football vs. Tennessee, Memorial Stadium, time TBD, ticket prices vary

Sara Evans Concert, Jesse Auditorium, 7 p.m., $19 to $39

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Final Free Fall Movie: The Tooth Fairy, Goodrich Forum 8 Theaters, 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., Free tickets are first-come, first-served

Sunday, Nov. 3 Home-Based Business Bazaar, Riechmann Pavilion at Stephens Lake Park, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Free Holiday Shop Hop, The District Downtown, All Day, Free

Thursday, Nov. 7 Diamond Night Gala and Fine Jewelry Affair benefiting Great Circle Boys and Girls Town of Missouri, Holiday Inn Executive Center, 6 p.m., $125 for single tickets, $200 for pair

Friday–Sunday, Nov. 8-10 King’s Daughters Holiday Festival, Columbia Expo Center, Friday, 6 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., tickets are $3 in advance or $6 at the door

Sunday, Nov. 10 Memphis: The Musical, Jesse Auditorium, 7 p.m., $25 to $39

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HAPPY HUNTiNG Lee and Danyale Williams might be new to Columbia, but their recent journey with HGTV’s House Hunters took them on a reality TV trip to find their new home sweet home.

By Jennifer Liu photos by angelique hunter

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Searching for a new house can be quite the hunt. Location, price, personality: Lots of factors can go into making such a huge life decision. For newlyweds Lee and Danyale Williams, they had one more thing that helped them determine the outcome of their new dream house — the film and production crew of HGTV’s hit show House Hunters.

For the new University of Missouri football strength coach and the former Prairie View A&M dance coordinator, appearing in front of an audience might not have been too far out of their comfort zones. After all, Lee did propose to his wife in front of thousands of cheering football fans at Prairie View A&M’s homecoming game in 2012. But then again, stepping in front of cameras for a reality series might not have been exactly what they expected. Through the process, they learned the ins and outs of what it takes to make it in the reality TV business, as well as how to get off on the right foot for the newest chapter of their married lives.

H o w e x a c t ly d o e s one start to look for a house in a completely new city, let alone new state? For Danyale, HGTV was her go-to guide for information about what to look for. Lee was already at MU working as a football coach and living in a rental home during his first Tigers football season. Danyale was living with her father in the Houston area and had never looked

for a house on her own. One day after watching an episode of House Hunters, Danyale noticed a promotion for house seekers to contact the producers if they wanted to be a part of the show. So she picked up the phone and made a call that would ultimately shape the next few months of her and Lee’s life.

Once the couple was given the green light to move forward with being on the show, they had to send in audition tapes to really show off their personalities. Not only were the show producers interested in the home buyers they would feature, but they also wanted to know more about the other people who would help them with the experience.

When Lee had moved up to Columbia to help train the MU football team for its inaugural SEC season, he had the help of Karla Shy Snider of the Vicky Snider team to get him settled. So it was only fitting to call her again to be the real estate agent for the soonto-be-married Lee and Danyale and join their reality TV experience. Sherry Hockman also joined the team as an interior design consultant to help stage the home the couple ultimately chose to buy.

B e f o r e t h e c r e w c o u l d get the cameras rolling, several obstacles separated Lee and Danyale from their new home. Timing was one of them.

Because Danyale was still under contract teaching with Prairie View A&M, her visits to Columbia to find houses, let alone film for the reality TV show, were limited to weekends.

Lee had his own packed schedule waking up for work around 4 a.m. and not getting home until 6 p.m.

Lee’s long days at football training meant a road bump in the filming process, too. The pressures of being new to the team in addition to the entire team’s rocky transition to the SEC meant hurdles within the MU Athletics Department. However, Lee’s supportive team was able to accommodate for the filming crew.

“It was better that a lot of pressure was off after winning a couple SEC games,” Lee says. Filming took place around the time of MU’s Homecoming win against the Kentucky Wildcats.

After weeks of coordinating through emails as well as getting Sherry on board with a twoand-a-half-week turnaround to stage the home, the entire cast and crew was ready on set. But just how real would the reality TV experience be?

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“They tell you off to the side, ‘Hey, we’re going to film this; don’t look at the camera,’” Karla says about the difficulty of trying to act natural for filming.

“And that’s pretty much impossible to do,” Sherry adds, laughing.

Other than some spotlight jitters, Lee says his work as a strength and conditioning coach actually helped him with the drawn-out filming process and having to reshoot certain scenes repeatedly.

“When House Hunters came in and said to do it again, do it again, do it again, that really didn’t bother me because I get that,” he says. “Let’s do it over until we get it right. We teach that. It’s attention to detail. So when we’re filming, it’s the same thing.”

Danyale, on the other hand, found the construction of their “reality” surprising. “It was at that point that I thought, ‘Well, now it’s not real; now I’m acting,’” she says.

However, even some of the more scripted scenes were written for the personalities of Lee and Danyale, which the producers had been able to observe throughout prior filming.

Other behind-the-scenes insight they found was just how hard it is to furnish and decorate a home while also avoiding any kind of product placement. To meet that challenge, Sherry strategically placed mirrors around the space in place of artwork or anything with a logo and kept away from any other branded furnishings.

In addition to a new house — a compromised combination of privacy, space and room for personalization — Lee and Danyale now say they feel more a part of the Columbia community and are excited to get settled into the bustling college town.

O v e r t h e c o u r s e of several months Lee, Danyale, Karla and Sherry saw that in reality TV, there’s certainly more than meets the eye.

However, the filming process brought on a new awareness of what it really takes to make it in reality TV, new relationships around town and, of course, a new house. Since the cameras stopped rolling, Danyale and Sherry have been working with Darin File of File Construction to personalize the home for the couple. Lee settled in by early May, and Danyale joined him after their wedding.

The group has already applied and been chosen to be on HGTV’s spinoff show Where Are They Now?, to really show what they have accomplished through the process. With more personal touches and endless freedom, the couple has made their house a home for the HGTV crew’s return.

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Left: MOPS moms and their childern play in Stephens Lake Park Sept. 17. In addition to twice monthly meetings, MOPS also host Bunko, book clubs, Bible study and more.

Although MOPS is centered on mothers who have newborns to kindergarteners, some members have yet to graduate even after 10 years in the group.

“My kids are 10, 8, 5 and 1,” says veteran MOPS-goer Jennifer Griffith. “So, technically, I can still come.”

Just like Griffith, Kelli Thomas is another decadelong MOPS attendee. “I love that it gives me a chance to grow with other women,” she says. “I have a chance to have a break and focus on being a better mom and a better friend. That’s why I keep coming back.”

Thomas and her best friend met in MOPS years ago, and they are still close friends today. Their daughters, who met in MOPPETS, the child care during MOPS meetings, are also friends. Even though they attend different schools, the group serves as a connection outside of an educational structure.

Mom Support

Th e a m b i e n c e at the beginning of the MOPS meeting is much like a day care or preschool drop-off.

One mom after the other comes in through the Whittler Worship Hall doors, some with four or five kids in tow, others with one child. Little ones are running around, small groups are gathered on the floor playing with toys they brought from home, and some children even cling to their mother’s leg because they are afraid to leave her side. But once the kids are dropped off in their respective MOPPETS rooms, it’s obvious the moms begin to relish these few hours.

Beyond the everyday, unconditional love these moms give their kids and the endless hours the women spend nurturing their little ones’ needs lies the truth about every good mother: Sometimes, you just need a little time for yourself.

“I always feel revitalized after I come here,” Thomas says.

The international organization Mothers of Preschoolers creates a local bond for Columbia moms.

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by Kristi McCann | Photo by Angelique hunter It seems like a miracle if your shirt is free of baby spit-up or you successfully manage to get in and out of the car without a single fuss. No, it’s not just one hectic day you’re counting down the hours to get through; it’s the 24-hour, seven-days-a-week life of a mom.

