Flight Club: Recent Episodes
Hera Hub
The Flight Club podcast gives you a behind-the-scenes look at female entrepreneurship. We focus on sharing backstories of amazing women as they found their "lean out" moment and bravely launched their business. The show is hosted by Felena Hanson, founder of Hera Hub and author of the book "Flight Club". Hera Hub is a shared, flexible work and meeting space where entrepreneurial women can create and collaborate in a professional, productive, spa-like environment. The platform provides its members with connections to other business experts, access to educational workshops, and visibility within the community…thus giving them the support they need to be prosperous. www.HeraHub.com
Lynette Correa-Velez, M.Ed., is the Founder and CEO of Pagame Project, an AI/H.I.-powered CareerDevTech platform based in Chicago focused on closing the women’s wage gap. With over 20 years of experience as a Critical Career Coach, she brings a DEIAJ-centered lens to supporting professionals across industries. Lynette has received 18 awards for her advocacy work, including being named a 2024 “Latina to Watch” by ALPFA National, and is actively involved with organizations such as ALPFA, Techqueria, and Latinas in Tech. She holds a B.S. in Business and HR Management from Lesley University and an M.Ed. in e-Learning and HRD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she also completed doctoral coursework in DEI in Education.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lcorreavelez
Website: www.PagameProject.com
Erin Giglia co-owns and founded Montage Legal Group, a nationwide freelance attorney company comprised of over 450 exceptionally trained freelance lawyers who handle substantive legal projects for law firms. Erin has been an attorney since 2001, but opted out of traditional legal practice in 2009 to create a flexible alternative for lawyers seeking career balance. Erin and Montage serve the community through philanthropic efforts, and were named the National Philanthropy Day Small Business of the Year in 2017 for their charitable leadership. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of WISEPlace, and the University of San Diego School of Law Alumni Board.
Instagram: @montagelegal
Facebook: http://facebook.com/montagelegal
Website: montagelegal.com
Kimia Talebian is the founder of Amara Insights, an AI-powered platform redefining what we expect from analytic and research software. With a passion for using technology to help operators, she is building a platform that proposes the types of analysis and research to run, does the work and uncovers the insights. When she’s not working on her startup, Kimia enjoys doing yoga and hosting group dinners to create meaningful connections with people in her community.
Kelly is an executive coach, team coach and strategic consultant, specializing in supporting employee-owned companies. She founded Elevate Coaching & Consulting to help transform organizational cultures by developing senior leaders who cultivate strength-based, human-centric environments where both individuals and businesses thrive.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kellywchewning
Website: Elevate Coaching & Consulting
Kim is a sales coach who unsticks small business owners so they can sell their services comfortably and authentically without pressure, gimmicks, or compromise. She doesn’t teach a hard to remember system but focuses on developing the right kinds of questions for natural sales conversations that come from a place of service. Kim drills sales skills with you, just like your childhood soccer coach, so that you can help more people and earn more money.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kim-fredrich
Books: If You Can Have a Conversation, You Can Sell: The Consultant’s Guide to Career Advancement
Sarah Mariano, known as The Stretch Therapist, is the founder of The Stretch Therapists Inc. and creator of the Performance Stretch System, a certification program with over 600 members worldwide. As a sought-after mobility expert, she has worked with high-profile clients, including Drake, Will Smith, and elite NFL and NBA athletes. Sarah’s mission is to help fitness and wellness professionals stand out, attract dream clients, and build thriving businesses on their own terms. Embracing a nomadic lifestyle, she runs her company remotely while traveling the world with her partner, Derrick.
Website: www.thestretchtherapists.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/thestretchtherapist
Brenda-Lee Smith, BSN, CSA, CDP, CADDT, empowers San Diego seniors through Oasis Senior Advisors, offering personalized aging services. With a Bachelor of Science in Nursing focused on mental health care, she utilizes her extensive network to provide sustainable support solutions.
Brenda-Lee’s personal relationships with clients ensure respectful life transitions. An expert in creative problem-solving, intuition, and communication, she excels in client satisfaction. A confident public speaker, she shares her expertise as a compassionate leader in senior care.
Website: www.oasissenioradvisors.com/local-advisors/coastal-san-diego
Social media handles: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-lee-smith Facebook: www.facebook.com/OasisSanDiego
Deanna Ratnikova loves to get out and about with her friends and family. She believes time spent outdoors leads to a happier, healthier life. Deanna created The GO Deck to help people connect with one another, outdoors and on the go.
Website: thegodeck.com
Social media handles: Instagram: @TheGODeck Facebook: The GO Deck
Krystal Gillis, the founder and CEO of Tighties™ functional activewear, is a seasoned entrepreneur and business leader. Krystal’s career trajectory has been a dynamic blend of entrepreneurial ventures and corporate experience from sales for a large payroll company to founding her first business in payroll software at the young age of 24. After successfully building and eventually selling her first venture, she transitioned to corporate roles in the medical devices sector, contributing her skills at Abbott and Stryker. In 2017, seeking a balance, she took on a consulting role, overseeing the launch of five companies, three products and a foundation before the inception of Tighties in 2022 during her work on a product launch for an orthopedic company in San Diego.
As the driving force behind Tighties, Krystal is deeply involved in every aspect of the business from product development and project management to overseeing finances, sales and pipeline management. With a strong focus on injury prevention and longevity, she created Tighties for anyone committed to an active lifestyle.
Despite the challenges, Krystal finds gratification in the small wins that accumulate to move mountains. Her favorite aspect of the job lies in the daily decisions that contribute to the company’s success. A firm believer in the adage “A rising tide lifts all boats,” Krystal brings not only her expertise but also a compassionate and visionary approach to the business landscape.
With a strong educational foundation, Krystal earned her Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She currently resides in San Diego, California.
Website: www.tighties.com Instagram: @gotighties
Renee Zau is the Co-founder and CEO of DonationMatch, a platform that has revolutionized how ticketed attractions and businesses–such as Six Flags Parks, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, and Hera Hub–manage donation requests. Since its founding in 2010, DonationMatch has streamlined the process and reduced administrative burdens for both nonprofits and donor companies. Renee’s innovative system saves businesses hundreds of labor hours annually while amplifying their marketing visibility. Her commitment to charity fraud prevention through rigorous validation has made DonationMatch a trusted leader in secure, impactful giving.
Website: www.donationmatch.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/reneezau LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/donationmatch Facebook: www.facebook.com/donationmatch Instagram: www.instagram.com/donationmatch
Amrita Khanna is the founder of Humaara, a pre-launch e-commerce brand that is on a mission to help the Indian diaspora in the US seamlessly weave pieces of our rich culture into everyday American lifestyle.
Amrita has 10 years of experience working for industry-leading e-commerce and digital marketing corporations where she honed her expertise in scaling brands and optimizing digital ecosystems.
Now she’s excited to leverage those skills to build her own business. She’s driven by a belief in the power of community, especially the collective strength of ambitious women.
Website: www.humaara.com Instagram: @humaaraofficial
Amanda Black is the heart and soul behind The Solo Female Traveler Network and Kindred Community, two ventures born from her deep love for adventure and empowering women to travel solo. She created The Solo Female Traveler Network to be more than just a community— she offers incredible multi-day tours to countries perceived as less safe for solo female travelers. These tours are where her 550k+ community of solo traveling women meet in real life and find inspiration, share stories, and connect. Through Kindred, Amanda curates Weekend Away, relaxed experiences that are all about mking real friends in adulthood. 99% of women who join both The Solo Female Traveler Network and Kindred come solo and leave with lifelong friends. Amanda is driven by a belief in the power of women supporting one another, and she inspires women to step outside their comfort zones, connect with the world, and find joy in every adventure.
Website: kindredcommunity.co Instagram: @kindred.sd
Vesna Rysdale is the Founder and CEO of Nourished Alive, Health and Nutrition Coaching Company for Health Conscious and high performers. Vesna is a Certified Integrative Nutrition and Health Coach, Certified Hormone Health Coach and currently getting her Certificate in Gut Health.
At the pinnacle of her corporate career, she left the pharma industry to pursue health and nutrition coaching for individuals and corporations.
Before founding Nourished Alive, Vesna spent 23 years working in the life sciences industry, working on cancer drugs, rare disease treatments, and even COVID vaccines, and had a wake-up moment, realizing, although medicine can save lives, so can the food.
As an integrative health and nutrition coach, she now practices a holistic approach, helping clients discover what intuitively nourishes them on and off the plate. She and her family have been plant-based for the last 10 years, and in her spare time she enjoys surfing, hiking, gardening, she’s a mom and a wife and a community advocate; her passion is in women’s health and helping women make sense of their health and life after 40s.
Website: www.nourished-alive.com
Social media handles: Instagram: www.instagram.com/vesnarysdale LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/vesna-rysdale
Monti Pace has a specialty in implementing systems that foster stable growth to help you through your business’s growing pains. With a background in administration, coordination, and project management, she leverages her expertise to create customized “minimum viable systems” that enable clients to focus on high-impact goals and achieve them with ease. Monti enjoys spending time with her niece and nephew and going to Orioles baseball games. Her partner is an Executive Chef, and they bought their first house just outside of Baltimore, MD where they currently live.
Website: www.twopointohenterprises.com
Social media handles: Instagram: @monti.pace and @twopointohllc Twitter: @montipace LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/montgomerypace
Deanne is founder and CEO of Emerge Positive, a mindset company helping individuals shift their mindset and improve their life. Working with both corporations and individuals alike, Deanne is introducing the importance and impact of mindset.
She created Connect by Emerge Positive, a cloud-based SaaS service designed to enhance workplace productivity and well-being through personalized daily motivational content.
With extensive corporate and leadership experience within the Fortune 500, Deanne offers a unique perspective to companies and individuals looking to elevate their career and life.
Website: emergepositive.com
Social media handles: Facebook: www.facebook.com/emergepositive Instagram: www.instagram.com/emergepositive LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/deanneclewis
Fran Maier is a serial entrepreneur and Super Founder with over 25 years of experience building and scaling disruptive B2C and B2B internet businesses. She is the founder and CEO of BabyQuip, the #1 baby gear rental service worldwide, and co-founder of Match.com, as well as the founder of TRUSTe (now TrustArc). A trailblazing Latina business leader, Fran is recognized for her leadership in family travel, privacy tech, and the gig economy, with extensive media coverage and numerous accolades celebrating her influence in the tech industry and female entrepreneurship.
Website: www.babyquip.com
Social media handles: www.linkedin.com/company/babyquip www.linkedin.com/in/franmaier www.instagram.com/babyquip
Lindsay is an attorney and the founder of Lindsay Lieberman LLC, a legal services and consulting firm specializing in cyber sexual abuse, sexual violence and domestic violence prevention and response.
The firm provides direct legal services to victims and survivors in family court, criminal proceedings, and civil court, and offers proactive and preventative resources for schools, parent groups, and law enforcement.
Website: lindsaylieberman.com
Social media handles: Instagram – @LindsayLiebermanEsq LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-lieberman-cyber-sexual-abuse-attorney
Whitney McFadden turns no’s into yeses when doctors say “I don’t know” and “your labs are fine” but you still feel like your body is betraying you, and you don’t have control over how you feel.
She is a holistic psychiatrist and neuroscientist who brings hormone health, nervous system science, and medical science together to uncover new levels of health for people who didn’t think it was possible feel better. Your mind and body will thank you for listening.
Website: www.willowmindhealth.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/whitneymcfaddenmd
Gema Lynn Almilli is a certified Growth Strategist with over 15 years of digital marketing experience. Coming from an entrepreneurial family, Gema understands the struggles business owners face when trying to scale.
Through her powerful 90 Day Leap process, she helps businesses hit specific revenue growth targets with clarity and focused strategy. Her warm and professional approach has benefited national brands and local service-based firms alike, providing leaders with the peace of mind to reach their full potential.
Website: gemalynn.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gemalynn
Amanda Hennessey is a public speaking coach, here to help self-doubting experts approach public speaking from a place of service and passion, rather than from fear, ego, a need for approval (or thinking that seeing your audience in their underwear is a good idea).
She is the author of Your Guide to Public Speaking and the CEO and Founder of San Diego Public Speaking, Boston Public Speaking, and Co-Founder of San Diego Acting Classes. Whether she is working with clients one-on-one who are over playing small or teams who need courage and practical skills, Amanda loves helping her clients take up more space.
Website: www.sandiegopublicspeaking.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/amandahennessey Instagram: @amandaghennessey
Sabine Gedeon is a dynamic force in the world of leadership and personal development. As the Founder of Transformed Leadership Institute and CEO of Gedeon Enterprises, Sabine leverages nearly 20 years of experience to guide clients in both startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Her unique approach combines human-centered principles with tech-enabled solutions, delivering customized programs for leaders at all levels to tackle crucial leadership and talent development challenges.
Website: sabinegedeon.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/in/sabinegedeon Instagram – www.instagram.com/sabinegedeon Facebook – www.facebook.com/SabineGedeonCoaching
Maria is a collector of life experiences. She is a natural storyteller and uses those skills to help businesses and individuals craft their own stories. As a mom, marketer and mentor, she’s spent her life advocating for others.
Website: www.mariahealey.com Instagram: @mariahealeywrites
Svetlana was a K-3 classroom teacher for ten years before receiving a Masters in Literacy Leadership at San Diego State University. She served as a K-8 Reading Specialist for five years in California and Maryland. The results of her 2022 dissertation titled “Teacher Knowledge and Beliefs Regarding Sight Word Development” continues to inspire much of her current work. Her research focus includes dyslexia, RAN, and reading fluency. Svetlana works as a private educational consultant and as a literacy remediation specialist for clients of all ages with varying learning differences.
