2023 Speakers
Bobby Berk
As the resident design expert and member of the Fab Five on Netflix’s Emmy-winning series Queer Eye, Bobby Berk brings change to people’s lives by teaching them that a happy home means a happy life. Now in its sixth season, Queer Eye is one of the most popular shows on Netflix and is available in more than 100 countries. Bobby is the leader his eponymous multi-faceted brand, including his bespoke design practice that epitomizes hip, urban luxury and reflects a stylish and youthful spirit, as well as comprehensive lifestyle destination BobbyBerk.com. His design firm has quickly become a leader in the home building industry, and in 2020, Architectural Digest crowned Bobby as one of the “most famous interior designers working today.”
Next, Bobby is releasing his first book, Right at Home: How Good Design Is Good For The Mind,publishing September 12, 2023. Right at Home demonstrates that good design can aid mental wellness and help achieve a new sense of happiness within the home. With gorgeous photographs of beautifully styled rooms and Bobby’s tried-and-true tips, it is the definitive guide to designing a modern home that will teach readers how to follow their happiness to find their style, optimize the function of every room, organize their space, and so much more.
In addition to his Emmy-nominated work as host on Queer Eye, Bobby served as the host of Netflix’s Blown Away: Christmas and was a semi-finalist on the sixth season of FOX’s The Masked Singer.
When Bobby is not running his design practice or filming, he spends his time in Los Angeles, where he resides with his husband, Dewey, and their dog, Bimini.
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Gabrielle Blair
Gabrielle Stanley Blair is the author of the book, Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way To Think About Abortion — available now. She is also the founder of DesignMom.com. Started in 2006, it has been named a Website of the Year by Time Magazine, praised as a top parenting blog by The Wall Street Journal, Parents, and Better Homes & Gardens, and won the Iris Award for Blog of the Year. Her first book, Design Mom: How to Live with Kids, a New York TimesBestseller, was published in 2015 by Artisan. Gabrielle is also a founder of Alt Summit, the blockbuster annual conference for online content creators and creative entrepreneurs, currently in its 13th year.
As a thought leader for over 15 years, Gabrielle has written and moderated hundreds of discussions on difficult topics, and interviewed some of the most influential people in the world. Her writing is quoted and shared across the globe daily. Gabrielle and her husband, Ben Blair, have six children — Ralph, Maude, Olive, Oscar, Betty, and Flora June. After six years in Oakland, they moved to a small town in Normandy, France where they are renovating a house from the 1600s.
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Ben Uyeda
Ben Uyeda stepped away from the award-winning architecture firm he co-founded, as well as an Ivy League teaching position, to develop media companies that deliver affordable designs to the masses. In the last 10 years, Ben’s design ideas have reached more than 100 million people and the free designs he gives away have been built on six different continents.
Ben has parlayed his social media following into advisory roles at several startups in fields such as steel fabrication, digital manufacturing, and artificial intelligence.
Currently Ben is developing a shipping container hotel on 180 acres in Joshua Tree California
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Cyndie Spiegel
Cyndie Spiegel is a born storyteller–turned–writer. She is an author and the founder of Dear Grown Ass Women®, an inclusive and highly relatable social community for women 35+. She also wrote the best-selling book, A Year of Positive Thinking: Daily Inspiration, Wisdom & Courage.
Cyndie is an aspirational voice and an igniter of powerful conversation. Before imploding her life (the first time) at the age of 35, she spent 15 years in the New York fashion industry. She is a former adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design, and Fashion Institute of Technology; and holds a Masters of Professional Studies. She is also NYCAPP certified in Applied Positive Psychology and is also a trained yoga and meditation teacher.
Her next book, Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay is being published by Penguin Random House in February of 2023.
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Ana Flores
A community builder and soul-centered entrepreneur, Ana Flores is living her passion as the founder of #WeAllGrow Latina, a 100% Latina-owned and operated community-driven platform founded in 2010 with a mission of connecting and fueling the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinas.
A sought-out speaker and thought leader in the areas of representation, community building and gender equality, Ana has been recognized by the United Nations as a Champion of Change and by People en Español as one of “Las 25 Mujeres Más Poderosas”, amongst numerous other accolades. Ana is devoted to her roles as a board member of the MAIA Impact School, Central America’s first secondary school specifically designed to unlock and maximize the potential of young Indigenous women, and co-Chair of MAIA’s Latina Alliance for Impact.
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Heather Carter
Heather is the co-CEO of The Riveter and has over a decade of founder and executive-level experience leading venture backed companies in operations, strategy, and expansion both vertically and geographically. She has scaled companies in marketplace, health tech, digital community, and brick & mortar from stages of pre-seed funding through to exits. Heather currently serves as a Board Member at the Beverly Hills Women’s Club, advisory at Hailo and served as Backstage Capital mentor.
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Alison Faulkner
Alison Faulkner is a branding and events expert, host of the podcast Awesome with Alison a top 100 health and wellness podcast, consultant for Fortune 500 companies, writer, speaker, artist, self-proclaimed nonsense dancer, author, and CEO of Alison’s Brand School, partnering with Microsoft and Alaska Airlines among others. Alison is obsessed with her kids, husband, family, and friends.
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Melissa Bahen
Melissa Bahen is the creator of Lulu the Baker, a blog about simple food and modern country life. She is also the author of two beautiful cookbooks: Scandinavian Gatherings and Farmhouse Weekends. She and her work have been featured in online and print publications like Better Homes & Gardens, Sweet Paul, and Rachael Ray Every Day. She has also created recipes, photos, and other content for brands like Minted, Albertsons, and Home Depot. She lives on a small hobby farm in western Oregon with her husband and kids, and is currently back in school getting an MBA.
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Emily Tohir
Emily Tohir is a passionate product manager, creator and inclusion enthusiast who finds her spark by ideating and building innovative product experiences that people love to use. Ever interested in the intersection of tech and art, Emily studied Computer Science and Studio Art at Wellesley College, before moving to the SF Bay Area to pursue product management. Emily has spent the majority of her career at Microsoft and has worked on Designer, an AI backed visual design app (currently in closed beta), since it’s inception. In addition to her day job as Principal PM Manager on the Microsoft Designer team, Emily serves as a co-lead for Women at Microsoft Bay Area, and loves to craft, stay active (loving pickeball at the moment!), read and travel in her spare time.
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Maya Bisineer
Maya Bisineer is Principal GPM at Microsoft. She leads a team building the generative AI application Designer – an innovation product launched at Microsoft last year and presently in closed beta.
Maya is a long time technologist, entrepreneur and investor. She serves on the board of Project Glimmer, a non profit organization dedicated to supporting and empowering foster youth. She has served as a mentor at Techwomen, a program run by the US State Department.
Outside work she is an avid trail runner and recently started exploring ultra races. You can find her as @thinkmaya on most social platforms.
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Angel Marie
Angel Marie is not only ConvertKit’s creator educator but a Creator herself and has grown a thriving coaching business with email at the forefront of her strategy. She has taught thousands of Creators how to leverage email and grow an audience. Her goal is to empower entrepreneurs so they can have holistic success across the most important areas in their lives.
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Hilary Billings
Hilary Billings is the Co-Founder and CEO of Attentioneers, where she helps personal brands and companies drive exponential audience growth through short-form content.
With over a billion views, she understands the psychology of keeping attention online. A certified brand strategist, she’s worked with a gamut of high-performing entrepreneurs, including billionaires, Victoria’s Secret models, and New York Times best-selling authors like Jen Hatmaker. A former Miss Nevada, journalist and tv producer, Hilary’s also worked with national media outlets like USA Today and E! News.
