In 1980, Kathi Kenner was a pioneer in tele-selling probably the first manufactured cordless phone to hit the market: The Uniden Extend-A-Phone with a 300-ft. range and an A-circuit system. Kathi remembers a manager for an upper Midwest Coast To Coast Hardware store telling her, "Lady, I've never seen a phone without cords or wires, send me one." She did, and he ordered a case, plus accessories. They hit the market like the explosion of Mt. Saint Helens that same year; she could never have imagined what the phone business boom is today. While living in Texas, she telemarketed timeshares for Lake Livingston and Walden on Lake Houston and    worked for a start-up newspaper featuring Greco wrestling. Locally, she sold sports advertising for many speedways nationwide, including Grand Junction Speedway, Grand Junction, Colorado and Quechan Speedway, Yuma, Arizona. She has sold music memberships and DVD's by phone for Sony/Bertelsmann. Kathi's            professional sales background also includes being an insurance representative for a Chicago-based insurance giant and a 16-year career brokering mortgages (with some mortgage banking experience)--until just before the crash. A 9-year hospitality position followed.