Website: www.encodingliteracy.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/svetlana-cvetkovic-phd-1a161b301
Jazmin’s goal is to help women achieve their highest potential, allowing them more time to enjoy the luxuries of life like travel, good food, friends, and wine. As an ex-corporate professional turned multi-passionate entrepreneur, she has helped several brands grow and scale beyond six and seven figures.
A networking queen, Jazmin knows the importance of her community and treats them like fine wine, offering nothing but top-notch customer service. Her mission is to make everyday life easier so others can live in their zone of brilliance.
When Jazmin isn’t helping others achieve top-level success, she’s helping women see the world with her other company, FeMAVEN Getaways – a modern girl’s getaway.
Websites: jazmincornejo.com www.femavengetaways.com/
Instagram handles: @femaven.getaways @jazminmcornejo
Michelle Maiello is the founder of Moonwood Marketing, renowned for her visionary creative skills and passionate leadership. Her career began with the House of Blues and extended to global giants like Johnson & Johnson and McKesson. With a diverse background in high-value event planning and digital marketing strategy, Michelle delivers successful marketing solutions across the Biotechnology, Medical Device, Technology, Tourism, and Professional Sports industries.
Website: www.moonwoodmarketing.com Instagram: @moonwoodmarketing Facebook: Moonwood Marketing LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-maiello-8b4a2161
Katie works with individuals facing chronic illness and pain challenges to reclaim their identity and thrive beyond survival mode.
Specializing in guiding people through transformative journeys, she helps you rediscover yourself and re-engage in life outside of your condition. She is deeply dedicated to helping you redefine success, bring your chronic illness back into harmony with the rest of your life, and stop fighting against your body every day.
Through her podcast, “My Chronic Illness and Me,” she also holds space for insightful conversations with people dealing with chronic illness and pain in order to offer support and foster a sense of community amidst what is often an incredibly isolating experience.
Website: www.reviveandthrivecoach.com Instagram: @reviveandthrivecoaching LinkedIn: Revive and Thrive Coaching
Kara is the founder of Connect For Success, an award-winning mastermind community (NAWBO Woman Advocate of the Year 2017).
Connect for Success exists to serve and support business women with a unique, signature mastermind concept coupled with mastermind retreats where entrepreneurs problem solve, expand ideas, create accountability, and act as a sounding board for one another; all with the goal to gain clarity, increase revenue and create the success they desire and deserve. Connect For Success just celebrated 10-years, although Kara has been an entrepreneur for over 26 years.
Kara’s got East-Coast roots and the work ethic to match, but living in SoCal for half her life, she definitely has a West Coast vibe!
Website: connectforsuccessonline.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/karahorat
Randi Halaway is a Self love and Business Coach for women who are READY to step into their highest level of mastery and claim more freedom, abundance, and fulfillment in their lives.
She has been a successful entrepreneur since 2001 and is grateful for the vast array of experiences that have shaped her into who she is today. Her background includes a successful, 17 year career as a hairstylist, owning and managing a salon in Downtown San Diego for over 5 years, which she sold in 2017.
Since 2016, Randi has been coaching and supporting women like you to create and implement key strategies and organization within their businesses and their lives. She is here to help you remember who you truly are, by breaking through the limiting beliefs and blocks that keep you playing small, and to help you claim your power.
She is on a mission to help you LOVE yourself fully.
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Kate Vendemio is a workplace learning consultant, speaker, small business owner, and certified Project Management Professional based in the Washington, D.C. area. With two decades of experience, she has evolved into a trusted trainer, facilitator, and workplace feedback guru.
As the Founder and CEO of Mt. Vernon Consulting, Kate expertly tailors training programs that empower organizations to maximize their employees’ potential. She draws from her extensive expertise from collaborations with numerous federal government agencies, small businesses, and associations across diverse sectors, including commercial real estate, finance, health and science, emergency management, and economic development.
Website: www.mtvernonconsulting.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/katevendemio Instagram: @mt.vernonconsulting YouTube: @mtvernonconsulting
Renee Dominguez is a best-selling author and top-rated empowerment coach with over two decades of experience, dedicated to helping female founders fast-track their business success with ease. Through her intuitive business strategies and robust leadership training, she dramatically transforms mindsets, enabling women to scale their businesses and achieve their goals in record time.
Leading year-long masterminds, hosting transformative retreats, and conducting impactful quarterly workshops, she creates a global impact, empowering women to unlock profound personal and professional growth.
Website: empoweredleadhership.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/empoweredcoach Instagram: www.instagram.com/empoweredcoach
Sam Fallon is a marketing consultant for purpose-driven businesses, providing marketing strategy, brand positioning, fractional leadership, and communications support. In particular, she specializes in helping clients develop a sustainability strategy to better engage conscious consumers, developing both the external narrative and the internal business practices to substantiate it. She’s spent her career at the intersection of business and social impact, leveraging storytelling and authentic communications to meet and exceed revenue objectives across industries from clean tech to environmental conservation to non-profit media.
Website: www.hawkheronmarketing.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sdfallon
Dr. Debi Silber is the founder of the PBT (Post Betrayal Transformation) Institute and is a holistic psychologist, a health, mindset and personal development expert, and is a 2-time #1 International bestselling author. Her podcast: From Betrayal to Breakthrough is also globally ranked within the top 1.5% of podcasts. Her recent PhD study on how we experience betrayal made 3 groundbreaking discoveries that changes how long it takes to heal. In addition to being on FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz Show, TEDx (twice) and more, she’s an award-winning speaker and coach dedicated to helping people move past their betrayals as well as any other blocks preventing them from the health, work, relationships, confidence, and happiness they want most. Dr. Debi is also a WBENC-Certified WBE (Women’s Business Enterprise) and the founder of National Forgiveness Day, celebrated annually on September 1st.
Website: thepbtinstitute.com
Social media handles: The latest TEDx: “Do You Have Post Betrayal Syndrome?“: youtu.be/iyqOR69dHiU TEDx: Stop Sabotaging Yourself: youtu.be/XX30i6nC7ro The From Betrayal to Breakthrough podcast: thepbtinstitute.com/podcast TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@debisilber Facebook: www.facebook.com/InspireEmpowerTransform Twitter: twitter.com/DebiSilber Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/debisilber Instagram: www.instagram.com/debisilber Youtube: www.youtube.com/debisilber
Gayani R. Weerasinghe is a business law and intellectual property (IP) attorney with her own firm. Her practice supports entrepreneurs and businesses, helping them with their transactional needs, including legal strategy, setting up a business or partnership, filing trademarks, IP licensing, IP due diligence, and offering part-time in-house counsel services. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Stars from 2020-2023 and is the former co-editor of the San Diego Lawyer Magazine.
Website: lawgrw.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gayaniw Youtube: www.youtube.com/inventivemind
Lisa Harris (pen name: JaLind Rossetti) is an international bestselling author who writes romance novels that give a voice to women over 50. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and Southern California Romance Writers groups. A group fitness instructor and registered dietitian, Lisa self-published a fitness book in 2018.
Website: jalindrossetti.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-harris-author-speaker
Beatriz Cabrera is an architect originating from Mexico, known for founding The Beauty Tea Company and Archmony Design. Her work reflects her deep-seated passion for aesthetics and creativity, which she infuses into every project she handles. Apart from her professional accomplishments, Beatriz is a devoted mother to her daughter, Vivienne.
Her time outside of work is often spent engaging in outdoor sports, with a particular fondness for golf. Having resided in San Diego for over a decade, she has developed a profound appreciation for the city’s picturesque landscape.
Beatriz’s interests extend beyond her immediate surroundings; she harbors a zest for travel, exploring new destinations, and relishing the pleasures of exquisite food and delightful company.
Website: thebeautyteacompany.com
Social media handles: Instagram: @thebeautyteaco Facebook: The Beauty Tea Company
Robyn Eidelson is on a mission to help ambitious leaders understand their leadership style so they can lead better. She is a certified Executive and Leadership Coach who uses her MBA from UC Berkeley and years of leadership development work to help her clients let go of unhelpful mindsets so they can be the leaders they’re meant to be. You can find her spending time with her family or reading a good fantasy novel in her home in San Diego, California.
Website: www.robyneidelsoncoaching.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/robyn-eidelson
Nancy’s journey as a freelance event professional spans her entire career. Fifteen years ago, she took the entrepreneurial leap and established Tempo Live Events, initially booking freelancers for shows as a part-time endeavor. However, the unexpected challenges posed by the pandemic transformed her sideline venture into a flourishing enterprise, providing essential support to event agencies and independent contractors worldwide.
Website: TempoLiveEvents.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tempoliveevents Facebook: www.facebook.com/TempoLiveEvents
Nikkie Achartz, CEO of SNAP Savvy Strategies, is a well-known Business Growth Strategist, and Speaker/Trainer who has extensive experience in behavioral profiling, sales psychology and trauma informed business practices. She is a pricing & profitability consultant who has supported business owners in finding the gaps, fixing the leaks and filling their sales pipelines for over 16 yrs.
Website: snapsavvystrategies.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nikkieachartz Instagram: www.instagram.com/snapsavvypro Facebook: www.facebook.com/nikkie.dupre.achartz
A holistic nutritionist and stress strategist, Mia created the Well Fed Warrior System to help leaders and their families live healthy lives. Mia is a member of the International Sport Science Association and has her master’s in holistic nutrition allowing her to customize nutrition plans and protocols. She is the host of the Divine Nourishments Podcast and believes each person deserves to know how to equip their mind and fuel their body for success in business and life.
Website: firewavewellness.com
Social media handles: Instagram – @microbiomemia LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/in/wellfedwarrior Youtube – @miacloya
For over 35 years, Debra has been a life coach who specializes in easeful life transitions and nonfiction book development. She is a four-time and bestselling author. Debra is the Faculty Lead for the Transformational Coaching School at the College of Holistic Healing. Her greatest joy is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives to fully express their gifts and talents.
Website: www.creativing.info
Social media handles:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/debra-valentina-6510164 Facebook: www.facebook.com/debra.valentina
Rachel is a former psychotherapist turned Soul Medic — she helps high performers out of their secret messes resulting from overwhelm, anxiety, perfectionism, and people-pleasing. She has written three books–on planning for Difficult Conversations, on taming the Inner Critic, and a manual on using EFT tapping for stress relief. She also teaches a group program, Soul School, helping students build self-trust as the antidote to anxiety.
Website: rachelalexandria.com
Social media handles: Facebook: @RachelRoseAlexandria Instagram: @RachelRAlexandria LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rachelalexandria
Meet Katie, a 15-year advocate for holistic health and transformative wellness. In 2018, she introduced “DryNamics,” a highly effective body-centered sobriety method, addressing the full-body experience of craving. Using temporary sobriety, Katie guides individuals in healing the maladaptive physical responses of their nervous system. When we are more in alignment with our internal state, we have more confidence in our decisions, we take bigger risks and live better.
Website: www.deeplinehealth.com/2024
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/katie-tomaszewski-77994217b
Sarah Savoca is a Mental Skills Coach who guides high-performing athletes to heal mindset blocks and excel during and beyond sport. Sarah is a Master Coach & Trainer of Neruo-Linguistic Programming who specializes in connecting with the subconscious mind to create real change. Sarah believes that it is not necessarily what’s going on on the court, track, field, etc. that determines an athlete’s success; it’s what’s going on in between their ears.
Website: thesavocaco@gmail.com
Social media handles: Instagram – @coachsarahsavoca Facebook – www.facebook.com/ssavoca14 LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/in/sarahsavoca
Alev Bakan is a certified Health and Nutrition coach and founder of Health&Co.
She believes that being healthy is a personal journey and cannot be limited to copycat diets and standard approaches.
She helps working women create their road map to a healthy life by listening to themselves, understanding their needs, and adjusting to changes while enjoying their lives.
Website: www.healthandco.com
Social media handles: Instagram: @healthandcousa LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alevertekbakan Facebook: www.facebook.com/healthandcompanies
Erika Rodriguez is the Founder & CEO of Nadi Marketing, Tidal Pages, and The Ecosystem.
She is a marketing consultant helping conscious small- and medium-sized businesses with content strategy and partnership marketing. Erika started Nadi Marketing in May 2020 to create strategies for business owners who were doing good for people and the planet.
What started as a small business has organically grown into an ecosystem of brands centered around conscious community and sustainable impact.
Tidal Pages is a B2B online directory helping businesses find socially and environmentally responsible vendors. The Ecosystem is an online community for conscious businesses to find resources, opportunities, and community.
Websites: nadimarketing.com www.tidalpages.com www.theecosystemcircle.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn (Nadi Marketing): www.linkedin.com/company/nadi-marketing Instagram: www.instagram.com/nadi_marketing
LinkedIn (Tidal Pages): www.linkedin.com/company/tidal-pages Instagram: www.instagram.com/tidal_pages
LinkedIn (The Ecosystem): www.linkedin.com/company/the-ecosystem-circle Instagram: www.instagram.com/the.ecosystem.circle
Dr. Scarlett is an Integrative Women’s Health and autoimmune disease specialist with over 13 years of experience.
Dr. Scarlett has had the privilege of helping thousands of women integrating the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine including TCM Gynecology and Reproductive Health, and Functional Medicine.
She’s a licensed Primary Care Provider in CA, Acupuncturist and Herbalist certified by the California Acupuncture Board, as well as by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture, and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).
Website: www.RedLotusWellnessCenter.com
Social media handles: Facebook: www.facebook.com/RedLotusWellnessAcupuncture Instagram: @redlotuswellnesscenter LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/red-lotus-wellness-center
Alex Suchman is cofounder and CEO of Barometer XP, a company that drives real behavior and culture change through games and play.
After a decade of experience working in operations and organizational development, Alex realized that building stronger emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills are key to organizational success. She noticed a gap in the industry for solutions that bridge the knowledge-to-action gap, and discovered game-based experiential learning for teams as an effective tool.
