ABMP Member Profile
By Jed Heneberry
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Nineteen years ago, Sveta Yakubovich
left Russia with her husband Simon
(shown at right on their wedding day),
infant son, and $500, to provide a better
future for her children. She was making
$2 a month as a physical education
teacher and massage therapist.
"The place that I
wanted to work in
didn't exist, so I had
to create it." –Sveta Yakubovich
Today, Sveta (far left) employs more than 20 people, including
massage therapists, estheticians, and nail professionals, at Sveta's
Skin & Body Therapy (www.svetas.com) in Wichita, Kansas.
"We're doing real massage for real people," she says, "in a very
professional setting where we care for our clients like family."