Considered an authority on branding and viral content, Hilary’s insights have been featured in Entrepreneur and Huffington Post.
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Elle Rowley
Elle Rowley is the founder of the baby carrier company Solly Baby, co-founder of Levin Capital, an angel investing fund focusing on family-owned, direct-to-consumer brands, and author of the children’s book Agnes and the Sheep. She lives on their family farm in San Diego, California with Jared and their four children.
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Alyssa Campbell
Alyssa Blask Campbell has an M.Ed. in Early Childhood, is a leading expert in emotional development speaking to people around the world, podcast host for Voices of Your Village in over 100 countries, and CEO of Seed & Sew LLC. Alyssa was featured as an emotional development expert in publications such as The Washington Post, Kids VT, and Family Education.
After co-creating the Collaborative Emotion Processing (CEP) method with Lauren Stauble, she researched it across the U.S., and co-authored a book on it (coming soon!).
Her company, Seed & Sew serves people across the globe through speaking, consulting, online courses, and podcasting, with tools to build emotional intelligence.
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Michele Barnett Occhino
Michele B. Occhino is the Managing Principal of Bradley & Barnett Agency, Inc. that provides services worldwide with operations in FL, NY, and TX. Bradley & Barnett Agency provides insurance and legal services that focus on risk mitigation. A licensed attorney with 25+ years of insurance, contract review, and intellectual property experience working with BMW, the White House under the Clinton Administration, YMCA of the USA, and the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., she leverages her legal background and insurance know-how to ensure her clients are prepared for the unexpected and can realize their dreams. She received a JD and Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan – #GoBlue! She and her husband spend most of their time in Jupiter, FL.
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Amanda Jane Jones
Amanda Jane Jones is a freelance graphic designer and children’s book author and illustrator. Her books Yum Yummy Yuck (Prestel), Fuzzy Furry Ouch (Simon & Schuster), and The Hair Book (Union Square & Co) were inspired by her three children. She is currently writing a book called Founding Mothers (Artisan), a playbook for entrepreneurship and motherhood, which is slated for 2025. Amanda is the founding designer and co-creator of Kinfolk Magazine and the co-founder of Define Magazine.
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Glory Edim
Glory Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a podcast and digital platform that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. She edited the Well-Read Black Girl anthology in 2018, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and named a best book of the year by Library Journal.
She was the 2017 winner of the Innovator’s Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes She serves on the board of Baldwin for the Arts and New York City’s Housing Works Bookstore. Her latest book, ON GIRLHOOD, published in 2021. She resides in Washington D.C. with her son, Zikomo.
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Leslie Saeta
Author of the newly released book, A Home to Share, Leslie is a full time lifestyle blogger and Instagram content creator of the widely popular My 100 Year Old Home. Featured in over thirty magazines and in the LA Times and on the Today Show, Leslie shares home decor, DIY crafts, recipes, flea market shopping and entertaining tips daily on her blog and social media Leslie enjoys sharing her ever-changing real life which includes simple and easy ways to create home decor for your home. She also blogs about ways to grow your Instagram account and how to organize events and parties in her home. Leslie lives in Southern California in their 100 year old family home with her husband and has three grown sons and a daughter-in-law.
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Ana Bianchi
Ana is an artist, designer, illustrator, and published children book author/illustrator.
With degrees in both graphic design and fine arts, her creative work spans across disciplines ranging from illustration, surface design and childrenwear to graphic design and branding for clients small and big, such a redesigning airlines like American Airlines and Air Canada.
Her live-long love of color is what connects it all and helps her comfortably move from one discipline to another and from one technique to another.
Her art brand AnaLovesColor is where all these diverse projects live.
This year at Alt she will be painting a colorful mural titled “I am here to bloom”.
When not working in her Bay Area studio, Ana loves to cook and bake colorful things, and tend to her garden -her other color studio-.
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Cai Dixon
Cai is a mother and enthusiast about all things health and nutrition. She started Copy-Kids as a passion project to encourage young children to be less intimidated to try healthy foods.
She joined Green Child Magazine and The Gardening Channel with her expanding mission to help moms improve whole-family health and nutrition.
A self-professed social media fanatic and the superwoman behind several highly engaged Facebook pages, Cai loves the opportunity to build community, connect people with causes they care about, and foster meaningful conversations around positive change.
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Alyce Chan & Rosie Nguyen
Alyce Chan and Rosie Nguyen are both digital creators with a knack for creating clever and relatable content with a comedic twist. Between Rosie’s family fun + lifestyle brand, The Hustling Mama, and Alyce’s parenting platform, MomCom NYC, these two Asian mamas are out on a mission to connect with parents through humor and honesty. Rosie has represented moms on national television and has gone viral across both Tiktok and IG. Alyce is also a writer and stand-up comedian performing across North America and gets featured regularly on Scary Mommy. Together these two are an unstoppable and hilarious force.
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Danielle Krysa
Danielle Krysa has a BFA in Visual Arts, and a post-grad in graphic design. She is the writer behind the contemporary art site, The Jealous Curator (est.2009), and has curated art shows all over North America. Danielle is also an artist herself, and her narrative mixed media work is held in private collections worldwide. She is the author of several art books, including “Creative Block”, “Your Inner Critic Is A Big Jerk”, “A Big Important Art Book – Now with Women”, and two children’s books; “How To Spot An Artist” and “Art and Joy”. Danielle has had the great pleasure of speaking at Alt Summit, TEDx, PIXAR, Creative Mornings, and was interviewed in series of video segments on oprah.com about breaking through creative blocks and self-doubt.
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Jodie Kammerer & Julia Lancia
We’re Jodie & Julie, The Design Twins. We both have teaching backgrounds and hold Masters Degrees in Education, but what gets us most excited these days is sharing what we’ve learned on our Instagram journey with other entrepreneurs. We consult with small businesses & other influencers, & speak at conferences (Haven Conference 2022, Uplife Retreat 2022, Achieve Conference 2022) and created an online Instagram course in 2021. We even hosted and led our own 2 ½ day mini-conferences in 2018 & 2019 where we created all the curriculum and taught the entire conferences ourselves. Our journey has been incredibly rewarding so far because we love to inspire women creatively, help them celebrate their talents, and encourage them to boldly chase their dreams. We believe that a positive attitude, generous spirit, and hard work can achieve just about anything. Unlike many bloggers we started on Instagram and continue to find our community and our JOY on Instagram.
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Jeannette Kaplun
Jeannette Kaplun is the founder & CEO of bilingual media company Hispana Global. An award-winning bilingual TV personality, mom, speaker and Latina creator featured on Good Morning America, Today, Despierta América, and other shows, Jeannette serves as Special Advisor to The Bank of America Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Cornell, was included in the Forbes #Next1000 2021 list and won the Iris Award for Instagram of the Year. Previously, she co-founded Todobebé, the first parenting site in Spanish that launched Emmy nominated TV shows, radio shows, events, trilingual apps and products to empower the Hispanic community during all stages of parenting.
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Julianne “JuJu” Taylor
Julianne “JuJu” Taylor is a Charleston, SC based content creator, product designer, and mindset speaker. JuJu finds and shares the “Good JuJu’ with her community related to easy recipes, home decor, entertaining at home, fashion, and travel. JuJu marries creativity and a strong business acumen to help her communities find joy in the everyday through working smarter, not harder.
