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PHOTO CREDIT: IT'S ELIZABETH MARIE PHOTOGRAPHY
SAVANNAH STREHLOW & ELENA SHAW CRICKET + RUBY
Co-Founders of Cricket + Ruby, Savannah (right) & Elena (left) saw the desire for more unique, fashionable goods for babes & their mamas in the Phoenix market. In 2017, they launched Cricket + Ruby to bring modern bohemian inspired treasures to the Valley. They carry hand-selected items from every corner of the world, responsibly sourced and curated with care.
Savannah branched out from the family business of Real Estate to pursue her love of fashion. Savannah taught herself every aspect of the e-Commerce industry and even designs some of the pieces you’ll find in their shop!
Elena, a top sales executive at a large corporation, was eager to create a career for herself that offered more freedom to raise her daughter. With Elena’s eye for trends and product styling, you can rest assured that Cricket + Ruby will have you on the best-dressed list.
In 2019, Cricket + Ruby will be launching their own line of clothes for women & babies.
Amanda Freick is the founder of AmandaLouise LLC, a company dedicated to empowering women to live their best life. Within this brand Amanda acts as the owner, creative director and designer of AmandaLouise Swimwear, hosts the Confessions of a Fit Chick Podcast, and publishes an ongoing meditation series entitled The Mindful Fit Chick. Most recently she has launched AmandaLouise. Life, which is the new soul of the brand. This platform is dedicated to the community that has surrounded AmandaLouise to provide sisterhood, resources, and opportunities to live a life of fitness, mindfulness and spirituality. Her deepest passion is to inspire women to step into their true self.
Amanda does all this while serving as the Director of Business Operations for an engineering firm, and fulfilling her most important job; wife and mother. Amanda is a professionally licensed engineer with a BS Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. After spending over seven years working directly for electric utilities she now serves the market from the “other side of the fence” working with a firm that supports utilities from an engineering and consulting stand point. Amanda holds a patent with the US Patent Office titled “Smart Transformer” which tackles the interesting complications associated with distributed electrical resources and controllable household loads.
A unique blend of the logical and creative is what makes Amanda unique. Her dedication to the energy industry, with her abounding love for empowering women, is what drives her every day. She moved to Tucson in 2013 and currently resides in Oro Valley with her husband Ken, son Kenny, St. Bernard “Bourbon” and cat “Pilsner.”
AMANDA FREICK AmandaLouise LLC
PHOTO CREDIT: IT'S ELIZABETH MARIE PHOTOGRAPHY PAIGE PARSONS // KENDRA SCOTT Born and raised in Scottsdale, Paige Parsons is passionate about her community, especial supporting women. Three years ago, Paige found herself in a Kendra Scott store swooning over the jewelry and people. She quickly learned Kendra’s story and the foundation of her companies three pillars; Family, Fashion and Philanthropy. The connection of business and passion led Paige to become an Area Community Relations and Event Manager. Paige represents the culture while overseeing all event strategy for Arizona. Her desire for promoting the three pillars while building partnerships is what drives her success. In 2018 she led her team to hosting over 400 Kendra Gives Back events, donating over two thousand pieces of jewelry and raising $200,000 that go back to our communities, schools, and women’s foundations. Paige has a heart for community, encourages others to go beyond, to be kind and don’t be afraid to go after something you want.
MEREDITH YOUNG MEREDITH YOUNG JEWELRY Meredith was wild about working with a torch and metal from the age of 16. Her grandparents’ home in Green Valley, Arizona spurred an early interest in minerals and the lapidary arts. Meredith attended Marist High School which allowed her to fill her curriculum with different studio art classes, as well as, art history classes. These teachers, along with her parents, were paramount in her development as an artist. In college she majored in Art History with a minor in English at the University of Georgia, concentrating in sculpture and contemporary installation art. Upon graduation, Meredith reverted back to “making art,” filling her evenings and weekends with metalsmithing classes and workshops. For nearly a decade, she worked in a corporate business development career and designed and created jewelry at night in her studio selling her jewelry in local boutiques. In 2016 when she took her passion full time, launching her first collections of fine jewelry and one-of-a-kind works of art. Made in LA and Arizona, her jewelry seeks to combine opposed visual aesthetics: the geometric and the organic, chaos and order, and negative and positive space.
PHOTO CREDIT: IT'S ELIZABETH MARIE PHOTOGRAPHY
