Boutique Cafe is the world’s first boutique podcast for moms and momprenuers on the go. Our weekly shows feature all things boutique & inspired, highlighting topics of interest to fashion-savvy moms and momprenuers around the world (shopping, celebrities, women in business, parenting, organization, fashion and much more). Our goal is to give today’s woman a break from reality, and voila, inspire her for when she returns.

Each weekday we also present the Daily Dish, featuring our favorite discoveries for making life more pleasant. Whether it’s a new muse, a hot product, shopping for a trendy outfit or accessory, building your business, finding common interests in a tight knit community, or even organizing your home, Boutique Cafe is here to help.

In April 2007, Boutique Cafe held our first annual “Boutique Cafe Girls Getaway” conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Women from across the US and Canada met to connect, network and fill their cups of couture. Guest speakers included Charlene May (owner and founder of www.greggygirl.com), Carrie Miner (owner and founder of Puddle Jumper Shoes), and our resident fashion expert Amelia Werneke. Our sponsors for the event included Greggy Girl, Fiji Water, Amy Butler Design, Design-her Gals, Shade Clothing, and many more.

Boutique Café is now a proud inaugural member of the MommyCast & Friends Family Channel powered by Podango.

Besides being a free, highly portable and downloadable online radio show, we also support a community of buyers, designers, parents, WAHM’s and professionals who have similar interests. If it’s about Boutique, if it’s about kids, if it’s about moms, if it’s about you it’s on Boutique Cafe.

If you’d like to learn more, by all means, email us. We’d love to chat.

*Big News! Our Boutique Cafe RSS feeds are now being distributed on Alltop, an online magazine of THE BEST websites on the web!

About Daria - Host and Producer

Daria is your weekly host and producer for Boutique Cafe. Her humble beginnings as a host began in the family basement where she would interview her “captive” audiences, followed by memorable interpretive dance performance to the entire Air Supply album. She even charged admission, a true entrepreneur from the start.

Ever the girly girl, Daria’s desire to have a daughter spurred her foray into the boutique design scene 5 years ago when she started her own children’s clothing line Baby Brigs Originals. She found a true passion for sewing and creating one of a kind outfits for children. She didn’t get a daughter, but instead found a fabulous community of supportive and creative women that needed promotion.

As a busy mommy to 4 darling boys, Daria’s day is full of interviews with inspiring entreprenuers mingled with diaper changes and finger print patrols. Having a studio in her home provided the essential environment for this momprenuer to be close to her children, even while chatting with celebrities, business owners or up and coming designers. Occasionally her boys will make an unscheduled appearance during an interview ” adding to the “charm” of the show.

Boutique Cafe is a culmination of Daria’s dreams and passions all in one place. Daria says “I wanted to create a haven for moms like myself to learn, chat, play and shop. I’m honored and overwhelmed with how Boutique Cafe has taken off and excited for the new things to come.”

Through the New Media outlet of podcasting Daria has had the good fortune to interview well known guests such as Alexa Ray Joel (singer/daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley), Taylor Dooley (teen star of Sharkboy & Lava Girl), Wendy Bellissimo (celebrity nursery designer), Charlene May (owner and founder of Greggy Girl), Amy Butler (Fabric designer & Author), Jeanne Fitzmaurice (founder of Designher Gals), Sandi Henderson (textile artist), Christa Couture (singer/songwriter), and many more inspiring guests.

Additionally, Daria produces The Savvy Organizer podcast, a new venture with her dear friend and organizing expert, Maja Russell.

Interested in interviewing Daria or featuring Boutique Cafe on your program or website? email us the details to Appearance Request.

About Emily - Contributing Editor

Emily is the Contributing Editor for Boutique Café’s Daily Dish. Hand-picked by Daria for her writing style (Emily claims it’s less a style and more the ramblings of a mom trying to hold on to what little sanity she has left), she is sure to entertain Boutique Café readers with her personal take on the latest in must-have products for mom and baby.

Though she loves working with the women of Boutique Café, Emily spends most of her free time (free time…now that’s funny) on georgie tees, a business she started with a girlfriend in 2005. georgie tees is a line of infant and maternity t-shirts designed to add humor—and kick!—to this crazy and wonderful thing called motherhood. Because georgie tees doesn’t take up every hour of every day, Emily spends her “spare” time blogging about the latest products for pregnant women and infants on Polliwogged.com, a new site from the ZRecs network.

When Emily’s not writing or designing she chases after her four kids. Well, she only chases after three of the four, as her youngest (born in August) doesn’t get very far. She enjoyed reading the Harry Potter and Series of Unfortunate Events series and keeps her mind sharp by browsing People, Us Weekly, and Life & Style while waiting in line at the grocery store. When she’s not putting kids in timeouts or expanding her knowledge of what not to wear on the red carpet, she shops and keeps her eyes wide open for the next great Daily Dish product to review.

