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Jordan Stolch is a Fashion Stylist and Wardrobe Consultant based in Los Angeles, California. With a natural ability for style and aesthetics, the Canadian-born native quickly built a strong career in the celebrity and entertainment realm as well as in personal shopping and private styling. She has solidified herself as an innovative force in the fashion industry and highly sought after consultant. We have conducted an interview with her. What is it like to work as a Stylist at award shows such as the Grammys, Emmys, Golden Globes and Academy Awards? I’ve been so honored to be hired as a Stylist for all of the major award shows for the last 5 years as a fashion contributor for E! Entertainment and NBC. Being involved in projects of this nature is both exhilarating and pressure-inducing as the coverage is viewed by over 100 million people in 130+ countries on a network the predominates as a cultural influencer and style innovator. The need to be spot on in my creative process...

MiKADO is a full service Personal Styling firm handling all shopping and fashion needs of busy men and women who value well kept wardrobes. We have conducted an interview with their Senior Personal Stylist Stephanie Holland. In your opinion what is personal styling and what are the common misconceptions? Personal styling is essentially having your wardrobe and day-to-day image outsourced to a professional. It is the understanding that for whatever reason (typically lack of time, interest or skill) you are unable to effectively execute your wardrobe goals and would benefit from putting this area of your life in the hands of someone who has a strategic and calculated approach to maintaining your closet and your unique personal image. For us, personal styling is all encompassing which means we take care of every aspect that relates to fashion on behalf of our clients. We learn what they like and dislike, what they seek to achieve through their image, we shop on their be...

With years of digital marketing and hands-on entrepreneurial experience under his belt, Mark Campbell is always up for a challenge when it comes to helping clients transform ideas into full-pledged working businesses. As co-founder and VP of Marketing at InventureX , Campbell has helped launch over 300 products, from electric bikes to ski pole flasks through comprehensive and innovative marketing campaigns. Campbell has a BA in Philosophy with Honors from the University of California. He also holds a post-graduate business certificate from Fudan University in Shanghai. He lives in Los Angeles, CA and enjoys surfing and track racing when he's out of the office. What has been the biggest accomplishment of your career so far? I consider growing InventureX and everything that we are currently doing as my biggest accomplishment. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing clients launch their businesses, especially if these businesses were ones that traditional fundin...

Los Angeles based actor Jolie Chi moved to the United States at the age of sixteen to pursue an acting career. A native of Taiwan, she has caught the attention of audiences in both the United States and Asia. Her talent and versatility has led to coveted roles in feature films, national commercials, stage plays, television series, and music videos. Ms. Chi’s strong commercial presence in the US includes campaigns for the California Lottery and similarly in China with Momo (a Chinese instant-messaging service) with features on billboards and at movie theatres across the country. Her witty stage presence and charisma has opened doors to performances at top comedy clubs including the Laugh Factory (widely recognized as the #1 comedy club in the United States), Flappers, The Ice House, and The Comedy Store. Ms. Chi was also cast as the character of Ming Ling on Tru TV’s new series television series Laff Mobb's Laff Tracks and is featured in its most popular episode to date. She ...

Omar Benchekroun, the founder of LA Lifestyle Services, was born in 1989. Since his childhood, he has had a keen appreciation for class, luxury and elegance. This early appreciation inspired him to take his interest as a serious career. He began to work in the luxury lifestyle business in his home country of Morocco before traveling to Paris in 2007 in order to gain luxury hotel business experience in one of the most notable places the world still renowned for its high-end luxury hotel services. Now, he operates out of California, where he hopes to use his experience in the luxury lifestyle business to provide clientele with something sorely lacking in today’s industry: a concierge service truly worthy of the tradition. LA Lifestyle Services offers a private luxury concierge service that goes above and beyond any modern concierge service in providing a high-class customer experience that rivals that of any grand hotel of the past. Benchekroun’s international background, which inc...

NOOP. What does that mean? It’s not a real word, right? Is it slang for “nope”? Is it some type of acronym? The uncertainty of this word is exactly why the LA based music quartet named themselves NOOP. So much of music (particularly in Los Angeles) is about being marketed and appealing to as many potential fans (translation-consumers) that this group wanted to rebel against that. No, they’re not musical anarchists. In fact, the members themselves have established and successful careers in other projects but they noticed that too often they were losing touch with making music for themselves…which is why they originally started down this career and artistic path. Call it a “musical time-out” if you like but NOOP has already been accumulating fans based on their first release “Evolve.” The irony of the situation is not lost on the group but they still try to avoid paying any attention to the glowing online reception this instrumental ensemble is receiving. One wonders if NOOP is like the...

Nadia Bruce-Rawlings uses grains of her often gritty life to infuse her stories with cathartic realism. Her stories “Fire” and “Scars” have both been finalists in Glimmer Train’s writing contests and are included in SCARS , her first anthology from Punk Hostage Press. Nadia grew up travelling the world and living in various countries before settling in Los Angeles. In LA she briefly worked at a vitamin factory and then began a long career in independent film distribution. A single mom for 11 years, she and her new husband have settled into the Nashville area, where she writes by the lake when she can escape their five kids and two dogs. We have conducted an interview with Nadia. How do you feel when your writing talent has been describe as "with dark humor and candor" or even "emotionally raw"? I feel that my writing is fairly candid and definitely emotionally raw. When I write, especially the memoir pieces, I go to a very deep place inside myself. I ...