JuJu is a regular contributor for Charleston Inside Out Magazine. She is the author of DesignHER (2016) and has licensed collections of wallpaper, artwork, and tabletop sold through retailers such as HomeGoods and Anthropologie. Julianne is also the founder of Taylor Burke Home, a custom to-the-trade luxury upholstery company made in NC
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Ronit Shiro
Ronit Shiro is the founder & CEO of Feppy, an edutainment company that produces multimedia bilingual solutions for parents wishing to facilitate immersive Spanish-English language learning for children based on the core value that kids learn best while having fun! Having grown up as an immigrant’s daughter in Venezuela, where she was born, Ronit Shiro spoke several languages at home and
recognizes the opportunities to connect and understand other cultures through language.A marketer-by-profession, mom of 3, and avid traveler, she leverages her marketing experience in Fortune 500 companies
such as Pepsi to help parents provide a fun learning environment when teaching languages to young children.
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Britt Cornett & Kels Givens
We are two marketing besties who love to help business grow, love their customers well, and have a great time doing it!
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Angie Chua
Angie Chua is the founder, heart, and soul of bobo design studio where she designs and creates wanderlust and travel-inspired stationery that encourages and enables people to explore the world around them. Angie is also an illustrator, licensed artist, muralist, and the owner of the boutique stationery shop bobo Palm Springs.
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Ashleé Lindo
Ashleé Lindo is a multihyphenate that thrives on creativity. An award winning creative consultant, she specializes in graphic design, social and brand strategy. Ashleé has delivered world-class strategic brand and marketing direction to organizations such as Coca Cola, WEtv and Truist Financial Corporation. Leveraging her 14 years of corporate experience, Ashleé works with other multi-hyphenates and emerging brands to define their brand and marketing strategy. Her clients have been featured in Glamour, Essence Magazine, Blavity and Forbes. A self-proclaimed imported Georgia peach, she loves trying new restaurants, spending time with her family & friends, and traveling.
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Kitiya Palaskas
Kitiya Palaskas is a multi-disciplinary Craft-based Designer, and the founder of Kitiya Palaskas Studio, a full-service creative agency specialising in prop and installation design, content creation, public art/event design, illustration, and creative workshops, with a focus on traditional handmade techniques reimagined in contemporary ways. She has over 12 years experience crafting for global brands – providing unique and tactile design solutions that help them stand out from the crowd. Her clients have included Adobe, Etsy, The Washington Post, LEGO, Warner Music, Lily Allen and more. Kitiya is a proud Adobe Express Ambassador, and the author of Piñata Party, a DIY craft book.
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Mimi Kaumanns
Mimi is an illustrator & motion graphics artist based in Munich. She believes art is more than just a picture, it’s a graceful tool used to communicate, inspire and remind us of that feeling in our heart called joy. It is that joy that she wants to share with you at Alt Summit!
She will document Alt Summit by live illustrating YOU – the attendees, the speakers and panels. Alt friends meeting again and new friends chatting over coffee, attendees taking a break in between keynotes. She’ll catch the energy and joy of this Alt Summit 2023 in one big collection of illustrations and if you see her: come say hi, she’ll try to sketch you, too!
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Deanne Gustafson
Deanne Gustafson is a former tv news reporter and anchor who got sick of covering negative news stories and decided to focus on positive content instead. She got into live selling for a fashion boutique (like QVC but more casual) which led her to finding Amazon Live and the influencer program. In January 2022 she starting making product review videos and earned $280 that month. Within six months, she was earning almost $10,000 a month (more than she ever made as a journalist!) Deanne lives with her husband, two beautiful little girls, and an American Eskimo dog in San Diego.
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Caroline Kalentzos
Caroline Kalentzos is the Boss Doll + CEO of POSH PR, host of The Boss Doll Podcast and educator behind The Boss Doll Academy. She has been recognized as a social media expert by Forbes, is an international speaker and educator, and has worked with brands like Saks Fifth Avenue, Tiffany & Co., and Neiman Marcus. She believes that every day is a celebration and lives by her business slogan, Champagne Is Always The Answer. Caroline works with fashion, beauty and lifestyle entrepreneurs to elevate their brands in order to create the life they had always dreamed of—just like she did when starting her company.
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Hayley Barry
Hayley Barry is the founder, owner and artist behind Type Affiliated, a lettering studio dedicated to creating high quality custom lettering art for clients across the United States. Over the years, she has created work for clients including HGTV, Johnny Cupcakes, Utah Valley University, Wayfair and more. Nothing Hayley more joy than getting to create, and to help others’ ideas become a reality through design. Along with creating lettering artwork, she is also dedicated to serving her community of Provo Utah and helping other creatives. She currently serving as the President of the Salt Lake City AIGA chapter, the co-host of Creative Collaborative Utah and the founder of the Utah Lettering Club.
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Danica Kombol
Danica Kombol was the founder and CEO. of Everywhere Agency, one of the top influencer marketing agencies that pioneered the industry as we know it. She built her business from a three-person start-up, working out of her basement into a bonafide agency working with Fortune 500 brands. She began her career working at Sesame Street and went on to become a successful TV producer for shows like Saturday Night Live, Kids in the Hall and VH1. She sold Everywhere Agency two years ago and is passionate about offering advice to women entrepreneurs wanting to learn how to build and scale their business.
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Ringo & Sarah Alexander
Ringo and Sarah are an artist duo who live and make art together in a dilapidated farmhouse between Baltimore and DC. This pair loves to create magical installations using unexpected materials (often found in their rubbish pile) to bring people joy and delight.
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Nicole Swartz
Nicole Swartz is the attorney and founder behind Sprout Law, a law firm for women business owners. She’s also a business owner as well. In 2015, she started a skincare line that was featured in hundreds of stores around the world and even the Golden Globes giftbags. After two years, she had to rebrand the entire business because she didn’t have a trademark. Now, she helps other women trademark their brands to avoid the same situation. Nicole is featured as an expert in Forbes, the Washington Post, Girlboss, and speaks at events like Craftcation and South by Southwest. Plus her Reels and TikTok about celebrity trademark gossip are pretty darn fun:)
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Michelle Allen
Michelle Allen is the sole, creative talent behind Allen Designs. She has never found anything completely flawless in life and yet she finds beauty everywhere. She loves the imperfect, slightly eccentric, witty quality of the world she sees around her. It’s the unpredictability of even the most mundane things that she tries to recreate in her art. Often, if something seems too perfect, she will skew it towards the unrealistic to capture the essence of a whim. Although the pieces she designs are practical, her hope is that her art will never become so serious that she betrays the uniqueness that inspires her.
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Jacinda Boneau
Jacinda Boneau is a surface designer and painter specializing in artwork for paper good and home decor. When she isn’t splashing watercolor paint around her studio, Jacinda teaches painting workshops and classes and blogs at OG DIY blog, Pretty Prudent.
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Michaela Dupkanic
Michaela is the creator behind My NW Nest, a DIY, design color comes alive! A self taught DIYer, muralist and aspiring woodworker, she loves to infuse her home with layers of color, pattern and fun. From pink stairs, sunset inspired murals and hexagon ceiling treatments to building fences and closets. It’s always an adventure in trusting the vision. While updating her small 1940s bungalow, she is discovering her design voice with maximalist style, a mural in every room and adventures in woodworking. She is driven by learning something new every day, especially if getting to try a new tool in the process.
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Elise Maree Fehr
Hi, My name is Elise Maree. I am a watercolour and paper college artist who is obsessed with colours, patterns and textures. Born and raised in Sydney Australia, this is where my love for art, colour and creativity began. I currently reside in Calgary, Alberta (Canada) where I live with my husband and little doggo, Pippin. (He’s a Dorkie) Growing up I always dreamed of being an artist and now that I’m all grown up, I’m living that dream. Almost 3 years ago (this month), I launched my business, Hip Hooray Studios. Hip Hooray Studios is a mobile children’s art and craft studio that host’s craft birthday parties and creative workshops, as well as creating at home craft kits and paper goods. We desire to fill hearts with such wonder & joy through everything that we create and that you create with us.
