About Jennifer Pate and Barbara Machen
Jennifer Pate, co-author of The Mothers of Reinvention:
Reclaim Your Identity, Unleash Your Potential, Love Your Life,
is the mother of two, Cooper and Lilah, and lives in Los Angeles
with her husband Jonas. After retiring from a professional dance
career that spanned ten years, Jennifer became a casting director
for TV and film, and co-founded Colloff, Fishman, and Britt
Casting. She then went on to her most interesting and challenging
career of all: becoming a stay-at-home mom. Currently, Jen is
the co-creator and co-host of the award winning web series "Jen
and Barb, Mom Life."
Barbara Machen, co-author of The Mothers of Reinvention: Reclaim Your Identity, Unleash Your Potential, Love Your Life, is the mother of twins, India and Soraya, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband of twelve years, Shahrad. Raised by a single mother on government assistance, Barb received a full scholarship to the University of Southern California, graduating with a BA in Communications. By age twenty-five, Barb owned her own marketing company, but after becoming a mother, she quickly learned how it felt to go from a confident woman to a scared and insecure mother. This led her to co-create and co host the award-winning web series "Jen and Barb, Mom Life."
For more information, view Jennifer Pate's Web site.