The best part? You’re not alone, and Mothers of Preschoolers is the ticket to keeping your sanity. Twice a month, the Columbia chapter of MOPS meets at the Missouri United Methodist Church for a few hours of socializing, moral support and faith-based advice.

“Sometimes moms go the whole day without talking to another adult until their husband gets home,” Mandi Godec, MOPS co-coordinator, says. “You don’t realize how lonely it is.”

This g r o u p o ff e r s women the opportunity to meet other moms who have similar lifestyles and encounter the same ups and downs during their days. Each meeting, MOPS hosts a speaker who talks to the women about prevalent subjects, including parenting, marriage, finances and even fun holiday party ideas. Afterward, the women are broken up into small groups in which a leader facilitates more intimate conversations, giving more reserved moms the opportunity to share and ask questions. The meetings are capped off with a devotion led by mentor moms.

“It’s nice that this is a Christian-focused group because you know everyone is on the same page about how they want to raise their children and can relate about daily challenges,” Godec says.

B e f o r e t h e s t r u c t u r a l meeting begins, the moms talk quietly amongst themselves at tables and make sure to mingle with members new and old. Abby Wehmeyer, a first-year MOPS mom, chats with her neighbor as she enjoys homemade treats brought by some of the members. With a 6-week-old baby, Wehmeyer decided to join her sister-in-law and friends at the meeting.

“I knew about the organization with my first daughter, but I never took advantage of the opportunity to join,” she says. “With my second child, it will give me an opportunity to meet new moms, be active in my community and form new friendships.”

Thomas, Griffith and a few other women are designated as mentor moms to be a support system for members, such as Wehmeyer, who have recently joined or become a new mother. They are the “been there, done that” kind of moms, according to Thomas.

From an outside perspective, it’s impossible to tell which moms are veterans and who is attending a meeting for the first time. It’s a community of women — and, more importantly, a community of moms.

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Tim Overton spices up food delivery by offering more than pizza and subs.

by K risti McCann | Photos by whitney buckner “Our drivers are independent contractors and get paid per delivery,” Overton says. “It’s a great job for college students because it’s flexible, and if it’s slow, they can work on a paper or other school work.”

Depending on the day, most drivers deliver the food orders in roughly 30 minutes. The business’s average wait time is 36 minutes, which is comparable to other delivery services, such as Jimmy John’s, which promises food at your door in 30 minutes or less. But My Dinner Taxi has a leg up on the competition by offering nontraditional delivery options, including some of Columbia’s favorite local hot spots, including D Rowe’s, Shiloh, Jazz and even Waffle House.

Your stomach is rumbling, but you just don’t have the energy to cook. It’s Friday night after a full week of work, and the last thing you want to do is step foot in the kitchen. So what’s for dinner? Pizza is so boring, so overdone, so college. You want a real meal without lifting a finger.

Bring in Tim Overton, the owner of Columbia’s finedining delivery service My Dinner Taxi. As a restaurant guru, Overton incorporated 24 years of management at Domino’s and one unfortunate event into quite the fortunate mobile-dining experience.

After a robbery incident and a broken foot, Overton decided that was a sign to throw in the towel and move on from the Domino’s franchise.

“The doctors told me I needed to take six weeks off of work,” he says. “And that was if it healed correctly. What could I do? I was a restaurant manager who couldn’t physically run a restaurant anymore.”

And behold, the immobile restaurateur was presented with the perfect solution: My Dinner Taxi.

The company, which opened in June 2011, provides a seamless food delivery service that allows Columbians to choose from 40 different restaurant menus. Their favorite ribs, tacos, burgers and even desserts are delivered right to the comfort of their homes, thanks to Overton and his team.

“I could have sat at home and only had five orders per day, but I would have been forced to shut down within a few months. Instead, I chose to do something about it.” — Tim Overton, My Dinner Taxi

“ Th a n k y o u f o r calling My Dinner Taxi. This is Tim. How may I help you?”

Customers are greeted by Overton’s friendly voice as he facilitates phone orders from his home office.

In between calls, he collects online orders from the company’s website, mydinnertaxi.com. Business professionals tend to be Overton’s consistent customers, including nurses who work odd shifts or lawyers who can’t afford to spare minutes from the office. The town, heavily populated by college students, is also an ideal location for a business model such as this one because students in dorms have limited access to cars. And as Overton experienced, My Dinner Taxi is the perfect solution for people who are immobile or handicapped.

After the orders are placed with My Dinner Taxi, Overton contacts each restaurant and dispatches his drivers to various parts of Columbia.

A c c o r di n g t o O v e r t o n , the business’s success has come from a lot of legwork instead of high-end advertisements.

“In the summer of 2012, I would sometimes spend three hours a day going door to door to promote My Dinner Taxi,” Overton says. “I could have sat at home and only had five orders per day, but I would have been forced to shut down within a few months. Instead, I chose to do something about it.”

His dedication to his company is what has kept him in business as he has witnessed two or three other modern delivery services in Columbia fizzle out.

So what’s the secret to My Dinner Taxi?

“We appeal to customers by offering mobile highend dining,” Overton says. “And the best part about my job is I’m not spending all my time at a restaurant anymore. I am at home where I get to spend more time with my kids.” columbiahomemagazine.com | 33

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pulse to slap me silly and kindly said, “As long as they’re alive when you get back, that’s all that matters.”

And she was right. Of course my in-laws weren’t going do things like I did.

Or even like I asked them to. Did I really expect them to follow the five-page, single-spaced, Unabomberesque manifesto I’d left behind entitled, “A Typical Day in the Life of Fletcher and Ellie”? They probably had a good laugh before lighting it on fire and deciding instead to rely on what they’d learned in their 30-plus years of parenting their own children.

And really, my fear had nothing to do with them. It was all me. As a stayat-home mom, creating and protecting my kids’ routines was what I did. It was my job. My life. Whether it was a survival mechanism or simply my ego, I had to believe that those routines were essential to our peaceful existence. If not, then why the hell was I working so hard at it?

Let It Go

Leaving the kids behind for a much-needed vacay can be nerve-wracking. But as long as they’re alive when you get back, you’ll survive.

O By jill orr

One of the great joys of parenting young children is getting away from them. At least for a little while. Be it a couple of hours or a couple of days, there is nothing like a little distance to recharge everyone’s batteries and make you grateful that you are legally/morally/financially bound to the little bloodsuckers darlings until the end of time.

The problem with getting away is finding someone to watch the kids while you and your sweetie are off chugging margaritas and/or sleeping 16 hours a day. Trusting someone to watch your precious babies is not easy. Will they remember to use the dye-free detergent? Will they limit screen time? Will they cut the hot dogs lengthwise and across?

No. No, they won’t. And that’s OK. Ye a rs ago, my sister-in-law, Dawn, gave me one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received from anyone before or since. I was about to leave my kids for a week for the first time with my in-laws, and I was a nervous wreck. I worried that favorite books would go unread, binkies would go unwashed and (gasp) bedtimes would go unheeded. Dawn fought the im-

As long as t h ey are alive when you get back… It was just the paradigm shift I needed. It helped me see that going on vacation was going to be a break for all of us. Just as Jimmy and I wouldn’t spend every day of our lives eating surf ’n’ turf and drinking Mai Tais, the kids wouldn’t spend every day of theirs watching eight hours of TV and drinking chocolate milk by the gallon.

The hard work I’d put in on sleep-training, potty-training and don’t-thinkthrowing-a-fit-is-going-to-get-you-what-you-want-training would still be there even if it went unenforced for a week.

