Flight Club

Leslie made the leap to France at the age of 50 to breathe life into her creative dreams. With little more than her strong desire to live in the light of the place that had drawn artists for decades, she realized that she didn't really have 'enough French to get by' as she had previously thought. Survival took over shortly after her arrival. With the fortunate invitation to develop a private psychotherapy practice working with Anglophones and university students, she invested her energy in learning French, finding her way in a different culture, developing her private practice, and navigating the French bureaucracy to keep her little French life afloat. Her practice included consulting on cultural adjustment, developing a study abroad wellness program, and a happy side gig of teaching Intro to Fine Art Photography for an American university.

But twelve years later, she still had creative dreams to pursue and couldn't quite figure out how to get that done in France. So the decision was made to return to California and atelier 27 press was launched with a perpetual calendar book and a line of photographic greeting cards finding their way into a growing list of retail locations throughout the US.

Though based in California, she returns to France as regularly as possible to add images to her French Collection of photographs - and stash words into her vocabulary in the ongoing pursuit of the language.

Website: www.atelier27press.com

Twitter: @atelier27press

Kim helps women win more business by teaching them how to ask the right questions, listen deeply, and connect the dots to make sales in a natural, non-pushy way. Her one-on-one sales coaching, consultancy and workshops focus on building relationships and having conversations with purpose.

She began selling with her first job in food services, branched into marketing, and came back to sales because it was much more interesting. She has trained with some of the most respected business brand names over her career, achieving a training commendation from Xerox. Over the past 20 years she’s delivered sales and marketing services to select clients across the globe, in B2C, B2B and nonprofit industries.

Website: www.thestylishmarketer.com

Twitter: @stylishmarketer

Pleasance is an author, teacher, mentor and guide for women in Washington, DC. She hosts workshops, courses, retreats and classes in mind, body, sprit rituals and practices.   Pleasance is a leader in the well being industry and was a yoga studio owner, community advocate and teaches people hows to stress less and enJOY life more.   She lives in DC with her 2 children and partner of 20 years and loves to read, write and play!   Website: www.lilomm.com Twitter: @lilommyoga

Founder of @FemCity : Cuban girl & Mom of 3 humans. Teacher, Writer, Coach, Speaker + Motivator for Female Sheroes.

Website: www.femcity.com

Twitter: @violettedeayala

 

As a mindset coach and process strategist, Janina is passionate about helping female business owners simplify their lives and gain the support they need to live a life of abundance.   Janina spent more than 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, documenting processes, creating and delivering end user training, overseeing and educating outsourced support teams, and discovering the fine line between efficiency and redundancy, before deciding to take her talents outside the corporate world.   ​She quickly realized many entrepreneurs and small business owners felt like she had - a feeling of having more to offer yet not see how to create a plan and get into consistent action.   Janina works with female entrepreneurs to organize and streamline your ideas into inspired actionable next steps and to help you identify and overcome the mental roadblocks and frustrations that are between you and experiencing the level of success you've dreamed of.   Website: www.JaninaGoldberg.com

Joyce founded AgilisIT during the "Great Recession" with $100 and a lot of sweat equity.  When women are still the minorities in technology, she has been helping clients ranging from startups to billion-dollar companies realize their visions with technology, and achieving double-digit growth for AgilisIT at the same time.  She works hard to delight her clients while expanding job opportunities to other women and under-represented groups in tech.

Joyce has won awards such as the 2017 American Small Business Championship, 2015 Healthcare Champions for Healthcare IT, Women Who Mean Business and was a finalist for 2016 Most Admired Small Business CEO. She has been quoted by prominent IT publications such as Inc., The New York Times, CIO Update, Processor.com etc., and has been interviewed by KUSI San Diego and 600 KOGO News Radio.

As a dog lover, Joyce co-founded Woof's Life, an organization that raises money and celebrates animal adoptions while creating job opportunities to workers with developmental disabilities. She loves to dive in the summer, snowboard in the winter, look for good eats, and autocross her car all year round.

Website: www.agilisit.com

Twitter: @agilis_it

Janeal Ford, MPA, CFRE is founder of Fordable Freelance, a fundraising consulting firm that helps nonprofits raise more money and enhance mission impact. She has a heart for service having dedicating nearly two decades of her personal and professional life to improving communities. She is a consultant, speaker and expert grant writer having secured more than $60 million dollars in funding for a variety of charitable organizations. Originally from Salt Lake City, she received a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Master of Public Administration from the University of Utah. She has held the Certified Fund Raising Executive designation since 2011. Janeal has made San Diego her home for the past four years.

Website: www.fordablefreelance.com

Twitter: @Ford_Freelance

Maggie is an online marketing consultant who helps women who have built their blogs into businesses. She created Blogs to Riches, a 5-step consulting program that helps these entrepreneurs make a consistent income by selling their own products. Before starting her own business, Maggie spent a decade as a content and social media marketing manager and started her career as a newspaper reporter. She lives in San Diego.

Website: blogstoriches.co

In 2011, Rita left her life as a business attorney (which she led for over 10 years) and became a dating & relationship coach.  Her first year in business, she was asked to tour as an expert panelist and speaker, serve as an expert for The Washington Post and was a finalist for Best Dating Coach in the iDate 2014 Awards.   Rita found that people approaching her for strategy sessions were not looking for dating help but, rather, wanted to know how she left Corporate America and grow a successful business so rapidly!   She began coaching entrepreneurs on starting and building their businesses and has since founded the Women's Business Garden, a global community of women who are creating a new world through entrepreneurship.     In June 2016, Women’s Business Garden was nominated and selected as a change-making company by the State of Women Summit, convened by The White House.  

Website: http://womensbusinessgarden.com

Twitter: @RitaGoodroe

Stephanie (Villegas) Lane is Partner of boutique yoga brand Sittin’ Pretty Still and a Facebook marketing master committed to helping women build their online presence. A world wanderer and San Diego native with a radiant energy and infectious drive for greatness, Steph has made a name for herself as a forward-thinking leader in the San Diego entrepreneur scene.   She channels her genuine, kind-hearted nature and yoga and reiki background into creating products that invite her customers to relax, find stillness, and carve out moments of self-reflection in their busy lives.   Steph is also an expert at e-commerce, online marketing, and developing recurring, subscription-based revenue streams. On top of all that, Steph is a skilled barre instructor whose work has been featured on the Grokker video network.   Website: http://www.sittinprettystill.com