By Monica Beyer

Nancy Cadjan is the creative lifeforce behind the popular Sign Babies product line, which includes flash cards, board books and a full-length book for parents who are interested in learning to sign with their babies. Nancy lives in Utah with her husband Arthur and her children — Alex is 7 and Anna is 2.

I was able to catch up with Nancy not too long ago and was glad of the opportunity to do so. I have been talking with her since she started the flash cards and as her innovative product line continues to expand I wanted to let everyone get to know her a little better.

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by Emilie de Azevedo Brown

“Rachel Coleman is my best friend, and just happens to be my little sister as well,” jokes Emilie de Azevedo Brown about her 27-year-old sister. Referring to Rachel, Emilie says that “as a child, she was shy and reserved. As a teenager, she was angry and reserved. Then she learned to express herself through her music.” Rachel taught herself to play guitar, began writing music, and started a band called We the Living. She sang some of her original songs with her band in the 1995 NBC Movie of the Week, Spring Fling. Rachel fell in love with music, and later with a tall skier named Aaron.

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