Jenna Biancavilla is a trailblazing entrepreneur on a mission to empower people to take charge of their financial future. In 2016 Jenna launched her company, Pearl Capital Management, a fiduciary financial planning firm advising on over $180 Million in assets under management. Alongside her sister, she co-founded Svvy, a disruptive technology company aiming to revolutionize the financial services industry by empowering women investors and providing them with vetted advisor connections they can trust. Jenna is also deeply committed to giving back to her community. She volunteers with several charities, including mentoring foster children through Court Appointed Special Advocates and is a foster mom to a rotating cast of shelter dogs.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

👥 🔥Hire Fast: Learn why it’s never too early to invest in team members to help you grow your business so it can run without you.

💪❤️Empower Your Team: Beyond the power of effective delegation, learn why it’s important to be a great coach and mentor to your team.

⏱️🌙Guard Your Time: Learn the time management secrets that enable Jenna to run several businesses, volunteer and have a fulfilling, enjoyable life.

📈 🚀Bootstrapping to Success: How women-led companies can thrive even without outside investment, and how to create optimistic yet realistic financial projections to attract investors while emphasizing sustainability.

💼 💡 Financial Navigation and Resources: How Pearl Capital Management acts as a "financial quarterback," ensuring coordinated and comprehensive financial plans, plus how the fintech firm BeSvvy.com is connecting business owners to trusted local advisors through a smart matchmaking service.

👩‍🔬 💰 Funding Women Entrepreneurs: Why more women must start investing in each other’s startups to change the game of venture capital, how women founders outperform exclusively male teams, and how to present your opportunity to investors.

🐾 🤟 Balancing Act: How to manage multiple roles with passion and purpose.

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Ashley Stanford is the CEO and Founder of Ice Cream Social, a gamification platform that converts customers into a influencers. She’s a digital marketing consultant with more than 15 years of experience specializing in building strategic marketing plans, mapping strategy execution, and tactics that optimize conversions and referrals.  She is also the EVP of Client Strategy at TicketSocket, where she originally “intrapreneured” Ice Cream Social.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🎮❤️ Reward Your Customers: How incorporating gamification tactics and innovative referral systems boosts customer engagement and referrals by transforming customers into brand influencers through incentives. 

💡 📣 Influencer Marketing Mistakes: Learn how some efforts to turn customers into influential endorsement machines can backfire, and how get the best results.

💸 📈 Cost-Efficient Marketing Alternatives: Learn how Ice Cream Social offers cost-effective alternatives to traditional advertising by leveraging word-of-mouth and reducing customer acquisition costs. 

📊 📱Navigating Data and Measurement: Marketing without measurement is like sailing without a compass. Learn strategies for tracking influencer marketing success, and best practices for using promo codes, unique URLs, and affiliate links to gauge impact. 

🎯 🚀 Tackling Marketing Challenges: How to overcome marketing overwhelm, understand your target market and integrate smart, cost-effective marketing strategies. 

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Alicia Berberich is a visionary leader who’s made it her mission to connect women to each other in inclusive, collaborative and supportive networks to help them grow their businesses. She began the Women in Business Roundtable in 1992 in San Francisco, which became the largest networking group through the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. She went on to found the Women's Marketing Luncheon series to create a smaller environment and now Alicia coaches women entrepreneurs to achieve their goals by harnessing the power of manifesting and overcoming their negative self-talk.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🚀 📈 Manifesting Business Success: Learn the DESIGNED framework for actionable steps to manifest goals—from clarifying desires and aligned energy to inspired action gratitude, and beyond. 

💼 🔥Support and Mentorship: Why women must support one another in business for all of us to succeed, and why collaborative and inclusive networks foster the connections and capital we all need to grow successful businesses.  

👩‍🔬 🤟 Harnessing Wisdom and Energy: Learn why women in their 50s and 60s bring a unique blend of experience, confidence, and renewed energy, often finding their entrepreneurial stride as they navigate life changes like children leaving home and post-menopause vitality.

🧠 💡 Mindset Mastery: How to overcome inner saboteurs and negative self-talk and foster a positive mindset, and why using "loving kindness" and positive self-dialogue can help overcome imposter syndrome or anything holding you back from your dreams.

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Maria Maldonado Smith is the founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of MMS Consulting and creator of the Executive Vision Imagery program. After 18 years of award-winning success in the corporate space, working as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, Maria brings her unparalleled combination of experience to her proprietary process and interactive trainings, helping companies understand the science and benefits of goal setting for their employees.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🌍✨Align on Vision and Values: Learn why uniting a team around shared vision and values and a roadmap for how those are operationalized leads to a happy workplace culture with increased productivity and productivity. 