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Rachel Giberson
Rachel is a professional artist based in Austin, TX where she lives with her husband and three hilarious children. Rachel works across many mediums including block printing, textiles and paper. Her large-scale wall installations have been featured in venues from boutique stores in Texas to galleries in Paris.
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Delanie Holton-Fessler
Delanie Holton-Fessler is an author and expert in creative work with kids. Her book, Maker Camp: Heritage Crafts & Skill Building Projects for Kids was published internationally by Roost Books in 2022. She’s been an arts educator for nearly 20 years and opened her workshop in Denver, Craftsman & Apprentice 8 years ago. Craftsman & Apprentice serves thousands of kids each year through hands-on creative experiences in schools, libraries, and in their store-front workshop. Delanie believes deeply in the power of creative work and community to help kids be their best little selves.
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Camille Ipsen
Camille Ipsen is the creator and designer of (not so) Modern Millie, a shop for modern and nostalgic cross stitch patterns. Her two great loves are pop culture and vintage fashion and she combines those passions to bring a new style and audience to a ‘not so modern’ craft. Camille’s work has been featured in several national publications and she is a regular craft contributor to Benzie Design. Camille is also an advocate for the improvement of mental health through slow crafting. Her dream is to help the world stop scrolling and start stitching. She’ll bring the thread.
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Nikki McWilliams
Nikki McWilliams is a designer, maker, content creator and creative entrepreneur based in Scotland, UK. Nikki has created products for her two brands (specialising in homeware and stationery) for over 10 years. With her designs shipping around the globe every week, Nikki seeks to inspire nostalgia, playfulness and creativity through the objects she creates. In her spare time you can find her hanging out with her two kitties, writing in her journal or sharing her latest DIY Interiors & Craft Projects on instagram & tiktok.
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Abi Mullens
Abi is the founder of PictureHum as well as a long time underwater photographer. After years of being asked by friends where to find and book professional photographers she founded a company that does just that and now has photographers in over 20 major metro areas across the country.
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Mo Vázquez
Mo Vázquez is a designer, mom of four, child of the 80s, and life-long sticker lover. In 2014, she launched Pipsticks, a subscription sticker club, in order to bring back the magic of sticker collecting. Pipsticks grew quickly, sending perfectly curated packs of stickers to thousands of subscribers each month. Since then, she’s opened a flagship brick and mortar stationery store in California, designed thousands of sticker sheets, sold millions of stickers, sticker books, and stationery to sticker lovers around the world.
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Lacee Swan
Artist and Illustrator Lacee Swan began her career in New York City at the Fashion Institute of Technology studying Fashion Design.She loves creating stationery and paper products to create joy for the everyday. Drawing since a young girl she would spend hours making all her own paper dolls. It’s always been her dream to empower young girls through her art with creativity. She is all about creating products that cultivate confidence, kindness, self-esteem, friendship + creativity!
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Laurie White
Laurie White is a storyteller, writer, editor, social connector, community builder and teacher who loves to use the power of the internet for good.
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Anna Zietz & Erica Verges
Anna Zietz and Erica Verges are the co-founders of Glad & Young– a design studio producing fun-loving leather goods that are dreamed up and created by hand in their Atlanta, GA studio. Since 2015 they have set out to make bags and accessories that are daring, colorful, and full of personality.
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Laura Plouzek
Laura is the color-loving entrepreneur behind xoelle, where she’s been making rad & ridiculous bow ties for 14 years. She left her dream job (high school art teacher!) to travel from port to port when she fell in love with a bow-tie-wearing sailor. Her total love affair with making has been at the heart of everything else she does and so she happily paints, bakes, sews, prints, stitches, tufts, designs, builds, and folds lots of laundry (she made three kids with that sailor). If you give her a day off from bow ties, you’ll find her thrifting or taking long walks through old neighborhoods.
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Carly Robinson
Carly Rae Robinson is the artist and small business owner behind Carly Rae Studio + Carly Rae Creative. Her signature style is detailed, colorful and whimsical – often made up of tiny flowers.
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Amanda Schreyer
Amanda is a seasoned lawyer representing media, entertainment, and marketing clients –including content creators, advertising and marketing agencies, authors, filmmakers, video game developers, and other creative entrepreneurs – in connection with a variety of transactional matters. She negotiates agreements for global media companies in connection with digital advertising and entertainment productions, and negotiates sponsored content agreements on behalf of talent and agencies. Amanda regularly advises clients on intellectual property protection, promotional rules, and FTC endorsement and disclosure requirements. She also counsels clients on copyright clearance and fair use, and trademark licensing.
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April Davis
A compelling speaker, creative consultant, visual artist and wordsmith, April Davis has been featured in magazines, on podcasts, and on stage, sharing her wisdom, humor and knowledge as the creator of The Vagina Blog and The Vagina Blog Podcast. Her passion and drive have created an entire community around female body health, as she empowers women and vagina owners to love themselves fully while focusing on bringing light to taboo topics that we just don’t talk enough about, like sex and periods, along with self-love and positivity.
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Aria Leighty
Aria Leighty is an award-winning entrepreneur, podcast host, business mentor, and NETWORKING QUEEN! For over a decade, Aria has combined her diverse experience, creative ideas, wide range of connections, and unique perspective to help creative entrepreneurs show up in the world. Aria has spent 18 years mastering the art of intentional networking and has helped hundreds of other creatives, visionaries, and female founders do the same.
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Arianne Foulks
Arianne Foulks is a popular educator and small business enthusiast. She has focused her career on creating online homes for fascinating people. At Aeolidia, her web and graphic design agency, she has championed designer and artisan brands for over 18 years. She and her team have launched more than 600 thoughtful redesigns to help businesses level up. Aeolidia is an unparalleled “one stop shop” for creative people in need of a remarkable and effective ecommerce site. Her design agency prepares business owners for success. Aeolidia multiplies sales by increasing conversion rates, average order value, and customer retention.
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Becca Hadley
Becca Hadley is a self-taught graphic designer & course teacher from Dallas, Texas. Inspired by her love for color, creation and design, Hadley Designs was born. Hadley Designs is an 8 figure e-commerce company run by Becca and her husband Josh. Through this platform Becca has honed her design skills, created 1,000s of products and grown a loyal following on social media. Becca’s typical day consists of playing with her kids & pup, designing, styling products & planning her next family adventure.
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Britta Tabor
Britta Tabor is not a blogger or even an influencer; she is a change agent. Britta’s journey is to help women find their true and authentic selves by knowing, who and who’s they are from the inside out!!! Through her faith and fashion, Britta’s purpose is to help women know when they shine, they give others permission to do the same. She teaches women how to think outside of the box for different clothing options and offers fashion advice to those who feel their eye for fashion is a bit blurred.
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Koseli Cummings
Koseli Cummings is a senior content designer. She’s passionate about encouraging freelance writers and content strategists to realize their product and content value.
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Heather Avis
Heather is the founder of The Lucky Few, a New York Times best-selling author, podcaster and a Down syndrome advocate, working to create a more inclusive world where everyone belongs. For more than a decade, she has led this effort by shouting worth, shifting narratives and reimagining what it looks like when we embrace and celebrate our differences.
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Amanda Stewart
Amanda is the Founder and Creative Director of Mochi Kids and Mochi Play Store. She started her business as a hobby which organically grew into a successful e-commerce business and now a brick + mortar store.