Prior to BXP, Alex founded AIS Collaborations, a consulting firm that helped small organizations through simple systems, stronger organizing techniques, and better planning
Website: www.barometerxp.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrasuchman Instagram: @alexbxpteams, @barometerxp
Katie Green is a neurodivergent mental health coach/consultant, committed to teaching neurodivergent women how to create a life they do not need to escape from. In this context, neurodivergent means women that are Autistic, have ADD/ADHD, sensory support needs, or learning/communication differences. Katie utilizes her extensive psychology education, lived experiences as an autistic woman, and clinical experience as an addiction counselor to equip women to live in a way that honors their brain. Katie strives to empower people and businesses in their journey to celebrate every aspect of neurodivergence without fear of social penalty.
Website: www.hopereignitedconsulting.com
Instagram: @Redesigned_mind
Originally from Venezuela, Ana Karina Da Silva is an award-winning advertising Associate Creative Director based in Chicago. After 11+ years of working for 500 top Fortune brands and 30+ awards in creativity, and making her dream come true of winning a Cannes Award for her idea, Ana Karina decided to write and illustrate Emma’s Dream, a bilingual book that encourages kids to follow their dreams. Ana toured her book in Europe, México, and Chicago by reading, singing, and interacting with kids about their passions, proving that story time can be a powerful tool for their self-esteem and development.
Website: www.anakarinawrites.com
Instagram: @anakarinaexists
Natalia Malko is a fashion designer, who founded the adaptive clothing brands for kids with disabilities called be easy kid, and she was inspired by her daughter with cerebral palsy.
Website: http://en.beeasykid.com
Social media handles:
Instagram: @be_easy_kid
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-malko-20615442
Kimberly Hall’s appreciation of spirits and a great cocktail escalated during the pandemic. The free time to explore new brands and ingredients kicked off a whole new journey that even she didn’t see coming.
After more than 20 years in communications on campaigns and advocacy, a spirits business was not top of her list possible career paths. But after experiencing the challenges in being able to access and purchase Black-owned spirit brands with confidence she started Sip+Tipple, the membership club for Black-owned spirit enthusiasts.
Sip+Tipple is a community of members interested in exploring flavor profiles – understanding what they like and why – and want an easy and convenient to find and purchase Black-owned brands.
Website: www.SipandTipple.com
Instagram: @SipandTippleClub
Shanna Diep is the CEO and founder of SLD Services. Shanna served in the USMC for 21 years active and reserve time and started SLD in 2015. SLD Services contracts tactical and medical equipment for the DOD.
Website: Sldservicesllc.com
Instagram: @sldservices
Theresa Rose is a Brand and Business Crystallizer, Strategic Co-Creator, and Certified Speaking Professional who works with experts and their businesses to create one-of-a-kind visual brands they can draw on a cocktail napkin. Using her Crystallization Process, Theresa helps thought leaders Clarify, Amplify, and Monetize their Brilliance as efficiently — and lucratively — as possible.
Website: www.theresarose.com
Social media handles:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/theresarosepresents
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheresaRosePresents
Instagram: @theresarosepresents
YouTube: www.youtube.com/theresarosetv
Mel McSherry (She/They) is an International Business & Life Guide, Speaker, Author and Podcast Host. She works with inspired Entrepreneurs who are exhausted and overwhelmed by what they think they need to do in order to be successful. She helps them to honor their lives and be the architect of their success through Human Design in partnership with traditional business development frameworks.
As an entrepreneur since 2010, Mel has launched two successful businesses, published two books, launched a successful podcast and created a true life by design, all while raising an 11 year old son. She has worked with thousands of people helping them connect to how they are designed to work, get crystal clear on what they want and prioritizing their time as well as their energy so they can create the success they desire while being profitable mentally, emotionally and financially every day!
Website: www.melmcsherry.com
Social media handles:
- Instagram: @mel_mcsherry
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/melmcsherry
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/MelMcSherry
Chrissa Pagitsas is a sough-after public speaker and strategic advisor to senior executives on the intersection of sustainability, environmental, social, governance (ESG) and global business. Ms. Pagitsas is the author of the book “Chief Sustainability Officers at Work” (Apress, 2022) which explores the leadership strategies of Chief Sustainability Officers at Fortune 500 companies including Coca-Cola, Cognizant, DBS, Duke Energy, IKEA, Owens Corning, Procter & Gamble.
Recognized as a “Green Bond Champion” by the Climate Bonds Initiative and a recipient of the US Green Building Council Leadership Award, Ms. Pagitsas is responsible for market-transforming innovations including the first Green Commercial MBS in the US and the US EPA ENERGY STAR® 1 to 100 Score and Certification for Existing Multifamily. As the first Vice President of ESG at Fannie Mae and Head of the Green Financing Business, Ms. Pagitsas launched the company’s Enterprise ESG Strategy and issued over $51 billion in Green Bonds.
Website: www.pagitsasadvisors.com
LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/in/chrissa-pagitsas
Emily has spent the last 14 years helping businesses build legacy brands. From big names including Abercrombie & Fitch & The Wendy’s Company to small business & start-ups, her expertise includes Strategist, Brand Manager, Creative Director & UX Designer. Now she helps entrepreneurs build long-lasting brands, deeply rooted in who you are, designed to attract the clients you want.
Website: electriccollab.com
Instagram: @heyemilypaulsen
Theresa Wells, a native San Diegan, has a great passion for helping others. She is an Integrative Health & Wellness Coach that practices alternative healing, holistic health and whole person approach in the health and fitness industry.
She does not believe in cookie cutter, quick fix gimmicks and is highly vocal about it. She is an effective, results producing leader.
Website: www.toneathomefitness.com
Social media handles: Facebook: www.facebook.com/TWELLS1913 Facebook: www.facebook.com/CoachTheresaWells Instagram: @coachtheresawells (Integrative health & wellness- self care, mental & physical health, nutrition) Instagram: @sportyspicewells (Distance running, lifestyle, and marathon training tips with daily motivation)
Without profit, business is just an expensive hobby. Sam Varner, founder of She Collective is on a mission to show business owners just how they can live full and robust lives while building massively profitable businesses. Using her CRUSH formula, Sam takes her 15+years of experience in public relations, sales and business development to teach driven entrepreneurs how to create wealth through business ownership.
Website: crushprofitcoaching.com
Instagram: @samtheprofitcoach
Jessica Porté MA, is a mom, wife, and the founder of Wayfinder Family Co., a coaching and consulting agency that supports families and organizations navigate grief, loss, and change. She has over 12 years of experience in nonprofits, working with family systems facing challenges related to grief, addiction, and other forms of loss that impact families and communities.
Jessica has experience in management, group facilitation, crisis intervention, professional trainings, bereavement camp leadership and development, and developing community and school programming. She is a member of the National Alliance for Children Grieving, International Coaching Federation and a volunteer for American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Website: wayfinder.family
Instagram: @wayfinding_parent
Cheli Grace is the Founder of the Book to Millions® Program and the Co-Owner of Delian Origin Publishers.
Her Book to Millions® program attracts business owners and industry experts who want to have a process where they are coached while have writing assistance as they publish their books with ease and flow aligned to a solid business foundation that creates impact through correct marketing that scales their brand.
Cheli incorporates an all-in-one system to write-publish-market.
She is a life-long educator, former teacher, and school principal.
Website: www.booktomillions.com
Social media handles: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cheligrace Instagram: @cheligraceofficial
Kia Minor works with six figure females to help them achieve financial wellness. Women should be able to focus their energies on their families, businesses, or the other areas of life that matter most. The work Kia does with her clients positions them to live, give and enjoy their life with purpose and financial confidence.
Website: www.bulfinchgroup.com/team/kia-l-minor Podcast: Fearless Narratives
Social media handles: Instagrams: @moneymatterswithkia & @kminor15 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kia-minor-79428b67
Staci Millard is a mom of two girls and a multi-passionate entrepreneur. She sold her first seven-figure business at the age of 35. At the heart of everything she does is a deep desire to leave a positive impact on the world. She does that through her two businesses – one coaching small business owners to increase their income and impact while living a life they love, and the other pouring into families to bring mindfulness, gratitude, and affirmations into their everyday lives.
Websites: stacimillard.com & lovepoweredco.com
Social media handles:
- @staci.millard
- @lovepoweredco
Haley Dagan is the founder and CEO of The Written World, a copywriting and content creation agency based in Miami, FL, serving small businesses and creative services agencies across the U.S. and Canada.
Haley worked in hospitality marketing for almost a decade before losing her corporate job during the pandemic. Instead of looking at other corporate marketing positions, she looked within and dove head-first into entrepreneurship. Now, two years later leading a team of 6, she brings her love of the written word to help others do what they love while getting more visible online.
Website: thewrittenworldagency.com
Social media handles: Instagram: @thewrittenworld LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/haley-dagan-3677ab39 LinkedIn The Written World: www.linkedin.com/company/the-written-world
Julie Shen is the founder of Springstead, an advisory and consultancy practice that works with purpose driven founders, businesses and organizations to develop, launch and grow their initiatives. Springstead turns ideas into results through strategy, business development, project execution and capital opportunities. Julie has 15+ years of experience incubating, developing and launching new businesses for startups and organizations like Conde Nast and HBO. She is passionate about supporting female founders and facilitating an environment for them to flourish in.
Website: https://www.springstead.co Instagram: @springstead_co
Katie O’Malley is the Founder & Principal Coach at (en)Courage Coaching. Trained as therapist with a Master’s Degree in Counseling, Katie opened the doors to (en)Courage Coaching in 2018 to elevate more women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ folks to rooms where decisions are made. Prior to launching her coaching practice, Katie served as a Leadership Educator at DePaul University, University of Texas at Austin, and The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Website: www.encouragecoaching.org
Social media handles:
- Instagram: @encouragecoachchicago
- Facebook: @encouragecoachchicago
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kateomalley
Jessica is the Founder of Empowered for Sales. She is a sales coach and business strategist for entrepreneurs and executives. Jessica helps those that are you are selling your vision in the boardroom or selling your way to six-figures Jessica will work with .
Website: empoweredforsales.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-dawson-205b1639/
Beth Nydick is a former TV producer and New Jersey-based publicity and business strategist expert with a roster of celebrity and rising entrepreneur clients, she knows what it means to truly be ready for the spotlight. As a result of working with Beth, her clients confidently appear on TV & Media with a solid business foundation while using media and strategy to scale their business.
She has been featured in OPRAH, Parade, Forbes, Inc., Nylon Magazine, Tori Burch, and Better Homes and Gardens. She has also appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show, The Chew, ABC, CBS, NBC and The Tonight Show.
Pitch Secrets: https://courses.bethnydick.com/pitch-secrets
The only tool you’ll ever need if you want to be a media success!
Learn:
- The insider secrets to persuade and engage your audience with your expertise, knowledge, and passion.
- A roadmap to snagging the attention of media professionals (gatekeepers) who can make your career explode.
- A T.V. producer’s strategies to getting noticed and getting publicity to catapult your business forward.
- Ways for you to gain instant credibility so that you can get your life-changing message in front of MASSIVE audiences.
Website: www.bethnydick.com Instagram: @bethnydick
Amanda Moran is the co-founder of a better-for-you alcohol company called Beauty Booze. She is a first generation immigrant from Brazil who has worked her way to become the entrepreneur she is today. From helping her mom from a very young age to owning an herbal supplement business, she is no stranger to hard work and has overcome many mental hurdles to get to to where she is today.
Website: www.beautybooze.com
Social media handles: Instagram: @theamandamoran & @sipbeautybooze
Courtlyn Jones, a NYC-based graphic designer and visual artist, founded The Design Database, the women-owned, leading membership-based marketplace and community for female and non-binary freelance Creatives working in visual arts.
Her platform bridges the gap in gender parity by providing a safe space for female artists to meet higher-quality clients, connect with fellow Creatives to build a community and gain mentorship, and SELL their physical artwork to new customers. Think Fiverr meets Etsy!
Website: www.thedesigndatabase.net
Social media handles: Instagram: www.instagram.com/thedesigndatabase Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/the-design-database Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedesigndatabase
Vicky Gkarmiri was a 45 year old Greek Family Physician, mom of 3 and wife to the love of her life when she received the news: her application to immigrate in the States was approved. 3 years later, Vicky is a Greek immigrant in the States and the designer behind Next Door Goddess, a handcrafted jewelry brand she owns alongside her husband, that is here to help women unleash the Goddess within with jewelry inspired by the Mediterranean terrain and made with components sourced wordlwide and primarily in Greece. Shifting from Medicine that she loved to Entrepreneurship in a field she’s passionate about wasn’t an easy decision. It was made after long, sleepless nights and a question in a course about career transitions: She asks… if you were to die tomorrow, what is the ONE dream you will regret not having given a chance to come to life?
Website: www.nextdoorgoddess.com Discount code for listeners –
GODDESS15 Instagram: @nextdoorgoddess_
Metta LaKind is a Reiki Master Teacher, Somatic Energy Practitioner, Motivational Speaker, and Performance Artist. She is passionate about working with clients 1-1 to help reprogram their subconscious mind and learn how to heal themselves. She is the co-founder of Curación Consciousness Collective, a group of professionals, yogis, and artists, who foster community through yogic based practices and energetic modalities. CCC facilitates corporate events and trainings, workshops, and retreats.
Website: cycollectivecom.godaddysites.com
Social media handles: Instagram: @curacioncollective & @mettakind
Aida is a Bosnian-American author, poet, songwriter, Internet entrepreneur, and motivational speaker. She is an extremely prolific and versatile author, having written over 100 books (in a span of 5 years) which she will publish soon. Aida often writes about social justice, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ambition, courage, uniqueness, discrimination. bullying, violence, war, power, activism, beauty, rebellion, creativity, love, and critical thinking. She writes about her past experiences of being a refugee and immigrant.
