Lizz Quain Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Worldwide

Hi, my name is Lizz. 🙋‍♀️ I’m a worldschooling mom of 15 year old twins 👩‍👧‍👧. I'm also a digital nomad 💻, entrepreneur 👩‍💻 and passionate about traveling. ✈️🚅🚕My twins and I have been traveling 🧳🎒 nearly full-time for over 7 years visiting or living in 20 different countries. 🌎🌍🌏 In my lifetime I’ve personally traveled to nearly 50 countries, mostly pre.

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Worldwide

After working 70-110 hours a week for 6 years to launch and operate PlayHappy Café and PlayHappy Preschool, sold the Seattle area brick and mortar business to travel the world with twin daughters and explore the digital nomad lifestyle. So far have traveled to 20 countries over a 7+ year period throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America, all while.

Worldwide

Director of Galileo’s Local Dojo Partnerships project. Conceived and launched the project, then created partnerships with entrepreneurial educators around the world who had physical, in-person self-directed learning centers, microschools or worldschool hubs, that partnered with Galileo, the online global self-directed education program and community that.

Lynnwood, Washington

• Launched from scratch an award winning, highly rated, family-friendly and community focused play café and preschool (See playhappycafe.com or facebook.com/ playhappycafe for more info.)
• Exceeded sales goal by 17% within the first year and 20% by year two.
• Designed the 8,600 square foot venue that included: --- a large and imaginative indoor play space --- a healthy foods cafe with seating for 60 --- three upscale birthday party rooms --- a play-based preschool/ summer.
• Conceptualized almost every detail of PlayHappy Cafe and wrote 60+ page business plan.
• Persisted and successfully raised small business capital after 15 commercial bank loan rejections during national credit crunch.
• Scouted 40 locations, secured space and negotiated 6-year lease with landlord.

Greater Seattle Area

Spent 2+ years researching the play café industry, interviewing and learning best practices from dozens of other play café owners across the world, managing an invite-only Facebook play industry group, attending 50+ entrepreneurial workshops, working closely with multiple advisers and gaining valuable industry related work experience by working or.

Greater New York City Area

See ClubCorp below.

Greater New York City Area

• Via Quain Media, an independent media representative firm based in New York City, represented ClubCorp USA, and their Strategic Alliances Group.
• Sold integrated media and marketing assets to luxury marketers such as ad space in Private Clubs magazine, web banners and e-communications, direct mail, customized events, sponsorships of golf & tennis tournaments.
• Clients and top prospects included BMW, Cartier, Stoli, Mandarin Oriental, Leading Hotels, David Yurman, Lufthansa, Sotheby’s Realty, Ultimate Escapes, Christophe Harbour and PinnacleCare.

Greater New York City Area

• Home Furnishings Director for national consumer design magazine, home design show and website.
• Increased sales by 67% in 2006 and 50% in 2007.
• Awarded 2006 Salesperson of the Year for greatest increase in revenue and quantity of new clients.
• Clients included top brands in home and luxury consumer products in the Northeast, Texas and Europe.
• Assisted Founder/CEO with sales management and strategy during 4-month period between Publishers.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Sold solutions for Internet audio enterprise software and services company backed by Charles Schwab, Chase/H&Q, Sony and Bay Partners.
• Clients included Pottery Barn, Ford, Barnes & Noble, Sears, Nordstrom, Eddie Bauer, Warner Music.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Sold advertising and online community interactive applications for internet start up backed by Disney, Hearst, NBC and Cox Interactive.
• Clients included Visa, Levi's, Whole Foods, Action Ace, Ask Jeeves and MyPoints.

San Francisco Bay Area

• House & Garden magazine
• Sold advertising within Northern California, Washington and Oregon for national consumer magazine.
• Exceeded annual quota by 96%.
• Clients included The Gap, Pottery Barn, Microsoft, Intel, Jacuzzi and top brands in home, travel & financial.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Represented six national consumer and business magazines including Kiplinger' Personal Finance throughout the Southern California and Arizona region.
• Increased sales by 200%.
• Directed operations and sales efforts of five-person office including recruiting, training, and managing.
• Clients included Lexus, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Acura, and leading financial, travel, technology, golf and fashion advertisers.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed new business for regional weekly business newspaper.
• Increased sales by 350%.
• Clients included leading Bay Area companies in banking, law, automotive, technology, office equipment, telecom and travel.

Ba, Communications/Advertising

Activities and Societies: Member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority

Spanish

Entrepreneurship

• Completed 8 week Reality Check and Keys to Success SBA-funded entrepreneurial courses. • Learned the fundamentals of launching a.