The official bio, short-length:
Nancy J Price co-founded top-10 women’s interest website SheKnows.com in 1999, and now serves as the site’s Executive Editor. In the midst of starting several business and launching several award-winning websites, she also served as the editor-in-chief of two national print magazines. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she now lives in Arizona with her four kids.
The official bio, medium-length:
Nancy J Price began writing and self-publishing when she was 13 years old, and, over the next six years, interviewed musicians from across the globe. After living in England for more than two years, she eventually turned her interest in the music business into a three-year stint at a major-label band management company/MCA-affiliated record label, where she worked through 1997.
After her first child was born in 1994, Nancy also began to focus her writing efforts on the field of pregnancy and parenting. Her articles (on both parenting and music topics) have appeared in publications such as Parents, Parents Expecting, Baby, The San Francisco Chronicle, About.com (where she was one of the first 50 guides and for whom she appeared in TV and print advertising) along with numerous online outlets.
She co-founded Myria Media in 1998 with Betsy Bailey, and the duo created several web sites, including SheKnows.com, ChefMom.com, GeoParent.com (originally InteractiveParent.com), ePregnancy.com (which eventually grew and morphed into PregnancyAndBaby.com) – along with their first site, the award-winning Myria.com, a resource for women who are also mothers.
Price’s web work has been recognized by many major media outlets, including Family PC, Redbook, Town & Country, The Wall Street Journal, Access, NBC’s Home Page (TV show), USA Today, the Los Angeles Times and TIME, among others.
In 2000, Nancy – together with Betsy Bailey – was named founding editor of Pregnancy magazine, and in 2002, Nancy & Betsy were the founding editors-in-chief of ePregnancy magazine (a brand now owned by Toys R Us). The two women have appeared and been interviewed on various radio and TV news programs, Hispanic TV and a variety of other newspapers, trade journals and magazines.
And although their company was founded in 1998, the two company principals did not meet in person until 2002. Until that point, the two communicated exclusively online and by phone. Their unique story led the women to be featured in a 15-minute segment on Paramount’s Life Moments reality program, which was broadcast during daytime sweeps on NBC.
The official bio, extended remix version:
Nancy J Price began writing and self-publishing when she was a 13 year-old crazed Duran Duran fan. Though the subscriber count for her photocopied and stapled fanzines never topped 300, she was hooked on being part of the media.
Though she lacked the prerequisites to take journalism classes in high school, she didn’t consider that any sort of a reason to abandon her passion. Throughout her teens, Nancy tracked down her favorite musical artists — mostly British and Australian acts, including Depeche Mode, The Cure, INXS, Crowded House and UB40 — and photographed and interviewed them for various small fan publications across the US.
At age 18, she met a British rock drummer (she says no, you probably haven’t heard of the band) and a couple months later, jetted to Europe for a visit. Two and a half years and one marriage certificate later, she and her husband sold their flat in the north of England and moved back to the states.
After her first child was born in 1994, Nancy also began to focus her writing efforts on the field of pregnancy and parenting. Her articles (on both parenting and music topics) have appeared in publications such as Parents, Parents Expecting, Baby, The San Francisco Chronicle, About.com (where she was one of the first 50 guides, and for whom she appeared in TV and print advertising) along with numerous online outlets.
While never abandoning the parenting genre, she eventually turned her interest in the music business into a three-year stint at a major-label band management company/MCA-affiliated record label, whose roster featured bands Green Day, Offspring, Rancid, Dance Hall Crashers, Filter and others. Some notable events during this time include sending out tens of demo tapes for a then-unknown band Third Eye Blind, watching her husband’s band play with San Francisco locals Train, and interviewing Radiohead during their OK Computer tour.
Determined to work from home via the now burgeoning internet, she co-founded Myria Media in 1998 with Betsy Bailey, a woman she had met via an online parenting discussion group in 1995.
Although Nancy was in California and Betsy was in rural southern Ohio, the duo collaborated online to create several web sites, including SheKnows.com, ChefMom.com, GeoParent.com (originally InteractiveParent.com), ePregnancy.com (which eventually grew and morphed into PregnancyAndBaby.com) – along with their first site, the award-winning Myria.com, a resource for women who are also mothers. The two built their business with no backing, less than $100 seed money, and while they were both taking care of two daughters.
Price’s web work during this era was recognized by many major media outlets, including Family PC, Redbook, Town & Country, The Wall Street Journal, Access, NBC’s Home Page (TV show), USA Today, the Los Angeles Timesand TIME, among others.
Nancy and Betsy were named founding editors of two national print pregnancy magazines: Pregnancy in 2000, and ePregnancy in 2002. The two women have appeared and been interviewed on various radio and TV news programs, Hispanic TV and a variety of other newspapers, trade journals and magazines.
Although their company was founded in 1998, the two company principals did not meet in person until 2002. Until that point, the two communicated exclusively online and by phone. Their unique story led the women to be featured in a 15-minute segment (which ran during sweeps week in 2003) on Paramount’s Life Moments reality program, which was broadcast on NBC.
Ten years after they booted up their first company, Price admits that life has taken more twists and turns — and landed her further up the food chain — than she ever imagined. She welcomed baby boys in 1999 and 2001, found out her youngest son had autism in 2003, then moved to Arizona in 2004 when the company’s five partners decided to centralize.
More than anything, she’s still excited and inspired by working on SheKnows.com and the other sites in the network. Much of that enthusiasm is fueled by the fact that she’s been able to continue working from home. Now a single mom, such flexibility allows her to be available to her four kids while still managing to put in 60 hour work weeks.
And, as a bonus, Betsy lives just a few miles away.
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