Website: www.aidamandic.com
Social media handles: www.linkedin.com/in/aidamandic www.twitter.com/Aidawesomeee www.instagram.com/aidamandicbooks www.facebook.com/aidamandicbooks www.youtube.com/@aidawesome www.tiktok.com/@aidawesome
Christine Klahn is the Founder and CEO of ChemE Queen Bee, a Product Development and Small Batch Manufacturing Company in San Diego, California. She has created a host of products for clients in industries including beauty and wellness, CBD and cannabis, food and beverage, and sports and nutrition.
With Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and over 25 years in industry and academia, Christine has created hundreds of recipes and has extensive experience in the product development process, scale-up and good manufacturing practices, and batch traceability and testing. She works exclusively with the highest quality natural ingredients to formulate the cleanest, safest, and most effective products for her clients. She has collaborated with celebrities such as Ashley Greene Khoury on her Hummingway brand, as well as the Mike Tyson team on the Tyson 2.0 x ClickSpray launch, and several of her client formulations have won industry awards. Christine’s ideal clients are other bootstrap entrepreneurs, particularly women, minorities, and veterans, who wish to launch their own unique brand and grow their existing small businesses.
Website: www.chemequeenbee.com
Social media handles: www.facebook.com/chemequeenbee www.instagram.com/chemequeenbee www.linkedin.com/in/christineklahn www.calendly.com/chemequeenbee
Allison C. Pierre is an innovator. She founded Innovative Prosecution Consulting (IPC) a criminal justice consulting firm in 2019. IPC works in partnership with American University’s School of Justice, Law & Criminology.
Website: www.reformagents.com
Social media handles: Instagram: @innovative_prosecution Twitter: @InnovativePros3 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allison-pierre-548a0bb
For the last couple of decades Alison Mclean has helped hundreds of students overcome injury, pain and achieve their health goals. She has had a successful and profitable physical therapy and wellness clinic while leading classes, workshops and yoga trainings. Then she was diagnosed with Lynch syndrome, a genetic mutation that puts her at high risk for several different types of cancer. Only a couple months later following her first cancer screen she was diagnosed with rectal cancer.
This caused her to reevaluate not only the sustainability of her own business, but the whole wellness industry.
She now has a passion to help other Wellness Entrepreneurs grow their businesses sustainably, with profit, while still caring for their own health and enjoying life in the process.
Website: igniteurwellness.com
Social media handles: Instagram: igniteurwellnessbiz Facebook: www.facebook.com/alison.cupinimclean
Nikki Gal is a former fashion model, entrepreneur, mental health advocate, speaker, content consultant and designer. Since quitting her career as a fashion model in 2018, she has created her own success as a entrepreneur of digital design company See Thru Nikki, founder of mental health advocacy non-profit and podcast Raw Talk with Nikki Gal, founder and designer of intimates line, Gal Intimates, founder of content and branding consultant company, Galvanize by Nikki Gal, as well as founder of photography/film company, Shots By Gal.
Nikki Gal as well as her works have appeared in Cosmopolitan, People Magazine, CIO Today Magazine, The Sun, Daily Mail, Page Six, as well as television program, Good Morning America. Gal’s mission is to encourage all women that they are capable of every dream they put their mind to and to never limit themselves- anything is possible.
Learn more about Nikki in this recent article.
Website: seethrunikki.com
Instgram: @seethrunikki
Hank Dearden is a natural ‘connector’ with a passion for all forms of renewable energy, tree planting, and exploring new places by bicycle. He is the Founder and Executive Director of ForestPlanet, an organization that supports large scale reforestation projects all around the world. ForestPlanet helps plant trees in regions where they have the greatest positive impact on the soil, the environment, and communities in peril.
Website: www.forestplanet.org
Social media handles:
www.facebook.com/GoNegative
www.linkedin.com/company/forestplanet
Joan Maze is the owner of Life in Seven Coaching & Consulting and the creator of Work Wellness Academy (WWA), a learning community dedicated to professional and personal growth. The WWA membership community, podcast, and workshop series provide coaching support, training, and resources for those who want to regain control over their work and well-being. Joan’s mission is to teach people how to reinvent their relationship with work so they can live happy, healthy and whole. WWA also works with businesses and organizations who strive to create a work culture that contributes to and enhances the well-being of their employees.
Prior to starting her business, Joan Maze was a leader in higher education for 23 years. She has a bachelor’s degree from Xavier University of Louisiana, a master’s degree from Temple University, and certification as a personal and executive coach from the Coaching and Positive Psychology (CaPP) Institute. In addition to running her business, Joan is also President of the San Diego Chapter of NAWBO (the National Association of Women Business Owners).
Website: www.therealjoanmaze.com
Social media handles:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joan-maze
Instagram: @therealjoanmaze
Back in 2015, at nearly sixty years of age, Laurie Lee Davidson was propelled by a series of crises into the world of somatic trauma healing. There she discovered that it’s never too late to get well, find peace, make meaning, experience joy, champion justice, and be a force for healing.
Filled with gratitude for the people and programs that enabled her total rebirth, Davidson wrote Growing into the Gray: Reflections on Transforming Trauma for Women and the World to offer hope and help to others.
The book, which is her first, is equal parts life story and social prescription, offering a vision for open-hearted living in complex times.
Website: www.laurieleedavidson.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/laurie-lee-davidson-79140023b
Dr. Patty Michelle is a mom, writer, and public health specialist; who combines her passions for public health, women’s rights, technology, science, and the world to inspire children and adults through her writing.
Drawing on her career in global health, Patty’s works wrestle with the toughest public health and societal issues of our time, including the environment, responsible technology and AI, pandemic preparedness and mental health.
Her writing also draws on her more than 20 years of work across more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Patty holds a PhD in Public Health and Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Master’s in Health Science in International Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
She is the author of the middle grade fiction novel, The Antidotes: Pollution Solution (Bold Story Press: October 4, 2022), which she wrote with her 10-year old son (available for pre-order on Amazon).
Website: www.patriciamechael.com
Social media handles:
Twitter: @PattyMechael
Instagram: @theantidotesseries
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-mechael-a696001/
After re-careering out of the training and career development field, Mindy was ready to make her avocation her vocation and, together with her husband Jerry, launched Tour Freely – a GPS audio tour company. The tours are storytelling experiences of select Southern California destinations, where the history, heritage and lifestyle of the areas comes to life – creating an engaging opportunity to have a greater appreciation for the region.
As a career coach/trainer, she was focused on helping others explore themselves, helping them find their spark and “Follow their bliss.” She is now on a parallel path helping others explore and follow their wanderlust and curiosity.
Website: tourfreely.com
Social media handles:
Facebook: TourFreely
Instagram: @tourfreely
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mindyflanagan
Keasha Lee is a Personal Branding Coach, Messaging Mentor, Copywriter, Speaker, and Founder & CEO of Striking Statements. Through her business, she helps conscious and creative entrepreneurs get NOTICED, REMEMBERED & PAID by bringing more of who they are into what they do.
Keasha has 15+ years experience in marketing, speaking, copywriting, and personal branding. She’s worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and small business owners to revamp their branding, define and grow a profitable niche, refine their messaging and position themselves as experts in their fields.
Website: www.strikingstatements.com
Social media handles:
Instagram: @strikingstatements
Facebook: Striking Statements
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/keashalee
Jolene founded Systems Success to help entrepreneurs create sustainable companies, where employees are engaged and profitability is growing. Considered the Visionary’s Secret Weapon, she’s helped numerous CEOs navigate the complexities that come with growth and expansion, specifically in systems, organization, and leadership.
Before Systems Success, Jolene spent over 18 years as Owner/COO/CFO of large real estate enterprise. While maneuvering massive growth and expansion, she gained the wisdom, knowledge, and first-hand experience she shares with her current clients.
Websites:
www.SystemsSuccess.com
www.DoraJolene.com
Social media handles:
Facebook: @SystemsSuccess
Instagram: Systems_Success
Dr. Diana Hoppe is a board certified OB/GYN with over 25 years of experience in women’s health and hormonal balance. She is the founder of the first physician-led, online health, wellness, & educational resource to help women be Amazing Over 40, 50, 60 & beyond! Dr. Diana is the award winning author of “Healthy Sex Drive, Healthy You” and frequent contributor to HuffPost, WomensHealth, NPR, and was a special guest on the Dr. Oz show. In her free time she enjoys competitive tennis and hiking.
Website: amazingover40.com
Instagram: @amazingover40
Maraia Tanner has served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Space Development Ventures since its inception in 2013. With an academic background in Astrophysics, aerospace industry experience as a systems engineer, and hundreds of parabolas under her belt, Maraia is passionate about helping to generate radical solutions for climate change and sustainability as well as increasing diversity in the science and engineering fields.
Website: starharboracademy.com
Social media handles:
https://twitter.com/SH_SpaceAcademy
https://www.linkedin.com/company/star-harbor
Sima is the founder of Serenity Financial Planning and our chief wealth management advisor. She’s been serving clients in the financial industry for nearly three decades. During that time, she’s handled a wide variety of assets and portfolios of all sizes, giving her the breadth and depth of knowledge needed to serve high-net-worth clients in all stages of their financial journeys.
As a woman in the financial industry, Sima is passionate about serving other women and educating them on the importance of financial independence and long-term planning. She learned the importance of financial literacy at a young age, when she watched her beloved grandmother suffer unnecessarily from a lack of financial preparation and understanding. Her grandmother spent many years living a lavish lifestyle, complete with maids and a personal chef, while Sima’s grandfather took care of all the finances. She relied on him completely for financial support and stability. Her life changed in an instant when Sima’s grandfather died of a heart attack, leaving no will, living trust, or bank accounts. Although left with nothing, Sima’s grandmother was determined not to be a burden on her children. As a 40-year-old widow, she made the decision to start her own catering business and worked hard to provide for herself and learn how to manage her finances for the first time.
Over the years, Sima has heard many other stories similar to her grandmother’s—including a close family member experiencing divorce after a 40-year marriage and having to go back to work to earn a paycheck, right on the cusp of entering retirement. As a young girl, it became Sima’s mission to help women become financially equipped and empowered so unexpected life circumstances such as these would not find them unprepared. She made the decision to be someone they could turn to, who listened to their concerns and went the extra mile to help them find solutions, all so that they could experience confidence instead of worry. She specializes in working with women and those in or near retirement, with a focus on retirement taxes and income planning.
Website: www.serenityfinancialplanning.com
Social media handles:
Facebook: Serenity Financial Planning
LinkedIn: Sima Alefi
Jodi Silbermann is the founder of “From We to Me”, divorce support services.
She is also a best Selling Author – The Straight Skinny, Divorce 101: Clarity through Chaos, and the Creator of Divorce 101 Master Coaching Program.
Jodi has over 30 years experience working side-by-side with top attorneys in the areas of estate planning and family law. Throughout this time, she has helped thousands of individuals successfully transition through divorce and go on to build a brighter future.
Website: www.fromwetome.org
Social media handles:
@fromwetome
@justcalljodiinc
After years in the career services industry, Emily peeled off to build Marketable Mama. A career and life transition coaching firm exclusively for moms equipping each unique woman with the clarity, confidence, and captivating job search documents they need to thrive forward in their careers. Emily leverages a decade of motherhood with certifications in resume writing, life coaching, and the Fair Play method to fuel goal-focused coaching to support the whole mother.
Website: www.marketable-mama.com
Social media handles:
Instagram – @marketablamama
LinkedIn – Emily Stark CPRW, CLC
Eden got her start teaching meditation while working in a highly demanding and stressful corporate job. Since then, she has taught thousands of people around the world how to meditate to work better. Those who have experienced meditation the way she teaches it praise her ability to break down dogmatic, ancient meditative principles into simple, focused mindfulness tools ready to be implemented during a stressful workday. She draws upon her experience studying mindfulness at the University of California, Berkeley, and under teachers in China and India.
Website: www.withedenharmony.com
Social media handles:
www.linkedin.com/in/edenharmony
insighttimer.com/edenharmony
Hunter is co-owner of Tortoise & The Bear, helping 6 figure online businesses scale to 7 figures by implementing systems and processes that help them get time and sanity back to allow them focus on their passion. After building and running a multi-million dollar company, she suffered a severe burnout and decided it was time for a more nomadic life with time and space for self care. With several coaching certifications, she found that freedom in her lifestyle business as a Business Strategist and Operations Optimizer. She has found a true second calling in being the wizard behind the curtain to impactful visionaries.
Website: www.tortoiseandthebear.com
Social media handles:
Instagram: @tortoiseandthebear
Facebook: tortoiseandthebear
Dr. Cindy Tsai is a board-certified physician turned entrepreneur, mindfulness teacher, speaker, and coach focused on helping high-achieving professionals avoid burnout to live their best life with ease. As a physician, she saw the impacts of chronic stress on the body and wanted to do more than just prescribe medications as a bandaid.
Through her own healing journey, she has explored and trained in a wide range of therapeutic modalities and emphasizes wellness and caring for the person as a whole. Cindy teaches mindfulness and self-compassion practices so that clients can enjoy success, joy, and freedom in all areas of their life.
Website: cindytsaimd.com
Social Media Handles:
Facebook: Cindy Tsai MD Life Coach
Instagram: @cindytsaimd
LinkedIn: Cindy Tsai, M.D.
Tameeko Clark is a former Sales Operations Manager from the SaaS industry, turned Certified Holistic Health Coach and Nutritionist. She is a mom of 2, who grew up on junk food and personally understands the struggles that foundation can bring. She is passionate about helping other busy, ambitious women (especially moms) take control of junk food cravings to achieve their health & wellness goals.