The fact is that if you are going to reap the benefits of getting away (and there are many), you must get comfortable with the fact that whoever watches your kids will not do things your way. This goes for grandparents, siblings, friends or hired help. I repeat: They will not do it your way, so don’t even expect them to. They will think your way is stupid, over-protective, unnecessarily complicated, going to turn the kids into entitled spoiled brats who don’t know the value of a dollar. But that’s fine. As long as the kids are alive when you get home, it doesn’t matter if they’ve fallen asleep in front of the television three nights in a row and eaten ice cream for breakfast every day or missed that birthday party you’d RSVP’d to on Sunday. None of that is important.

What is important is that you got some much-needed time to remember that you are more than just a mother/father, that you actually like your partner and/or that you actually like your kids. Because time away provides one thing you simply cannot get while at home with your kids: perspective.

Would it be nice if the kids were well rested, well fed and content when you got home from your vacay? Sure. But getting the opportunity to gain valuable perspective (read: sleep more than six consecutive hours) is luxury enough. You wouldn’t want to get greedy now, would you?

Jill Orr Orr is a stay-at-home mom of two (an odd title because she is rarely ever at home). In her pre-Mommy days, she graduated from the University of Missouri with an undergraduate degree in journalism and a master's in social work, with an emphasis on children and family studies. But she wishes she would have gotten a Ph.D. in What's For Dinner and How to Get Bubblegum Out of the Carpet. That would have served her better. Read her blog at jillsorr.com. columbiahomemagazine.com | 37

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Back in the 1970s, “You’ve come a long way, baby” was the tagline of a popular ad for Virginia Slims. The slogan tapped into the influx of women entering the workplace, a slow, steady climb that continues today. Although women still haven’t achieved parity or equal pay in all areas, it’s good to take stock every now and then and celebrate how far they’ve come. Here are some Columbia women who have indeed come a long, long way. ➺ By Nancy Yang

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years ago, circumstances led Jolene Schulz to a future that was very much part of her past. After retiring from 34 years with Columbia Public Schools, she began working for a local bank, where an opportunity at work rekindled an old dream.

“I received a call from a CEO in the banking field in Jeff City asking if I would take bank execs on a tour,” says Schulz, Horizons Club assistant at First State Community Bank. “Not knowing what I was getting into, I of course said sure.”

The truth is that Schulz had always wanted to run tours and had a pretty good idea of how to go about it. One of the first steps was to borrow some books and magazines from her friend Cindy Mustard.

“I walked out of Cindy’s house with a big stack of books,” Schulz says. “Then I thought to myself: ‘How silly. Cindy’s a Columbia native.

I’ve only lived here for 46 years. Maybe I’ll call her and see if she wants to join forces with me.’

We sat down, mapped out what we were going to do, did the tour for the bankers, and they absolutely gave us accolades and applauded us.”

Two years later, Tiger Trolley Tours was born.

The timing was right. Mustard had retired after 20 years as executive director of the Voluntary Action Center, and Schulz was working part time. The women put together a business plan, and the company took off.

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Tiger Trolley Tours features four sightseeing tours for groups of 18 to 30 aboard a motorized trolley. Schulz and Mustard also arrange custom tours.

“One of the unique things is that we design tours according to what the party wants,” Mustard says. They embellish each with personal stories, facts and legends, keeping their narratives fresh.

Both Mustard and Schulz graduated from the University of Missouri in the 1960s, at a time when the majority of college graduates were male.

It would be several years before Title IX banned sex discrimination in schools and a decade before it was illegal to turn a woman down for a job because she was pregnant. For many women, career choices were limited.

“Choices were teacher, nurse or secretary,” Schulz says. “Nobody spoke to you about the world and what you could do.”

“I probably would have gone to law school if it had been the right timing,” Mustard says. “My dad was an attorney, and I tried to take one night course at UMKC, but I had more to do than just work all day and go to school at night.” Mustard says that in those days, women grew up with a different set of expectations.

Not that they didn’t dream.

“It was a dream of mine for a long, long time to do tours,” Schulz says. “I wanted to do this in the

little town of Bevier, Mo., where I grew up. It’s a coal-mining town. There were many opportunities for tours. … It just wasn’t something a young woman could do at the time.”

But taking it on later in life has had its advantages. For Schulz and Mustard, Columbia’s expansion has helped them grow their company, and between the two of them, they know an awful lot of people.

“It’s a whole new world after working in nonprofits,” Mustard says. “But I’m doing better. I’m learning to charge for things.”

★★★ When Kat C unn in gham celebrates her company’s 20th year in business next spring, she might also relish in the twists and turns that got her there. After all, Cunningham believes strongly that events that change your life are there for a reason.

Her career began in the early 1980s, the first time in the United States that more women than men were graduating from college. Fresh out of school with a degree in recreation and leisure, she learned early on that things might not turn out the way she had planned.

“It didn’t work out to be Julie on Love Boat,” she says. Today Cunningham is president of

Moresource Inc., a company she founded in 1994 at the ripe age of 34. Moresource, her third business venture, offers outsourcing of human resources, payroll and benefits administration, along with bookkeeping and a full-service insurance agency to almost 1,000 clients in 28 states.

Cunningham’s first job was as a receptionist for J.H. Ware Trucking in Fulton. It wasn’t her dream job by a long shot, and she couldn’t have imagined then that she was actually laying the foundation for her career. But a few years later, her true calling began to reveal itself.

“I went on maternity leave with my first child and heard that everybody in the company was taking a personality test,” she says. “I thought I was going to dodge the bullet and not have to take the test. But when I got back from my maternity leave, sure enough the test was on my desk.”

The president called her into his office and told her that based on her test results, she would make a better president of the company than he would.

She was 27 years old.

“When somebody tells you that, you know what you need to do,” she says. “He asked me what I’d do to step up, and I said I want Ron’s title, I want his desk, and I want his paycheck.” Ron was the personnel director for the 300-truck center.

The president turned red in the face, she says.

“He looked at me, and he was just angry and said: ‘Fine, but I’m going to watch you every step of the way.’”

Cunningham had risked being fired, but instead she earned her boss’s respect. She had proven herself and began moving through the ranks of the company. The president put her in operations to learn all facets of the business.

“That’s where I got my leadership experience,” Cunningham says. “I was actually supposed to take over a trucking terminal. But the company started experiencing some financial concerns, and I saw the writing on the wall. So I left and started my first company.”

It was 1990, and Cunningham was all of 30 years old. Making use of what she had learned, she set up a recruiting firm for trucking companies and drivers. Later, she joined forces with two men and formed Advantage Financial Group.

“They were the brains, and I had the brawn — except they forgot that the brawn had all the relationships,” she says. “So when they pushed me out, I went over to the Small Business and Technology Center at the university and took my business plan.” She got an SBA loan and started Moresource.

Today Moresource has 15 employees, including her son, Brian, who joined the company three

years ago. Perhaps it’s a sign of the times that Cunningham has taught her son some of the things she learned in a man’s world a generation ago.

“The first year I thought we might kill each other,” she says. “But all of a sudden, he’s become this sharp young man. I see an amazing leader coming out in him.”

★★★ F rom t he ti me she was 11, Mary Muscato knew she wanted to be a doctor. What she couldn’t have known were the challenges she would face as one of the few female physicians of her generation.

Muscato graduated from college in the early ’70s, when most medical programs had quotas.

University of Pennsylvania, Muscato’s alma mater, admitted about 10 percent women to its medical school. At nearby Jefferson Medical College, about 5 percent of the students were women. By contrast, women make up more than 48 percent of U.S. medical school graduates today.

“My ENT doc would not let up about how I’d be wasting a space that a man could have,” she says. “Not that he didn’t think I was smart. He just thought women didn’t devote as much time to their work as men. That was the universal way of thinking back then.”

Fortunately, Muscato attended The Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in the world established to train women physicians.

About 80 percent of the students and 75 percent of the professors were women, which gave Muscato a wealth of role models and a penchant for justice.

