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 2005 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 where she is today.

Tara currently owns/co-owns and operates three highly successful websites, http://www.armywifetalkradio.com/, www.LovingASoldier.com  and www.FieldProblems.com.

Army Wife Talk Radio is the original internet talk radio program for military wives. The tagline, Our Life, Our Family, Our Soldier, says it all. Tara does a weekly LIVE! internet talk radio broadcast from the website that features up to date information, tips, and empowerment for Army spouses. Tara has had a great amount of success with AWTR being featured in Military Spouse Magazine, Stars & Stripes Newspaper, Military.com, and Army.com, to name a few. She 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. Tara has partnered with USAA as sponsor of her show.

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. For more information or to submit your Field Problem, visit www.FieldProblems.com. Today Star and Tara travel across the US visiting military locations and delivering their trademark spouse events Field Exercises.

In July of 2007, during her husband's second Iraq deployment, the couple welcomed their second baby girl, Chloe.

Tara’s accomplishments include signing on as a Military Mom ClubMom Expert in April 2006. You can see her on the message boards and read her articles on the ClubMom site.

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's show and articles are also featured on popular military spouse website  www.CinCHouse.com.

Tara is a featured blogger on Lifetime Television's series Army Wives. Her blog entries can be viewed at http://armyposts.lifetimetv.com/. 

As of September 2007, you can find Tara & Star's article Married To The Military  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 Family Team Building Trainer, Family Readiness Group Leader, and Officers Spouse Club Second Vice President among other volunteer projects.

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