If you think it is too late to follow your passion, you may want to think again.

Janlyn Williams is an actress, voice-over artist, and writer. After taking a few decades off from performing to raise her family, she enthusiastically dusted off her acting chops and moved to Los Angeles. She chose to live her lifelong dream with a strong belief that it is never to late to follow your passion. Janlyn believes in the power of stories and the life-changing effects they have on our lives.

Do you understand the game of networking? Roberta Perry used to hate networking. Then she learned how to turn networking into a game. Now she helps others power-up their networking.

Roberta Perry is the Sr. Vice-President of Business Development for Edwards Technologies, Inc. (ETI) and President of Roberta Perry & Associates.

Roberta has enjoyed working with many diverse Global Brands. These include Universal Studios, Universal City Walk, 20th Century Fox, Cirque Du Soleil, The United States Navy, Coca-Cola, SEGA, Disney Retail and Driscoll Berries.

Ms. Perry was a founding member of the Themed Entertainment Association. She served as its president for two years. She is past chairman of the International Nightclub and Bar Association. She was on the board of directors for the National Restaurant Association Marketing Executives Group. She is a past member of the NFL Sunday Ticket Advisory Board. While living in Seattle she served on the Fair Campaign and Ethics Committee for the City. She also served on the Toastmasters International Board of Directors from 2010 – 2012. Currently, she is the Board Secretary for Lawrence Anthony’s Earth Organization.

She has been a guest speaker at many conferences. These include: the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, Urban Land Institute, Themed Restaurants conferences, Entertainment Retail conference, Leisure Expo, TILE (Europe), World Gaming Congress, and the Nightclub & Bar Annual conferences, Interactive Customer Experience Summit, POPAI (The Global Association for Marketing at Retail), and Global Gaming Expo 2017.

Roberta authored the chapter, “Get Your Foot in the Door,” in the Best Selling book “Women Who Rock,” by Natasha Duswalt.

Danni Andrew is a survivor. She is a motivational speaker. She makes you laugh, makes you stop and think but most of all she motivates you to change the way you approach life. She speaks on living successfully with Bipolar Disorder and Depression. She also speaks on anti-Bullying, "Clean it and Keep it Clean" and public speaking.

Danni is a published author and an award-winning artist. She joined Toastmasters in 2012 at the urging of her editor to begin learning to speak and to promote her writing. Danni became involved in leadership when she was voted in as club president. (She missed the meeting and the boys didn’t want to be club president). This is what began her love of mentoring others to learn and grow in the Toastmasters experience. She is a former Area Governor, Division Director, and Club Growth Director. She is the current Program Quality Director for District 23 Toastmasters. Danni lives in Albuquerque with her dogs Bella and Boots and just published her third book

Do you ever wonder why you aren’t getting the results you think you should? Vernon Budinger has found that people often have bad habits that convey a lack of confidence and destroy any passion in their message. They literally “shoot themselves in the foot.”

Vernon Budinger has worked in the finance industry for almost thirty years. He received his MBA from New York University with Distinction. He then went to work on Wall Street for Citicorp Securities Markets. He earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation and went on to work for hedge funds (specialized, higher-risk investment funds).

Vernon left his most recent employer to start his own hedge fund to invest in Brazil. He soon found out that promoting hedge funds is much more difficult than building one. One day he watched a video of one of his presentations and realized that, based on the presentation, he probably would not even invest in himself!

That is when he joined Toastmasters and got serious about speaking. He observed that some investment managers were successful in finding investors, even though they did not have the best presentation or the best investment process. He researched the components of confidence and passion that lead to successful sales. He learned that people often have bad habits. These habits convey a lack of confidence and destroy any passion in their message.

Through experimentation, he found that the best approach for eliminating the bad habits was to substitute good habits and start by mentally “pretending” that he had always had the good habits. Some folks call this “Fake Until You Make It.” Amy Cuddy, a famous behaviorist that taught at Harvard, called it “Fake It Until You Become It.” Vernon thought that this was a bad name for a great idea.