Perhaps that’s why she can recall a conversation that happened nearly four decades ago like it happened yesterday. It was 1975, three years before the Pregnancy Discrimination Act banned employment discrimination against pregnant women, and Muscato was interviewing for a residency in internal medicine.

Top, left to right: Kat Cunningham, Deborah Daniels, and Mary Muscato.

Bottom, left to right: Cindy Mustard and Jolene Schulz

“The chief resident, a male, started talking about women who took time off from their residencies to have babies,” she says. “So I said: ‘I’ll still be taking the pill next year. Is that what you want to hear?’ He turned bright red and started talking about something else.” She got the residency — one of two women in a group of 16 to 18.

After her internal medicine training, Muscato earned a hematology-oncology fellowship at Duke University. There were two women fellows and four men. One was her husband, Joe, whom she had married after her first year of medical school.

Three years later, she and her husband moved to Columbia as attending physicians at the University of Missouri-Columbia Hospital and Clinics. She was responsible for 35 patients as well as three interns (first-year internal medicine residents) and a resident. Most of the patients were very sick with cancer or other hematology-oncology problems, and the job required making complex and difficult decisions.

During that time Muscato had a 6-monthold son, and in two years she was pregnant with twins. Eventually she realized that with the demands of her job and family, she couldn’t have the life she wanted.

Muscato recalls missing her son’s first haircut and wanting to take her kids to swim lessons. She also remembers feeling strangely out of place at social gatherings. At parties, it felt natural for her to talk with the men about medicine. The women, on the other hand, were part of a different life, which she felt she was watching from the outside.

“Not that I didn’t always have girlfriends,” she says. “But which camp could I put my foot in? I was sort of in both a little bit. Then it hit me that there was another whole world that I never let myself be part of.”

In 1985, Muscato joined Missouri Cancer Associates, which her husband, Joe Muscato, had founded, and began working a more manageable workweek. Since then more women have become physicians and have made their mark. Fewer doctors put in the excruciatingly long hours, in part because they don’t always have backup at home. The medical workplace was changing.

“Nobody wants to work like men used to work — not even men,” Muscato says. “Now they say they have to take their kids to swimming lessons. Men wouldn’t have said that before.” columbiahomemagazine.com | 41

Assoc iate Ci rcu it Judge Deborah Daniels grew up in Fayette in the 1950s and ’60s with an unlikely role model. Although her father was a lawyer and served as state chairman of the Democratic party, it was her grandmother who influenced her decision to study law.

“My grandmother on my father’s side owned her own business, and she was a very independent thinker,” Daniels says. “She was interested in figuring out for herself what was the correct answer. I think that was an influence for me. Certainly the expectation was that people should be judged on their abilities and not on their gender.”

In 1974, Daniels began her studies at the MU School of Law as one of about 25 or 30 women in a class of 150. She and her classmates considered it a great influx of women. The class before them had five.

“My father was a lawyer but was very opposed to my going to law school. He did not believe women should become lawyers.

He didn’t want me to go. I really wanted to go — and went.” — Associate Circuit Judge Deborah Daniels

“Ann Covington was in my class,” she says.

Covington, who attended law school a decade after receiving an undergraduate degree from Duke University, went on to become the first woman chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. “It was a very different world then.”

The early ’70s was a time when women’s libbers lobbied for the Equal Rights Amendment.

Publications such as Ms. Magazine gave them a voice, but it would take time before things began to change for women in the workplace.

“My father was a lawyer but was very opposed to my going to law school,” she says. “He did not believe women should become lawyers. He didn’t want me to go. I really wanted to go — and went.”

Her mother wasn’t particularly enthusiastic either. During Daniels’ first semester of law school, her mother called and asked whether she felt bad about taking a man’s place.

“I really didn’t,” Daniels says.

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After her second year in law school, Daniels was offered an opportunity to clerk for the Missouri Supreme Court. It was an honor but also an opportunity. It meant she’d have a job when she graduated.

“My father came to me and said that he’d been thinking about this,” she says. “He thought it would be all right if I wanted to go back to Fayette and do research for him. He could deal with the people and go into court, and I could do the research. It was very nice that he had come that far, but I didn’t think I would ever have the opportunity to go back and clerk.”

Daniels took the job. Afterward, she became a member of the research staff for the Missouri Supreme Court and eventually the director. From 1983 until 2010, she returned to the MU School of Law, this time as adjunct faculty. The position, along with her work as an independent contractor for the Missouri Supreme Court, allowed her some flexibility while raising her three children.

Later she worked in the Missouri Attorney General’s office, including as chief counsel in the criminal division. Then in 2006, she decided to run for judge. She says being a candidate in Columbia was eye-opening.

“I never really thought about the logistics of communicating what a judge does and what makes a good judge,” she says. Having grown up in a small town where everyone knows one another, she found it difficult to make connections while meeting people door to door. She says that some of the challenges weren’t necessarily Columbia’s size as much as its rapid growth and mobility. Daniels was elected in 2006, and again in 2010, to her current position as associate circuit judge.

“My mother used to say to me that she did not understand what the concern was with women being able to explore as many opportunities as they had the skills, the talents and interest to do,” Daniels says. “I said that it’s not that women couldn’t; it’s just that it was so hard for them to do. I think the question is not whether you could have an exception to the rule. The question is whether the rule should exist.”

The message seems to have come through to her two daughters, now 29 and 31. Daniels says she doesn’t think their gender would ever keep them from exploring their professional interests.

“I don’t think it even pops into their consciousness,” she says. “That may be a tribute to the collective wisdom of judging people on their ability rather than their gender.” columbiahomemagazine.com | 43

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S k i pp i n g jump into the studio fitness craze.

By J e n n i f e r Grav l e y P h otos by w h i t n e y b uck n e r

Although Columbia has several full-service gyms, it’s also home to an increasing number of specialized fitness studios. Besides the convenience of not having to traipse through an entire gym full of people doing other kinds of workouts to get to the class, what do these specialty studios offer that makes women flock to their doors? Pure Barre and Sumits Hot Yoga both opened in Columbia in October 2012. Keep reading for an insider’s look at these studios through their owners’ eyes, and find out what studio regulars have to say about their experiences.

As you m igh t guess, Pure Barre is a ballet barre exercise; it combines Pilates, light weight work and the use of the ballet barre for stability and resistance. Each 55-minute class is a fast-paced, full-body workout set to music. It is nonimpact and builds the long, lean muscles most of us associate with a dancer’s body. But those with no dance background — or even those working on basic fitness — shouldn’t be intimidated. Owner Lauren Matteson likes to tell people, “If you can hold onto a barre, you can do it.”

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Brittany Wills, who co-owns Sumits Hot Yoga with her husband, Allen Wills, and Jesse Murphy, calls the studio “an alternative workout that incorporates both cardio and stretching components.”

Each class consists of the same 80-minute series of specialized yoga poses performed in a room heated to 100 to 105 degrees. The intensity of the workout is dependent on how hard you work, which means that you are personally in charge of how demanding each workout is. Hot yoga offers mental and emotional benefits in addition to physical ones.

Matteson attended her first Pure Barre class in Florida while she was studying for her law-school entrance exam, and you might be surprised to learn that it wasn’t love at first sight. She left the class frustrated because the workout was so difficult. But she didn’t just stew in frustration; she kept going back to class, and within a week, she was hooked. Within three months, she had signed a franchise agreement for the first Pure Barre in the entire state of Missouri. She knew Columbia would be a great niche for the studio because of 46 | october/november 2013

the city’s active lifestyle culture. Four months after that, the studio was open and offering classes.