Website: www.basiconpurpose.com
Social media handles:
IG: @basiconpurpose
FB: facebook.com/basiconpurpose
FB Group: facebook.com/groups/400040231414129
Anjalee Narenthiren is the speaker, Program Director at Startup Dojo, and host of the Youngpreneur podcast. Anjalee is an international VEX Robotics champion, having beat over 20,000 teams in two consecutive years. She also founded her first startup at age 15.
Currently, she is enrolled at the Jerome Fischer M&T Program at The University of Pennsylvania – pursuing a double degree with the Wharton School Of Business and Penn School of Engineering. Website: www.youngpreneur.world
Social media handles:
Facebook – Youngpreneur with Anjalee
Instagram – @youngpreneurworld
Roni, founder of Shine On And Glow, is a former Wall Street executive turned Business and Mindset Coach. Roni started her journey as a coder in New York’s financial industry and eventually managed the development of investment management systems for Merrill Lynch, The American Stock Exchange, S&P and The Vanguard Group. Roni now combines her business knowledge with her powerful intuitive gifts, motivating others to take action and follow their dreams in life and work. She helps her clients create a plan for their businesses and lives using a process she calls the Motifesting™ Method. Roni’s clients learn how to not only talk the talk, but to walk the walk.
Website: shineonandglow.com
Social media handles:
- Instagram: @shineonandglow
- FB Group: www.facebook.com/groups/shineonandglow
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ronimcguirebusinesscoach
Jeanne Rawdin has more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, video storyteller and writer. She’s worked for NBC, CBS, ABC and Cox Communications in San Diego, and has received 16 Emmy Awards throughout her career. She’s now a professional storyteller, writer, editor and media coach for her own company, Epic Storytelling.
Website: www.epic-storytelling.com
Social media handles:
Instagram: @epic.storytelling
LinkedIn: Epic Storytelling
Facebook: Epic Storytelling
Carla Burdt is a clinical hypnotherapist and motivational speaker specializing in relationships, sexuality, and intimacy. Her goal is to provide a non-judgmental and inclusive atmosphere for her clients to explore the various aspects of their sexuality and relationships in a supportive and collaborative way. Working with clients, she helps to build self-awareness and resolve deeply-ingrained issues surrounding relationships, sexuality, and intimacy.
Website: www.hypnocarla.com
Social media handles:
Facebook: @hypnocarla
Instagram: @carlaburdthypnotherapy
Nerissa Zhang is CEO of The Bright App. She is a Fierce Female Founder and created many businesses from an early age from daycare to catering. She is a former elite trainer in San Francisco and top earner at her gym who runs two of the biggest facilities in San Francisco for Olympic weightlifting.
Website: getbright.app
Social media handles:
Instagram – @brightfitnessapp
Twitter – @TheBrightApp
Facebook – facebook.com/thebrightapp
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/company/bright-app
Rose Galer is the Founder of Refill Exchange, a zero-waste grocery and retail store focused on reducing single-use plastics for food storage. She started Refill Exchange in 2021 after seeing the prolific consumption of single-use plastics during the height of the pandemic. Utilizing her background in environmental science, she works to build sustainable solutions to combat climate change and prevent the harmful, toxic wastes from plastic use and manufacturing.
Website: www.refillexchange.com
Crowdfunding Link: Refill Exchange Indiegogo Campaign Page
Social Media:
Instagram: refillexchange
Twitter: Refill Exchange
Annie Smith is the Founder & Creative Director of Solanas Creative, a boutique agency specializing in graphic design and social media marketing. Annie founded Solanas Creative in 2020, after losing her job in marketing with Red Bull, due to COVID. With a background in design and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Media, she used this opportunity to gain clientele and build brands’ digital presence.
Social Media:
instagram.com/solanascreative
facebook.com/solanascreative
linkedin.com/anniesmith7
Vatrice Chestnut is the publisher of East Potomac River Living magazine and it’s distributed in the Georgetown area. She has more than 30 years publishing experience and works diligently to help local businesses build their brands with the most affluent homeowners. Vatrice can also help brands grow in more than 1100 markets in the US and Canada within her publishing network.
Website: www.affinitymediaconsulting.com/eprl
LinkedIn: affinitymediaconsulting
Instagram: affinitymediaconsulting
Cynthia Barnes is the founder and CEO of the National Association of Women Sales Professionals, 2021 Salesforce Influencer, 2020 LinkedIn Top Sales Influencer, highly sought-after global keynote speaker, and a pioneering champion for Women in Sales.
Cynthia is the author of Reach the Top 1%: A Strategic Game Plan for Warrior Women in Sales and is known for motivating others to feel confident, empowered, and brave. Her insights and unique understanding of what it takes for women sales professionals to excel have made her a sought-after expert, having appeared in over 250 major media outlets around the nation – including appearances in Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
Website: cynthia-barnes.com & nawsp.org
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cynthiabarnes
Nicole is a lifelong advocate of education, certified secondary teacher, author, and the founder of Screen Time Clinic, a network of digital wellness experts empowering families to flourish OFFline and keep kids safe with limited screen time.
Her new children’s book Screen Smart Sam was written to reach families with young children to help prevent problems parents are noticing with behavior and learning challenges as young as 18 months due to media overstimulation.
Website: www.ScreenTimeClinic.com
Instagram: @screentimeclinic & @screensmartsam
Facebook: Screen Smart Families
Dr. Elizabeth Alvarado is the founder and Creative Director of Little Language Adventures. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Alvarado has worked in various areas of education; from teaching preschool to graduate students, to school administration, and most recently educational entrepreneurship. She attributes becoming an entrepreneur to her search for a multilingual resources for her own children and students.
Website: www.littlelanguageadventures.com
Facebook: Little Language Adventures
Ashlee Ammons is the 38th Black Female to raise over $1M in pre-seed funding. Prior to co-founding Mixtroz with her mother, Kerry Schrader, Ashlee established a career as an Events Producer working with an impressive list of A-listers including Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jay-Z, as well as legacy brands like Hennessy and Coca-Cola. Ashlee has many accolades, one of which was being named, with her mother, as one of the most “Powerful Women” by Entrepreneur Magazine on their inaugural list in November 2019.
Mixtroz services events, meetings, trainings, orientations, weddings, you name it where 25 or more are gathered. They use technology to make human connection simpler, better and more satisfying increasing engagement and collecting data.
Website: www.mixtroz.com
Lisa is an energy healer at night and a designer by day. In 2017 she shifted her corporate career focus to personal wellness after a series of health and emotional events. She began a rediscovery of herself and who she wanted to be for the 2nd half of her life. She now operates “Magick Healer”, an energy healing studio focused on servicing the world with universal energy and crystal healings; bringing the magick of metaphysics to everyone around her, one person at a time.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lisalindesign
Nanda Grandison is a mission-driven, passionate marketer with extensive experience working with start-ups and large publicly traded companies, driving revenue, acquiring and retaining customers, and revitalizing brands, giving her a unique perspective to deliver impactful results. Nanda stepped away from corporate America after 20 years to lead a marketing consultancy and bring a consumer packaged goods product to market.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nandagrandison
Kathryn Wepfer is the founder of Fulcrum Apparel, which provides better workwear solutions for pumping moms. Prior to launching Fulcrum, Kathryn was a mechanical engineer in robotics and jet engines, a product manager and sales specialist for Microsoft, and had a short career as a professional ballroom dancer. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two daughters.
Website: thefulcrumapparel.com
LinkedIn: Kathryn Wepfer
Facebook: Fulcrum Apparel
Instagram: @fulcrumapparel
Pinterest: Fulcrum Apparel
Wanda Toro Turini, also known as Dr. Wanda or THE Nerdy Girl Entrepreneur is quite a seasoned entrepreneur but, even more unique… she is a natural inventor. Her latest brainchild, Ketchwords.com, helps fellow entrepreneurs unveil their Anonymous Fans and stop leaving money on the table. She’s a unique combo of super analytical and super creative and is a Rock Star in marketing and audience engagement.
Website: https://ecofilesmobile.com/
Keisha Montfleury is an entrepreneur with a purpose. She is currently the CEO of a California 501 C 3 non profit and the owner of an organization called HandiWork: both organizations responsibility are to encourage a generation that is armed with the tools, knowledge, and resources to thrive as individuals.
She hosts interactive workshops and provide resources for our girls ages 5-11 so they will not participate in risky behaviors such as self-harm and bullying. Keisha is an author of 3 books and workbooks that are specifically designed to provide our girls with practical tips and tools, she is a speaker and a Certified Teen Life Coach.
Website: keishamontfleury.com
Facebook: ConfidentKeisha
Instagram: confidentkeisha
As a writing coach, Deborah Ager guides entrepreneurial leaders to have more impact and influence by writing their own business-building books and anti-boring content that converts. She combines her publishing background, experience with teaching creative writing at university, and her practical marketing knowledge to help her clients feel more joyful with the writing process.
Her clients appreciate her literary eye and say her copywriting and marketing experience helps them avoid common pitfalls, making it faster and easier for them to get clients and inspire and educate their audiences.
Website: radiantmedialabs.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahager/
Kaitey Elliott wears a variety of hats, but they can all be summarized to say “encourager of everyone!” As a CEO, Co-Founder, and Board Member for companies around the world, her mission is to support and champion individuals in each industry. While finishing up her Masters in Project Management, Kaitey recently launched 2 companies: The License Solutions, a consulting firm, and Kaitey Elliott a colorful lifestyle blog. With dreams of starting many businesses in the future, Kaitey is discovering that anyone can be an entrepreneur, it doesn’t have to be as scary as it may seem! 🙂
Website: kaiteyelliott.com & thelicensesolutions.com
Instagram: @kaiteyelliott & @thelicensesolutions
Serena Mastin has overcome extreme obstacles, personally and professionally. She started her life in witness protection, nine different foster homes, teenage addiction, homelessness, to her husband’s recent suicide. Serena has faced unimaginable adversity. Despite her challenges, she found a real sense of purpose along the way.
The most inspiring part of her story is her strength and resilience and her ability to look fear in the face and give it a little wink.
Despite all odds, Serena built a career in marketing and launch Pulse Marketing over 8 years ago. Her firm makes a direct impact on brand exposure, sales, increase revenue and achieve key results for unique organizations. It is their goal to maintain and accelerate their clients presence as strong, high-quality industry leaders in creative marketing with the best presence in video, web, advertising, graphic design and social channels.
Website: www.heartofcreative.com & http://www.pulsemarketingteam.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PulseMarketingTeam/
Lisa Caprelli is an award-winning author of the unicorn book series, Unicorn Jazz. She is the host of the kids show on Amazon TV, Unicorn Jazz Presents The Thing I Do. which is described as a modern day “Sesame Street meets Mickey Mouse Club” where kids can send in their own video content, music, talent and more! A new season is coming Summer 2021 with a collaboration of over 200 kids & adults for THE THING I DO! She has been featured in FORBES magazine, ABC News outlets, USA today newspapers, and more media and news outlets.
When students ask about why Lisa is passionate about writing, she will say, “I grew up shy and introverted. My only voice was on paper.” With that said, this Latina author has created a world-class brand around a unicorn named Unicorn Jazz, with animal friends and ocean animal characters.
At the onset of the pandemic, Lisa knew she had to do something outside the box to continue creating and developing her characters for children. She relied on her broadcast radio experience and years of producing shows for FM and AM stations. A year later, she has launched Unicorn Jazz Presents The Thing I Do that is on Amazon TV/Prime with a full season launching summer 2021.
She grew up with humble beginnings in the sun city of El Paso, Texas. She is proud of her Latin roots and culture. She always wanted to live near the ocean and today lives in Huntington Beach, California. She has made Orange County, California her home for the past 20 years. Lisa has experience presenting to elementary, middle and high school students and has taught at Long Beach State, California.
With a 26 year branding, public relations, FM/AM radio, The Business Experience Show, podcasting and writing background, Lisa Caprelli has made writing her life. As an entrepreneur, Lisa went on 2.5 year journey researching & interviewing 13 notable entrepreneurs on what makes for a MEANINGFUL, HAPPY and PROSPEROUS life. Enter her book Skip a Step: Imparting Wisdom For Young Entrepreneur Minds. It was through Skip a Step that she fulfilled her life’s purpose to create the UNICORN JAZZ world.
This best-selling author is proud to be the first generation to graduate from college, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Social Psychology. Her passion for studying human behavior and teaching is seen in her work. She believes in community outreach and volunteering as seen with her reach and storytelling with children’s hospitals. She started volunteering with hospitals and convalescent homes at the age of 10.
Coming from an influence of educators, including early childhood teachers, principals and librarians, she enjoys keeping up and teaching the latest trends in technology to leverage and collaborate with great leaders to make stories and the love of reading meaningful.
- Follow Lisa on Facebook or Instagram
- To see all her books, go to Amazon full books – Author Page.
- UnicornJazz.com/show
- LisaCaprelli.com
Aubrey is wildly obsessed with adventure, travel, business, and the human psyche. She considers herself to be a norm breaker and trailblazer.
She is a life & business coach for ambitious entrepreneurs. Aubrey is also a NLP student, and podcast host. She helps women master their mindset so they can do what they love, and step powerfully into their purpose!
Aubrey is on a mission to bring strong community back to society and help as many women as she can create the life they deeply desire.
Website: Nextlevel-you.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aubreyyy.thomas/
Jessa is Founder & CEO of Shirt Sauna, a multi-garment steam cleaner used to skip trips to the dry cleaner and leave the iron stowed away. She’s also Co-Founder of A STELLAR CO – a Business Guide consultancy for strategic planning. Jessa is passionate about working with small businesses to define their north star, solve problems, and maintain trajectory towards transformational goals.
Website: www.shirtsauna.com
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/shirtsauna
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shirtsauna/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessaspainhower/
Nichole MacDonald is the founder of The Sash Bag, a highly coveted alternative to handbags. Sash bags have been featured on several national media outlets including the Today Show, Extra, and many more. Nichole has an extensive background in marketing, design, and product development and has helped successfully launch over 25 products in her 18-year career.
