Agenda & Speakers

Thursday, Jan. 21

8:00 pm Welcome Party

Friday, Jan. 22

10:30 am	Setting your Sights for a Brilliant Life	with Cyndy Porter
12:30 pm	Break/Expo Open
2:00 pm	Intentions, Habits, Money and Mindset	with Cyndy Porter and guest
3:30 pm	Break
4:30 pm	The Happiness Advantage	with Cyndy Porter and guest speaker Bonnie Lefbom
6:00 pm	Raffle for Charity
6:30 pm	Break/Expo Open
8:00 pm	Hula Party — Sponsored by SunTrust Bank	Grace Hula Dance Company

Saturday, Jan. 23

9:30 am	Expo Open
10:30 am	Creating an Intentional Image to Increase Income and Impact	Cyndy Porter
12:30 pm	Break/Expo Open
1:30 pm	Breakout Sessions
	Notes from the Old Boys Club: For Women: Surprisingly easy legal secrets to protect your bright ideas! Relentless. Persistent. Strong. When it comes to taking your business to the next level, it’s not just about who you know (that’s an ole’ boys club trick that we’ve mastered by coming to this Summit). Learn a four step framework that will teach you how to be relentless when it comes to protecting your company’s most valuable assets.	Kathryn Goldman – Creative Law Center
	Master Your Hormones for Easier Weight Loss and Better Health We all go through life transitions at the mercy of our hormones. It may seem like you have no control over the rollercoaster ride of hormonal changes. In this interactive workshop, you will have a chance to evaluate your hormonal health and learn how you can optimize your hormones to make the weight loss process easier and to be at your best.	Jill Cruz – WynWeightloss
	10 Secrets to Living Your Best Life from the Inside Out Living your best life requires a positive mindset, habits and a toolkit of practices you can rely upon. In this interactive and engaging session, three health, wellness and mindset experts will teach you how to do exactly that. Learn how extreme self care, and mindset truly are the secret to success both personally and professionally. Walk away with practices you can implement immediately to kick start living a life you love.	Dr. Ranjana Chawla, Ayurveda & Alternative Medicine Corinne Coppola, Conquer the Invisible Dianna Baltimore, Arbonne International
	Digital Tools & Automation to Supercharge Your Business in the Virtual World To thrive in today’s fast paced digital world we must leverage technology to succeed. In this power packed presentation, you will learn: System to build, manage and nurture relationships that is easy and simple. Simple automations that will save you time and money. The tools you need to supercharge your business. Two simple but brilliant moves that will create lasting impact.	Mary Sue Dahill – Work Smarter Digital
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	The Story Advantage, Unleash Your Story Power Telling a powerful story is one of the most important actions you can take in your business. Never before has storytelling been more needed. While the world experiences multiple crises on a scale that has never been seen in human history – climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, leadership incompetence, poverty, and social injustice – we need hope and meaning more than ever. And storytelling delivers just that. In this session, we’ll talk about how to: · thrive personally and professionally, creating phenomenal opportunities with the power of authentic story · discover your innate storyteller, understand the power of story and begin to live and tell the stories that will impact and inspire your professional and personal life.	Lisa Bloom
4:30 pm	What It Takes to Be Successful	Cyndy Porter
6:00 pm	Break/Expo Open
8:00 pm	Fireside Chat with Cyndy Porter

Sunday, Jan. 24

9:30 am	Expo Open
10:30 am	Relationship Intelligence: Your Key to Business and Personal Growth Learn the foundational key for business and personal growth in this interactive conversation. Cyndy chats with Risa Ganel, M.S. Relationship Coach and Couples Therapist about your relational brain and how to cultivate a relational growth mindset for your business and your life.	with Cyndy Porter and guest speaker Risa Ganel
12:30 pm	Break/Expo Open
1:30 pm	Breakout Sessions
	STOP Waiting to be Powerful, Feminine and Successful Take control of who you’re being, how you’re feeling, what you’re saying and doing, and change the course of your success and happiness. Make the difference between having a dream and bringing it to fruition. Imagine being able to shift thoughts, feelings and capacity to take action, to clarity, focus and decisiveness, in order to take effective actions within minutes.	Melinda Broadstone, Author of The Hardest Decisions are Often the Best Decisions
	Stop Leaving Money On The Table, Focus on Current Clients Many businesses focus on the next sale. Acquiring a new client costs five times more than retaining a current client. People do business with people they know, like and trust. All businesses have a roster of clients they’ve sold to. It is this group that will bring the greatest ROI for the business.	Debbie Myers – Virtuarte
	Work Less And Make Millions: How To Build A Business That Scales Are you working IN your business instead of ON your business? Explore the limitless possibilities when you streamline your systems, learn to delegate, and step into the role of leader. It’s time to learn how working less is the secret to making more revenue, becoming a leader, and making bigger business moves. I am going to show you how to turn your seven-figure dream into your destiny!	Jennifer Crawford – Sparent
	The Power of Content for Small Business Marketing Learn how to communicate the most important ideas behind your mission, to attract the exact right kinds of people. Structure your content to be “findable” by the people who are actively searching for you — without spending a fortune in advertising.	Karen James Cody – The Allyson Group
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Your Roadmap for Success with Cyndy Porter

