Making of HERstory

Kristal Diorio is a Financial Representative, taking an educational approach to finances. She is dedicated to leading trainings and conducting one-on-one meetings in an effort to help families earn more income and become debt free and financially independent. Kristal earned a Master's degree from UNH in Education and Psychology, giving her the background to understand that when people feel empowered through education they can make informed decisions that will benefit their lives in the long run. Kristal utilizes her magnetic personality and endless energy to connect and bring people together. She is a devoted mother of two and works with her husband, who shares her passion for helping families reach their goals financially.

Valeria is a connector and social entrepreneur who values building strategic relationships and bringing people together for social impact. Her multi-cultural upbringing and experience in 68 countries allows her to connect with companies and individuals to discover their personal identities, to share their stories and to use data for sustained impact. As the president and founder of Chaski Global, Valeria instills her strengths of communications, strategy, training, project management, and her love for improving people’s lives, in every project she comes across. She is also the co-founder of The She Lab, a women’s networking organization that mobilizes and empowers women to change the world. She previously spent eight years at the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation overseeing communications in 24 countries and creating the agency’s results portfolio. Valeria was born and raised in La Paz, Bolivia, has a Masters in Corporate Communications from Georgetown University and a Bachelors in International Development and Hispanic Studies from Trinity College. She is a board member at Amazon Aid Foundation and the Tanga Tanga Foundation. When she is away from the office, you can find her teaching at the Federal Executive Institute, or exploring the world with her husband and three-year old twins.

Charlene "Ignites" DeCesare has been a trusted advisor to executives and organizations around the world for more than two decades. As CEO of Charlene Ignites, LLC and Founder of Firewalk Sales, she specializes in helping smart, ambitious business builders accelerate growth at the intersection of sales and marketing in a way that is fun and easy. Growing a business shouldn’t be painful!

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Before developing her personal brand into a full-time business venture, Charlene co-founded the multi-million-dollar company, EdAssist, now owned by Bright Horizons. Prior to that, she spent 10 years at Gartner, Inc. leading an international sales team, and helping the most respected technology companies in the world extend their brand message. Charlene was also a membership growth leader at the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), and the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Boardroom Events.

Throughout all stages of her career, she has become well-known for her ability to energize others while creating rapid, sustainable growth.

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Charlene has a B.S. in Communications from Emerson College and an M.B.A. in Sales & Marketing from Rivier University. She is a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association and a Nationally Certified Brain-Based Success Coach. She lives on a lake in Salem, NH with her husband and two children.

Dr. Cortney Baker is an award-winning entrepreneur, host of the podcast Women in Business: Inspirational Stories of Women Entrepreneurs with Dr. Cortney, TEDx speaker, and a nationally recognized authority on women’s leadership. She has been featured on FOX News, Forbes, iHeart Radio, and Huffington Post, among other publications. As a leadership expert, mentor and business coach to female entrepreneurs and mother of three, she is passionate about inspiring and empowering women to close the gender gap through entrepreneurship.

Dr. Cortney is the author of the best-selling book The Ten Do’s and Don’ts for Business Leadership: Lessons to Lead Effectively and her most recent book,

. Dr. Cortney was named the 2016/2017 Texas Business Woman of the Year, and the Top 100 in Healthcare

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in America. She’s the founder and CEO of KidsCare Home Health, a multi-million dollar healthcare organization with 12 locations across Texas, Colorado, and Idaho. She earned an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University, where She concentrated her studies on understanding and advancing women to the highest levels of leadership.

Dr. Cortney resides in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, daughters, dogs, and rescue kitty.

Her Tribe Athletics began with a vision to provide affordable, comfortable workout clothing for women of all shapes and sizes. Clothing that doesn’t move around and fits the way you need it to! Everything created is limited edition, and hand designed by Meg, the owner.

Her Tribe Athletics supports women who are runners, cyclists, yogis, gym rats, walkers, aerialists, spin enthusiasts, and any woman who is or wants to be active. We support women who are just starting their fitness journey, women who have been working out for a little while, and women who have been active ever since they can remember. Every woman deserves to feel beautiful and strong in her athletic apparel.

