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Rachael Faught

I eat. I write. I live. This is my life mantra because it is what I do best.

I was born in the the cattle country of central California, raised in a Philadelphia suburb and then flung to SouthernCalifornia for adolescence and where I remain in adulthood (so far). With roots scattered about the country, I have tasted everything from scrapple to sushi to shoo fly pie. My blog–Glass of Win–is a typo turned haven for my adventures in food, travel, and life as a geek girl extraordinaire living in Los Angeles. A full-time writer always on the hunt for a new gig, a sometimes artist, a globe-trekker, a wannabe comedian, and a life-long food worshiper, I am dedicated to hunting down the most delicious food this world has to offer (and then promptly writing about it). I write for The Place: Los Angeles, a visitors guide to all things L.A. When I'm not stuffing my face, I am typically found at home with my cats, reading Batman comics or recording the Glass of Win Variety Hour podcast with my friends.

View Rachael's web site: http://www.glassofwin.com
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Jeff Johnson

By day, Jeff is a corporate slave who develops training initiatives at DIRECTV–the rest of the time, he floats around pursuing all things unconventional. Armed with his camera and iPod, he takes advantage of his remote working status and flight benefits by traveling anywhere with good energy (and/or free accommodations). Jeff is passionate about music, photography, equality, pectoral muscles, and DIY endeavors.

View Jeff's web site: http://jeffrjohnson.wordpress.com
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Erika Lyremark

Erika is the founder of DailyWhip.com, and a coach for women in business (and has even worked with the hot mamas at JacksandJills.com). She started her own entrepreneurial track while working as an exotic dancer for nine years. After the pole, she went on to co-create a multi-million dollar commercial real estate company and launch Daily Whip. Erika's also the author of the forthcoming book "Think Like A Stripper: How To Hustle Your Business Like You Mean It" and the sizzletron digi-workbook "Revenue, Results & Red Carpet Dreams." Her new virtual class, The Morning Whip, serves up your most important meal of the day–momentum with your latte, ambition with your cereal and pure self-love with your grapefruit.

View Erika's web site: http://www.dailywhip.com
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Dian Reid

Dian is a life coach who helps LGBTQ people create thriving, authentic lives. She believes that everyone on earth has a slew of creative genius, and that leaving the past behind and moving forward with your strengths is absolutely possible, no matter what you've been through–or who you've been. She currently lives in laid back Long Beach, CA with her girlfriend, "The Wildcat," (who she'd be married to by now if it weren't for that pesky Prop 8 thing).

View Dian's web site: http://authenticrealities.com
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Scott Rosenzweig

Scott realizes he is an acquired taste–you know, like Tab Cola. He began his blogging career as the Project Runway Season 3 Ultimate Fan Blogger for bravotv.com and then made his kvetching official with his ongoing "Don't Get Me Started" blog (Voted one of the 10 Best Gay Blogs by The Advocate Readers in 2006) and his Forty-Something Gay video blogs.

A self-styled Gaytriarch (being the oldest gay in his family and having been with his man for twenty-two years in a monogamous relationship–his spouse a former altar boy who is tall and black and Scott a short Jewish boy, they are the poster children for hate crimes!) feel free to ask for advice at any time. Though he holds no professional degree in psychology, the above qualifies Scott as an AAD–Almost A Doctor when it comes to love, life and giving advice. With more advice than children to give it to (unless you count his cats, Elphaba and Fiyero–could it be any gayer than to name your cats after characters from Wicked?), Mr. R. can be found at his completely gay, musical-theatre scored, crazy, Jewish world at Some Like It Scott.

View Scott's web site: http://www.somelikeitscott.com
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Kylie Springman

Kylie is an empowerment coach and portrait photographer who helps smart, sensitive people learn to adore themselves and share more of themselves with the world. She lives with her partner in Brooklyn and hops over to Portland and Seattle whenever she can. She has an unreasonable affection for colorful, striped socks.

View Kylie's web site: http://www.kyliewrites.com
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Erica Swanson

Erica is a one-woman design distillation factory who offers interior design–for those who shudder at the thought. One client referred to her aesthetic sensibility as "contemporary meets fuck-you antique," while another praised her "methamphetamine mind." If you don't want to languish in the clearance aisle at IKEA with glazed eyes and a shopping cart full of questionable shag carpeting, and you do want a home that makes you tremble every time you step through the doorway, Erica is your goddess and your guide.

View Erica's web site: http://www.ericaswansondesign.com
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Sarah Von

Sarah is the globe-trotting creator of Yes and Yes: a lifestyle blog that leaps and twirls from photos of cat outfits to haikus on Brazilian waxes, and everything (yes, everything) in between. A lifelong adventurer, Sarah has trundled through 20 countries, gotten a gajillion shots, sold her worldly belongings and moved to a foreign country–twice! Check out The Wanderlust Workbooks: her 3-part guide to traveling, goal-setting and dream-chasing, your way.

View Sarah's web site: http://www.yesandyes.org
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