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How Do They Do It? Bethesda Magazine’s Editor Steve Hull

Steve Hull is Editor & Publisher of Bethesda Magazine and Co-Founder and Partner of Arlington Magazine. Steve has been in the magazine publishing business for nearly 30 years. Before starting Bethesda Magazine in 2004, he spent 14 years as a senior executive with Atlantic Media Company (formerly National Journal Group), which publishes The Atlantic and [...]

How Do They Do It? Channel 9 News Anita Brikman

Anita Brikman currently co-anchors 9 News Now at 5 &11pm, and spearheads WUSA 9’s health coverage. She is actively involved with health and wellness-related organizations including the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, National Kidney Foundation, and the American Heart Association. She and her very active family moved to the Washington, DC area in 2008 and are [...]

How Do They Do It? Tales 2 Go’s Tracey Weil

Tracey Weil co-founded Tales2Go with her husband, William, as a way to entertain and educate their kids. Tales2Go gives educators and parents instant and unlimited access to thousands of name-brand audiobooks and stories from leading publishers and storytellers to play on Apple mobile devices in classrooms and beyond, all for one low annual price. 1. [...]

How Do They Do It? Clutterbuster’s Betsy Fein

Betsy Fein is the founder and owner of Clutterbusters!! www.clutterbusters.com–a company that helps people get organized in their homes and offices. Clutterbusters!! is located in Rockville, Maryland, and is run out of a very uncluttered home office. It’s been in business since 2002. Betsy has 2 kids– Natalie (15) and Noah (12) who help too, [...]

How Do They Do It? The Scramble’s Aviva Goldfarb

Aviva Goldfarb is the mother of two very active teenagers with formerly picky palates so she knows what a challenge it can be to get healthy homemade dinners on the table that everyone will eat, and at a reasonable hour of the night. And as the founder of the dinner planning service, The Six O’Clock [...]

How Do They Do It? MomTini Lounge’s Amy Smith

Amy Kossoff Smith, is a nationally recognized Mompreneur and founder of The MomTini Lounge www.MomTiniLounge.com, which is full of tips and tools for the business of motherhood. Available 24/7, just like Moms, the site has helped women around the world to manage the job of motherhood. Smith is a national wire columnist and has been [...]

How Do They Do It? A Parent in Silver Spring’s Jessica McFadden

Jessica McFadden is a very busy mother of three who founded the popular blog for Washington, DC-area families A Parent in Silver Spring in January 2008. A Parent in Silver Spring has become a go-to resource for Washington, DC area parents with her informative (and often humorous) posts about local kid-friendly events, outings and resources. [...]

How Do They Do It? Crafty Mom and Small Business Owner, Nicolle Spitulnik

Like many moms, Nicolle wanted her son’s first birthday party to be just perfect. As she describes on her website, LibbyLanePress.com, she “scoured the internet for the perfect invitation and inspirational party ideas.” Her search brought her to Etsy where she discovered an entirely new world of designers, and decided to start on her own. [...]

Activity Rocket Asks – How Do They Do It? By Jodifur

Jodi is one of the few native Washingtonians actually living in Washington. She works part time and lives with her husband, Doug, her son, Michael, as well as a dog, Foster. She started Jodifur because her husband kept telling her she reads so many blogs – she might as well write one for herself! She [...]

How Do They Do It? New Blog Series from Activity Rocket

Amy Mascott is a very busy mom of three young children. Amy took her educational background (she is a Literacy Consultant for area schools) and mixed it with her stay-at-home mom training to develop TeachMama (www.TeachMama.com), a blog where she explores ways to sneak in a little learning into the everyday. Later she developed We [...]