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SPEAKERS

Cyndy Porter

Cyndy Porter received her degree in marketing, from California State University, Chico. She spent 20 years as a sales and marketing professional in a number of high-tech organizations including WAIS (one of the first Internet companies in existence) and Kodak. Her final stop on the corporate ladder was as a divisional Vice President of Marketing at American Online (AOL).Cyndy, formerly an award-winning professional photographer, is certified as a Color Expert and Image Consultant by the Body Beautiful institute, now Style Core.

Cyndy is no stranger to career change. After 20 years in sales and marketing, she started a photography business, eventually transitioning to image and style consulting. Just as she has transformed her own life, she seeks to help her clients transform theirs. She has worked with many people from all walks of life, and her mission is to help women look and feel beautiful, confident and powerful. Her clients have started their own businesses, multiplied their incomes, changed careers, been promoted and forged healthy relationships.

Bonnie Lefbom

Dr. Bonnie Lefbom is a veterinary cardiologist and a founding partner of CVCA, Cardiac Care for Pets – helping grow her company from 1 to the current 14 locations with more growth planned. She is passionate about “Saying Yes” and bringing positive energy to everyone she encounters. She is a communications and personal development thought leader focused on mentoring and teaching others to interact with a positive outcome.

Dr. Lefbom also leads a 501c3 (For the Kids International – FTKI) in support of an orphanage and village school in rural Kenya. We will have a fundraiser Friday evening to support this amazing charity.

Lisa Bloom

The Story Advantage, Unleash Your Story Power

Lisa Bloom, founder of Story Coach, works with organizations developing Transformational Story Leaders, creative yet resilient cultures, and leading powerful change processes with the power of storytelling. She works with entrepreneurs and business owners to help them find confidence, attract ideal clients and find their success story. And she trains coaches to use storytelling as a powerful approach to impact their clients and grow their business.

Lisa is a professional Storyteller, accredited Coach, Author, Mentor and Leadership expert. Her ground breaking techniques have enabled her to grow her business and take to the stage where she speaks internationally about this approach to business, leadership and coaching. Lisa is the author of The Story Advantage: Unleash the Power of Storytelling to Engage, Inspire & Influence, and the creator of the Stories That Sell Mastery & Certified Story Coach Programs.

For more details: http://www.story-coach.com

Kathryn Goldman

Kathryn Goldman is an intellectual property attorney who helps businesses and individuals protect their intangible business assets so they can profit from them. She represents creative entrepreneurs and businesses nationwide and internationally, particularly those with an online presence, which is almost everyone these days.

From almost 30 years of being in court protecting her clients she’ll help you protect your rights and ideally stay out of court. Together you’ll identify your most valuable business assets, build protection and enforcement strategies to drive revenue and build value.

Jill Cruz, MS, CNS

Jill is passionate about helping women achieve their dream health. She believes that we CAN have it all; health, happiness, passion, love, fun, creativity, and whatever else we desire! She guides women through healthy and sustainable weight loss by working with human nature to make the process easier and more enjoyable.

Jill has a Master of Science degree in Human Nutrition and she is a Board Certified Nutrition Specialist with a strong background in functional medicine. She helps women lose weight, lean up, have more energy and vitality, and to be the best versions of themselves.

Melinda Broadstone

Melinda Broadstone, author of The Hardest Decisions are Often the Best Decisions, built her expertise in the transformational world from her vast experience as an occupational therapist, energy healer, yogi and modern-day medicine woman.

Her proprietary system, Re-calibrate to Success and the Energy Style quiz serves to untether you from what’s not working, rekindle your desires and joy while, becoming unstoppable forces of good in your life and business.

This proprietary system unfolded for Melinda as she studied with and provided healing services to leaders of a dozen indigenous traditions across the globe and people of her community.

As she was ushering holistic practices into the medical field, she realized her bigger mission in today’s world. To arm every woman with the personal skill set of presence, influence and the power to make an impact in their unique way, at home and in their business. After all, we know that when women are able to generate enough money, they use it to help the children and causes of the world that make the future brighter.

