Rhiannon Ally is a mother, wife, daughter, news anchor, and author. Rhiannon is currently an Emmy Award-winning evening news anchor at KSHB-TV, the NBC affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to joining KSHB-TV, Rhiannon was co-anchor of “CBS4 This Morning” and “CBS4 News at Noon” at WFOR-TV in Miami, Florida. She began her on-air career in Topeka, Kansas, as a morning anchor at WIBW-TV, where she won a Kansas Association of Broadcasters Award for best Morning Show and was voted one of Topeka's favorite television personalities. Rhiannon is married to her co-anchor Mike Marusarz, making them the first husband and wife anchor team in the history of local news in Kansas City. They have two wonderful children and a daughter on-the-way.

Chef Renee Kelly is a small-town girl that loves all things authentic. The former Top Chef contestant believes that life is best lived authentically and has every intention of doing so. Her passion lies in creating genuine connections with everything she touches, and she wants to share it throughout the world like wildfire. With her unrelenting pursuit of joy and her fun-focused attitude, she hopes to convey her passion for the world of culinary arts, food culture, and women’s empowerment.

Entrepreneur Maria Flynn is the president and CEO of Orbis Biosciences, a company that revolutionizes the delivery, efficacy, and safety of pharmaceuticals. Orbis provides cutting-edge and innovative technology to companies looking to integrate Orbis controlled-release delivery into their products. Under her leadership, Orbis was awarded the 2017 Excellence in Formulation Award by the Convention on Pharmaceutical Ingredients (CPhI) and was named the 2018 International Small Business of the Year by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

April Kramer is the Founder and CEO of Apple Pie Painting. She was born and raised in Kansas City, and has been an artist since she was just a small kid. She has won national awards in various art competitions, and recently had her work displayed at the Atomic Design Studio during First Fridays in the KC Crossroads. She studied business briefly through an online university, although she credits most of her skills and knowledge to good old fashioned experience, and YouTube. She also worked in small business management positions for nearly 12 years before stepping out of the business world, and exploring options in a more fulfilling role. She is passionate about bringing friends and families together to enjoy quality time through art She hopes one day to bring that joy to people worldwide. In her free time, April loves to spend quality time with her 2 step-children and husband having family game and movie nights.

Courtney is a native of North Carolina and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Bryan School of Business and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In September of 2002, Courtney moved to the Kansas City community and began her journey as an executive leader. Following a successful eight-year career at WaysideWaifs, where she expanded the financial position and mission impact with innovation and strategy, Courtney led the merger of two Kansas nonprofits to form Great Plains SPCA in 2011 where she served as President & CEO for over six years. After growing the mission impact by 350% during her tenure, Courtney took the helm at Central Exchange in February of 2017 to enhance and execute a new strategic plan to advance the organization through 2020.

Sarrah Chapman experienced the divorce of her parents as a child, and always played the role of peacekeeper at the expense of her own feelings. This led her to suicidal thoughts and depression that followed her for years. Over time she found herself settling for a normal life, a corporate job and a social life, but it just wasn’t enough. Sarrah eventually listened to the voice of her soul and decided to be true to herself. She now specializes in helping entrepreneurs find their gifts, their purpose, and recognize what makes them unique. She uses her Secret Advantage System to assist her clients in learning to apply their distinctive gifts in business, and move beyond all that's blocking them from creating the fullest expression of themselves. Sarrah received a bachelor's degree in Business Management and worked in corporate sales and marketing before leaving to start her own business and follow her lifelong passions of energy work, natural therapies, and spiritual practice.

Dr. Robin, among many things, is a holistic healer and founder of Your Wellness Connection, one of the nation’s most successful integrative healing centers that focuses on disciplines such as chiropractic, Chinese medicine, energy medicine, naturopathic medicine, functional medicine, massage therapy, counseling, nutritional and wellness coaching, and movement arts. She is passionate about helping people make small changes to create big shifts in their lives.  She is also an international speaker, best-selling author, podcast host and practicing chiropractor.

Maki's passion is helping people discover what they are tolerating in order to break through to a life defined by their desires rather than societal or familial constructs of success. Too many put up with a life spent surviving rather than thriving. She believes that we are here, on earth, to experience joy.

Her life experiences, background in science and counseling, as well as her time spent in corporate America have uniquely positioned her to coach others around self-awareness and provide a process around making incremental life changes in a guided way. This guidance can limit the wheel-spinning that occurs before one realizes that they are living a limited life based on someone else's definition of success.

From the very start of her corporate career, Joelsette has had an entrepreneurial focus. She built a career managing IT and engineering projects, portfolios, and teams for a diverse set of companies, from IBM and Cerner to Waddell & Reed, Sprint, and American Century Investments. She has led more than 10 engineering teams nationwide and is known for her unique ability to both execute on details and drive multimillion dollar strategic projects to successful completion. This is all while keeping her teams motivated, inspired and engaged. She is a rare talent in her execution, drive and commitment.