Ventures; a Step in the Right Direction; Consultant Builds Business to Build a Better Life

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When Jennifer Lovitt Riggs stepped off the fast track as a Washington, D.C., consultant, she was aiming to start a new career in comfortable shoes.

Five years later, she's selling her own Nota Bene brand of footwear, and making a comfortable life for her family as well in Whitefish Bay. Riggs, 36, now has two preschool children and an upstart company: Nota Bene shoes, a business that she has taken with her through multiple moves.

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Ventures; a Step in the Right Direction; Consultant Builds Business to Build a Better Life

Thanks to the Internet and offshore sourcing, Riggs is able to oversee her company from an alcove office near the kitchen of her Whitefish Bay home. The shoes are made mostly in Spain and distributed from an Orlando, Fla., warehouse that is run by her stepfather.

"It's not as big a leap as you would think," said Rig...

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