Being around Lori Casciani is like jumping on a merry-go-round!  She loves life and loves it even more when she is helping someone.  You will find Lori doing all kinds of charitable work; two groups that are dear to her heart are Special Spaces of Cleveland and any animal rescue group.  As easy as it is for this fun spirit to laugh, it is even easier for her to break into tears, especially when she is helping with a Special Spaces room makeover for a very ill child.

Lori spent 14 years as a very successful consultant for Silpada, the direct sales jewelry company that ended its business model in 2016 of going to market via direct sales.  She shares, “For a year after that, one of my Silpada sisters in Indiana kept telling me to jump on the Monat bandwagon and I kept telling her no-no-no!  Ever persistent, she sent me samples of the anti-aging, naturally-based shampoo and conditioner.  I threw them in my suitcase when I went to visit my twin sister in Charleston.  One day while I was there, I used them and I felt the difference in my hair immediately.  We went on a tour of Charleston that day and I posted a picture of me in some beautiful areas of the city.  I had 60 comments on that post, not about the gorgeous scenery, but about how good my hair looked.  That was an eye-opener.”  Lori had always felt self-conscious about her hair because it was very curly, dry and brittle.  When she was young her mother kept it cut short and as a result, the kids in school called her “Brillo-head.”  She says, “To have someone complimenting my hair was a new thing for me.”  So with that experience, she finally gave in to her friend and became part of the Monat family.  Her goal is to promote to Market Mentor within the company by building a larger team.

Long before the recent movie about Elton John, Lori was calling her husband “Rocketman.”  She shares, “I met him at a party that my then boss convinced me to go to.  My boyfriend had just broken up with me the week before Christmas so he didn’t have to buy me a gift.  There was a whole group including my boss who had rented a house for the New Year’s holiday.  I kept telling her no, that I didn’t want to go. (Do we see a theme here?)  She finally convinced me to go when she told me that she would give me an extra day off.  Most of the group was married, but there were two guys who were single.  All the guys were NASA engineers, so I had no interest in them as they were not my type.  But I have a thing that on New Year’s Eve at midnight, it is a good omen for me to kiss someone. So I went up to one of the engineers and explained what I needed to do and asked if he was willing to help me out.  He agreed and at the stroke of 12, I pecked him quickly.  Michael and I have been together ever since then!  I gave him the nickname Rocketman because of his work at NASA.”
 
A lover of animals, Lori has two fur babies in their family.  Both, of course, are rescues.  Thirteen year old Sydney Boy is a Black Lab mix that still thinks like a young dog.  His sister, Crazy Maisie is only four and Lori is unsure of her heritage. The mom was a white Shepherd and the brothers in the litter looked like Dobermans. But Crazy Maisie doesn’t look like any of them and the only way to describe her is that she is a 45 pound white Shepherd Beagle mix.

Very much connected to family and friends, she and Rocketman, who is part of a family of 9, were leaving to vacation with his family first at Lewiston, NY and then on to the Keuka Lake in the southern tier of New York state.  There, Michael’s sister has a house that sleeps 12.  Lori says that she loves the boating, cooking out, and just hanging out on the dock.  

Lori’s twin sister is three minutes older and has held that over her all their lives.  “We didn’t really get along at all until about 10 years ago.  She is completely different from me. We don’t look alike or act alike in any way.  Now we have a strong bond.”

One thing interesting about Lori is that her parents raised their family on a houseboat at Cleveland Yacht Club for half of each year.  As a result she is a water baby, loving kayaking, watching dolphins and pelicans and anything else near the water.  She wants to have a house on the beach in Charleston.
Being in the presence of Lori Casciani is sort of like being in the path of a friendly gentle tornado.  Lots of stuff swirling around making life a little crazy and a lot fun.  You’ll want to get to know her.