JoAnn Smart Parker
Business Owner
Beach Hut Mobile Fashion
Boutique
Q: What do you do?
A: I do personal shopping and dressing for professional women who do
not want to walk through the department stores. I keep my bus crampacked with outfits for the women
that I dress. We do trunk shows
and customer appreciation days.
Everything except shoes.
Q: What is your favorite book?
A: Heaven Is For Real
Q: What kind of music are you into?
A: Praise and Worship Music.
Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Q: What’s the most daring thing
you’ve ever done?
A: Buying a bus without knowing
how to drive it.
meet you r spouse?
A: Yes, we met at a church singles
Christmas party.
Q: When you were a child, what did
you want to be when you grew up?
A: A mom.
Q: What do you do to chill?
A: I sit on my deck and watch the
water.
Q: If you could visit any place in the
world, where would you go?
A: Maui.
Q: How did you get into your field?
A: I sold insurance for 25 years.
I have ADD so I don’t like to sit
anywhere for long. My girlfriends
said I was really bossy and opinionated about what they wear so instead
of waiting for people to come in a
store, I figured I would take it out to
them.
Q: Would you recommend your
career for other people?
A: To a few.
Q: If you were to write a book, what
would you call it and what would it
be about?
A: What Not to Wear, and the very
first thing would be beige leggings. I
keep them on the bus, but I only sell
them with outfits that have to have
them.
Q: Who is the one person from history you’d like to meet?
A: George W. Bush.
Q: What accomplishment are you
most proud of?
A: My son.
Q. What’s your favorite hobby?
A: Shopping to decorate my home.
Q: Are you married? How did you
Q: If someone asked you for your
best piece of advice, what would you
say?
A: Let God guide your steps.
Q. What is the one thing that makes
you happy?
A: Seeing other people happy.
Q: What makes you really sad?
A: The world we live in today.
Q: What scares you?
A: I try not to have any fear.
Q: If you could go back in history,
who is the one person you would like
to meet?
A: Jesus, of course.
Q: Who in your life has influenced
you the most? How?
A: My daddy. He has taught me that
it’s good to have a gentle heart and
it’s all right to be emotional because
people will love you for who you are.
Q: What would you most like to be
remembered for?
A: For making people feel good about
themselves.
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Q: What do you do?
A: I help with the day-to-day operations and love on the clients and
customers.
Q: What’s the most daring thing
you’ve ever done?
A: When I was in Kenya, I went spear
hunting for boars with some of the
locals. That was crazy.
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Q: What is your favorite book?
A: Pride and Prejudice
Q: What are some of your favorite
Q: If you were to write a book, what
would you call it and what would it
be about?
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
movies?
A: Star Wars, Spaceballs, Monty
Python and the Holy Grail,
Serendipity.
JANUARY 2016
Venessa Ann Van Winkle
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