Voices of TA-DA!: a family in Provo, Utah

By Michelle Glorieux, Founder and CEO of TA-DA! Language Productions

Meet my dear friend Jennifer Prokhorov whom I met when I moved to Silicon Valley from Europe two years ago.

We hit it off instantly, connecting on many levels - she too being married to a man from another country and language, devoted to espousing its importance to her children.

She had also recently returned to America after calling her husband’s country home for nearly a decade. We both were adapting to reintegration - and the launch of our own companies.

Jennifer is the CEO of Stillpoint, which offers the first of its kind meditation app focused solely on motherhood. Jennifer is the mother of four!

Jennifer has a beautiful voice that guides me when I seek calm, suggesting how we can all take moments for ourselves as breaks from the craziness that is parenthood. It helps me to be more present as a mother. (And more kind to myself.) Now, she has lent her voice (as well as those of three of her four kids) to our forthcoming Talking Dictionary. 

Her family recently moved to the university town of Provo, Utah, just outside of Salt Lake. Her community’s library has a state-of-the-art sound recording studio, which she also happens to use for her app. Score!

It was perfect for our full day of recording. (On a side note, she just so happens to have moved a mere hour drive away from the gorgeous male baritone I met on a routine medical phone call. You can read that wacky story here.)

I deeply admire Jennifer as a successful, 10-ball juggling female entrepreneur. My hope is that by sharing Jennifer’s voice, which is both reassuring and persuasive (and the voices of other women in power in our books), children (especially the little girls reading our books) will receive an important message: 

You are strong. You are powerful. And you are capable of achieving wonderful things. 

Thank you, Jennifer and your lovely family! I love you!

Lights, camera, action!