Elaine Doremus

During BRIDGET SMAGALA’s first three years of marriage and working as a CPA for an accounting firm, she and her husband moved six times. “After the second move I realized do not unpack the dishes!” she says. Those moves and the valuable experience she gained working along real estate professionals during her accounting career, Bridget

JACKELYN KASTANIS learned how to seize opportunity at age 14 when she auditioned her way into the magnet Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City. She took the scary leap, leaving behind her Catholic school pleated skirt and family in Detroit to fulfill her young dream. “My love for adventure

When pediatric dentist DR. MIRA ALBERT founded Brush Pediatric Dentistry in 2011, she had two small children and several years of practice under her belt. “But I didn’t have a single patient,” she says. Fast-forward to today, and Dr. Albert’s practice successfully treats thousands of patients each year as it marks its 10th anniversary in

Compassionate is just one word to describe veterinarian JOYCE ASHAMALLA.“Upon graduation, interviewed at many veterinary hospitals, but the decision to join the team associated with Hinsdale Animal Hospital was the best decision I could have made,” she says. “With our lovely demographic, I was able to flex my medical muscles in both surgery and medicine, while