His approach is to learn to behave so you don’t shoot yourself in the foot and destroy the confidence and goodwill that you have built up with the audience.

His approach came full circle when he saw Tom Iland speak. Tom was diagnosed with autism when he was 13 years old. Instead of living as a behavioral outcast, he replaced his bad autistic habits with good habits. Vernon realized, that we are not becoming someone else when we eliminate bad habits, like Tom Iland, we are discovering our real self, the self that can connect with people is a real way.

Are you on the right path to get where you want to go? If not, Sonia Shafazand helps you clarify your path.

Sonia Shafazand is a Life Coach & Mentor to those who choose to have a Better, Happier Life NOW. With two toddlers in tow, she moved here from Iran during the time the US was in the midst of the hostage crisis. Sonia admits to having very low self-esteem at that time. She attributes it to feeling guilty about the results of her country’s actions in the throes of revolution.

Knowing she had to support herself and her children, she studied for her Masters’ degree while working full time. Her years in Corporate America were full – a marriage, raising a family, self-improvement classes and seminars.

One day all the knowledge and experience she had acquired suddenly came together. When she decided to live an authentic life, she began to see real growth. People became attracted to her lifestyle and sought her advice. She spent hours with family, friends, and others helping them with their issues. That genuine interest in people’s growth and happiness became her calling.

Sonia now works with executives, professionals, college grads, the self-employed, stay at home moms and students. She gets a profound sense of joy when she receives a call or email from a client, thanking her for the breakthroughs they’ve experienced and how happy they are.

Toni Caruso has had over 30 years experience in marketing and public relations. Sometimes, she works behind the scenes to make her events run smoothly. Other times, she is out in front, educating professionals to run a successful eWomenNetwork Chapter. Toni does it all with integrity, honesty, and professionalism.

Toni has worked in the entertainment field with celebrity management firms, talent management agencies, video production companies. She has personally produced several national commercials.

Toni has worked in the corporate world as well. She has been a marketing and public relations manager for a large healthcare company and a private bank. Her genius at each job was event production, logistics and organization skills.

She has produced intimate business lunches with high-worth individuals, educational seminars, shareholders meetings, off-site retreats and team building, movie screenings, business launches and company picnics for over 5,000 guests. Each event was different in size and scope. But they all had one basic formula for success. Now, Toni shares her knowledge with business professionals. She helps them to educate, inform and share their life experiences live on stage. Her mission is to produce live signature events that are exciting, engaging, unique and informative. Events where business professionals at all levels can connect, collaborate and learn tools to move their business forward. An experience where they walk in with a dream and walk out knowing how to make that dream a reality. She shows small business owners and entrepreneurs the importance of sharing their stories live on stage. This is the fastest way to build and grow their community.

Toni is also an expert networker. She believes you are never too old to learn a new skill. The art of the deal is no longer just making a sale. It is building relationships.

She helps professionals put their best foot forward with current clients and potential customers. From the front desk to the executive boardroom, a first impression can make or break any negotiation, no matter the size.

You can visit Toni at www.tonicaruso.com

Have you ever been told you need to speak to promote your business? Have you ever been told you’d be more valuable to your employer if you spoke more on the job? Today, we will explore how you go about making these changes and the impact they can have on your career and your life.

Corinne Enslin was raised in the high desert and forests of the Reno/Tahoe area. The colorful scenery and beautiful lakes of northern Nevada fueled her love for nature, art, and design. She studied at the University of Reno, Nevada. Originally, she pursued sciences for the medical field. However, her deeper artistic side won her over. She changed directions and followed her passions.

After graduating with honors, she landed the highly sought after internship at Wendell Norris and Associates (president of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) NV chapter). This developed into a permanent position soon after. They quickly put her talents to work. She wrote design articles and organized the newsletters for the Nevada chapter of ASID. She was soon given the opportunity to travel with the team to Los Angeles and design for clients in the entertainment industry.