Wills discovered the Sumits Hot Yoga workout when she was looking for something different while living in Springfield, Mo. She loved the gym but discovered that the gym was too dependent on her; she had to rely on herself to put away her cellphone and push herself through her workout routine. She fell in love with hot yoga over the course of a two-week trial package but had to justify to herself the expense in addition to her traditional gym membership. The biggest pull was that it enforced “an 80-minute break from the chaos of life.” When Wills and her husband moved back to Columbia, she wasn’t willing to give up hot yoga and decided to pursue opening a studio here. Because Columbia is a fitness-oriented town, from the trail system to public schools that encourage active lifestyles from an early age to local companies that offer wellness programs, she thought it would be a good fit.

“If you can hold onto a barre, you can do it.”

— Lauren Matteson, owner, Pure Barre Matteson has taken other barre classes, but she thinks the technique and culture of Pure Barre set it apart. Studio owners know their clients, not only their names but also their stories. The teachers are passionate and friendly, and classes are small enough that students receive one-onone feedback. The exercises and music are given to the studio from corporate, but each trainer mixes them to make a different routine for each class. Matteson thinks this is a crucial reason clients seek out specialty studios; the trainers know the most about that specific type of exercise and can better tailor modifications to every client. Yet, Pure Barre also maintains the best parts of the group fitness atmosphere: ac-

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countability, a little bit of competition, the building of relationships and the sense of being a part of something.

The reception area also doubles as a retail area where clients can purchase Pure Barre-branded sticky socks, trendy active wear and accessories such as hairbands. Ballet barres adorn the walls of the Pure Barre studio, and mirrors help clients check their form. The carpeted flooring is clean — no shoes allowed — and all the exercise props are kept neatly organized in back rooms along with cubbies for clients to store their belongings.

You might guess that most Pure Barre clients are women, and that’s true, but don’t be surprised if you see a male client in a class. Men receive the same benefits from the exercises as women do.

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dramatic quality-of-life improvements, such as the reduction of chronic pain.

S u mits Hot Yo ga licenses studios and provides training and the routine, but some aspects of the studio, such as the lobby design, are up to the individual owners. Wills says they worked to make the studio inviting and try to maintain a delicate balance of a high-end feel that’s still approachable.

The reception area includes a retail area stocked with hot yoga necessities such as mats and water bottles; fashionable yoga wear and accessories can also be purchased right in the studio. The practice room is clean and spare: hardwood floors and mirrors, the minimum setup to provide the space for practice and the ability for students to check their form. The changing rooms are spacious and include showers for those who prefer to clean up before heading back into the outside world.

The majority of Sumits Hot Yoga’s clients are women, but 25 to 30 percent of the clients are men. Wills makes it a priority to staff the reception area with friendly faces who not only guide first-time students through the information they need to know before the first class but also check each client in for each class. Although the routine of the workout stays consistent, instructors personalize their classes through their personal style and music choices while keeping the yoga routine the same.

Wills loves seeing people respond to Sumits Hot Yoga’s teachers and how hard the new teachers work to contribute to the studio.

Word o f mout h brings a lot of new clients to Pure Barre. Vanessa Brown says Pure Barre has a little bit of everything she’s liked about other exercise programs. She finds the instructors are

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extremely helpful with making sure every client has correct positioning during all the exercises, and beyond that, she has even found other clients in class to be role models. She loves the noncompetitive environment and how supportive everyone, instructors and classmates alike, is. Within a couple months of working out at the studio, she’s gotten stronger and improved her coordination.

Jeannette Cover has always admired the gracefulness of ballet, and she enjoys the challenge of Pure Barre’s athletic approach. She’s realized that the more she comes to class, the deeper she is able to strengthen because of Pure Barre’s concentration on small muscles and small movements.

“I really love the physical and the spiritual sides of the journey.” — Chris Sparkes, client, Sumits Hot Yoga Instructor and practitioner Kelsi Phillips likes how she doesn’t always realize how hard she’s working out; the small moves and beat of the music allow her to focus on herself and internalize her workout. As an instructor, she loves that clients never reach a plateau. “Pure Barre never gets easier, though you get stronger,” she says.

People come to Sumits Hot Yoga for a variety of reasons. Some have injuries that make other exercise difficult, and some are already yoga practitioners who are curious about the hot yoga experience. Client Chris Sparkes likes how the studio feels like a family and appreciates how hard everyone at the studio works to know the clients.

“I really love the physical and the spiritual sides of the journey,” she says. She also likes that the workout is low impact but that she can increase the intensity if she wants to.

Anita Ellis was never sure if she was performing exercises correctly by herself at the gym and likes having a teacher to guide her through every step of the practice. She also finds the instructors at Sumits Hot Yoga “very forgiving” in that they always respect the place where each individual is; she’s always felt welcomed and encouraged. And, like Wills, she enjoys that the workout takes a set amount of time.

Jordyn Gehlert, one of the newest teachers at Sumits, loves the heat and loves to sweat. She enjoys the fact that it’s a workout you can do every day and that it has modifications to make it work for everyone.

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Using barley in lieu of Arborio rice puts a new spin on this classic dish, now without all of that stirring.

Text and photos by Katrina Tauchen Check out the Columbia Home Pinterest page for more recipes.

Barley Risotto with Spinach and Sweet Potatoes Ingredients • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes • 1 onion, chopped • kosher salt • freshly ground black pepper • 1 cup pearl barley • ½ cup dry white wine • 3 cups low-sodium vegetable or chicken broth • ¾ cup freshly grated Parmesan, plus more for serving • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter • 6 ounces fresh baby spinach Directions Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. In a Dutch oven or large ovenproof saucepan, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the onion, sweet potatoes, salt and pepper, and sauté for 5 to 7 minutes, until the onion begins to soften.

Stir often to keep things from burning.

Add the barley, and cook for another minute, this time stirring constantly. Add the wine, and continue cooking until the liquid has evaporated, about 1 minute. Add the broth, and bring it to a boil. Cover the pot, and transfer it to the oven to bake until the barley is tender, about 35 to 40 minutes.

Stir in the butter and Parmesan, then stir in the spinach. Serve with an extra happy sprinkling of Parmesan. * Recipe adapted from Real Simple (realsimple.com/ food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/baked-barleyrisotto-00100000070986/index.html)

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After what can only be described as an unimaginably difficult year, Fabiola Hidalgo gets a home makeover to enjoy with her family.

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When Fabiola Hidalgo, lead through her front door by Columbia Home interior design editor Sherry Hockman, was allowed to open her eyes and see her new living area, the only words she had were, “Muy bonito,” very pretty. Hockman, who donated her services and products from Hockman Interiors, was in charge of giving the bland living space a second chance, much like Hidalgo, who is a survivor of cervical cancer.

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after treatments, put in a new kitchen countertop (thanks to Woodstone) and painted the cabinets, but she also brought in a new couch and chairs for the living room, a mobile island for the kitchen and even installed bench seating with storage (thanks to Jacob Rose Construction) around the new dining table. The new ceiling fan whirred as Hidalgo took in all the changes. When asked what she likes best, she says, “Everything.”

Hockman centered the redesign on a soft turquoise, Hidalgo’s favorite color and the fabric for the window treatments. She wanted to make the space — small for a family of four — more “functional and beautiful at the same time.” She immediately saw that Hidalgo was

“in desperate need of storage,” so many of the pieces she brought in added storage capacity: hooks for jackets and backpacks near the door, a small cabinet in the entryway, a shelving unit in the kitchen to house the microwave, a kitchen island that can be wheeled out of the way when not in use, built-in drawers underneath the new bench seating in the dining area and a coffee table with a shelf underneath. Hockman mounted the television to the wall to open up floor space in the living room and used the big pieces and an area rug in the living room to establish different areas within the open floor plan. And she brought the whole project together in one week with the help of several other volunteers.

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Sherry Hockman walks Fabiola Hidalgo into her redecorated living room.

The past year has been a difficult one for Hidalgo. She went to the doctor to check on her pregnancy and was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She eventually lost the child and endured radiation and chemotherapy treatments.

