About Carrie:

Carrie Murray ignites the fire to help developing female entrepreneurs cultivate their passion projects into a profitable businesses. BRA Network is a virtual and physical space designed for women to come together and advocate for each other, converse, hire and advance their side hustle into a full blown flourishing business. So Carrie calls herself a LEADER, CONNECTOR and STRATEGIST.

What began as a circle of entrepreneurs seeking community, support and business growth, Carrie quickly realized female entrepreneurs had nowhere to turn but each other for answers when it came to frustrations and celebrations within their business. So what started out as casual dinner parties at her house, morphed into fruitful networking sessions as more and more women outside her immediate circle wanted in. At first, they would come together monthly, and then weekly to discuss all things business. It was through sharing their own personal experiences and providing advice, education and support to one another that they found a like-minded community of women who shared the same vision. From those dinners, BRA - Business Relationship Alliance - was born.

Website: BRA-Network.com
Facebook: BRA Network
Instagram: BRA_Network

About Baily:

Baily Hancock is a Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur who goes by the titles Collaboration Consultant, Career Happiness Strategist, Podcaster, Speaker, and Workshop Instructor. She teaches people how to collaborate with their community to achieve their goals, whether that's making a career change or growing their business

A natural-born connector, Baily has spent her career growing and nurturing her network and finding ways to collaborate along the way. She works with entrepreneurs to help them amplify their company's reach and influence with partnerships, and with professionals to help them find happiness and fulfillment in their careers. Baily travels the country leading workshops and doing speaking engagements on her two favorite topics: career happiness and collaboration.

Website: BailyHancock.com
Instagram: @BailyHancock

About Jan:

Jan McCarthy is an Artist, Creative Developer, Podcast Host, Author, and Small Business Coach.

In art and business, Jan believes in blending the left and right brain to achieve the most comprehensive expression, and everything she creates from paintings, sketches, books, brushes, towers, workshops or events are inspired by real-life visuals.

She's constantly deciphering and incorporating the abstract part of life in her work with the intent to evoke emotion, bring together community, unleash the imagination, stir thoughtful reflection and give way to images of something meaningful, often hidden in between the layers of mixed media, life, and other materials.

Art and business go hand in hand so when Jan puts on workshops, classes, retreats, and events she often pairs the two together because she loves helping entrepreneurs, professionals, artists and other creatives explore their hidden talents and curiosity through meaningful and fun interactive artistic sessions.

Jan was born into an entrepreneurial creative family and grew up to marry an entrepreneur. They had two daughters who are now grown and are also entrepreneurs. This influences Jan's art as does her obsession with traveling and adventure, creating community, hanging out with family and friends in thoughtful and interesting conversation over great food and drink in a fabulous location. She's lucky to embrace a dual lifestyle, splitting her time between an urban loft in downtown Los Angeles and her ranch in Boulder, CO and those diverse and abstract lifestyles filter their way into her art.

Website: janmccarthy.com
Instagram: @janmccarthy

About Rachael:

Rachael King is the Founder of Pod People, a hub for the world’s best independent producers and studios. Pod People knows each of their skillsets personally so that they can thoughtfully connect you to the perfect team based on your vision. She's also a dog mom to a shelter mutt named Butters, loves whiskey that burns a little on the way down, and can be found @rachaelgking on anything social.

Website: podpeople.com
Instagrams: @podppl & @rachaelgking

About Scott:

Scott Asai is a speaker/coach that has been developing leaders for 20+ years - athletes, companies and individuals. His focus is helping people develop leadership skills to advance in their careers. Scott tends to attract a large audience of Millennials and Introverts to his programs/events. His professional background consists of: B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in Organizational Leadership, Certified Professional Coach and Certified Strengths Coach.

Website: scottasai.com
Twitter: @LeadMuscle
Leadership Muscle Podcast - Episode with Baily

About Ellen:

Ellen Sweeney is the Head of People Operations at MeUndies where she oversees all aspects of human resources including recruiting, compensation, benefits, training and development, and employee relations. She has helped grow the company, culture, and people infrastructure to a team of over 130 people across HQ, Fulfillment, and Retail.

Previously, Ellen worked in the hospitality industry until recognizing that her skill set complimented the growing Silicon Beach startup landscape. She took the plunge and hasn’t looked back.