Due to Corinne’s success designing at Wendell Norris and Associates firm at just 24 years old, she was offered a job in Pasadena, CA designing Kitchens for Siematic. She ignited their showroom, turned profits around, and showed impeccable customer relationships. She was then offered a position as a Lead Designer at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.

During her flourishing career in Los Angeles, she met her future husband. He was building and remodeling homes in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Hancock Park. They quickly fell in love and transformed into quite the team. They remodeled large estates, designed homes from the ground up, and restored historical architecture inside and out. Soon after, Revivals Design was born and a showroom soon followed.

The top priority of Revivals Design is bringing to reality the beautiful spaces that everyone can enjoy and transition through together, leaving them satisfied and inspired.

You can visit Corinne at www.revivals.design

Time to put myself in the hot seat. I am going to ask Ed Vanderlee to ask me questions. It should be fun … for you, the listener, and Ed, anyway ;)

Ed Vanderlee is an On-Air Radio Personality and a Producer. He is also the operations manager at Star Worldwide Networks. He oversees the daily operations of one of the fastest growing media companies in the country.

Ed also owns and operates The Arizona Roughriders, Arizona’s only full time professional stunt team. They provide cowboy stunt shows at a local theme park.

You can find Ed at www.1980somethingshow.com or on Facebook and Twitter.

Have you ever wondered if you are doing enough? Do you think you should be making a much bigger impact on the world? Today, we will explore this and more with Susan Sheppard.

Susan Sheppard is the founder of Getting What You Want, Inc., a life and love coaching organization. She focuses on teaching women to own their feminine power and men to cherish women. She is on a mission to get people loved the way they want to be loved. She has a very successful track record of helping people heal their wounded heart, reframe their perception of the opposite sex and meet their perfect partner so they can find true intimacy, love, and long term commitment.

She is an award winning, best selling Amazon author of the books “How to Get What You Want From Your Man Anytime” and “Dating After 40¬ No More Excuses”

Susan’s 40 years as a Registered Nurse in Emergency Services honed her crisis intervention skills as a coach. She is a self-proclaimed, self-awareness addict since 1978.

She has an eclectic background. She worked directly for Michael Gerber, the renowned Business “E Myth” Guru for 3 years. She has been certified in NLP by Tony Robbins himself in 1990.

In her eclectic life journey, she has been a headhunter in the Oil Industry, a General Contractor building custom Homes, a movie producer, a business coach, an author and book publisher and now a life coach specializing in Love Relationships. She is a renaissance woman.

You can visit Susan at www.GettingWhatYouWant.com

Beate Chelette is The Growth Architect. Beate is a results-oriented businesswoman with an entrepreneurial spirit. She has a proven track record in growing, building and scaling women’s businesses. Beate was once $135,000 in debt and a single mother. Then, she successfully sold her business to a global entertainment media company owned by Bill Gates, in a multi-million dollar deal.

Through her online courses, one-on-one training programs and live speaking events, Beate mentors women entrepreneurs with her 5 Star Success Blueprint. The Blueprint contains the knowledge gleaned from her growing, scaling and selling her own company. Beate has a deep commitment to supporting women.

She is the creator of The Women’s Code, the fourth step of Growth Architecture. The Women's Code is focused on Supporting Balanced Leadership. Her proprietary methods specifically address women’s obstacles. She leads from experience. She has survived in business in a highly competitive male-dominated environment.

She is a respected speaker and mentor. She is the author of the #1 International Bestseller “Happy Woman, Happy World: How to Go From Overwhelmed to Awesome”. Corporate trainer and best-selling author, Brian Tracy, calls "Happy Woman, Happy World" “a handbook for every woman who wants health, success and a fulfilling career.”

You can find Beate at www.BeateChelette.com