⚖️📈Balance in Management: How to avoid toxic micromanagement without confusing employees with too much autonomy, and strike the balance between the trust and independence team members need, with clear expectations and onboarding processes to set them up for success.

💡 🌱Understanding Employee Goals: Why it’s vital to engage with team members on a personal level. Ask: "What do you want? Who do you want to become? What do you want to create?" This understanding helps in aligning individual aspirations with company objectives and enhancing overall team engagement.

⚡ 🚀 Challenges in Growing Companies: Rapid growth can be overwhelming for founders. Learn how to set yourself up for success by having proper systems and practices in place to maintain quality as you scale.

🤝 👥 Hiring to Trust: How to patiently build recruitment and hiring processes that help you align your new hires around shared values and expectations so you can feel safe empowering your team.

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Caitlin Copple and Holly Conti are the co-owners of Full Swing Public Relations, a fast-growing agency helping underrecognized leaders positively impact the world as entrepreneurs, authors, speakers and political candidates. Caitlin founded Full Swing in 2019, brought Holly in as Head of Digital Marketing, and together they’ve grown into a 7-figure company, with clients featured in Fast Company, Inc. Forbes, New York Times, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, PopSugar, CNN, and many others. They’ve helped clients launch multi-six-figure courses and memberships, earn six-figure book deals,10x their email lists, and 100x their social following.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

📌 💡 Why Long-Term Thinking Beats Quick Wins: How to focus on long-term relationship building with media partners, and understanding what journalists are looking for and how to best approach them.

💪 🚀 How to Bolster Earned Media: Learn how to make your brand story and solution relevant to journalists and the news agenda, a why a "soft pitch" strategy and crafting strong, problem-solving stories tailored for journalists always wins the day. 

🤖 🤝 AI vs. Humans: AI can boost efficiency in research and content creation but there is no replacement for authentic human connection in securing impactful media placements. Plus, the need for more transparency and diversity in AI models.

👩‍🔬 🌱 Balancing Entrepreneurship with Motherhood: How it’s possible to find leverage in your business to be both a good mom and a successful business owner, and why its vital that women support each other.

Plus, hear the story of how Full Swing PR lead the impactful “My Village” campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Ruchi Pinniger is the Founder and CEO of Watch Her Prosper®, helping small business owners and entrepreneurs master their finances and business growth. With a holistic approach, Ruchi provides financial guidance, bookkeeping, and tax-time readiness, as well as focusing on heightening her clients’ prosperity mindset. Ruchi connects the business to the person, helping her clients break free from shame and guilt surrounding wealth and see huge results in their profitability and economic growth. She is an Executive Board member for Savvy Ladies, an organization that helps women improve their financial literacy and take control of their money.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

⚰️ 💰 Death and Money: Find out why 61% of people would rather talk about death.

💸 ✨ Financial Therapy: Why prosperity is driven by well-being, spirituality and relationships (including how you relate to money) and why money is in the mind.

🧠 ❤️The RIR Method: Learn how to Recognize, Interrupt, Reframe to transform limiting beliefs and language around money.

🚀 💡 The Power of Visualization: Clear goals are key, so understand what you truly want. Try this exercise: spend some quiet time reflecting on your future desires, then write a letter to a loved one as if you’ve already achieved your aspirations.

👩‍🔬 🤟 Know Your Value: Overcome the temptation to underprice and over-deliver by understanding the true differentiated value you provide your customers. 

🌱📈 Investing Not Spending: The vital mindset shifts to understand that hiring is an investment in business growth not simply an expense, and why freeing up your time for high-value tasks can lead to substantial long-term benefits.

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Jenna Capozzi is the founder of Elev8pwr, a coaching and consultancy company focused on empowering women in business to new heights of impactful leadership and success. Jenna brings more than 30 years of C-level executive experience, having led innovative projects for global brands such as Samsung, Target, and BMW, and produced notable films and TV shows. Transitioning from the spotlight of Hollywood and the world of advertising to empowering the next generation of leaders, she leverages her extensive background to guide individuals towards impactful leadership and nurture them to achieve their goals with confidence and clarity.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🚀🔥 Massive Action Beats Perfection: "Don't think, just do" and focus on who you’re helping rather than how perfectly you’re doing it. 

🤝 🌱 Collaboration Over Competition: Why women must support one another to lift each other up, and why diverse perspectives make us all better and improve businesses.