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Camille Whiting
Camille Whiting is a digital strategist and author of Friday We’re in Love, a lifestyle blog with a focus on creative dates and family fun. She has an MBA with a marketing emphasis and spent years as an agency marketer project manager helping top Fortune 500 companies hone their digital strategy. She now utilizes these skills running her own business and consulting for others. Camille is a self-proclaimed marketing nerd, an infertility miracle mom, and always finding the next fun experience to inspire others to get out and date more! She’s been featured by Woman’s Day, Southern Living, the Huffington Post, Brit+Co, the Arizona Republic, and The Pioneer Woman.
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Charmaine Jennings
Charmaine is the founder of Hustle + Charm – a community of women who come together for support in life and entrepreneurship. Being a solopreneur can be tough, but having a crew of women in your corner makes the unpredictable life of entrepreneurship easier and leads to greater success. Charmaine is also the founder of Strategic Charm – a marketing agency helping entrepreneurs connect with dream clients and customers online. Her agency helps clients find their voice and define their message so they can confidently and strategically communicate their passion for their industry, the work they do and the value of their offers.
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Desha Peacock
International Retreat Leader, LifeSTYLE Design Coach, and Founder of Sweet Spot Style, Desha Peacock works with entrepreneurial women to upgrade their business and lifeSTYLE. She’s also the author of Create the Style You Crave and Your Creative Work Space. Peacock holds a master’s degree from The School for International Training, is a certified Global Career Development Facilitator, and has led workshops & retreats across the globe. HuffPost called her first book the book to gift your girlfriend. She’s also been featured in Origins Mag, The Jungalow, Where Women Create, ABC.News, US News Money and many more.
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Cat Hildner
Cat Hildner is the force behind Kitty Meow® Boutique – where you can shop beautifully designed gift goodies based on your mood: WITTY or SWEET! The Kitty Meow® brand is fun, FIERCE, & designed to make women feel confident, empowered, and courageous enough to take the bull by the horns in life. She was named one of the Top 10 Designers to Watch in 2022 by Stationery Trends Magazine. Cat has taken her product based business from 0-1,000+ stores in under 4 years, in the middle of a pandemic! Taking what she’s learned, Cat coaches other product based businesses to create and scale their own unique line of products. She is also co-host of the Ultimate Product Party, an in-person event for product based businesses looking sell more products and make more money. Cat is a wife and momma to three little kiddos in the Chicagoland area.
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Dr. Darria Long
Dr. Darria Long is the national bestselling author of Mom Hacks, a best-selling book of 100 science-backed short cuts for moms. She’s a Harvard and Yale-trained practicing ER doctor, a mom, and the founder of Trueve, a research-based think tank providing honest, science backed research for women and children’s health. Dr. Darria is a Professor at the UT’s School of Medicine and international TV contributor on networks including CNN, Headline News, NBC, and Netflix. Dr. Darria is also a patient – and understands navigating a life-threatening health crisis, while still attending to your family and other responsibilities
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Cheldin Barlatt Rumer
Cheldin Barlatt Rumer is the CEO, and Executive Producer of THIS IS IT NETWORK™, a global female, minority-owned, digital streaming platform. Rumer uses her magnetic personality, unmatched energy, and industry expertise to promote the accomplishments and ambitions of her international guests while captivating her global audience of remarkable women. As an immigrant from Sierra Leone, West Africa, a former Division 1 athlete, a mother of two, an adjunct professor, a personal branding expert, and an author, Rumer works diligently to encourage her audience to no longer whisper their wishes but to scream their dreams.
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Danielle Hunt
Hi! My name is Danielle Hunt and I am the owner of The Sports Brat, a women’s guide to all things sports and gameday. I have been in the creator space for six years, and have worked in digital media/marketing, and currently teach digital media and journalism. When I’m not teaching students digital media, you can catch me at any arena, ballpark or stadium.
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Elisabeth McKnight
Elisabeth is a commercial photographer, emotional intelligence parenting coach, and the digital creator behind the motherhood lifestyle site, ElisabethMcKnight.com. She loves helping women feel confident in their motherhood decisions, whether that is buying the right pair of maternity denim or finding a parenting style to support their child’s developing brain.
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Danielle Vincent
Born small, and on a path of literal and figurative growth ever since. In 2013, Danielle and her husband founded Outlaw, a personal care and fragrance business, from $17.40 in start-up costs. In 2022, Outlaw has grown to to $4M in annual revenue (and growing!). Outlaw has become a tattoo-inspiring, life-affirming force for good. As seen in the WSJ, USA Today, Oprah.com, Forbes, and more.
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Emily Merrell
Emily Merrell is the Founder and Business Coach at Six Degrees Society and co-founder of Ready Set Coach. Emily is passionate about helping women find clarity in their business ideas and take action. Emily’s expertise has been applauded and featured by Refinery29, Girlboss, Forbes and Huffington Post. She has also been a resident coach for Brit+Co’s Selfmade program. She is a recent Denver transplant from SF and NYC and in her spare time you can find her adventuring in her new city, playing with her son, Jackson, or planning her next taco night.
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Erin Summers
Erin is an integrity expert at Meta where she leads a team building ranking controls to give people more say in their algorithm. Previously she led defense for health, civic, racial injustice and climate change, and safety in VR. Erin cofounded Wogrammer – a movement to highlight the successes of women and femmes in engineering, which was acquired by AnitaB.org in 2020. Her work has been featured by Quartz, Huffington Post, Vice Magazine, and NSPE. Erin is a 2015 Foreign Policy Global Thinker, and NSF Graduate Fellow, an Insight Data Science Fellow, an Amelia Earhart Scholar, and a NASA Jenkins Fellow, and former member of the Computer History Museum’s NextGen board.
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Jadah Sellner
Jadah Sellner is a bestselling author, business coach, international keynote and TEDx speaker, poet, and host of the Lead with Love® podcast. She’s the author of She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life and also the co-author of Simple Green Smoothies where over one million people have embraced this simple and healthy habit. As the founder of Jadah Sellner Media, Inc., Jadah helps women build their businesses and their lives in a way that works for them—–with love. She has been featured in Forbes, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Gillian Kyriakidis
Meet Gillian, owner and founder of the blog and website design company Gillian Sarah. She makes it her mission to provide all of her clients with hand crafted websites and branding that truly show their personality and ethos. To date, she and her team have helped over 4,000 small businesses build their online presence in unique and meaningful ways. And by meaningful – we mean profitable!
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Jackie Kossoff
Jackie Kossoff is a Marketing Strategist & Facebook Ads Expert who helps businesses of all sizes generate profit through conversion-driven digital marketing strategies. Her expertise has generated record profits for a wide-range of clients, from bootstrapped startups to established businesses valued at $1 billion. When she’s not working, she’s probably reading, writing, watching history documentaries, or traveling to historic sites in Europe.
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Jennifer Priest
Jennifer Priest is a prominent digital marketing strategist, educator, and Pinterest traffic expert specializing in helping online business owners get more results from the assets their business already has. Jennifer’s experience as an etsy shop owner, online course creator, blogger, influencer, and social media manager give her a unique understanding of the challenges of running and marketing a digital biz, which she brings to her work with bloggers and online businesses alike.
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Jennifer Kem
Jennifer “Jen” Kem is the founder of Master Brand Institute, her team of top Business Advisors help entrepreneurs and experts get seen, heard and paid more for simply being themselves. Forbes calls her one of America’s top brand futurists, and she’s an investor in many women-led start-ups. She hosts a monthly dinner for women leaders at the Femmefluence Table, whose mission is to help women gain the affluence and influence they deserve, through sharing resources, contacts and skills. She is also the podcast host of Femmefluence Radio, a show helping BIWOC and allies get rich and recognized on their terms.
