Courtney Blair started her business out of necessity. When she was pregnant and desperate for work, she began contacting everyone she knew for work she could do from home. Lo-and-behold her dad had his own online business in the psychology realm, and wanted to be featured on podcasts. Fast forward 3 years, and Zippy Content was born. She now represents almost 100 entrepreneurs, authors, coaches, and consultants from across the globe, and finds them interviews with the coolest podcasters on earth.

Erica Ormsby has been a wellness and business entrepreneur for 18 years and is also an author. She believes it is your responsibility and a great act of service, if you make sure that you align with your truest nature and do something that you love. She has created and sold several successful companies and is the founder and CEO of Erica Ormsby International as well as Soaring Mastermind.

Raana Zia is a corporate finance executive turned spiritual, self-help author. She has spent her career holding executive level leadership roles in large Fortune 500 retail companies. Her realizations and personal experiences compelled her to write the book, Your Hidden Light: A Personal Guide to Creating Your Desired Life, in order to share with others what she believes is the most direct and efficient path to achieving your desires and living a life of happiness, continued growth, and fulfillment.

Amani Roberts is a Washington DC born and bred creative who has been a DJ since 2008. Amani’s hospitality career has spanned over 25 years. He is the Chief Musical Curator for his company, The Amani Experience, which specializes in providing music for events, creating original music for commercials or videos, team building activities, creating remixes and teaching students of all ages how to DJ. Amani also hosts a weekly podcast called “The Amani Experience Podcast.”

Marisa Murray is a Certified Executive Coach, Author and Speaker focused on unlocking executives’ leadership potential to yield superior business results. Her book, “Work Smart: Your Formula for Unprecedented Professional Success” reveals 50 techniques to accelerate your success as a leader while creating more ease and enjoyment in your work-rejecting the notion that working harder is the answer.

Natalie Creeden has been practicing and studying the art of mindfulness, meditation and yoga since 2002. These modalities improved her life so much that she decided to study for over 18 months to share the power of these practices with others. Natalie trained as a Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor with Deepak Chopra at the Chopra Center for Well-Being in Southern California. She is also a certified Kundalini Yoga and Meditation teacher.

Jeff Hall started working at age 7 doing door-to-door candy sales to help support his family. The company he founded in 1995 at age 15—Overflow Café—to help companies grow their websites, is thriving 23 years later. He has supported over 200 successful Kickstarter projects and has helped build 14 orphanages around the world. In his spare time he loves watching Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and having a good cup of tea. You’ll find him working hard, and sometimes goofing around, in Toronto, Canada

Dr. Chris Kolenda, founder of Strategic Leader Academy, helps non-profits and Small businesses to get the big things right: leadership, culture and strategy. He shares the importance of company leaders knowing themselves and their own natural strengths first, and applying that knowledge to who that leader chooses tp surround him or her in order to achieve success.

Natalia Castillo’s passion for fashion began at Macy’s department store, where she worked for 10 years before leaving to start her own business. Realizing that it was important to control her own destiny, she decided to launch an apparel brand, where she could further pursue her love of fashion, travel and business. In 2009 she created Escapada Living’s first collection of vibrant, effortless apparel. Her mission is to inspire happiness in women of all ages through a timeless, global lifestyle brand.

In the last 17 years Billy Keels has had the opportunity to work in 86 countries and learn to speak 5 languages fluently. With myriad personal growth experiences he has also developed professionally by leading multi-disciplined teams and managing businesses in the application software sector. Billy has earned his stripes as a true problem-solver, a skill he has carried into his new entrepreneurial life. He is also a long-distance real estate entrepreneur, author, coach, public speaker and mentor.