👩‍🔬🏳️‍🌈 Facing and Overcoming Bias: How to overcome unconscious bias in all aspects of growing your business, including fundraising venture capital. 

🧠 ✨Setting Boundaries and Mindset: How to overcome imposter syndrome and your inner bully voice, gain confidence, and stand up powerfully to undermining remarks.

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Molly McGrath is the Founder and CEO of Hiring & Empowering Solutions and the author of Amazon's top-#1 Best Seller: 'Fix My Boss: The Simple Plan to Cultivate Respect, Risk Courageous Conversations, and Increase the Bottom Line'. Molly has coached, consulted, and directed presidents and founders of national organizations and over 4,500 law firms in executive-level leadership, continuous improvement, and team empowerment initiatives to infiltrate new markets, leverage partner ecosystems, and produce profitability. Her podcast, 'Hire and Empower,' is recognized as a Top 10% National Podcast.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🔄📈Move Fast: Focus on a speedy and transparent recruitment process because “time kills all deals”, so have an initial 10-minute conversation and learn what your potential recruit needs in salary to make a move right away.

✨🤎Focus on Culture and Values: Why job ads are more effective at finding the best and right people when they’re not just about job tasks, results and qualifications.

🔥 🧠 Leadership and Self-Awareness: Why it’s important to align hiring to strategic longer-term needs not just immediate pain points, and focus on understanding existing strengths and weaknesses on your team to focus resources where you need them most.

🤝 🎯 Effective Onboarding Processes: It’s not enough to hire. Make sure you have a structured, measurable, and engaging onboarding process with the "teach, show, do, go grow" model ensures readiness and growth.

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Dr. Jeanine Staples-Dixon is the CEO and Founder of coaching company Literacy for Life and a Professor of Literacy and Language, African American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She focuses on dismantling supremacist patriarchies through research, teaching, and coaching. Jeanine recently started The Supreme Love Project movement to support marginalized people, mainly women and people of color, to heal the relational and social terrors in their souls and launch revolutions in their lives.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

👩‍🔬 🤟 Embracing Full Personhood: How to move beyond the binary expression of masculine and feminine energies to integrate fractured aspects of ourselves to move from performative to personhood, reduce exhaustion and increase agility and connectedness.

🏳️‍🌈🤎 Challenging Patriarchal Values: How to overcome societal conditioning and subconscious programming to unleash your full potential, and how to create supportive communities and break free from competitive and hierarchical socialization.

❤️ 🚀Balancing Strength and Softness: Why Vice President Kamala Harris is an ideal role model for women in how to authentically step into the biggest version of ourselves as leaders, blending strategic, driven masculine energy with nurturing, intuitive feminine energy, and why this balance not only promotes personal success but can also lead to transformative business practices with positive social and environmental impacts.

🧠✨Evolving from Performativity to Authenticity: How to overcome patriarchal indoctrination and subconscious programming to break free from performative roles to fully embodied authentic personhood for sustained energy and accomplishment.

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Nancy Lyons is the CEO and co-founder of Clockwork and an outspoken advocate for making workplaces more inclusive, flexible, and adaptable. Nancy says no one does great work if they’re worried or if they can’t bring their whole self to work, and her consultancy focuses on transforming businesses and business leadership through experience design, technology for change enablement, and creating workplace cultures that support human complexities, nuances and intricacies. She’s also the author of the interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process, A Human-Centered Approach to Producing Digital Products, and Work Like a Boss: A Kick-in-the-Pants Guide to Finding (and Using) your Power at Work.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🚀 🤟Intrapreneurs Over Hierarchy: Why traditional corporate hierarchies are becoming obsolete as technology democratizes workplaces, and how to bring entrepreneurial thinking into organizations to inspire creativity and innovation. 

❤️ 🌈 Cultural Values in the Workplace: Learn how to operationalize values like innovation and inclusion in day-to-day work, and why values must be visible in actions and how they contribute to a thriving corporate culture.

👩‍💼 🤝 Women Leading the Future: The under-appreciated yet vital qualities women bring to leadership roles, and why qualities like empathy, creativity, and relationship-building become essential with AI taking over repetitive tasks.

🌐🤎Prioritizing DEI Initiatives: While some companies pull back on DEI efforts, diversity and inclusion are proven to assure business growth and innovation.

✨💡 Creating an Empathetic Culture of Trust: Why engaging in respectful dialogues and understanding diverse perspectives is critical to defuse conflicts and elevate conversations and effective collaboration through curiosity and active listening.

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