- Your Persona in 3 words or less.
Former Farm Girl.
- What soundtrack/song would play to your life story?
Flashdance, What a Feeling.
- What actor/actress would play your character in your life story?
I would love to think it is Kate Beckinsale. ..but in reality one of the seat fillers from the Oscars is probably better suited for the role.
- What meal/spice/ingredient reminds you most of your roots and who you are?
Homemade strawberry jam…I've made it since I was a little girl and the whole process – picking the strawberries, making the jam and then eating it right out of the jar during the depths of winter (summer on a spoon!) really brings me back home.
- What inspires your story each day?
My mom. A modern-day pioneer woman who owns a chainsaw and enjoys martinis (though never at the same time). I can only hope to be that cool when I grow up.
- Your Persona in 3 words or less
Fun Passion Commited
- What soundtrack/song would play to your life story?
Juanes – Un Dia Normal
- What actor/actress would play your character in your life story?
Anthony Quinn
- What meal/spice/ingredient reminds you most of your roots and who you are?
Cumin
- What inspires your story each day?
Food, family and fun
- Your Persona in 3 words or less.
Eating while hiking.
- What soundtrack/song would play to your life story?
Bruce Springsteen, Glory Days
- What actor/actress would play your character in your life story?
Michael Cera. A bit awkward on the surface, but wicked cool once you figure him out.
- What meal/spice/ingredient reminds you most of your roots and who you are?
"Holiday Pecans" – Pecans roasted with cinnamon, sugar & butter. Growing up, nothing beat waking up to the smell of those puppies roasting in the oven during the holiday season.
- What inspires your story each day?
To leave my 2 children with a planet that is cleaner, healthier, more peaceful and more beautiful than I found it.
- Your Persona in 3 words or less
Fun, Playful, Passionate.
- What soundtrack/song would play to your life story?
Ryan Montbleau, 75 and Sunny.
- What actor/actress would play your character in your life story?
I feel like I haven’t watched a movie in 4 years since I’ve had kids, but I remember Brad Clooney being pretty cool.
- What meal/spice/ingredient reminds you most of your roots and who you are?
Grass fed butter - mmmmmm.
- What inspires your story each day? Family, nature and being around people.
- Your Persona in 3 words or less
Colombiana Gringa-fied.
- What soundtrack/song would play to your life story?
"Send Me on My Way" - Rusted Root.
- What actor/actress would play your character in your life story?
I really like Zooey Deschantel vibes.
- What meal/spice/ingredient reminds you most of your roots and who you are?
Oh, it definately has to be my dear friend Cilantro.
- What inspires your story each day?
Mi Familia and a big passion for spreading Latin culture!
- Your Persona in 3 words or less
Happy, Motivated, Type A.
- What soundtrack/song would play to your life story?
Saturday Night Fever. My first strut was with a Bee Gees lunchbox.
- What actor/actress would play your character in your life story?
Kristen Wiig – my life story is anything but serious.
- What meal/spice/ingredient reminds you most of your roots and who you are?
Butter. I am a baker at heart and my mom is from Kentucky. Butter is our ‘makes everything better’ ingredient.
- What inspires your story each day?
My Family inspires me. I think about how to keep our crew smiling, balanced and ready to hit the ground running.
- Your Persona in 3 words or less
Nature's Flower Girl
- What soundtrack/song would play to your life story?
Dancing with Myself, Billy Idol
- What actor/actress would play your character in your life story?
My husband thinks Drew
Barrymore.
- What meal/spice/ingredient reminds you most of your roots and who you are?
Making
stuffed grape leaves with my grandmother, mother and aunt reminds me of my grandfather's
Armenian family. However, every time I make meatballs, I take out the paper my grandmother
helped me write the recipe on when I was younger and it reminds me of my grandmother and
her Italian family.
- What inspires your story each day?
I look to my grandmother, currently 90 years old, who
started working in a factory at a very young age and never stopped working until her retirement
at age 70. She, married, raised three kids, and still she worked. For her generation, she was
definitely outside the norm.
