Tricia Clarke-Stone from "Running Russell Simmons" stars in the Oxygen reality docu-series. Tricia ("Running Russell Simmons") grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

"Work hard, play hard!" That's the motto that Tricia Clarke-Stone, the co-president of Russell Simmons' Global Grind, lives by. Tricia ("Running Russell Simmons") has been working hard in traditional and digital media for over a decade. FOLIO recognized her as one of the industry innovators and influencers of 2009.

Tricia Clarke-Stone's media sales career began at Emmis Communications as a radio account executive in New York City. After two years of learning, growing, beating budgets, and expanding her repertoire, Tricia Clarke-Stone hungered for new challenges. Tricia ("Running Russell Simmons") landed a job with Excite@Home, one of the top three Internet portals at the time. At Excite, Tricia Clarke-Stone focused on strategic selling by offering integrated digital solutions to her clients. Tricia Clarke-Stone eventually returned to Emmis Communications to help launch their interactive division. Tricia Clarke-Stone worked with media companies, ad agencies, and brands to create multi-platform campaigns. PUMA, Apple iTunes, FOX Television, Scion, and EA Sports are a few of the companies that have also benefited from Tricia's solid skill set.

When she's not overseeing sales, business development, and marketing for Global Grind, Tricia Clarke-Stone is "playing" hard by partying with friends, cooking, DJing, and doing Pilates. Tricia ("Running Russell Simmons") also enjoys modeling with her twin sister, with whom she launched a chic clothing line called Tac Clothing.

What inspires you to be a stylist? I knew from a very early age that I waned to work in the fashion industry.  A long time ago, I was introduced to a wardrobe styling and costume design class in college and loved it!  I did everything I possibly could to gain experience by interning, fashion shows, networking events, everything anything I possibly could.  I graduated on Wednesday and moved to NYC on the following Friday to pursue a stylist career... Let's just say I was very determined!

She does more before twelve than most media personalities do in a day and she does it well! Multiformat reporter Stephanie Humphrey uses her composed combination of stunning beauty and brilliance, to bring to the industry a new vibrancy for on-air correspondence.  Stephanie has just finished acting in the movie, “The Dark Fields” starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, where she plays a role that comes natural to her, a reporter. She also had a similar credited role in the film “Law Abiding Citizen” starringJamie Foxx.  

Over the past fifteen years, Rita Hazan has established herself as one of the most sought-after colorists in the world, recognized for setting beauty trends and helping to reinvent celebrities with fresh new looks. Hazan has created signature styles for such A-list talent as Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Michelle Williams, Renee Zellweger, and Britney Spears, just to name a few.  Loren's World interviews the queen of color and Jennifer Lopez's hair-confidant. 

Kandi Burruss the 34 year old former Xscape artist is no stranger to the music & entertainment industry.  The songwriter behind TLC's "No Scrubs", Destiny's Child's "The Writing is on the Wall" , "Bills, Bills, Bills" was the first African American to win ASCAP's songwriter of the year award in 2000.  A producing & writing career that has led her to work with some of the best artists in the world like Alicia Keys,  Mariah Carey, Boys II Men, Da Brat, Nsync, Usher, Fantasia, Mya, Joe, Whitney Houston among many others.  Most recently Kandi appeared on Bravo's Hit reality TV series The Real Housewives of Atlanta in where she gives us access to her world from working with artists to the launch of her new album Kandi looks to inspire and empower all women especially single mothers.  With her new album launching this FALL, a new season of Atlanta Housewives in October, a new charity, a lifestyle website, Kandi the talented singer, songwriter, producer, entrepreneur and mom  shows us that that if you can conceive you can make it happen. 

In 1983, Italian native Valeria Campello had just moved to Miami with her husband, whom at the time was an engineer working with a local glass company. Campello, a trained lawyer, admits she had no intentions of being “your typical housewife.” Although being in a foreign country with two young children she still felt the need to keep herself busy with some sort of hobby. Her side job—which started as a distribution company that imported apparel from Italy—grew to a bit more of a full-time gig, which eventually led to the creation of one of the most successful worldwide lingerie companies that exist today: Cosabella. Campello let’s us in on her secret to success; chats about the importance of social marketing; and dishes on her favorite coworker—who happens to be her husband.

Everyone knows behind any powerful family is an even stronger matriarch. And when you’re the woman who, not only, keeps up with the Kardashians, but keeps them together (and sane, sometimes), you must be a pretty extraordinary lady. Our favorite TV mom, manager, wife, entrepreneur (whoa, we need a breath), Kris Jenner takes time out of her busy schedule to talk to us about life in the entertainment industry, balancing, and the definition of success.