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Kelly Bryden
Meet Kelly! She is a color loving spacial designer that creates unique spaces for brands and individuals. Her designs can be seen in interiors, exteriors and virtual spaces.
Kelly was born with a hot glue gun and paint brush in her hand. She can never stop creating, crafting, painting, building, ideating. She uses social media to help share her creative projects and teach others how to lean into their creativity. She is most passionate about inspiring others to create unique personal spaces that spark joy and feel like an extension of themselves.
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Naibe Reynoso
Naibe Reynoso is a Mexican-American Multi-Emmy award-winning journalist and author based in Los Angeles California. She has contributed to various regional and international networks including CNN Espanol, Univision, Reeelz Channel, and France 24. She is the co-founder of Latinafest, a yearly festival that celebrates all things Latina.In 2018 she created Con Todo Press, a company that publishes and creates award-winning books that amplify the stories and voices of underrepresented communities. One of her most recent publications is a Little Golden Book adaptation of Encanto for Disney, and Karma’s World, a book adapted from the popular Netflix series.
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Maria Healey
Maria is a collector of life experiences. She is an active writer of stories and creator of content. Some of her favorite things to write about are her own unique experiences as a mom with a career and the challenges she’s faced, mentoring others to pursue their greatest ambitions, and leadership that shows up in empathy and vulnerability. Her experience as a writer makes her a better marketer and her experience in marketing has proven to make her a more prolific writer. Maria is available to help businesses reach their ideal audience with copy carefully crafted by a marketing professional.
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Lindsay Pinchuk
With a $500 investment and a marketing budget of $0, Lindsay Pinchuk bootstrapped her first company, the nation’s first and largest in-person + online community for parents, to reach 3MM/month and generate 7-figures of revenue per year. Through partnerships with Target, Nordstrom, Huggies, The Honest Company, ULTA and others, her community became her #1 tool for company growth. After leading her company’s acquisition in 2019, she successfully exited, now helping other female founders build and monetize their own communities for bottom line growth. She is also the host of Top 5% podcast, Dear FoundHer… and mom to two amazing daughters.
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Lisa Bardot
Lisa Bardot is an illustration artist, teacher, and all-around creative person. With the iPad and Procreate as her medium of choice, she creates industry-leading digital brushes, tutorials, and art-making resources to help beginners and experienced artists alike find joy in creating. Her tutorials and classes have been viewed by millions, with high praise for her thorough, concise, and fun teaching style. Additionally, she runs Making Art Everyday, providing drawing prompts and challenges to help people overcome fears and develop an art-making practice, as well as Art Maker’s Club, a joy-filled creative community and learning hub for digital art-makers.
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Laura Pilcher
I am a wife, mother, entrepreneur, immigrant, and a creative. I am a writer by trade, but my side hustle has lit me up and changed my world. I now am a mountain housing developer, Airbnb Superhost and general contractor. What started as an affordable alternative to ski lodging for my family has become my business and my legacy. The 100k Cabin started it all. I want to share the lessons I’ve learned along the way to make real estate and hosting a thriving passive business on a budget.
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Melonie Jordan
Melonie Jordan is an Associate Attorney at Dorsey & Whitney, where she focuses her practice on guiding employers through employment and privacy laws that govern the workplace. A graduate of Emory University School of Law, Melonie offers practical guidance and creative solutions to clients in various industries, from small businesses to multinational corporations, in all stages of the employment relationship. When she’s not advising and litigating on behalf of clients, Melonie encourages women through her faith-based lifestyle company and blog, Melonie by Grace™. Melonie lives in Southern California with her husband Joshua and their three daughters.
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Peg Fitzpatrick
Peg Fitzpatrick is an author, social media strategist, and popular blogger. Peg has spearheaded successful social-media campaigns for Motorola, Audi, Google, and Virgin as well as having been a brand ambassador for Kimpton Hotels, T.J.Maxx, Nestle, and Adobe. She co-authored The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users with Guy Kawasaki. Guy teamed up with Peg as he believes she “is the best social-media person he’s ever met.”
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Miriam Schulman
Miriam Schulman built a multiple-six-figure business selling her own art and coaches artists on how to successfully market, price and sell theirs. Her podcast has 332 ratings and is ranked 4.9 stars. She has 27K Facebook followers. Her art has been featured in The New York Times, What Women Create, Art of Man, and Art Journaling magazine by Stampington, as well as seen on NBC’s “Parenthood” and the Amazon series “Hunters” with Al Pacino. It’s sold around the world and included in New York museum gift shops. Professional Artist magazine also published several full-length features on it. Artpreneur: The Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Sustainable Living from Your Creativity (HarperCollins Leadership; Jan. 31, 2023) breaks down the 5 fundamentals for building a successful business to achieve your goals, including plans for production, profit, prospecting, promotion and productivity.
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Nadine Fonseca
Nadine Fonseca is a passionate and valued thought leader and researcher on human connection and strategic DEI organizational implementation including diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, anti-bias, antiracist, decolonization, social impact, and social justice lenses. Her educational background includes a graduate certificate in Diversity & Inclusion, and a Master’s in Business Administration. She co-founded and currently runs an anti-bias, antiracist education company for children and families called Mighty Kind and also partners with brands, nonprofits and other organizations as a consultant to co-design systems, structures, processes, strategies and messaging improvements that ignite and support meaningful, sustainable, and equitable change. Nadine currently resides in Austin, Texas and is a queer, neurodivergent, biracial Latina, and mother of four; with her debut children’s book, Only a Trenza Away, due to release in 2023.
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Shaniequa Washington
Shaniequa L. Washington, the designer and founder of Zuriel Kingdom Collections. A slow fashion and sustainable lifestyle collection of versatile handcrafted jewelry and custom fashion. In 2017 she was endowed with the vision of creating these Bold and empowering collectibles that awaken the memories of royalty and heritage. Knowing you never have to tone down the volume of who you are; a Queen never should have to shelf her crown. “Our signature Collections , was inspired by childhood dreams of visiting Africa! When this dream became a reality and her brand was inaugurated in the heart of West Africa, there was no turning back! Hand stitched woven with love for the melanated magic that dwells within every black Queen, her garments are made as adornment to embody the dopeness of who we are! We are not drafted from a place of factory , but from a place of authenticity knowing that the uniqueness of each Queen should be crowned with something different!
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Nicole Lewis
Nicole Lewis is the founder of Art 2 the Extreme®, making her colorful mark through her playful collection of Original Rainbow Crayons®. Nicole is passionate about teaching others how to DIY your own PR, leverage press opportunities and use relationship building in the media industry to grow your business. Nicole is also a speaker and instructor for Etsy’s education program, Etsy U. She has been featured in major publications including Magnolia, Business Insider, CNBC, NPR, GMA & The Drew Barrymore Show. Nicole was a finalist in the Etsy Design Awards, finishing top 10 in the Kids category worldwide.
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Priscilla Loomis
Priscilla Loomis is an Olympian, former professional athlete, Entrepreneur, Nonprofit founder and badass warrior representing all resilient and powerful leaders! She runs two successful businesses, founded a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting single parent households, is a 3X Hall of Fame Inductee, 2X Female Athlete of the Year, World Class medalist & most recently, proud quitter! Priscilla speaks on the Olympic Mindset, Leadership Development, Health & Wellness and Empowerment through positive Impact! Priscilla Loomis is a Failure & Fighter, Wife and Warrior promoting Positive energy, love of others, but most importantly, love of self!