We are here for that woman. We are Her Tribe.

Find out more: https://www.hertribeathletics.com

Wendy Bellevue is a Brooklyn-born, Massachusetts-raised actor and software analyst. She spent 2 years teaching English in Korea and now she's back trying to balance showbiz, the tech world, and political commentary all while successfully battling negative self-talk and learning to embrace change. When she's not keying the newest software systems, you can find her on episode 6 of Castle Rock!

Find more about Wendy at: https://www.facebook.com/wendy.bellevue

Margery Miller helps people think! She guides people who are ready to get out of the box and lead more productive, purposeful, meaningful lives. A seasoned business veteran, she owned and managed a manufacturer’s rep agency for 29 years before selling it to her employees in 2006 and putting her focus on coaching and consulting through PeopleBiz Inc., a side business during her rep years. She helps people master the business of life and create strategies that work for them. In addition to working with individual coaching clients, she volunteers weekly at an entrepreneurship incubator mentoring groups of budding entrepreneurs.

Margery founded the Great Girls Network in 2013 to help women build more meaningful relationships and connections, her answer to the Good Ole Boys’ Network which is very much alive and well. She recently published Confessions of a Recovering Helpaholic, and Sound Business Bites, the first two books in the Great Girls Network Series.

Kristin Hardwick is the co-founder of Coworking House, as well as a branding photographer, and mother of 2 kids. Passionate about marketing and small business, she marries her love for entrepreneurship and the community in both of her professional endeavors. When not working, she can be found exploring New England with her husband and kids, chasing down a great IPA, or devouring yet another personal development book.

Emily Aborn is a Professional Assistant who helps busy and overwhelmed professionals to succeed by taking projects, tasks, and all the things that trip them up from being productive off of their plate. She previously owned a successful luxury retail store and has been working in marketing, administrative and executive support roles for over ten years. She is the Owner and co-founder of She Built This, LLC a company which is working to create the new norm in NH amongst being a female entrepreneur. She is the Chairperson of the Education Committee for the Souhegan Valley Chamber of Commerce. For fun, she loves walking, biking, hiking, and being outside. She is in a love/hate relationship with her rowing machine, and claims to be a Scrabble, Jeopardy, and Crossword addict. She lives in Temple, NH with her husband, Jason, and their dog, Clyde.

Join Crystal and Heidi as we bring the podcast global to Guyana with Evie Kanhai – Gurchuran.

A serial entrepreneur; she began her first business at just sixteen years old and hasn’t stopped! Now 34 years old, she is the co-owner of brands, EMTEC, Java Coffee Bar, Uplined Multimedia Management and the Sites Builders, where she is the Chief Business Analyst

Her passion is Marketing and Graphic Design, and she is currently pursuing a Master’s in Marketing to complement her seventeen plus years in the field.

Evie also has volunteerism in her blood, growing up with parents in local and foreign missions, Evie spent most of her school holidays with foreign organizations taking medical and feeding outreaches to all corners of Guyana. This later led to her volunteering on board the Logos II with Operation Mobilization and experiencing the culture of the Middle East, Spain and North Africa. It is here where she developed her passion for Coffee and Tea and learned to bake and cook in a professional capacity.

Her desire to see women become economically empowered, so that they could make their own decisions and foster better conditions for their families and community also resulted from the culture shock she would have endured on her travels, and situations in her own childhood.

She works with other empowering women and youth to hold workshops, seminars and uplifting activities, with a focus on capacity building for women and youth in ICT and business development and sustainability and is a co-founder and past president of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs. These endeavors have led to her being awarded a fellowship with the US State Department’s, Young Leaders of the Americas program, Caribbean Teach Entrepreneur Program and, the position of Managing Director of the Guyana Chapter for Girls in Tech International

She is the wife to Miguel Gurchuran, and mother of Skyler and Hailey. And when she is not working, she enjoys a simple day at the creek/pool with good food and fun or a good Sci-Fi /Action movie.

To find out more about Evie’s professional and volunteer endeavors, you can like her professional page on facebook or add her on linkedin.