She calls her experiences with the illness “a horrible nightmare.” She credits her faith and her family and friends as being the only things that got her through.

S h e did n ’ t immediately tell her children, Kevin, now almost 6, and Brian, now 4, what was happening, but when they saw their mother in bed and were sent to the babysitter repeatedly, they knew something was wrong. Hidalgo is thankful for her friends and family who gathered around her and gave her encouragement; her mother came from Mexico to help.

At one point, her husband, Mauricio, learned to give her injections in her stomach and did so every day for a month; she credits him with giving her strength.

“You are not alone,” Hidalgo says to those facing a similar health crisis. She hopes that others are as fortunate as she has been to have a positive outcome.

Hidalgo’s struggles this past year weren’t limited to her health. She and her mother were held up at gunpoint while cleaning a house during a time when Hidalgo was very ill. She says she still feels afraid when someone knocks on the door and vividly remembers the smell of the pistol they were threatened with.

A fan of television remodeling programs, Hildago never thought she’d be a participant in a similar project. She admires Hockman’s work and couldn’t stop thanking her during the reveal. When asked how she felt seeing Hidalgo react to her new room for the first time, Hockman broke into tears. She feels that the project was as much a gift to her as it was to the recipient. Knowing how hard Hidalgo works and what she’s been through in the past year, Hockman says she feels blessed to be a vessel for good work in the community.

Mother Nature Would Approve.

“You are not alone,” Hidalgo says to those facing a similar health crisis. She hopes that others are as fortunate as she has been to have a positive outcome.

Th e s ta r pi e c e of the remodel is a quartet of family photos that hang over the dining table. Angelique Hunter photographed Hidalgo, her husband and her two boys at Rock Bridge State Park. Hidalgo says her children are the most important part of her life, and no one who looks at the photos can doubt the love the family shares and the happiness they feel when they are together.

Thank you

➺ CH interior design editor and owner of Hockman Interiors Sherry Hockman donated her products and services for the redesign. ➺ Photographer Angelique Hunter (photobyangel.com) describes the Hidalgos as “a very sweet family, very happy.” ➺ Dietlinde Stitzer shopped for accessories but says that the best accessories of the room makeover are the family photos. ➺ Paint by Johnston Paint and Decorating ➺ Granite counters provided by Wood and Stone ➺ Bed, Bath and Beyond provided a 20 percent discount on items for the redesign. ➺ Leslie Davis (paperdaisyme.blogspot. com) bought and refinished the dining table to match the kitchen island.

She says she was “really grateful to provide the table because that’s where a family gathers.”

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womenat

Work For the majority of human history, men and women stood as equals, hunting and gathering side by side. When we took to the farm a few thousand years ago, men headed to the fields and women, to the home. But just in the past century, the tides have shifted once again. Women are back into the swing of hunting and gathering — this time for professional success and comfortable salaries. But they’re still caring for kids, cooking dinner and finding time for friends, volunteering and community organizations. Here are a handful of Columbia women who do it all and, somehow, manage to make it look easy.

hardest working “The Traveling School leadership hopes the girls will come back and discover they belong somewhere between the first world and the impoverished areas where they spent most of their time.” — Holly Bondurant

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womenatWork Melissa Quast

Even if it isn’t every day, chances would be good if you were looking to find Melissa Quast, she’d be carrying 50-pound bags of feed at her company, Bourn Feed & Supply.

“I’m not afraid,” she says. “I’ll swing that 50-pound bag over my back; I’ll do whatever needs to be done. I do everything from cleaning the bathroom to writing the paychecks.”

That’s the attitude Melissa has had every day since taking over as president of Bourn Feed & Supply following the death of her father to cancer in March. Her father, Joel Haley, bought the company from Bob Bourn in 1987, and Melissa had worked for her dad for more than 20 years when he passed away.

“We both really love working with our customers,” she says. Although each day brings new challenges, Melissa faces them with confidence.

But her biggest challenge each day? “Transitioning from work to home,” she says. With two children — Sierra, 15, and Wesley, 8 — and her husband, Mike, she works through the challenge and looks forward to reuniting every night at the dinner table.

“It’s not such a bad thing to play mom and wife every now and then,” she says with a laugh.

Trish Koetting

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For Trish Koetting, who owns Hoss’s Market with her husband, Hoss, the best part of the day is somewhere near the end.

“Around 10 p.m. every night, once we’re all home together, we sit on the bed in [me and Hoss’s] bedroom and take 10 minutes or so to rehash the day,” she says about herself, her husband and their children, Joey, 16, and Sean, 14.

“We cover what we’ve been doing that day, what tomorrow looks like and go over the itinerary,” she says.

Oftentimes, that itinerary starts around 5:20 a.m., with Sean’s soccer practice at Rock Bridge High School. After Trish drops him off, she heads home to do laundry before picking him up and heading to work. Sometimes, she’ll skip out to go see her sons’ games simply because she doesn’t “want to miss what they’ve got going on,” she says. “But thankfully, I have a great husband who picks up the slack.”

Trish keeps busy with the Chamber of Commerce, leadership positions on her kids’ soccer teams and the booster board for Rock Bridge athletics.

But the one thing she would gladly give up and truly slack on?

“Laundry! My kids go through three outfits a day.”

womenatWork Eryca Neville

Being a mother is certainly tough work. For most moms in the United States, that means taking care of 1.89 children. For Eryca Neville, director of alternative education for Columbia Public Schools and principal of Douglass High School, that means taking care of some 165 of “the most educationally fragile in all of Columbia,” she says.

“If you look on our website, it says that Douglass is like one big family,” she continues.

“And we really are like one big happy — albeit a bit dysfunctional at times — family.” Every morning, after she gets her children, Charles, 8; Nia, 10; and Nicole, a freshman at Truman State, off to school, she refocuses on how to get her “other children” off to a good start.

“I know Columbia is very affluent and very fortunate, and there’s a lot of room for economic growth, but the flip side of that is that there’s a lot of poverty, and it’s growing,” she says. “Seeing the impact of poverty on some of my students is heartbreaking.”

One of Eryca’s biggest challenges is that she never feels like she has time to get everything done. “I try to just do the best I can every day,” she says.

➺ Women at work TIPS:

“Rely on your girlfriends. If you have a bad moment, text them and they’ll bring your spirits up.” – Trish Koetting, “Sometimes you have to step back and look at the big picture rather than dwell on all the details.” – Melissa Quast “Renew yourself. If you don’t renew you, you won’t have anything to give.”

– Eryca Neville

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womenatWork Betsy Farris

This wasn’t the best timing for Betsy Farris. But, of course, the president of Thumper Entertainment, which organizes the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival, would never tell you that herself. Even as CH sat down to interview her mere weeks before the festival, she was as calm as ever.

“I do better under pressure,” she says. “I’m a much better person when I have a lot to do.” With her job, she gets her wish every day.

“We have to jump through lots of fiery hoops to make things happen,” she says. “When there’s never been anything done like the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival, there are a lot of big moving parts.” This year the fiery hoops include moving to the park, endless shuttle service and a ferris wheel.

Pressure. Hard work. Fiery hoops. And still, she manages to find time to run Columbia’s trails, swim or bike nearly every day, in addition to being a mother to three children: Collin, 19; Troy, 16; and Mathew, 14; maintaining her relationship with boyfriend, Ben White, and supporting Columbia Second Chance, a local no-kill animal shelter.

“Really, it’s all good stuff,” she says. “The good things just take a little longer.” No changes. No complaints.

Stephanie Rothermich

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“I would not work well for someone else,” Stephanie Rothermich says, half jokingly. As owner of a financial advisory company and adviser with HighPointe Financial Group, she says being her own boss allows her to be flexible in planning for clients’ needs and objectives. But, because she’s her own boss, she’s as hard on herself as many bosses are on employees.