Twitter: @thesashbag
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sashbag
Sable Lomax is a global diversity, inclusion, and equity expert. Currently she is the Global Director of Programs for Fearless Futures, who facilitates equity and inclusion learning experiences across sectors in service of designing equitable ecosystems for people and products.
She received her BA in African American Studies and French from Temple University and a MSEd in Education from the University of Pennsylvania.
Your website: www.fearlessfutures.org
Twitter: @fearlessfutures
Instagram: @fearlessfutures
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FearlessFuturesUK
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5349443
Real Brown Girls – https://www.instagram.com/realbrowngirls/
Gwen Beren founded Illuminous Marketing in 2012 with the vision of helping businesses shine online with SEO and content marketing services.
She is a voracious consumer of all kinds of content – from blogs, to podcasts, to books – and enjoys learning the latest marketing trends to implement for her clients.
Gwen is also a partner within The Click Collective Agency, spearheading the marketing team and driving results for clients.
Website: illuminousmarketing.com
Twitter: @IlluminousGwen
Instagram: @illuminousmarketing
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/illuminous-marketing
As a Certified Executive Coach, Diana helps leaders, mainly Technology leaders, deepen their Emotional Intelligence and communication skills to inspire their teams to higher performance levels, creatively solve problems, and positively impact their bottom line. Diana works with Directors and Senior Executives in Fortune 500 companies to transform their team spirit and communication, turning low-performing teams to highly productive and engaged teams.
Her practice focuses on using evidence-based research in Positive Psychology for coaching, which allows her a whole person wellness approach in coaching.
Diana calls San Diego, California home. When she is not playing with her two little girls or hanging with her hubby you can see her on stage doing stand-up comedy . . .and if you are wondering no she is not that funny.
Website: https://www.dianalowe.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianaelowe/
Rachel Haley has worked in the finance and tech industry for the past 10 years. In 2015, she Co-Founded Clarus Designs, which now has over 100 employees globally. Most recently, Rachel worked as the Senior Director of Sales Operations and Strategy at Snowflake, where she helped the company grow from 300 people to over 2,000 and more than 10X-ing in annual revenue.
Website: https://www.clarusdesigns.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-haley-59ba677/
Emily Barrosse is founder and CEO of Bold Story Press, a publishing house for women authors who want to share their stories with the world. She spent the first 32 years of her career in the publishing industry, where as Vice President and Editor in Chief at McGraw-Hill, she signed and published hundreds of best-selling books.
Emily believes that women are uniquely qualified to empower each other through sharing the stories of their experience. She knows the world will be a better place when we achieve better balance in our culture by increasing the numbers of women’s voices.
Website: www.boldstorypress.com
Twitter: @boldstorypress
Instagram: boldstorypress
Facebook: Bold Story Press
Adrienne Hand is an acclaimed author and thinking partner who helps writers finally finish their nonfiction book! Known for her personal attention to clients, exceptional writing and editing skills, and strong work ethic, Adrienne’s clients include industry leaders such as real estate developer Tom Bozzuto and Adecco Group Foundation President Joyce Russell. Adrienne’s book The Graceful Exit, co-authored with Mona Hanford, was on the Top 10 Washington Post Bestseller List for 4 weeks. Adrienne is also a healthcare journalist, currently writing about the mental health impact of Covid 19 – on all of us.
Read Adrienne‘s recent article on COVID’s mental health impact – click here.
Website: https://adriennehandediting.com/
Twitter: @adrienne_hand
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennehand/
Over the past decade, Alisha has served as COO/CFO of three start-ups in the clean energy and healthcare industries. She helped grow these companies from inception through exits that ranged from a small private sale to an IPO. In 2019, Alisha moved to the investor side of the table when she founded Daintree Capital, an investment firm that provides working capital loans to under-represented founders. Daintree’s portfolio now includes 12 companies across a broad range of industries. Alisha has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. She lives in Chevy Chase, MD with her husband and two kids and spends her weekends as a professional youth sports spectator.
Website: www.daintreecapital.co
Twitter: @alishagriffey
Anna is a leadership consultant helping leaders reclaim their Genius Zone by eliminating reactivity, transforming their leadership, and becoming catalysts of thriving company culture. The best thing Anna knows is to see a spark in her clients’ eyes when they (re)discover their Zone and get to play in it more often. They become more curious about themselves and the others, better listeners, more empathetic and effective leaders, greater Humans, and they get to enjoy their journey so much more! To hear more conversations about leading from your Zone of Genius, tune into Genius Leadership: overcoming Everything podcast.
Website: https://annaliebel.com/
Twitter: @anna_liebel
Instagram: @anna.liebel
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-liebel/
Podcast: https://linktr.ee/geniusleadershippodcast
Sarah is an influential and strategic Human Resources professional with the ability to develop strong partnerships at all organizational levels. She believes that thoughtful and intentional strategic communication is at the core of all healthy organizations and relationships. With this in mind, she helps small to mid-sized companies develop and hone their HR plan to foster an inclusive culture while meeting the business demands.
Website: http://www.calfeehr.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcalfee/
Abby Mercado is the Co-Founder & CEO of Best Shot, a patient’s companion in fertility treatments. A former venture capital investor, Abby conceptualized Best Shot after her frustrations with IVF medications and the mental health challenges she faced post her infertility diagnosis. Now, on the other side of her fertility experience, Abby is passionate about providing those who struggle to grow their families with the tools to help them succeed with confidence and grace.
Website: https://bestshotcare.com/
Twitter: Best Shot
Instagram: hellobestshot
Alexandra is Chief Exec of Lanterne Rouge, the team behind the BOLDLY platform, delivering coaching that scales. She is an Organisational Psychologist and Coach, and is considered a global thought leader in coaching technology.
Website: https://www.boldly.app/company
LinkedIn: BOLDLY – Coaching & Mentoring That Scales
Juju Hook is brand-strategist and business coach for midlife women and author of “Hot Flashes, Carpools, and Dirty Martinis—The Quintessential Guide for Turning Midlife Into PrimeTime.” Her programs help women use the mastery they gained in the first half of life to create businesses doing WHAT they love, with WHOM they love in the second half. Juju’s work focuses on the strategies and systems—as well as the confidence and courage—required to build an impactful presence and earn reliable, sustainable income.
Website: Jujuhook.com
Twitter: @jujuhook
Instagram: juju_hook
Facebook: julia.juju.hook
LinkedIn: jujuhook
Nicole has been partnering with high-performing companies and developing effective ways to support their overall business goals through marketing for over twenty years. She specializes in creating and implementing successful marketing campaigns that meet specific business objectives. With experience across diverse industries, Nicole creates marketing strategies that drive awareness and spur growth. She holds an M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship and is passionate about helping companies create a strategic roadmap for success.
Website: www.s2strategicsolutions.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nicolehagaman
Charlotte Ashamu is a global leader, entrepreneur, curator and board member. She is the Founder and CEO of Dabira, a business specialized in building innovative programs for Africa’s creative entrepreneurs, while enabling a global community to experience Africa’s contemporary creativity.
Website: www.dabiradesign.com
Instagram: @dabiradesigns
Jacqueline Giannelli MSN, RN, FNP-BC, NCMP Jacqueline Giannelli is a board-certified family nurse practitioner specializing in women’s health with a focus in menopause, urogynecology, and sexual health. Jacqueline is a North American Menopause Society certified practitioner with Elektra Health, a women’s health company on a mission to smash the menopause taboo. She is also the Assistant Medical Director at Maze Women’s Health in New York. She earned her nursing degrees at NYU and San Francisco State University, and BA from Georgetown University. When not at work, Jacqueline enjoys tennis, hiking, cooking for her family and hunting for treasures in New York City.
Website: www.Elektrahealth.com
Instagram: @elektrahealth
Aireka Harvell is the CEO of Nodat Inc. a mobile marketing technology startup specifically designed to help small and medium businesses drive new and repeat customers locally. Aireka has spent the last three years doing on the ground advocacy work for small local businesses and women entrepreneurs. She is a public speaker and author and recently honored by the Nashville Business Journal as a 40 Under 40 Honoree for 2020.
Facebook – @nodatnashville
Twitter – @nodatplace, @airekaharvell
Instagram – @nodat_nashville, @airekaharvell
LinkedIn – @airekaharvell
Jessica Hornbeck, Founder of Big Picture Results helps small businesses build financial and workflow systems that grow their profit, their founder’s personal income, and their freedom.
Jessica is also an equity partner to select women and PoC-owned growing companies, a single mother to a firecracker of a little girl, a self defense practitioner, founding member of Ellevate San Diego, a Hera Hub GURU, and a volunteer for the Trauma Intervention Program of San Diego.
Website: www.bigpictureresults.com
Alexandria Noel Butler, affectionately known as Lexi B, wears many hats including entrepreneur, speaker, editor, and writer. Her project management career started in 2011 after graduating from Stanford University and she has lead diverse large scale cross functional projects for prominent tech companies in the Silicon Valley. In April 2017, Lexi B founded Sista Circle: Black Women in Tech, an online community that supports Black women in tech companies and tech related professions. This 7400+ international community has partnered with organizations such as Phenomenally, Instagram, Youtube and Slack.
Website: www.naturallylexi.com
Twitter: @sistacirclebwit
Instagram: sistacirclebwit
Tristan is an internationally recognized speaker on LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion. She is so passionate about diversity and representation that she stepped away from her 24 years practicing law and started her own speaking and consulting firm – Metaclusive, LLC. Tristan has a BA in Theater from the University of California, San Diego and a JD from California Western School of Law.
She began her career as a prosecutor for the San Diego City Attorney, and went on to practice entertainment, technology, and corporate law for the Screen Actors Guild, Sega of America, and Sony Electronics.
Website: https://metaclusive.com/
LinkedIn: Tristan Higgins
YouTube: Metaclusive
Facebook: Metaclusive LLC
Twitter: Metaclusive LLC
Instagram: metaclusive
Vani is an energetic, enigmatic, enterprising strong mom in her mid forties. She is a Mindfulness coach and the founder of DOTURMINDS whose mission is to reach behind the doors of young and the old minds and help them unlock the secret passageway to the no stress place called the “NOW” through the ancient Indian ritualistic Dot Art called Rangoli. She is committed to helping her clients train their Minds to achieve clarity amidst chaos and challenges from her own life’s experience with Challenges through the Mindful Dot Art Ritual.
Website: www.doturminds.com
Instagram: dot_ur_minds
Rachel Estapa, founder and CEO of More to Love, is passionate about empowering people to love and appreciate their bodies. Rachel is a certified 200 hour Kripalu Yoga instructor and professionally certified transformational life coach, equipped with over 1,000 professional training hours in the necessary tools to share what she has learned and empower others to love, accept, and care for their bodies and their entire selves. Rachel was named Grand Prize winner of Mastercard and Bank of America’s Grow Your Biz Contest, and has been profiled in numerous outlets, including The Boston Globe, USA Today, Shape Magazine, and many more. She is a sought after teacher and speaker in the field of plus size wellness and is excited to support More to Love’s robust and growing community. She is born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts and lives with her husband.
Website: www.moretoloveyoga.com
Instagram: @moretoloveyoga & @rachelestapa
Facebook: More to Love Yoga
Joan is a former corporate scientist and engineer who holds an MS in Microbiology, BS in Engineering, MBA in Finance and is a Certified Integrative Medicine Health Coach. Her business, Thrive After Corporate, specializes in helping post-corporate employees regain and sustain their vibrant well-being.
Joan uses the principle of integrating the physical, emotional, spiritual and social pillars to bring back optimum health to her clients.
Website: thriveaftercorporate.com
Facebook: Thrive After Corporate
Instagram: @thriveafter_corporate
Twitter: @thrive_win
Kate is an experienced business consultant, lawyer and strategic advisor. Today, she helps female founders scale businesses they love and make the money they deserve! She works alongside her clients creating high-performing cultures through strong leadership, talent engagement and organizational design. She also serves as a general counsel for growth companies helping them manage risk and capture opportunities.
Website: https://www.k8carney.com
Instagram: @k8.carney
Facebook: K8 Carney Consulting
Rachel Steidl is the Owner of My Financial Fluency which is a personal finance coaching, counseling, and education business. She worked in the mental health field for eight years before she pursued her personal finance and entrepreneurial passions to start a business.
Her female-focused business believes every woman deserves to be financially empowered and live their most authentic life. She helps her clients learn the personal finance skills and confidence they need to live the life they want.
Website: www.myfinancialfluency.com
Facebook Page: My Financial Fluency
Facebook Group: My Financial Fluency’s Empowerment Money Method
Instagram: My Financial Fluency
Pinterest: My Financial Fluency
Linkedin: My Financial Fluency
Mia helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs stop secretly struggling, live in alignment within themselves, Feeling Free To Be Themselves, so that they can scale to 6 and 7-figures -the fast way.
She also the founder of Aligned Intelligence™, a methodology that removes all blind spots, fear, anxiety, and self-doubt. This is what allows her clients to make accurate decisions, work smarter, not harder, so they maximize their results in less time, feeling “free to be Me” living the life they’ve always known they were meant for!
Mia has co-owned and operated seven-figure businesses, is an international speaker, and a world-class business coach.
Website: www.MiaHewett.com
Instagram:@mia.hewett
Facebook: MiaHewettOfficial
Barbara Guterman is a seasoned entrepreneur, a passionate business executive, and a veteran community organizer with a desire for creating powerful change. She is a devoted wife and mother to three grown sons who share her passion for business and for giving back. As a consummate entrepreneur for over 33 years, Barbara has launched companies and managed businesses in a multitude of industry segments including telecommunications, retail, franchising, manufacturing, fine jewelry and in internet-based start-ups. Her experience ranges from small business to large scale public corporations and covers many areas of expertise including, management, operations, sales, investor relations, public relations, community relations and external affairs. Her ability to see the big picture and to do whatever needs to be done to achieve that goal is what sets Barbara apart from others.
