Grit & Grace

Laurel Dawn Huston is an award winning international keynote speaker. She is innovative, passionate, and engaging on stage, with ground-breaking content. She is the creator of Body Mapping, a technique used to identify markers on our bodies that signify gifts, abilities and personality traits. Laurel has worked with 1000s of women, helping them regain trust with their relationships with time, money, their bodies, and intimacy. She teaches Body Mapping to empower women to reunite with their divine feminine energy... to live a life of tuned in and turned on.
Body Mapping is the map the universe left on your body to help you remember- you have purpose, you matter, you are enough!
Body Mapping was created through 20 years of study as Laurel earned several college degrees (Psychology, Speech Communication, and Human Development), taught anatomy, body language, energy healing, and followed inspiration. She now uses it to empower and inspire others to discover their highest self.

Karlie Foster was a teenage mom, who felt like she had to prove to they world she was good enough and worthy.

In a desire to create what she thought would be the “perfect” family and life, She stepped into the shadows of her husband and children, sacrificing herself and identity. Spiraling into a state of depression, emptiness, and a perpetually “empty cup”.

After a divorce and literally losing everything, every mask she hid behind was literally stripped away, and at that pivotal point she was force to rebuild from scratch.. her identity, relationships, and finances.

She found beauty in ashes, and learned that who she REALLY was, was more than enough.

A journey into health, physically and emotionally, and the desire to help others rise above their situations and reclaim their identities, propelled her into success not only in life but business.

Now as a top 1% leader in her company she empowers and equips those around her to step into their power! Own who they really are, and make beauty from ashes.



You can reach Karlie on Instagram @https://www.instagram.com/karlie_foster/

Facebook @ https://m.facebook.com/karlie.ley

Or through her website @https://thehappyco.com/Karliefoster

Lover of Christ, wife of 20 years, Fierce, passionate mama of 3, Italian, Born and raised on the East Coast with no filter! Former professional ballet dancer turned Family Therapist and now a successful entrepreneur who helps women to break the chains of body shaming and give them the tools to become confident, strong, beautiful and walk in their power🔥🔥🔥

Shylo Eckstrom welcomes on special guest Taylor Thompson. Taylor helps networkers simplify/create multiplication.
www.themillionairetraining.com

One moment can change the trajectory of your future, and for Mandy Peterson that day was ten years ago when she survived a suicide attempt after years of battling depression and anxiety. That moment propelled Mandy to do more in the mental health field. As a current graduate student focusing on Clinical Mental Health Mandy aspires to be an adolescent counselor for individuals battling mental illness.

Mandy took her desire to aid the mental health field further and become an advocate and ally across the country. She has had the opportunity to speak at schools and military bases across the United States in addition to being honored at the United Nations for her advocacy work. She has also used her love for pageantry to act as a loudspeaker for her mental health passion. As your Ms. United States - 2020 Mandy is on a mission to break down stigmas surrounding mental health, to educate individuals on mental health and resources and lastly she hopes to bridge the gap in accessible care for individuals struggling.

Outside of work and school you can find Mandy running with her dog, cooking new vegan recipes with her family or binge watching Law and Order. The darkest moment in her life has left Mandy with a new desire to give back, love more and live a life that is just as unique as she is.

Want to Contact Mandy?
Instagram: OfficialMsUnitedStates
Facebook: @MsUnitedStatesPageant
Email: [email protected]

Nate Ridgeway is a singer-songwriter from the Chattanooga, TN area. His style is easy rock with themes on love and life. His upcoming solo record “The Emancipation of a Heart” will be recorded this August in world famous and historic Muscle Shoals. You can support the project at nateridgeway.com.

At the age of 21 years old, Blair founded his first business SkyPipeline, and has since created and sold numerous other companies for hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of his career. 

Blair’s first book Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain became a #1 New York Times international bestseller in both hardcover and paperback in 2011. 

In 2012, Blair was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year and sold his company ViSalus in a $792 million dollar transaction to NYSE:BTH and started a private venture capital fund HashTagOne which made several successful investments in various technology companies.

In 2013 Nothing to Lose the Documentary was released chronicling his journey as an entrepreneur while battling his son’s struggle with Autism and his mother’s traumatic brain injury and coma.

Blair’s second book Rock Bottom to Rock Star was released in 2016 becoming a bestseller.

At the age of 40 in 2017 Blair stepped down as CEO of ViSalus and retired to focus on his family and his health.

In 2020 Blair excited all of his portfolio investments and dedicate his life to teaching transformational modalities through his social enterprise startup AlterCall.

You can learn more about Ryan Blair through his books Rock Bottom to Rock Star and Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain, his Youtube documentary, Nothing to Lose the Documentary, following him on social media @realryanblair on IG and by visiting AlterCall.com

Marc M. Lalonde, also known as The Wealthy Trainer™, is the Founder and CVO (Chief Visionary Officer) of Branding YOUniversity™, on Online Personal Branding University. Marc caught the “Entrepreneurial Bug” at 17 years old when he started selling Pet Food door-to-door. Since then, Marc has experienced both extremes of life, going from being a successful Computer Consultant with several side-businesses, to falling into substance abuse, which led to him getting fired, going broke and becoming homeless. However, he was able to bounce back, earning a 7-figure income while helping thousands of people from around the globe to find financial freedom by doing what they love. Since launching Branding YOUniversity™, Marc has helped Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, Real Estate Agents, Insurance Brokers, Authors, Actors, Musicians, Lawyers, Teachers, Industry-Specific Professionals, and of course, people with a specific Passion from around the globe brand themselves. Marc’s purpose is to help people brand themselves as Leaders and Authorities in either their specific niche or in whatever their passion is while creating an income doing what they love.

How to overcome family “dis”function
Handling life when things get tough

Matt Kowalski: Kowala Consulting & Media Inc. Crystal MN Docu-Journalist/Filmmaker

Matt Kowalski is an American Filmtrepeneur and Independent Documentary Filmmaker. He has worked with multiple media outlets and has traveled across the country since 2015 as a video-journalist and participated in extensive coverage of the civil unrest that took place in 2020-21 in the United States. Matt’s self-described style of filmmaking is a brand of unbiased docu-realism, a journalistic aesthetic and signature based on objectivity and historical context.

Matt also produces material and acts as consult on commercial/advertising and political/public relations projects.

His clientele includes:

Boise Cascade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKoLl-s62CA&t=6s

The Libertarian Party of Minnesota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk1o_E-_NzA

Rossman Construction Co. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCAJmTG3kOQ&t=10s

Ruptly.TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlbedMEI-IM


Kowala Media Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YPP18dB27E

Kowala Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kowalamedia

Kowala Media Twitter: https://twitter.com/kowalamedia?lang=en

Kowala Media Web: https://kowalamedia.com

Matt is producing a documentary with Grey State (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6794380/fullcredits) Filmmaker Mason Hendricks on their adventures covering the 2020-2021 civil unrest as members of the press in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Washington D.C.

Favorite Quote: A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
- Stanley Kubrick