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Mary Berg is taking on the culinary world, one bite at a time. The restaurant industry has been dominated by men, but Berg set her sights on becoming an executive chef and didn’t stop there.
 

Let’s be clear: Ellen Greene is not a tattoo artist. She paints tattoos on the skin of an imaginary woman. 
 
“I don’t think I could ever tattoo,” Greene says. “My paint is sloppy and hazy, while ink needs to be pretty straightforward.”
 

It’s like having a fairy godmother … or a roomful of ’em. A newbie is greeted at a luncheon by a core group of women — and maybe a “few good men” — all who wish to help you achieve your entrepreneurial dreams. And the five magic words you’ll hear? 
 

What do you get when you combine two veteran Kansas City radio personalities, add a generous helping of savvy and provocative conversation, and sprinkle of gossip?

Krista Lang Blackwood, 41, knows first-hand “what happens to a dream deferred.” 

“It’s just something about Thanksgiving,” says Jacqueline Buycks. “Our bread turns into gold.”
 

It’s the exuberance of music, the sculptural embodiment of sound springing out of the earth.