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Rebecca Cafiero
Rebecca Cafiero is a Forbes business and PR strategist, TEDx Speaker and top ranked podcast host, bestselling author and mother of two. As the Founder + CEO of the Pitch Club, a for women, by women company, she has worked with hundreds of female entrepreneurs growing + scaling small businesses to increase credibility, visibility and profitability in business. Rebecca is a regular expert on national news, podcasts and on stages. Rebecca’s tips have been featured in NBC News, ABC News + Biz TV and in publications including Forbes, Reader’s Digest, Women’s Health, US News and more.
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Nikki Nash
Nikki Nash is a bestselling author, co-founder of The Wealth Builders Collective, and creator of Market Your Genius, a training and development brand on a mission to equip entrepreneurs with the tools and resources they need to share and profit from their message. Her book Market Your Genius and podcast with the same name, help experts build a profitable online business. When she’s not running one of her businesses or investing in real estate, you can find Nikki painting, traveling or spending time with friends and family.
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Shannah Game
Shannah Game is an award-winning Money Wellness Expert, Host of Everyone’s Talkin’ Money podcast, Certified Financial Planner with an MBA, entrepreneur, educator, Certified Trauma of Money Specialist, and the creator of the Money Mindset Journal. Shannah’s passion is helping everyone unf*ck their relationship with money so they can go from surviving to thriving in life. Everyone’s Talkin’ Money was named a Top 4 Money podcast by the NY Times and has been downloaded over 23 million times. The show focuses on sharing relevant, inclusive, and forward-thinking conversations around money – this is the place to learn everything about money that no one taught you.
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Shannon Arner
Shannon Arner is a content creator, lifestyle blogger, and podcast host. She left a lucrative business in the pet industry after she suffered a mental breakdown through much burnout (no other word for it). During the healing process, she alongside her husband, Gerry, sold their home, most of their belongings, and the business. They moved to the coast for their health, a better mindset on life, and a different perspective on things. They haven’t regretted a single moment! The ocean is healing. It knew the assignment, and it pulled through. This is how Arner Adventures, the blog, started.
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Sieria Payne
Sieria Payne, born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a serial entrepreneur and mother of two. Sieria started her first home health care business in 2015 and Personal Care business in 2017, after working in the health care industry 15 years. She then took her passion for helping and her enthusiasm to motivate other entrepreneurs and launched The Mommyprenuer Company. A Business & Travel company for Moms. Sieria is also a Real Developer in the Commerical & Residential space.
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Stephanie Smith
Stephanie is a Georgia Tech graduate and got an early start into Facebook ads. Throughout her now 12-year career in digital advertising, she has managed well over $100 million working with some of the world’s largest brands on all digital channels. Stephanie now focuses on her own media buying company managing paid ads for small and medium sized businesses. She also teaches entrepreneurs and business owners how to correctly manage ads through workshops, her online course, and a soon to launch digital ads simulator.
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Trisha Zemp
Trisha Zemp is a Utah based stop motion animator and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and creative director of the custom planner and notebook company, Golden Coil. In her stop motion work she has created videos for a diverse group of clients including Warner Brothers, Pepsi, Martha Stewart, Paramount Pictures, Pinterest, Twitter, and more. She loves being well organized, telling stories, and painting in her studio with her two little boys.
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Erica Courdae
Erica Courdae is a social entrepreneur committed to shifting focus, power, and resources to create more equity in the world. She believes imperfect action is necessary to create meaningful social change and helps public figures progress without fear of judgment. In 2018, Erica co-founded the Pause on the Play Podcast, which expanded into a community and consultancy. A certified coach and 25 year beauty industry veteran, Erica has provided training for Blue Cross Blue Shield, Martha Beck Incorporated, and Paul Mitchell School. She has been featured on podcasts, workshops, and online communities with a reach of over 1,000,000 people.
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Elaine Lou Cartas
Elaine Lou Cartas is a business and career coach and speaker for women of color and allies. Elaine helps entrepreneurs and industry leaders land their dream career and create business opportunities through relationships. Clients have made multi 6-figure and 7-figure incomes, received $25k raises, earn 6-figure corporate salaries, transitioned into new careers and create their own global businesses. Elaine was a former grassroots organizer, and nonprofit fundraiser. She has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, and Money Magazine. She has spoken around the world including Sweden and Indonesia, and Universal Music Studios. She hosts events in the Los Angeles area
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Amy Webb
Amy Webb is an artist, author, advocate and creator of the popular blog This Little Miggy Stayed Home. As the mother of three daughters, one of whom is disabled, she advocates for the disability community through her writing, interviews and accessible centered home design. Her work has been featured in Cup of Jo, Design*Sponge and USAToday with features in MotherMag, People.com and Better Homes and Gardens.
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Alli Mayorga
If you were to ask me 3 years ago to describe myself in one phrase I would have answered “Rainbow-Sprinkle-Donut” but in 2020 I was promoted to “Milo’s Mama.” I run the website and social media account; Thrifted Queen, a lifestyle hub where I share all things budget friendly as well as some easy DIY’s, but now I also include quite a bit of my motherhood journey too. I would love the opportunity to chat all things thrifted and the ways we can build our brands in a more sustainable fashion.
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Julie Cole
Julie Cole is a recovered lawyer, mom of six and co-founder of Mabel’s Labels. She is an award-winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, and sought after speaker and emcee. Julie
is no stranger to the media, having appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, HLN’s Raising America, Breakfast Television, The Marilyn Denis Show, CP24, among many others. Her articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, Today’s Parent, The Globe and Mail, Profit Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, and numerous websites. When she’s not juggling her busy family and professional life, Julie is an engaged community member serving on boards and volunteering. She is passionate about women’s issues, mentoring young entrepreneurs, and social justice.
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Christine Singh
Christine (she/her) is a Breathwork Coach & Intuitive Guide believes in the power of the breath to let go of old stories and help people rediscover the magic and natural gifts they have within. Certified as a Meditation Coach and Reiki Master, she loves bringing community together for connection and healing through events, workshops and retreats. Tine is a best selling author and shares her story in The Rising Sisterhood: Rise With Us: How to Step Into Your Own Power & Change Your Narrative.
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Stella Guan
Stella Guan is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer, creative director, educator, speaker and entrepreneur creating beautiful, functional and storytelling-based design. A furniture design enthusiast, Stella has expanded her design practice from digital to physical by launching her own multi-functional post modern furniture brand, Bezier Home. Stella is a multilingual immigrant from the big “rooster-shaped” country with 1.4 billion people (China). She considers herself a blunt New Yorker and “non-laidback” Angeleno.
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Gina Skye
Gina is the Founder of NeuroBreathwork, a Hypnotherapy & NLP Trainer and Holistic Therapist. Gina provides wellness & success support to rise to your challenges, answer the call to your life’s adventures and triumph in your personal and work lives, with a focus on shifting limiting/disempowering beliefs and blocks that keep from next level success, connection & joy.
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Natali Edmonds
Natali Edmonds is an Army Veteran and a board certified Geropsychologist. She specializes in helping families manage the many challenges of caring for a loved one with dementia. She is the creator of Dementia Careblazers, an online resource for family members to get information, support, and strategies to take the best care of themselves AND their loved ones with dementia. She has the #1 dementia training channel on YouTube and has over 200,000 social media followers.
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Melinda Martin
Melinda Martin is an inclusive brand strategist leading entrepreneurs to set the standard of disability inclusion in their industries. A disabled woman herself, her work empowers a new experience of disability through leading inclusion standards with style! Her work is experienced globally through creative campaigns that shift standards for global impact.
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Michelle Zemp
Michelle Zemp is a business owner and mama based out of Calgary, Canada. She is the co-founder and executive director of the custom planner and notebook company, Golden Coil. She loves sharing about organization and helping others find peace and balance through planning. When she isn’t creating content or running Golden Coil, she loves to spend time with her three little girls.