Debbie Myers

Bio to come

Jennifer Crawford

Jennifer Crawford is the co-founder of Sparent, a virtual assistant agency staffed entirely by a talent pool of stay-at-home-moms with a laundry list of skills to spare. After starting her first business at age nineteen with just $75, and growing it into a million-dollar company that she easily sold, she was hooked on entrepreneurship.

Several businesses later, she knows how easy it is to work IN your business instead of On your business, and she is on a mission with Sparent to help overwhelmed business owners realize their company’s full potential AND have time to enjoy it by outsourcing administrative tasks to small but mighty virtual teams.

Karen James Cody

Karen James Cody is a content writer based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

The Allyson Group, her own practice, has been in business since 1994. She was formerly the Communications Director at Bloomberg BNA (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. 1994-2013), a leading publisher of specialized print and electronic news and information for professionals in business and government.

Karen’s communications experience includes strategic planning, media relations, internal (employee/shareholder) communications, marketing communications support, graphic design project management, environmental technical writing, and academic and technical editing. She also writes and edits fiction.

Current professional memberships include Black Women Playwrights’ Group of Washington, D.C. (board member) and the American News Women’s Club (member, former board member, president 2001-2003).

She was a long-time member of the National Press Club; the Society of Professional Journalists; the Washington Association of Black Journalists; the International Association of Business Communications; the Public Relations Society of America; and the Black Public Relations Society of America. She was also on the boards of D.C.’s For Love of Children and the Fred Taylor Scholarship Program, a program of FLOC.

Karen holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from San Francisco State University. She has two grown daughters and lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Dr. Ranjana Chawla

Dr. Ranjana Chawla gained her certification from the California College of Ayurveda, a world leader in Ayurvedic education. In addition to her private practice she holds the prestigious position as supervisor and faculty member for this college. Dr. Chawla is also a certified yoga & meditation teacher. Dr. Chawla strongly believes that everybody has the capacity to heal. When the body and mind are in harmony, normal physiology is restored, and healing takes place. In her practice she commonly treats patients with chronic illnesses, individuals who felt hopeless about their cure. She diagnoses their condition, gets to the root cause and uses Ayurvedic herbal medicine and lifestyle changes getting to the root cause not just the symptoms.

Corinne Coppola

Corinne Coppola has a Masters Degree in Organizational Development and has helped nonprofits and fortune 50 companies, bringing contentment, dispute resolution and job satisfaction into the workplace. Corinne has worked in schools and treatment centers of all types, developing programs and serving individuals and families with a wide variety of needs.

She has spent her lifetime learning the harm and power of invisible loss, pain, grief, substance abuse and hopelessness. She has walked the walk and brings her experience, education and years of training and personal transformation to her practice. She has helped her clients overcome depression, anxiety, negative patterning and behaviors, to live with confidence, ease and peace. Her clients have gained the courage to take on new adventures, overcome health challenges, deal with grief, take back control in their lives, stand up for their beliefs, regain love and connection in their most important relationships, and more.

Dianna Baltimore

Dianna Baltimore earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from California State University, Sacramento. She has been actively engaged in health and fitness pursuits for over 20 years and is a personal trainer and swim instructor/coach. An accomplished all-around athlete, Dianna has completed three marathons, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Whitney, cycled in over 30 century bike races, competed in three-day horse events at the Junior National level, participated in crew and field hockey at the Division 1 collegiate level, and skied all over U.S./Canada/European mountain ranges. Dianna is also a certified integrative nutrition coach and has a gut health certification. She is an area manager for Arbonne International – a beauty, health, and wellness company that promotes a holistic approach to sustainable healthy living with certified vegan skincare, makeup, and nutrition products for everyone.

Mary Sue Dahill

Mary Sue Dahill believes if you think smart, use the right tools, and go after your goals, you can achieve anything!

Her clients call her an overwhelm detective, work smarter coach, and automation expert for a reason. She is a master of creating order out of chaos and hasn’t met a hot mess that she can’t handle.

Mary Sue has over 20 years of technology management experience, she is passionate about empowering entrepreneurs to efficiently build and scale their business so they can make a bigger impact on the world.

Her company offers the Work Smarter CRM an all-in-one solution that reduces complexity, streamlines systems, and scales your impact.

Risa Ganel, M.S. LCMFT

Risa facilitates relational growth. Her gifts blend wisdom with quiet strength and relationship science with empathic connection. She is skilled at being kind and fierce in the same breath, helping you connect to the truth to create lasting change.

As a Certified Relational Life Coach and Maryland Licenced Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist she sees couples in her private practice in MD and helps clients all over the world through group distance coaching, public speaking and couples retreats.

www.risaganel.com

www.togethercouplescounseling.com

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