Miss Janay!! Another friend who dates back almost 20 years, Janay is someone I met during my "Industry Days". If you've ever waited tables you will remember those days of always having cash in your wallet and being on a very unconventional sleep schedule. What fun it was to be 20-something! Janay is a friend who, not on Face Book, I have felt out of touch with from time to time. (And judging by the size of her her Linked-In photo (left), chooses not to have a very large digital footprint!) But she dos have a large personality!
I met up with Janay at Nick's Steakhouse tonight. The scene of the crime, if you will. We worked in this lounge together for about four years and, although we think it had been four years since our last get together USED to at least meet annual for a pitcher of beer and a "Vegetarian Pizza with Spolumbo sausage, hold the onions but please add pineapple". Yes, we are THOSE customers! (But at least we tip well. "Those" customers didn't always necessarily fulfill this requirement back when we were serving them!)
Janay is a self-made woman. Climbing the ladder to her successful position as a consultant-rebrander-writer-marketer-advisor......(I don't actually know what her business card says) Janay worked her way up from lesser positions at ad agencies, and free positions at magazines, to have her own business today. Her clients range from Crave Cupcakes to the Government of Alberta so diversity is a strength, for sure!
Fiercely proud of her own adoption story, Janay and her talented hubby, Mario, are the proud parents to Olivia - who shares a (loosely) similar story to her mum. Not only has Janay been successful in her professional life but she stopped at nothing to achieve these blessings in her personal life too. I admire her.
Janay has a contagious laugh, is genuinely interested in people (and animals) and can rock any hairstyle from a pixie cut to long, straight locks. The twinkle in her eye has not faded in twenty years and I look forward to noticing it for twenty more. And then twenty more.
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