By Shari Downhill Gwen LaShonse is a survivor with style. Opening her front door in a chic business suit and a smile, LaShonse gives no hint of the struggles she has fought to get to the place where she could smile. For others, like LaShonse, health concerns play a pivotal role in their choice.
Some transitions work.
So far, LaShonse has found a way to make it work, turning a personal Internet experience into the seed of an idea that grew into her own online business. LaShonse found her high wire corporate career as an employee broker in the San Francisco Bay area in peril three years ago after being diagnosed with vertigo, a debilitating dizziness which made everyday activity impossible. When the vertigo didn t go away, LaShonse resigned and moved with her husband to Ashland into a house owned by her mother. While her husband found employment, the former professional ballet dancer continued to look for answers to her illness and a way to make a living. Her pirouettes became a dance of desperation.