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Latoya Presley
The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal. For the past 15 years, Toya Presley has been designing clothes. Self Taught, a hobby became a life long passion! She loves to create and to manipulate a piece of material from a vision. Behind the scenes she is packing lunches, going over homework, carpooling to games and on a good day before the sun sets convincing her 11 year old to take my pictures! But back to sewing….my life inspires her sewing. The people around me , and my experiences. It reminds me of why I love sewing sooooo much!! Designing is a spectrum of the many colors that are my life and a collective of things that inspire me to create. I hope to inspire you, to laugh with you, learn from you and cheer with you!
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Archel Bernard
A fashion friendship that was formed at ALT Summit in 2019 is culminating with the brightest, boldest fashion show Palm Springs has ever seen! Anna Zietz and Erica Tankesley of Glad and Young, a design studio producing fun-loving leather goods, and Archel Bernard of Bombchel, a handmade tie dye and African clothing brand, met at ALT summit, have boutiques right next to each other in Atlanta, and are now celebrating where it all began with their own joint fashion show! Look out for the biggest party with the brightest colors, celebrating women of all shapes and sizes in handmade items that dreams are made of!
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Michael Corr
Hi, I’m Michael Corr, an award-winning contemporary painter and mural artist, based in Central Scotland. My work centres around portrait painting with an emphasis on colour and spontaneous mark making. My formal training as a Graphic Designer along with a primary interest in expressive art, have developed into a uniquely powerful style of painting and drawing. My work has been featured in both group and solo exhibitions across Scotland. Also, my work has private collectors in the UK and internationally. You can currently find my large scale mural work around Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Palm Desert (CA, USA). I’ve been painting murals since 2018. Clients I’ve worked with include: Saatchi Online, SEC, NCR, Bacardi, Scottish Music Awards and Chivas Regal. I am currently Daler Rowney’s Featured Artist of 2020-2023.
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Andrea Serrano
Andrea Serrano is a freelance fashion stylist, producer, creative director, and influencer. With over 25 years of experience in the fashion industry she has used her skills and expertise to help brands cultivate their vision and curate the look. Her clients include Macy’s, Walmart, Toyota, Ford, and Martha Stewart. She has been featured in Southern Living, Travel & Leisure, and Marie Claire. Andrea’s career in fashion took off when she moved to New York City in the 90’s, and interned at Harper’s Bazaar. She then quickly transitioned into assisting celebrity stylists working with high profile clients such as Jennifer Lopez, Prince, The Rock, Janet Jackson, Shania Twain, Cindy Crawford, and the cast of Sex in the City; magazine shoots for Rolling Stone, Details, Premiere, Paper, and Vibe; advertising shoots for Victoria’s Secret, Guess, Levi’s, GAP, and Tommy Hilfiger. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Andrea helps both clients successfully position their lifestyle brands through impactful imagery. Being a part of the creative community and making connections for other people to succeed is always at the core of her business.
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Alex Vailas
Hi! I’m Alex, and I’m the SVP of Brand Marketing for DYPER™, where I’m responsible for building a generation-defining CPG brand that makes diapers and baby products that are kind to babies and our planet. I’m responsible for brand storytelling and leading cross-functional execution of all marketing strategies to increase sales and brand awareness in the baby space. I’m also a multi-faceted creative who, over my career, has driven vision, storytelling, and positive business results for Fortune 500 companies like Kroger and Thor Industries. My diversified marketing industry experience spans from creator to agency to brand, understanding the unique challenges and expectations of each. I’m an influencer marketing veteran with over 12 years of experience, over one million followers, and hundreds of brand partnerships with top-tier brands like Target, Anthropologie, and Home Depot. But I’m most proud of being a single mother raising two kids and finishing my first book!
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Rachel Matos
Rachel Matos is the Founder/CEO of Blue Lotus Collective, a digital marketing agency focusing on multicultural campaigns as well as the Co-founder/CMO of MyCajita, a subscription box service featuring artisan products from Mexico. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts and pursuing graduate work in Modern Art and Critical Studies at Columbia University, Rachel worked in the museum field for close to seventeen years as a lecturer and programs curator. The Guggenheim, The Met, Philadelphia Museum of Art, are just a few of the arts institutions Rachel worked for before becoming a trailblazer in the Latinx digital space. Rachel served as the Director of Social Media and Influencer Relations for #WeAllGrow Latina Network for 6 years and was responsible for leading the company’s approach to online engagement and social media strategy in addition to managing relationships within the content creator community. She also consulted at CAA providing strategy for a variety of brands interested in developing a stronger relationship with the Latinx community.
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Shafonne Myers
Shafonne Myers is the founder of Pretty Pear Bride, the world’s only site for plus size brides, and Aisle Society, a wedding media company and digital marketing agency. She created these businesses with the mission to remind the wedding industry that everyBODY is beautiful on their wedding day. After being trained by one of the top online marketers, where she helped her clients and business partners close over $10 million in revenue she is now on a mission to help entrepreneurs and influencers create their personal brand, curate authentic content online, and cultivate high level relationships leading to more sales.
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Steph Guild
Steph Guild, CFA is Head of Investment Strategy for Robinhood Financial, a fast-growing brokerage giving millions of people access to our financial system. Before joining Robinhood, Steph spent 21 years within the financial services industry at J.P. Morgan helping institutions and individuals invest their money. Steph holds a BBA from James Madison University and is a CFA charterholder. She is registered with FINRA, holding Series 7, 63 and 24 licenses. On her off days, she spends time with her husband and two children, playing tennis, skiing and hiking.
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Kate Kelly
Kate Kelly is a zealous advocate and passionate activist. She has a JD from American University Washington College of Law, the only law school in the world founded by, and for, women. She is a vocal women’s rights champion in the U.S. and around the world.
Kate is a nationally-known advocate for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and Host of the Gold Anthem Award-winning podcast Ordinary Equality. She recently published a book called “Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment” all about the people who have been left out of the history books who have shaped the U.S. Constitution.
In 2013 Kate founded a group called Ordain Women to advocate for gender equality in the Mormon Church. She was convicted of apostasy by 3 male Mormon leaders and excommunicated from the church in June 2014 for speaking out against the institutional oppression of women. Nevertheless, her work for women’s equality continues unabated.
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Cynthia Ferngren
Cynthia has developed strategy and content for some of the most iconic brands of our time including IBM, Dell Software, Botox, Johnson & Johnson, Neutrogena, Verizon, AT&T, GSK, Novartis, Trafalgar, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, and Pfizer. Cynthia has brought over 100’s of startups to life, serving as the strategic lead for launching Peace Out, DwellBeing, GigUp, AltroSmart, Lease Easy, Tomlinson Center for Leadership, Engle Roberts, Brochu Walker, Bold & Bare, Foodspace, PeaPod, and many many more. Her wealth of knowledge in successfully launching brands has led her to a mentor position at Make In LA, a hardware-focused incubator. Cynthia is also the founder of 90 Day Blueprint, which helps you breakdown your big dreams, and bring them into reality by creating creating 90 day sprints for your goals. By turning these big dreams into bite size daily action plans it makes even the largest dreams possible to get off your vision board and into your life. She is one of UpWork’s top 1% earners, won the 2021 Tony Robbins Comeback Challenge, is an expert speaker and published author. She has spoken at Digital Marketing LA, The Authentic Marketing Conference, 2018 CEMA Summit, and the 2018 Video Marketing Conference. In addition, Cynthia was a featured expert contributor to the book Digital Marketing Tactics and has won over ten industry awards for her content and strategy.
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