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Live from Douglas County
'Good Morning America' tapes at The Wildlife Experience
Where do you find a site that depicts Colorado and provides the lighting and electricity required by network television?
In the wee hours of Friday morning, 4 a.m. to be exact, 250 women from the Denver-metro area poured into The Wildlife Experience in Douglas County for the live taping of the "Good Morning America" workplace segment.
By Stephanie Thompson
Where do you find a site that depicts Colorado and provides the lighting and electricity required by network television?
In the wee hours of Friday morning, 4 a.m. to be exact, 250 women from the Denver-metro area poured into The Wildlife Experience in Douglas County for the live taping of the "Good Morning America" workplace segment.
Energy was as prominent as the hour was early.
Tory Johnson, workplace contributor for "Good Morning America," made Denver one of three stops for her "Take Control of Your Life" tour.
"They were looking for a visual representation of Colorado, and one of the cameramen had been here before," said Keith Carlson, communications manager for The Wildlife Experience. "The interior has a lot of native material. It has a Colorado mountain feel to it."
Friday's show featured Milliken resident Skye Starner, who, with the help of Johnson, landed a home-based job.
"The topic of working from home resonates with a lot of our viewers," Johnson said. "We coached her, worked with her and she got the job."
Starner was recently hired has a home-based virtual customer service representative for Alpine Access.
Johnson insists that while she can give individuals tools, they must do the work of getting the job themselves.
Starner's husband works for the railroad and spends up to 16 weeks doing training, leaving her to work and care for the kids by herself.
She's dubbed her situation as a single married parent.
Working from home allows Starner to earn needed income while still being able to care for her three kids, ages 7, 12 and 13.
After a continental breakfast, audience members were ushered into the annex where they piled on a staircase for their first live segment.
Producer Maureen White taught and rehearsed the audience's one line: good morning, America. With the swift raising and waving of both her arms, she signaled the audience to scream.
Hundreds of arms flew and the staircase became a sea of blue "Good Morning America" T-shirts.
"I'm looking to meet other women who are passionate about what they do," said Cindi Culkin, executive board member of Slumber Parties and resident of Highlands Ranch. "When you own your own business, you can't network as well."
After the taping, Johnson took individual questions from the audience for about 30 minutes.
"Usually I'm not up early enough for 'Good Morning America,' but I started taping Tory Johnson because it's really positive," said Elena Sinnemaki of Monument. "We're all just a bunch of positive moms."
Alinder Harden of Centennial calls watching morning news her ritual and has TV in her bathroom.
"I was up at 2 a.m. because I was scared to sleep past my alarm," she said. "I used to watch when I was getting dressed in the morning, so I thought, 'wouldn't this be fun?'"
Contact Stephanie Thompson at 303-566-4113 or sthompson@ccnewspapers.com.
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