Moxy Magazine

Marketing and Communications Coordinator Kay Bergstrom, a 49-year-old from Minnesota, has been dreaming of her wedding since she was a little girl. A few months ago, she finally got engaged to her boyfriend of four years, Steve. The proposal was everything Kay had always dreamed of. It was on New Year’s Eve and it involved a beautiful diamond ring, a message in a bottle and a tearful declaration. And one surprise: Kay was the one who proposed.

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Carla Thompson always knew she wanted to explore the unknown.  Growing up, she wanted to become an astronaut. Today, she doesn’t do her exploring in deep space; she’s pushing boundaries as an entrepreneur instead. In May of 2010 she launched Sharp Skirts, a network for female business owners that’s focused on the exchange of knowledge [...]

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Laura Richards-Bakin and Robin DiPietro-Jurand are modern, successful, ambitious women with full-time jobs and families living in the Shepherdstown, West Virginia area. At first glance, neither would appear to have the time and energy to devote to starting their own theatre company. Any given day they may agree with that assessment. Yet that did not [...]

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About ten years ago Lily Burana [pictured] watched Dita von Teese perform in Los Angeles, experiencing burlesque for the first time. “Dita’s exacting old-school glamour and sheer talent riveted me,” she says. “I can say that I ’d never seen anything like it—the precision of her moves, the elegance, every move, every facial expression, every [...]

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