Career 180: It all started with tea parties

Tracy Stern (Patrick McMullan) Credit: Tracy Stern (Patrick McMullan)
Tracy Stern is the founder of the philanthropic jewelry design company “Cuffs for a Cause,” which donates roughly 40% of its proceeds to women’s charities. Stern, who is in her early 40s, founded the tea and lifestyle company SALONTEA, an international business that she sold earlier this year. (She remains a partial owner). She lives in Turtle Bay.
One of the cons is having to find suppliers in a new industry, but that challenge will be rewarding when people get to share in helping empowering women’s charities.

'It's personal to me' The law would require businesses to have proper state licensing, prove that their employees are paid and ban staff from living at the spas or sleeping there overnight. Repeat offenders could face penalties up to $25,000. NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn has more.

'It's personal to me' The law would require businesses to have proper state licensing, prove that their employees are paid and ban staff from living at the spas or sleeping there overnight. Repeat offenders could face penalties up to $25,000. NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn has more.