Emily has previously worked for Business 2.0 where she managed the content for the magazine’s Web Guide. Just before starting georgie tees she worked for The LoveSac Corporation as their Communications Manager, thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to write press releases for a company with a name like LoveSac. Emily has sinced used her press-release-writing skills (right up there with nunchuck skills) to write releases for companies such as YouCanMakeThis.com and Ladybugs ‘N’ Butterflies. But her favorite is definitely writing reviews for Boutique Café’s Daily Dish.

About Amber - Contributing Editor

Amber Pulley is a seasoned PR professional who has worked in sports radio, a political press office, numerous non-profit organizations, the 2002 Olympic Games and most recently started her own PR consulting company.

As PR Director for multiple organizations she has led media campaigns and served as the companies’ spokesperson. After eight years in the PR industry she decided (well, okay, the company decided) to put her PR career on hold. That is when she created a greeting card line. Life’s Lemons is clever correspondence for every occasion. The cards are distributed nationwide and are also available online at lifeslemons.net.

When not creating cards or writing PR strategies, Amber enjoys the many projects her 1940’s home offers her! She loves to paint, revitalize old furniture and loves spending time trying to keep her grass green. She enjoys being in the outdoors and participating in recreational sports with her very athletic friends. Oh, and she has a serious addiction to Access Hollywood while downing anything gummy.

About Amelia - Fashion Forward Friday Coordinator

Wife, mother, lover of fashion and all things related to it. Amelia is our Fashion Forward Friday Coordinator. She has been successfully sewing and selling on eBay for about 5 years under the Sweet Feet Boutique label. Amelia is also a talented photographer and has a passion for taking great shots, her new blog celebrates a new photography business “Intimate Photography by Amelia” that she’s just founded.

Her niche on Boutique Cafe is giving tips, ideas, challenges, and making fashion fun again! She encourages participation via each reader’s personal blogs and then asks them to report back with a link to see what has transpired, a genius way to connect our community. Fashion Forward Friday is a regular segment which she hopes will lead to empowering moms, to take back their hot sense of style.

About Maja - Organizational Expert & Coach

Maja Russell was destined to be an organizational coach. Her humble beginnings, revamping her teenage friends closets at sleep-over parties drove her to her present day one-on-one phone coaching and on location BLITZ visits.

Maja has been a regular contributor and guest for several years on Boutique Cafe podcast, sharing organizational tips and uplifting thoughts for getting moms organized and able to find their well deserved freedom. When she’s not chasing after her three young children, Maja can be found alphabetizing her pantry and color coordinating her towels. In actuality, she’s just like the rest of us but has found her passion to be sharing how organization can transform your life, and allow you to follow your passions without guilt. Her motto “Top to Bottom, Left to Right, focus, focus, focus” is a key tool in cutting the clutter and allowing beauty to reside in your homes and workplace. Her podcast and website can be found at The Savvy Organizer.com, and is a collaborative venture with Daria her producer and friend.

About Beth - Contributing Editor Boutique FINDS

Beth O’Donald is the new chatty contributing member of Boutique Café. She always has something to talk about, and it all boils down to random thoughts from her whacky day as a mom to Holly, and wife to Jim. Holly is the inspiration behind her clothing design business on eBay of Hollysmama. Beth has her own unique twist to designing, as it based on what she sees in Holly that inspires each outfit. You just never know what to expect with each new listing.

Beth is a person who enjoys “doing it all” and considers herself to be striving for the “super mom” award. You never know what she will be doing from day to day, but it will always include Holly and Jim in the equation with a bit of sewing and a lot of chatting mixed in.

Beth will be finding our daily finds to feature on Boutique Café. You can count on seeing designs that have amazing details and quality construction. Beth has an eye for the unique and classic styles that are found throughout the boutique communities.

About Heather - Contributing Writer CPSIA Updates

Heather Flottmann is a contributing writer for Boutique Café. Heather started writing for Boutique Café as a result of the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act and her concern over what its effects would be on the handmade industry.

Heather spends most of her time in her studio, working on liliputians, an online business she started in 2005. Liliputians is a line of handmade children’s clothing for boys and girls specializing in birthday outfits, birthday shirts, special outfits for “unbirthdays.” About liliputians designs . . . You’ll see a lot of art-inspired items since Heather’s degrees are in art history and previous career was working in the NYC art world at a Madison Avenue gallery and then in a corporate setting managing some pretty amazing art collections.

What time isn’t spent in the liliputians studio, Heather spends with her husband and 4-1/2 year old daughter Lily (inspiration for the liliputians label). They live in NYC with 1 lazy boxer, 1 rambunctious boxer puppy and 1 persnickety cat. Heather’s interests other than making stuff & sewing, are cycling along the Hudson River, exploring NYC, yoga, art, gardening, antiquing, shopping, and blogging.

She has a serious fabric addiction that is starting to encompass buttons & ribbon. She likes tattoos, old ornate architecture, Frida Kahlo, garden gnomes, kitschy Americana, silver jewelry, burlesque, a good mochaccino, a cold beer on a hot summer day, and organization with everything in its place.