“It’s definitely not a 9 to 5,” she says. “It’s pretty much 24/7.” That includes a clock-in time — usually between 4:30 and 5 a.m.

Stephanie’s husband, Linus, owns a farming business, so they begin the day early, usually by walking their dogs together. She then works until it’s time to wake their children — Matthew, 14, and Kathryn, 12 — for school.

When the day is over, Stephanie still doesn’t feel done.

“I just try not to stress out when I don’t get everything done,” she says. “I’ve also had to learn to say no.”

Although she loves volunteering (she’s participated in numerous professional groups, PTA, the Tiger Scholarship Fund and the Central Missouri Food Bank), Stephanie realized she needed to take care of herself, her family and her business first.

“I also realized I need to spend some time just relaxing…which is unnatural for me,” she says.

womenatWork Amanda Allmon

When Amanda Allmon first had children, she thought she’d be able to do it all. As a family physician with University Hospital, she’d gotten used to doing it all. About half of her time was spent seeing patients, the other half, teaching our future doctors.

Surprisingly, it was partially through work that she came to the realization that doing it all couldn’t be the case anymore. Balance would have to take over.

“My department has plenty of other women working just as hard, if not harder, and they’re always giving me tips and mentoring me on how to handle it all,” she says. Along with the support of her husband and extended family, she’s achieved the balance she was seeking.

“I’m certainly not a one-lady show,” she says. “There’s no way I could be as successful as a mom, wife and physician without help.”

Adding motherhood to her plate has also been one of the most fulfilling experiences; she has two sons, Beckett, 4, and Graham, 7.

“Even if you have a bad day, you get to go home and figure out what first grade and preschool were like today,” she says. “And there’s always something there that’s going to crack you up.”

➺ Women at work TIPS:

“Stay the course.” – Betsy Farris “Take time for yourself. Hire out help when you need it. Keep a checklist.”

– Stephanie Rothermich “Realize that you can’t do it all alone.”

– Amanda Allmon

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It’s hard

work to look good. It’s even harder to look good while working. But for CH’s Women at Work issue, stylist Mitchell Drinkard took one hard-working local woman, Bucket Media’s Jocelyn Tipton, and gave her a look that can go from work to play in a matter of minutes. Not to mention, the locally available pieces from White House Black Market, Stella and Dot and Dryer’s Shoes coordinate to mix and match in the morning and give you more time for, well, anything else a hardworking woman might want.

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Love Stories “I have 10 days to make him like me,” Kayse Loyd told her mom about her now fiancé, Blake Larkin.

Tina Naros & Matt Kirchoff

Sarah Franken and Austin Bernard

Kayse Loyd and Blake Larkin

Kayse Loyd and Blake Larkin

Tina Naros and Matt Kirchoff

Sarah Franken and Austin Bernard

Kayse Loyd and Blake Larkin had been talking over a summer break from college. They hit if off, but Blake insisted attending separate schools and his busy basketball schedule would make maintaining a solid relationship impossible. Kayse wasn’t afraid of a challenge, and she succeeded by winning Blake over. The two have been together ever since.

Kayse says she and Blake are opposites, and she enjoys his random goofiness, which includes impersonating country singers, that other people don’t often get to witness. Blake appreciates Kayse’s nurturing personality that has proven what a great mother she will make someday.

The couple was engaged on Kayse’s birthday.

They wed on Sept. 21 of this year.

Tina Naros and Matt Kirchoff went to school together from preschool through college, and they even had a short dating stint in seventh grade. Then Matt broke up with Tina at the Valentine’s Day dance, and she thought they were done for good.

Even with the seventh-grade heartbreak, Tina convinced Matt they should give it another go while they were students at the University of Missouri. The two once again made it work and spent their college careers enjoying everything from Cardinals games to the Christmas décor in Kansas City together.

Tina and Matt have been a match since they were kids, and with years of friendship and dating as a foundation for their marriage, they truly have stood the test of time.

The trust fall is a classic test of reliance, and this couple has explored the theory to the fullest. On their third date, Sarah Franken and Austin Bernard were hiking the Pinnacles when Sarah lost her footing. Austin sprinted to her rescue and, in true heroic fashion, caught her before anything traumatic happened.

“He then had to catch me on the way back down when I slid down the rock wall again,” Sarah says. “I was embarrassed, but Austin made me feel at ease.”

In March, the two traveled to Arizona on another hiking excursion where they ventured off the beaten path. Once again, Austin was by Sarah’s side when she was having moments of panic. The couple’s love of outdoors and memorable third date was the most emblematic spot for Austin to ask Sarah to be his wife.

Sarah agreed and appreciated his choice because it represented the reliance they have on each other. “I know that I can trust this man, literally, with my life,” she says.

“He then had to catch me on the way back down when I slid down the rock wall again,” Sarah says. “I was embarrassed, but Austin made me feel at ease.”

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When Harry met Sally, Harry concluded it was impossible for men and women to be friends. When Nicole Elliott met Brad Bartley, all she wanted was friendship. She was a high school student, classically trained in theater and dance; he was a mystery carrying drumsticks and pickup lines. “He was always the ladies’ man,” she says. “So I always kept him at arms length because I knew I didn’t want to be involved with the ‘bad boy.’”

Several platonic years passed before Brad asked Nicole to dinner at Colton’s Steak House in Jefferson City. Nicole, then in her final year of high school, agreed to the date with her longtime friend. They cracked open the casings of peanuts and flung them across the restaurant, eventually discovering that their own shells were breaking. “I think that’s how we really bonded,” she says, “just being able to be ourselves around each other.”

Their relationship stretched through Nicole’s graduation from William Woods University. In January 2012, Brad asked his girlfriend on another date, this time to her parents’ house. “We just kind of walked around the backyard, and he proposed there,” she says. “It was very low key because that’s us.”

On July 13, 2013, they fulfilled tradition by getting married in a Methodist church in Mokane, Mo., that Brad’s family helped erect. And in typical fashion, the day was

filled with joyous laughter. “I was just like, ‘Well, if the napkins don’t come in, we’re still going to be married; it’s not going to be the end of the world,” Nicole says.

To the newlywed couple, the day was meant to be a celebration of their commitment to each other. “We have large families, and we wanted to bring them all together and just have a lot of fun, a day where everybody could celebrate,” Nicole says.

The ladies’ man now boasts a ring on his left hand, a public proclamation that he only loves one woman. “He’s still the ‘bad boy’ at heart,” the new Mrs. Bartley jokes. “He’s just toned it down a little. He’s married; he has to.” As a lifelong drummer, he still taps his own beat, but Nicole is the one who dances to it. Together, they both enjoy their new home and marriage in Hams Prairie.

In truth, the Bartleys disprove Harry’s theory that men and women cannot be friends. They share common interests and show a common respect for each other.

Yet, there’s something about each other’s differences that entices them daily. “There’s something about being complete opposites that connects and intrigues us,” Nicole says. “Brad is a bad boy, hunter, fisherman, hard-working man that I admire very much.”

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Adelyn Isabel

Parents: John and Lindsay Hall Birth weight: 7 pounds 15 ounces What things have surprised you most about being a mother? Honestly, I have been most surprised by how naturally motherhood comes to you. I was terrified that they were going to let two clueless 20-somethings take this little baby home from the hospital.

Somehow everything just falls into place.

What unique things does your baby do? Addie loves to sleep with her arms and hands in funny positions. My favorite is when both hands are out to the sides of her head.

Photo by Lollipop Photography

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Jaida Claire

Parents: Paul and Jaclyn Caldwell Birth weight: 6 pounds 7 ounces What is the funniest thing that’s happened to you since becoming a mother?

I was still pregnant with Jaida.

I just purchased her new stroller, and I wanted to try it out. I put our two Yorkies in it and took it for a spin around the block. I didn’t realize how embarrassing that was until I started getting funny looks from all the neighbors.