At the young age of 23, Barbara saw an untapped market opportunity in the telecommunications industry and co-created one of the nation’s first competitive local phone companies. At the age of 30, Barbara’s company was the first in her industry to go public, and was regarded by Wall Street as a ”leading edge” company. Under her teams leadership, the company raised over $80 million dollars and grew to over 5000 employees, providing competitive local and long distance voice and data services to customers nationwide. She was widely recognized for these achievements and was featured in the September 1995 edition of Forbes magazine as a “Woman with a Mission”. Barbara has the distinction of being the first person to don the cover of Readers Digest, where she was highlighted as a distinguished woman entrepreneur. In addition, she was recognized as Ernst and Young’s 1997 Florida Entrepreneur of the Year, for her efforts in building Intermedia Communications.
Website: www.teachgiveinspirefridays.com, barbaraguterman.com
Instagram: @momofthreebs
Facebook: Teach Give Inspire Fridays
Shawnnah Monterrey is the CEO and founder of BeanStock Ventures with 20+ years’ experience in medical and life science software product development.
Prior to founding BeanStock Ventures, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California, San Diego and an Executive MBA from San Diego State University, then went on to hold product development management positions across numerous global firms, including Illumina, Invetech, Medtronic and Carl Zeiss Meditec.
Through this work, she continued to develop a passion for innovation in medical devices, life sciences, and biotechnology.
Website: www.beanstockventures.com
LinkedIn: BeanStock Ventures
Sarah Sajonas Yasukochi is a brand builder and integrated marketing strategist for purpose-driven entrepreneurs in the health, wellness and green living space who want to elevate their brands, grow sales, and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.
Sarah has created brand blueprints and marketing frameworks that have resulted in triple digit increases in client web traffic, social media followers, and sales conversions. Sarah’s clients have become industry leaders, fast growing companies, and 8-figure businesses.
Website: HousecollectiveSD.com
LinkedIn: Sarah Sajonas Yasukochi
Instagram: housecollectivesd
Facebook: House Collective
Stefanie is a leading personal branding photographer in San Diego, creating gorgeous, personality-driven images that allow her clients to shine online – from social media to book jackets to magazine covers! With an educational background in psychology and social work, Stefanie is amazing at making clients feel comfortable and at ease, as she guides them through the photoshoot process for dynamic images that resonate with the target audience. Stefanie has honed her craft in tailoring each session in a way that showcases her clients in their best light, to strengthen their brand and reinforce their brand message.
Website: www.TrueBlueBrandingSD.com
Instagram: stefanie_trueblueportrait & artofnature_bystefanie
Facebook: True BLUE Portrait & Stefanie Blue Fine Art Photography
Founder and CEO of Fab Fempreneurs, Sara Clark-Williams took the leap from her corporate job as an Organizational Development Consultant in 2008, growing two highly profitable businesses within 5 years. Through her Fab 4 Formula℠, annual Fab Fempreneur Fest℠ conference, and her “roll-up-your-sleeves” coaching style, Sara specializes in leading female entrepreneurs to make more money, make a bigger impact, and have more fun- that place she calls your “Sweet Spot”. When she is not doing business, you will find her hiking local trails, training for half marathons, supporting animal welfare organizations, sipping scotch, or finding the best burgers in San Diego, with her husband Chris.
Website: https://www.FabFempreneurs.com
Twitter: @FabFempreneurs
Instagram: @saraclarkwilliams
Shermin de Silva is the President & Founder of Trunks & Leaves Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the conservation of Asian elephants and their habitats through science and education.
She is also a founder and trustee of EFECT, Sri Lanka and a member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Her main passion is to find ways for people and wildlife to coexist by understanding and meeting the needs of both.
Shermin obtained her Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania, studying the behavior and ecology of Asian elephants and directs the Udawalawe Elephant Research Project in Sri Lanka, which she initiated in 2005.
Twitter: @Shermin_deSilva
Facebook: : Trunks & Leaves
Instagram: @TrunksNLeaves
Gina has been selling online courses since 2016 and is a marketing and sales funnel expert.
Within a few months of launching her first course she left her day job to focus full time on her teaching platform.
Gina was inspired to enter the world of “passive income” after listening to several podcasts on the topic and is aiming to continue scaling her business and helping others do the same in the coming year.
Website: academyfordance.com and ginanet.com Twitter: @academyfordance
Katee Van Horn is a former VP of Engagement & Inclusion for a Fortune 500 company. Now she leads VH Included Consulting & Coaching, where she uses her 20+ years of experience to partner with organizations to strengthen their inclusive cultures. She is an HR strategist and international keynote speaker focused on diversity & inclusion. Her focus is on showing organizations how to build a diverse team where everyone succeeds.
Website: vhincluded.com
Twitter: kateebar7
Facebook: @KateeVanHornDiversityInclusion
LinkedIn: Katee Van Horn
Melissa Kovacs is a statistician with a Ph.D. in public policy and econometrics and is the founder of FirstEval, LLC, a data analytics and statistical consulting firm. Melissa has provided statistical expertise in the nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors, and within litigation settings. Melissa is fanatical about finding meaning in data and seeing organizations make data-driven decisions that forward their missions.
Website: https://firsteval.com/
Twitter: @firsteval
Erin Carpenter is the host of Franchise Rising, the original podcast for women in franchising.
She’s also the Digital Marketing Director at Evoque Data Center Solutions, a global data center colocation company.
Erin is passionate about staying on the cutting edge of digital marketing technologies, helping businesses fast-track leads to sales.
Website: www.franchiserising.com
Twitter: @ehcarpenter and @franchiserising
Brin Frazier is an adjunct instructor at American University’s School of Communication. She is also a visiting researcher at Georgetown University and currently working on a book project about a small group of women in Kansas who, in the late 1940s, spearheaded a precursor case to Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka) and helped to desegregate America’s public schools.
Until April 2019, Brin was the director of executive & strategic communications at Nissan Motor Corporation, where she wrote for Nissan’s top executives and helped to develop and execute the company’s communications strategy. She joined Nissan in 2012 and, until 2016, was based at its global headquarters in Japan. While living in Tokyo, Brin was the speechwriter for Nissan’s Chairman & CEO.
Prior to Nissan, Brin served at the U.S. Department of Justice for three years as chief speechwriter to Attorney General Eric Holder. She began her career at the White House in President Clinton’s Office of Speechwriting. She has served two stints on Capitol Hill, including on the Energy & Commerce Committee as deputy communications director and speechwriter to former Chairman John Dingell. She has written speeches and opinion pieces and provided strategic guidance for a variety of business and non-profit leaders and political candidates.
She is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds a Master’s Degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brinfrazier/
Kristen Newsome is the Founder and Executive Director of My Sister’s Keeper Success Institute (MSKSI), a nonprofit 501 c (3) organization serving Southwest Riverside County, CA. The mission of MSKSI is to help girls in under-represented communities ages 10-17 become bold confident world-changers as they explore careers in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), Entrepreneurship, and develop strategies for personal growth and development.
Kristen helps set young women on the path towards economic empowerment, independence, leadership and self-confidence. She is a leader who inspires action and is grounded in the fight for educational social justice and ensuring every girl who is under-represented in society has an opportunity to learn, prosper and succeed through the power of mentoring.
Website: www.msk-successinstitute.org
Facebook: MSKSuccessInstitute
Twitter: @msksi_steam
Instagram: @msksiinc
As a corporate consultant with 20 years of senior leadership experience, she works closely with executive women who seek support in their professional development and have an undeniable desire to elevate their influence and maximize potential. Her clients include senior leaders from Fortune 500 companies, such as GlaxoSmithKline, Amazon, Mozilla & National Institutes of Health.
As a Strategic Advisor, she develops, shape and sponsor hundreds of successful women who want to be part of a leadership circle where decisions are made, blueprints for organizational direction developed and company mission driven.
As your Corporate Ally, Denise helps professional women navigate at the intersection of top leadership and bottom-line communication with C-Suite leaders. Knowing how to have meaningful conversations, a strong executive presence and gain a loyal following are key components to securing sought after roles in today’s leading organizations.
Website: www.deniseharrisonline.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/denise-harris
Payal Mehta is the owner of North County CPA- CPA practice located in San Diego, CA. She helps business owners with their accounting, bookkeeping, tax planning and tax preparation. Payal has experience of more than 10 years in the field of accounting and taxation.
Website: www.northcountycpa.net
Dawn is a meditation coach and energy healer. She left her long-time job in corporate America to pursue her passions. She followed her inner guidance, which led her to assist others in their spiritual progression and healing.
Dawn is a certified Life Activation practitioner, Healer, and Max Meditation(™) Instructor from the Modern Mystery School.
Website: www.auroralove.life
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/auroralove.life/
Instagram: @dawnressel
Rita Abbati Albert is an attorney certified to practice in Illinois and California, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Over the last 20 years, she has worked in private practice, as in-house counsel, as a law school professor and a contributing author to legal publications.
She has also been active in the San Diego nonprofit community and has worked for and/or served as board member to several nonprofits, including CoolGlobes, Inc., The Children’s School, Elite Rugby Foundation (now Nike Legion Rugby Camps), Brighter Futures for Beautiful Minds and Directing Change. As Executive Director and Legal Counsel for ConnectMed, she manages the affairs and operations of ConnectMed and collaborates with the Board of Directors.
Website: www.connectmed.org
Twitter: @connectmed
Alegra Loewenstein writes ebook opt-ins and lead generators for coaches and solopreneurs. She also creates accompanying journals and workbooks for already published coaches, entrepreneurs, and small business owners.
Through writing books, guided journals, and workbooks, her science/engineering brain maps it out and arranges it, while the creative side comes up with the perfect words, and her inner teacher makes sure the reader will get benefits and results!
Website: www.alegraloewenstein.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/alegraloewenstein
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alegra-loewenstein-801727a3/
Sandy Park is owner and found of Tidy with SPARK, a home organization and decluttering service specializing in the KonMari Method™.
As a Certified KonMari™ Consultant, Sandy is expertly trained to support clients through their tidying journeys. Sandy knows all about the magic of tidying up. She did the ultimate KonMari™ and Konmari’d her career. Listen more for her life changing transformation story.
Website: www.tidywithspark.com
Instagram: @tidywithspark
Facebook: www.facebook.com/tidywithspark
Hillary Berman is the founder of Popcorn & Ice Cream, a Washington, DC-based marketing agency focused on small businesses and startups, and the author of Customer, LLC: The Small Business Guide to Customer Engagement & Marketing.
Hillary is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. She lives in Bethesda, MD with her husband and three budding entrepreneurs.
Website: www.popcorn-icecream.com / www.alboum.com
Twitter: @popcornicecream
Anna Cathleen Howard grew up in San Diego and Los Angeles, and she obtained her bachelor’s degree at University of Southern California. As a student there, she served on the Academic Honors Society and mentored at-risk youth in the South Central Los Angeles community. Anna then attended University of San Diego’s School of Law, graduating in 2011. While in law school, Anna volunteered with an immigration clinic, clerked for Federal Judge Michael Anello, and interned at the Public Defender’s office. After graduation, Anna worked at several law firms, focusing on security transactions and assisted reproduction rights, before starting her own firm. Anna lives and practices law in Carlsbad, California. She spends her free time with her close-knit family, swimming, body surfing, and volunteering.
Website: achowardlaw.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-howard-a86674a/
After graduating from the University of Tennessee, Heather began her career as a web developer and quickly moved into a role of managing a team of programmers, designers, animators, and digital video producers for a wide variety of multimedia interactive corporate applications including e-learning, marketing, and communications. From there, she worked as a project manager for Fortune 1000 companies, including Subway, Disney, HBO, and Target. This expertise led her to found Hammersmith Support, a full-service web development company focused on helping clients of all sizes move through every phase of the process: site building, hosting, and maintenance. But most importantly, Hammersmith Support is built on a foundation of close relationships with clients.
Website: https://hammersmithsupport.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hammersmithsupport/
Facebook: https://business.facebook.com/hammersmithsupport/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hammersmith-interactive/
Are you dreaming of retiring? Or just going to Tahiti? You know that it takes more than a date on the calendar or a plane ticket in hand to get there. Money Native founded by Liz Lemesevski helps small business owners achieve these and other long term goals by focusing on business finances. Liz spent over 20 years working with Wall Street financing and investing other people’s money to build wealth. She has her MBA in Finance from Fordham University and decided to “lean out” in 2009 to help women build their wealth through business ownership.
Website: www.moneynative.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizlemesevski/
Sediqa Amed is passionately interested in transformation, psychology, and neuroscience. Her background in Nuclear Medicine Technology, molecular science, energetic medicine, physics, neurolinguistic programming, and leadership grounds her work as a transformational leader. Using neuroscience integrated with psychology, Sediqa can instruct as well as coach individuals ways of achieving ultimate fulfillment, self-realization, connection, love, and success!
Sediqa Amed’s extensive background in Nuclear Medicine Technology with molecular-cell biology, physics, as well as Pranic Energy healing enhances and grounds her work as an energy practitioner and transformational leader. Sediqa firmly believes that we can influence our brain to change and create appropriate experiences through the use of holistic practices such as quantum mindfulness, sound therapy, art therapy, and ancient energetic self-healing techniques. Using simple neuroscience integrated with psychology, combined with energetic healing techniques such as Quantum and Pranic Healing, Sediqa is able to instruct, heal, as well as coach individuals ways of unblocking all obstacles preventing one’s path to self-realization, awakening, success, love, connection, and ultimate fulfillment.