Ellen is a huge advocate of taking big risks (and manifesting big rewards), and taking charge of your own happiness in the workplace. Her #1 goal as a people professional, is to ensure a work environment where employees enjoy their days and flourish as professionals, is the new normal.

Current job openings at MeUndies
Instagram: @ellsween

About Shayna:

Shayna Marks is the Founder/Principal of Citrine Marketing, a boutique social media agency serving emerging lifestyle and wellness brands. With a degree in Literary Journalism from UC Irvine, Shayna considers herself first and foremost a brand storyteller. She has almost a decade of experience in digital marketing and built her career in the social media trenches at some of the biggest media companies and startups.

Website: citrinemarketing.com
Instagram: @citrinemarketing

About Adriana:

Adriana Kertzer is a Brazilian-Texan project manager with a focus on culture, digital strategy, and design. Adriana is passionate about the intersection of culture, technology and business, and has built a reputation as a fierce project manager who delights in managing complex analog and digital projects, legal transactions, exhibit design, digital research, and public speaking.

She's able to apply the discipline developed as a corporate lawyer to cultural, real estate and tech-related projects. Adriana was a part of the National Endowment for the Arts' senior leadership team under President Obama. A leading expert on the use of references to the Brazilian slums in the branding of luxury items, Adriana is the author of Favelization, a book published by the Smithsonian Institution. She is currently working on a new book, Rebranding Pot, about the changing aesthetics of the cannabis industry.

Adriana has been a featured speaker at the Museo Amparo, Brown University, Parsons The New School For Design, Queens College/CUNY, General Assembly, The Line, Zona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo, University of Hong Kong, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

She received her BA from Brown University, JD from Georgetown Law Center, and MA from Parsons The New School for Design. When not hustling in New York City, you can find her at #OlivebridgeCottage, a house renovated by blogger Daniel Kanter of Manhattan Nest and sponsored by Benjamin Moore Paint.

Adriana grew up in São Paulo, Brazil and now lives in New York City with her husband and dog Cachaça. She is fluent in Portuguese, English, and Italian and is known for having a healthy disregard for the impossible.

Websites:
- adrianakertzer.com
- olivebridgecottage.com
- favelization.net
- rebrandingpot.com

LinkedIn: Adriana Kertzer
Instagram: @adrianakertze

About Carolyn:

Carolyn Birsky is a Certified Life & Career Coach and the Owner of Compass Maven LLC, a company that helps 20-something women gain the clarity and confidence they need to get unstuck and turn the lives and careers of their dreams into reality through 1-on-1 coaching, workshops, and content.

Upon graduating college, Carolyn spent the first 6 years of her career working in corporate sales. While she had a very successful career on paper, Carolyn wasn’t excited to go to work each morning, and Sunday nights were filled with dread. When she ultimately found her calling in coaching, Carolyn knew she was meant to help other women navigate their 20s and make this important decade feel less confusing. And thus, Compass Maven was born.

Carolyn holds a BA in Psychology from Middlebury College and a CPC from iPEC (the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching). A born connector, Carolyn also loves finding opportunities to introduce amazing women to one another and watching the incredible things that arise from these relationships. When she’s not coaching or working on her business, you can find Carolyn traveling, discovering new coffee shops and restaurants, and making the most of her time with friends and family.

Websites: CompassMaven.com & ConfidenceDinners.com
Instagram: @CompassMaven

About Julie:

Julie Knapp is a Casting Associate for scripted television shows, most recently for ABC's "Designated Survivor" and NBC's "Good Girls". Throughout her career, Julie has helped cast actors on over a dozen shows, but it was as a Casting Assistant on "Cougar Town" where she got her start. Prior to making the 3,000-mile trek from New Jersey to Los Angeles, Julie graduated with honors and received a dual BA in Television, Radio & Film and Psychology from Syracuse University.

Raised by an Attorney and an Art Teacher, academics were just as important as following your dreams in the Knapp household. In addition to taking theater and TV production classes in school, she attended a local theater camp as a child and saw countless Broadway shows with her family. As an adult, Julie still loves going to as much live theater as she can, and also frequents comedy clubs trying to see who the best up and coming comics are. She goes back to New Jersey and New York City as often as possible to see her family which now includes a 2-year-old nephew.

Twitter: @jknappcasting
Instagram: @jknappcasting