Women Warriors Learn How to Build Your Passion While Funding the Present

Join Women Warriors, Jan 5th at Noon ET, as our special guest, Tricia Conover, looks at the topic of "How to Build Your Passion While Funding the Present." Tricia has some great insights and information on this unique topic. As both a software sales and sale management professional as well as owner of her own wine-travel writing company, she is well underway in building on her passion. She has been a Vice President of Sales and Sales Operations. Some of her firms have included: Oracle, PeopleSoft, Manugistics, ReachLocal, Sybase. She has also participated in two start-up firms. Tricia is also the founder of GrapeStone Concepts, an L.L.C. dedicated to wine and travel writing. Tricia’s focus is “Passages to Wine & Health”, a unique point-of-view centered on wine, health, and wine tourism. See www.grapestoneconcepts.com. Tricia is an on-going contributor to Tuscan Magazine, published in Lucca, Italy. She has appeared as a wine professional on KDAF-TV, Dallas, in September. She is a C.W.P. - Certified Wine Professional, from the Culinary Institute of America, and has a B.S. from Purdue University in Environmental Health. Her recent extensive trip to Italy yielded an interview with Donatella Cinelli Columbini, “First Lady” of Brunello di Montalcino wines, the founder of Italian wine tourism association, and “open wine cellars” events. Tricia is married to Steve, mother of Steven and Andy, and grandmother to her bilingual French-English granddaughter, Jeanne Hélène. Tricia is a member of the non-profit “Côte du Coeur “, American Heart Association Wine Society in Dallas.