Website: https://beyonddevelopment.org/ and http://quantumhealist.com/
Founder of Baephire Jewelry Designs, Kayla is a Jewelry Designer and Gemologist who graduated from the world-renowned Gemological Institute of America (GIA). Growing up as a fan of Japanese anime from age 7, Kayla aims to bring personality to premium jewelry for fans of anime, video games, and other exclusive subcultures she is inspired by through her unique jewelry designs.
Website: https://baephire.com/
Instagram: Baephire Jewelry Design, Kayla Viola
As the President and Co-Founder of Upstart Group, Lynn Fulks works with clients as an acting Chief Marketing Officer to understand their long term strategic objectives as well as short term annual business and sales goals, and develop marketing strategies to meet those goals. She builds strong marketing foundations that include product management and marketing communications strategies to drive growth. Lynn’s drive for results is matched only by the strength of the personal connection she forges with her clients, making her a valued member of their management team.
Website: upstartgroup.com
Twitter: @UpstartGroup
Das Media Group CEO and Founder Shinjini Das shares how she advocates and creates space for her #GoGetters through interactive marketing on social media reaching 7 Million + go-getters a month across her social media platforms.
Twitter: @SpeakerShinjini
Francine Antista a native to Southern California did everything to fit into that box of Corporate success. While she accomplished that, she also experienced and conquered the stress, anxiety, and depression that comes along with an overwhelming lifestyle.
She’s now the CEO of Zenerouslife Wellness Center where she helps Entrepreneurs and Professionals revitalize their mind, body, and energy to create their balanced lifestyles.
Website: www.zenerouslife.com
Teresa Barnes, RN, Founder of HearCommunication – a business educational company – helping businesses connect with the hearing impaired via a Hearing Friendly Training and Certification program. She is a registered nurse and former emergency room manager with more than 20 years of experience in health care and business. She has also had hearing loss since birth and understands the challenges of this condition in life and in business.
Website: www.hearcommunication.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hearteresabarnesrn/
Amy Airom, the founder of Capitalize Social Media, started her business on the heels of her exit from her 15-year corporate career to be a Stay At Home Mom. Five and a half years and two businesses later, she has found her niche in helping life and business coaches gain visibility, build relationships and grow their business using Facebook and Instagram.
Website: capitalizesocialmedia.com
Julie is a 20+ year transactional lawyer focused on advising women-owned start-ups and small to mid-sized companies on strategic business transactions, including early-stage financing, corporate structuring, commercial transactions, mergers & acquisitions, securities laws, and general corporate advice. She is also passionate about teaching and mentoring young lawyers.
In addition to presenting workshops and teaching a variety of law-school courses, she is Head of Experiential Learning at AltaClaro, an innovative online experiential-learning platform start-up, where she is developing practical continuing legal education courses for young lawyers and executives. She is also the author of the recent textbook: Transactional Lawyering: An Experiential Approach to Communication & Problem Solving (Carolina Academic Press, 2019). Julie practices with Acceleron Law Group, a California and D.C. based women and minority-owned law firm.
Website: acceleronlaw.com
Heather is an inactive CPA, a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, a financial coach and a divorce coach. She founded Divorce Transition Mentors thinking there must be a better support system for the days that you are too emotionally and physically exhausted to face all of the decisions and organizing that the divorce process requires.
The goal that she has for her clients is to have them come through their divorce as emotionally, financially and physically whole as possible.
Website: www.divorcetransitionmentors.com
Adriana Delgado is the founder of AlmaVerde-sustainable gardening. A small business dedicated to create, restore and maintain gardens in a sustainable way. AlmaVerde serves the DC metropolitan area.
Adriana was born in Argentina and grew up in a rural town. She studied Agriculture (B.S. in Agronomy) and Natural Resources (M.S. in Environment and Natural Resources Management). She moved to Washington DC 20 years ago to work on international agricultural development. More than five years ago she saw the growing of urban agriculture and the awareness of environment issues as an opportunity to develop her own business. AlmaVerde was born to give homeowners the possibility to enjoy their yards and help our planet at the same time, putting together aesthetic and functionality to create beautiful green spaces that enhance people’s life and improve our natural resources.
Adriana is a Certified Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional (CBLP). She is a Volunteer Master Gardener and Master Naturalist. She keeps learning about nature every day. She works directly with homeowners as well as through the programs of local governments (like District of Columbia, Arlington Co, Montgomery Co) to reduce stormwater issues at home level in order to improve the health of our water resources. She thinks that is possible to help our planet one garden at a time.
Website: www.almaverdegardening.com
Carmen has been working for over 20 years in Project and Program Management, and is now bringing her goal-setting, planning, and implementation skills to others by teaching the SMART goal methodology. She has coached middle and high school kids in robotics, broadcast journalism, and tennis, and realized that teaching them and using the SMART goals methodology helped them succeed. These experiences inspired the creation of her app, Teen SMART goals, designed specifically to teach teens how to set goals, track progress, and stay motivated. She is excited to bring her unique skills and passion to help teens accomplish more with less stress.
Website: https://www.teensmartgoals.com/
Twitter: @ceproctor
Eva Jannotta, founder of Simply Put Strategies, works with women entrepreneurs and business leaders to create data driven thought leadership and marketing strategy so they can increase their power and influence, make a social impact, and achieve gender parity.
Website: simplyputstrategies.com
Twitter: @evajannotta
Alex helps mission-driven business and nonprofits break through the day-to-day stress, and reach new levels of success through simple systems, organizing techniques, and planning strategies. Think of her like a closet organizer, tune-up mechanic, and personal trainer all-in-one, dedicated to helping small workplaces navigate the recurring obstacles and growing pains that can transform even the most fulfilling work into a series of tedious chores. Her common-sense approaches to process improvement, organizational change, personalized coaching (small group and 1:1), and skill-based management workshops helps clients develop the processes they need. By empowering clients to become more proactive in the administrative and management functions, Alex frees up more time and energy to dedicate to the work they love.
Website: https://www.aiscollaborations.com
Rebecca Tall Brown is the Co-Founder of Office of Awesome, a brand consultancy. As a strategist, Rebecca and her team build awesome brands that both delight customers and aligns with business objectives. Whether the goal is more leads, funders, the press, or an acquisition, they build brands to meet those goals. Rebecca has nearly two decades of experience, an MBA, and has worked with companies ranging from Toyota, pro athletes, funded tech startups, and social impact brands.
Website: https://officeofawesome.com/
LinkedIn: Rebecca Tall Brown
Instagram: Office of Awesome
Facebook: Office of Awesome
Ursula Garrett is an award winning author and international speaker with multiple entrepreneurial ventures including Garrett & Associates, CPA and Agenda E, Inc. Ursula has owned and operated her CPA firm for 20 years offering business advisory and tax services.
Her newest business venture, Agenda E is designed to help entrepreneurs build empires one asset at time using her 20+ years of business development experience.
Website: www.ursulaisamazing.com
Twitter: @CPAGarrett
Leslie enjoyed a twenty-five year career in high level financial services sales. Somewhere along the line, her femininity snuck away and her masculine took over. After one afternoon in a pole dancing studio, Leslie rediscovered her inner feminine and embarked on a ten-year deep dive to explore and reclaim her softer, sexier self.
Now, she helps other corporate, executive women discover how much easier and more joyful it is to lead and live from their softer, sexier feminine sides! Her company, Majestic Feminine shows women how to be soft and strong through individual consulting, speaking and retreats.
Website: www.majesticfeminine.com
Executives, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and driven professionals rely upon Lifestyle & Mindset Coach Carla Reeves to call out their blind spots, expand their perspective and create a more fulfilling way of showing up to their work and their lives.
Carla spent 10+ years in Corporate America working in HR and IT. She retired from Corporate America at age 32 to raise her boys and live the entrepreneurial life she loves. What she knows to be true is that people are far closer than they realize to the very things they deeply desire and today, empowering individuals to make simple, profound shifts in the way they experience everyday life is her passion and work in the world.
Website: www.carlareeves.com
Twitter: @carlasreeves
Anjalika is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and writer based in San Diego. Anjalika uses images to tell stories about brands, people and places. She makes corporate videos, speaker reels, documentaries and fiction films. She has soft spot for women entrepreneurs and those that try to make the world a better place.
Film on Amazon: bit.ly/MaeShortFilm
Website: https://indienari.com
Twitter: @indienari
Instagram: @indienari
Katie is an entrepreneurial fundraising and nonprofit industry expert, specializing in strategic planning, fund development, and database management. She co-founded her company, Kerredyn Collaborative, with the mission to amplify social impact through strategic planning, innovative project design, marketing, and fundraising.
Kerredyn provides a range of services to clients locally and globally, from web development to grant writing. Katie is passionate about growing and empowering a community of women entrepreneurs. She speaks regularly about philanthropy as good business, the intersection of family and business for women, and the business environment for women entrepreneurs.
Website: www.kerredyn.com
Tiffany Henning is a veteran in Church & Ministry HR with over 20 years of combined experience, earning her SPHR and CRPC.
In 2016, Tiffany founded HR Ministry Solutions, a faith based non-profit specifically created to simplify HR compliance and staff pain points for churches and ministries. She currently serves as the Chief People Person of HR Ministry Solutions overseeing a team of HR Pros whose purpose is to help churches and ministries create a staff culture that is healthy and sustainable.
Website: www.hrministrysolutions.com
Ria Langheim is passionate about working towards a more sustainable energy future.
She is particularly interested in accelerating the adoption of green energy technologies in homes.
She is doing this by building a platform that helps homeowners on their green energy journey – to make smart decisions about adopting solar panels, energy storage and electric vehicles.
Website: ewallaby.com
Twitter: @ewallabyenergy
Natalia developed a deep sense of curiosity from living in Latin America as a child and then in Europe as a young adult. After building a long career within the automotive industry, she serendipitously landed in a market research role where she discovered her passion for research.
As a qualitative researcher she leverages her sense of curiosity, along with experiences from being a call center operator, an English teacher and a marketing professional to understand both the customer and client needs. By listening to people’s authentic stories and analyzing data, she can unlock meaningful and actionable insights that help organizations develop strategic plans.
Website: www.keyholeresearch.com
Julie Yoder is an English language teacher and coach. She helps international professionals overcome their language and cultural challenges and communicate with confidence. She is also a poet, tap dancer, and drummer and previously trained in none of these things.
Invited twice by the State Department and Meridian International Center to share with Ukrainian and Russian teachers, administrators and government officials her customization process for instruction and general experience delivering English for Specific Purposes courses in the private market.
Semifinalist in the 2019 UPS Store Small Biz Challenge 2019 (10 semifinalists of 1,700 applicants)
Website: https://www.englishwithpurpose.com/
Twitter: @EngWithPurpose
Vasudha Deming helps organizations to thrive by creating training programs that lead to business results and increased employee engagement. She’s worked with dozens of leading companies in the areas of customer communications, sales training, and positive management techniques. She’s also the author of four books about effective training in organizations–all published by McGraw-Hill.
Website: noblelearning.com
Marliese Bartz is a business improvement strategist dedicated to helping companies run better — for employees and customers. Her consulting approach blends experience as a designer with Big Business toolsets from Lean, Agile, Change Management, and Six Sigma — bringing visual problem-solving to life through colorful StickyNotes and infographics.
With over 25 years of business experience, Marliese is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Change Management Professional, and holds an MBA in Marketing and Management.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marliesebartz/
Phyllis Serbes is a crochet teacher and designer. Her mission is to teach the world how to crochet so that every one of us can unlock our creativity. Phyllis originally founded Many Creative Gifts in 2005 to showcase handmade crocheted baby clothes and toys, but she quickly expanded into custom designs and digital crochet patterns.
She has an adopted sheep, Chausette, that lives on a farm in Pennsylvania since her balcony is not large enough.
Website: www.manycreativegifts.com Twitter: @PhyllisofMCG
Melissa Wogahn is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach with a passion to help women realize that it is possible to live an active life even if you hate to exercise. She has a master’s degree in exercise physiology and is a provider for the Exercise is Medicine initiative, a program connecting physicians with top health and fitness providers. Melissa is also involved with the County of San Diego’s Feeling Fit Program, a program offering free functional fitness classes throughout the county for anyone over 60.
Website: www.joyofactiveliving.com Twitter: @melissawogahn Facebook: JoyOfActiveLiving
Entrepreneur Mika Leah is a mother, a young heart disease survivor and warrior for wellness. She is a National Ambassador for the American Heart Association and a member of their Board of Directors.
Mika survived 5 heart stents and 4 invasive heart procedures before her 36th birthday. She is alive today because she listened to her intuition and her body, and bravely advocated for herself.
With a new lease on life and a calling to help others, Mika launched her corporate wellness company Goomi Group. It has grown to 300+ instructors across the country, offering on-site fitness & health programs for the workplace through movement and motivation.
Website: www.goomigroup.com Twitter: @goomigroup
Maggy Sterner is a brand and business coach. She helps entrepreneurs and small businesses get laser clarity about their brand message and find the words to describe it simply so they can attract clients. Maggy believes people hire you when you know who you are, you own your brilliance, and stand for it with confidence and conviction. Her superpower is helping her clients see the superpower that lives in their blind spot.
Website: maggysterner.com Twitter: @maggysterner LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggysterner
Barbara Eldridge has built a solid reputation as a Success strategies specialist, coach and speaker within industry and business over the past 35 years. She founded Mind Masters in 1991 to provide weekly support and guidance to entrepreneurs who work alone, need a sounding board, a forum, resources for their ideas. She wanted MIND MASTERS to become their Advisory Board – a resource often not available by virtue of the fact that these are indeed ‘very small businesses’, to help them master the focus needed to achieve their dreams and goals in the ever changing marketplace.
Website: www.mindmaster.com