Photo by Lollipop Photography

Ava Renee

Parents: Ashley Nichols and Nathan Petersheim Birth weight: 7 pounds 9 ounces What things have surprised you most about being a mother? My baby always wants to be close to me, and I was shocked by how much she sleeps.

What things do you love most about being a mother? I love everything about being a mother. It’s just amazing how our bodies make these precious little things.

Parents: Dr. Clay Samson and Spencer Samson Birth weight: 7 pounds 6 ounces What things have surprised you most about being a mother? What surprised me the most has been experiencing how such a small human being can have my entire heart. I have never been an emotional person, and now I think I cry daily just watching him and knowing I helped create this amazing person.

What did you not expect to happen? I least expected to be as crazy about germs as I am. I was hoping I would be calmer about that sort of thing, but so far, I am not.

Photo by EOS Photography

by Emma Steele

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Columbia Home's Bachelorettes CH celebrated its bachelorettes from the August/September issue at Les Bourgeois Winery Sept. 5.

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1. Amanda Buckerhoff and Spencer Ruyle 2. Beverly Reid, Elizabeth Snyder, Angie Huhman, Lilli Howard, Tracy Davis and Courtney French 3. Bob Siebeot, Osama Yanis and Konstantin Makarov 4. Bradley Swank, Jocelyn Tipton, Patrick Marks, Jessica Prenger, Allie Sue Grotts and Ric Wolkowitz 5. Sarah Redohl and Cindy Pudney 6. Kristin Branscom and Jodi Houin 7. Emelie Henzel and Carroline Kirtley 8. Kelly Powers and Nick Schrimpf 9. William Knox, Laurie Kempkev, Angie Huhman and Michael Leotta 10. Lilli Howard and Rick Baker 11. Marcia Thrasher, Nema Velia, Amy Davis and Courtney French 12. Michael Leotta and Tracy Davis 13. Traci Best and Kay Wheeler 14. Elizabeth Snyder and Amanda Buckerhoff 15. Kristi McCann and Ryan Ruprecht

4th Annual Family Health Center Golf tournament The Columbia Orthopaedic Group’s Tournament was held Aug. 26 at The Club at Old Hawthorne.

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1. First place went to the First Midwest Bank Team, from left: Ray Nickle, Wixson Huffsteler, Travis Brown and Jeff Baldwin. 2. Second place went to the Missouri Heart Center team, from left: Allen Goree, Rick Caldwell, Adam Kaufman and Jeff Schmid. Additionally, Jeff Schmidt won Closest to Pin. 3. Todd Walker, Charles Swaney, Jason Hedrick and Beau Baehman. 4. Luis Visot, Genia Graybill and Greg Miller. 5. Val Young (far left) won the Longest Drive. Other members of her team, from left, include: Deborah Crawford-Hartley, Jacci Kelly and Judy Benson Rice.

Photos by Jennifer Roberts, Moonshadow Photography.

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Joe Machens Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Grand Opening The celebration was held July 25 and 26. Festivities included a VIP reception, ribbon-cutting, music, food, face painting and more.

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It’s possible It’s possib to turn your old bathroom into the peaceful retreat you’ve always wanted

When Linda and Bruce Phelps moved into their 22 year-old Jefferson City home a year ago they decided the master bath needed change. With the guidance of Gayla Schanbacher, Interior Designer at Mid-City Lumber, and Contractor Jason Crader the small bathroom turned into a real show piece.

Glass block and 12-inch glass tiles make the room appear bigger and add light. A quartz counter top is less maintenance.

“Gayla is delightful to work with and nothing phases her,” Linda noted, and she’s looking forward to the same great service when she updates her kitchen.

You can make it happen in your home, too.

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The Raminator in action. 5. The aftermath.

Call Mid City Lumber and ask Gayla, or Casey Marsch, about how I t’s Possible.

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Patches Patches is a 10-year-old lady, but don't let her age scare you away. She will be your best friend after feeding her just one treat.

Stewart This 2-year-old orange Tabby gets along great with other cats and humans.

But his dominant male personality would prefer that no dogs are in the picture.

Francis Francis is quite the social 5-month-old and loves everyone he meets.

There are no strangers to him, which makes him the perfect addition to any family.

This pup needs an active family because he is a ball of energy! He’s a 7-monthold Retriever/Lab mix who would make any outdoorloving family very happy.

Cookie Dough With a name like that, how can you not give her attention? This diva loves the limelight and will give you all the love you need.

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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-Lucille Ball Nana Nana is a bit of an introvert at first, but she will warm up to you quickly. Her smarts and style are sure to surprise you.

These friendly faces are at the Central Missouri Humane Society. Visit them on the Web at cmhpets.org.

Visit us at www.face.missouri.edu or on Facebook to learn about Dr. Chang’s free lunchtime webinar series.

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Who is ZZ Ward?

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Occupation: Recording artist # of visits to Columbia: The Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival was my first time!

Favorite Midwestern town and why: I love everything about the Midwest. Everyone is super kind, and they know how to have a good time.

Age: 27

Original hometown: Roseburg, Ore. Community involvement: I performed at a charity event for E.A.R.N (Expand Animal Rights Now) in L.A. recently, which was really wonderful.

I’ve been working hard on promoting this record, but when the time is right, I’d really like to get involved more in volunteer work, and I look forward to doing so.

A favorite recent project: My debut album ’Til the Casket Drops Family: I grew up playing in my dad’s blues band in dive bars around Oregon. I got my edge from my dad. He taught me how to play music, and he inspired me to get on stage and share my talent. I think I get my sweetness from my mom.

She’s a nurse and is very caring, grounded and gracious.

My go-to cocktail

What I do for fun: I love to go to the movies, get popcorn and a big blue Slurpee. I also like to hang out with my brothers and go for late-night walks with my family on hot Florida nights when I’m home.

I love to go out dancing and listen to hip hop; I think it’s the best kind of music to dance to. I like to go shopping, too, on occasion, if I ever get the chance.

Most people don’t know that I: Am naturally an introvert.

The more I tour and do interviews, the more comfortable I’ve gotten with being myself and showing people my personality, but I still have to push myself to do it. I’m just naturally a quieter person.

On a typical weekday night, I am: Sweating my butt off on stage getting a workout. Otherwise I’m snuggling with my puppy, Muddy Waters. On a typical weekday night when I’m not on tour, I’m probably going to the movies or eating at a restaurant in L.A. Dinner and a movie — the good stuff you take for granted!

The businessperson I admire and why: Madonna or Beyoncé. I admire women who have their hands in every part of their career, women in music who not only think about their craft but also what they can do to help people with their success as philanthropists, volunteers, etc.

My guilty pleasure

Animal I would be

In a single word, I am: Awake The song that absolutely must be included on the soundtrack to my life: “Who Wants to Live Forever” by Queen.

I think there are certain songs that can stop time in a way, and that’s one of them. You could be driving in your car, it could be raining, it could be sunny. I just feel like music can change lives.

What’s the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?

Knocking the mic stand over or tripping on stage. It doesn’t happen as much these days, but I did knock my teeth on the mic last night.

They’re making a movie about your life. The film’s biggest climatic moment would be: I hope it hasn’t happened yet in my life.

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The three questions I hate getting: Tell us about your music. Who would you compare your music to? That’s about it.

If I could be any animal, I would be: My dog. She is so spoiled! I bring my dog on the road with me everywhere. She’s a border terrier. She’s my only child and my world. I make sure she’s taken care of at all times. We were out playing fetch the other day, and I took a ton of time afterward to make sure she had no burrs in her fur, otherwise I’d be picking them all out. That’s love.

If I were a crayon in a box of Crayolas, I would be: The color-changing one that switches colors each time you use it.

My all-time biggest regret: Not getting a cheeseburger for lunch today. I should have just done it!

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