Tara Crooks, or Household 6″ in the Crooks family, is best known for her ability to motivate and empower others. Tara started her career as a retail manager for Nine West Group, Inc. Recruited by Old Navy (GAP INC), Tara continued to climb the corporate retail ladder with much success! In early 2000, Tara chose to leave retail to pursue completion of her college degree. In returning to classes, she took a full-time position in Human Resources. In late 2000, she and her husband, Kevin, decided to start a family. The team decided, given Kevin s career choice, that Tara would work from home.

Tara began her work from home career in Direct Sales as a Mary Kay representative. She continued to climb the ladder of success, however, she always felt as if something was missing . In 2001, she and her husband welcomed their first baby girl, Wrena. It was with the completion of her Bachelors of Business Administration in Human Resource Management and the birth of her daughter, that Tara decided to break out her entrepreneurial spirit and go for the gold! She opened her first website The Candle Coop in late 2001 and began working with a distributor to sell highly scented apothecary jar candles via the internet and home parties. Tara has since sold The Candle Coop and through a series of unlikely events found her niche .

Through the work she did with work at home moms through The Candle Coop Tara learned that motivating and empowering women was something she was good at doing. She saw a void in the area of moms advertising their businesses online. To fill this void she opened Advertising Moms (www.advertisingmoms.com). In 2004 Tara started doing talk radio interviews with Kelly McCausey owner of http://www.wahmtalkradio.com/. It was Kelly s encouragement and support that led Tara to start a talk radio program for Army Wives.

Army Wife Talk Radio was born in April 2005 as the original internet talk radio program for military wives. The tagline, Our Life, Our Family, Our Soldier, said it all. Tara started the show as a 30 minute weekly internet talk radio broadcast featuring up to date information, tips, and empowerment for Army spouses. The show has had a great amount of success being featured in Military Spouse Magazine, Stars & Stripes Newspaper, Military.com, and Army.com, to name a few. Tara has been featured in the national news circuit on the FOX REPORT and even been called the Oprah of the Armed Forces by CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric.

In 2006 Tara partnered with Star Henderson to publish and self-syndicate Field Problems, a military question and answer column, geared toward empowering spouses by providing real answers to common questions of today s military families.

In July of 2007, during her husband's second Iraq deployment, Tara's family  welcomed their second baby girl, Chloe. "Military life" was happening but that didn't stand in her way to empower and motivate spouses!

Tara s accomplishments include signing on as a Military Mom ClubMom Expert in April 2006.

You can also see and hear Tara bi-weekly as a military family podcast host of Tara s TALE and Advisor on http://www.military.com/.

Tara was a featured blogger on Lifetime Television's series Army Wives.

Tara & Star are former authors of Married To The Military featured in the Military Times.

Tara has spoken at many locations around the United States for military organizations such as Brigade Combat Teams, Family Readiness Groups, and groups of Army leaders. She has also spoken for private organizations including USAA in San Antonio,TX and even produced an online "virtual" keynote for the American Legion Auxiliary.

Tara is, or has served as, an Army Community Service Master Trainer, ACS Volunteer Course Director, Spouse Coffee Group Leader, Army Family Team Building Trainer, Family Readiness Group Leader, and Officers Spouse Club First & Second Vice President among other volunteer projects/duties.

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Note: In late 2006 sold Advertising Moms to none other than Kelly McCausey in order to focus on the military market.