Sebastian Ravitz is a 24 years old entrepreneur from Los Angeles. He has been riding the entrepreneurial rollercoaster for about 5 years now, having worked for startups that promised equity, but never received it - and all of those commom entrepreurial challenges. He successfully launched his own company when he was 21. It was a digital marketing agency that has now helped companies from stage 1, all the way to 10xing their monthly revenue. We have conducted an interview with Sebastian. Which is the most difficult entrepreneurial challenge you had ever experienced? The most difficult entrepreneurial challenge is actually coming to terms with what being an entrepreneur encompasses. While incredibly fulfilling, you’re also faced with so many obstacles that aren’t just a one-time battle. For me the most recurrent was self-doubt, especially early in my career. I was constantly questioning whether or not I had it in me. I knew deep down I did, but the doubt in the back of my min...

It’s a scary thing to focus your life on a career, finish your studies, and then enter the professional world. When you’re involved in the creative arts it’s perhaps even more intimidating as there is no direct path to success and even at the highest levels of the field there is no security. Many artists make the joke that even after their greatest creations they are unemployed until their next success…which of course finds them immediately unemployed again. When cinematographer Jose Andres Solorzano finished his tutelage at the prestigious AFI in Los Angeles he found himself quickly on the set of famed singer Jaycob Duque’s latest music video “ Mal de Amores ” as DP for noted director Harold Ortiz. This video became a massive success online and was seen as reinvigorating to Duque’s career. Several factors contributed to the exceptional results of this shoot, not the least of which was the enthusiasm Solorzano contributed as a means of exhibiting his abilities and contributions on thi...

For all of its ills, Social Media still possesses a great many benevolent attributes. Yes, it can allow for the vapid and self-centered to take center stage but it can also enrich your life quite a bit if used correctly. Main Street Hub has taken to the use of Social Media to promote and increase awareness of the diverse businesses Los Angeles has to offer. It’s hard to be aware of everything that a city the size of LA cultivates and Main Street Hub understands that many people, especially those forty and under find what their looking for in a number of online avenues like Instagram, Facebook, Yelp, etc. The eclectic work of photographer Yuya Parker has been a prominent and continual part of creating the online presence which MSH utilizes. MSH helps grow small businesses in LA by managing their social media content on sites like Yelp, Facebook, and Instagram. They study each business and find the best way to present them via social media content. Parker used the same talents he has em...

There is only one name that comes to mind when elite homeowners and investors from the Middle East look to buy or sell real estate in Beverly Hills. That name is Iskander Lemseffer . He is the best in the L.A real estate business and is widely known among a wide range of elite international buyers and sellers alike. Iskander is well acquainted with the Arabic mentality because he lived in Dubai for 5 years. Iskander Lemseffer is the best when it comes to delivering quality results. Most of his work comes from referrals and repeated clients because he has a reputation of delivering quality results that are beyond his clients’ expectations. Lemseffer always puts your best interest in mind and has ample experience in the world of design and international real estate. This is one of many reasons to pick him for your real estate needs. The reason smart individuals such as yourself choose Iskander Lemseffer is because when he works for a client, he does so as their partner to fulfil...

Los Angeles based actor Jolie Chi moved to the United States at the age of sixteen to pursue an acting career. A native of Taiwan, she has caught the attention of audiences in both the United States and Asia. Her talent and versatility has led to coveted roles in feature films, national commercials, stage plays, television series, and music videos. Ms. Chi’s strong commercial presence in the US includes campaigns for the California Lottery and similarly in China with Momo (a Chinese instant-messaging service) with features on billboards and at movie theatres across the country. Her witty stage presence and charisma has opened doors to performances at top comedy clubs including the Laugh Factory (widely recognized as the #1 comedy club in the United States), Flappers, The Ice House, and The Comedy Store. Ms. Chi was also cast as the character of Ming Ling on Tru TV’s new series television series Laff Mobb's Laff Tracks and is featured in its most popular episode to date. She ...

Laura, can you introduce yourself? I’m a 23-years old woman. I come from French Riviera; was born and raised there. I’m an independent woman who loves challenges and adventures. I traveled the whole world and did a lot of jobs and activities that suited my lifestyle and my passion. Fashion was one of my many passions that brought me to Paris the first time. I studied a lot of prestigious fashion schools there. I have also worked in the nightclub industry for some time and was the best in the field. But after all my jobs and pursuing different niches, I knew in my heart that I would ultimately get back to my roots: acting. It was my true calling and that’s what I followed in the end. And here I am! Why did you choose to be a Hollywood actress? My dream has always been to live in California, L.A to be precise; which also happens to be my initials as well (I’m a strong believer in signs). Plus, there are a lot of opportunities here. Acting schools are great here and are...