Carrington Smith is a single mom, attorney, business owner, and
executive search professional. Despite being born with a silver spoon in
her mouth, life gave her a hard kick in the tail. She has survived sexual
assault, two divorces, piles of debt, abuse, religious mind games, the
death of loved ones, and the loss of close friends. In her debut memoir, Carrington combines wit and wisdom to share her journey through the shit, with a positive attitude and a shift of mindset,into a life bursting with joy, opportunity, and purpose.

Carrington is passionate about empowering people in all aspects of
their life and career by reframing their circumstances and experiences,
shifting their mindset, creating a vision for their life, and then breaking it
down into specific measurable achievable realistic time-bound (SMART)
goals. She helps people and organizations move past excuses, shame,
and fear to identify where they want to end up, the steps necessary to
get there, and how to deal with any obstacles in the way.

A graduate of UT Austin and Tulane Law School, Carrington resides in
Austin, Texas, with her two teenage boys.

Lauren is the Founder of Veriditas. She is the author of: Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool (Putnam/Riverhead Books, New York),
The Sand Labyrinth Kit, (Tuttle Publishers) and The Sacred Path Companion: A Guide to Walking the Labyrinth to Heal and Transform (Riverhead, 2006).

Lauren is a priest of the Episcopal Church, and her home church is Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California. From 1986 to 1992, she served as Canon Pastor and then as Canon for Special Ministries until August 2004. In May of 2006, her rediscovery of the labyrinth was honored by Grace Cathedral and she was designated Honorary Canon, a lifetime title.

In 1991, while on a brief sabbatical, Lauren walked an informal taped labyrinth through the work of Jean Houston. The idea gestated for a few months and then she was compelled to go to Chartres Cathedral, where she moved the chairs and walked the medieval labyrinth. This courageous act has led to the rediscovery of the labyrinth. Lauren not only introduced the walking meditation back into the Christian tradition but also introduced the labyrinth back into Western culture. By December 1991, she had replicated the Medieval Eleven Circuit Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral beginning in canvas form. Due to the enormous response of people desiring to learn a walking meditation, the tapestry labyrinth was installed inside the Cathedral in 1994. The outdoor terrazzo labyrinth was installed in the Interfaith Meditation Garden in 1995. In 2007, Grace Cathedral installed a permanent limestone labyrinth in the floor to replace the tapestry labyrinth. Veriditas is storing the carpet until it can realize its vision of a retreat center where the tapestry labyrinth will once again have a home.

Dr. Elizabeth Rainwater and Dr. Latonya Rainwater are two Atlanta-based entrepreneurs, preachers, and educators. They have a background in psychology and spent years mentoring students in graduate school. They also have a background in ministry that stems from childhood and family roots.

Their passion for education is a big part of their journey, which turned into teaching ESL to students in China online for an education center in Florida. In teaching ESL, Dr. Elizabeth, and Dr. Latonya witnessed firsthand just how important it is to not only make certain that students are learning the material taught, but that they are maintaining and expanding on it. While teaching it was clear that every student had different learning styles and that the curriculum needed altering to fit their educational needs.

It was not intuition, but it was a tug on the heart, which led both educators and doctors to design their own educational and inspirational products as ELRSHOP. The name ELRSHOP stems from the first initial of Dr. Elizabeth and Dr. Latonya’s name giving their online shop a special and unique meaning. In the ELRSHOP, you can find coloring books, crossword puzzles, math, and grammar workbooks, and more.

Age is no factor and there is something for everyone. All proceeds earned from each sale help support their ministry and mission work worldwide. Any way that they can educate and spread the gospel to people is a step in the right direction and helps them fulfill their purpose in life.

This incredible songstress and accomplished songwriter captivate audiences with a soulful delivery uniquely her own. Listen to Brenda and you'll hear songs magically brought to life with a combination of down-home flavor and a slick uptown touch reflecting the influence of her upbringing in Alabama and Chicago. Eager, pronounced (ager), found her voice at the tender age of three when she began singing in church in her hometown of Lower Peachtree, Alabama. Since beginning her career, Brenda Lee is one of the few who has always made a living doing what she loves... and doing it well.

Brenda, who has worked with great artists such as Diana Ross, Roberta Flack, Smokey Robinson, Teena Marie, Donny Hathaway, Graham Nash, Ray Charles, Mavis Staples, Stevie Wonder, among many others, takes us back to a time when soul-filled singing, whether silky-smooth or raw and passionate, was the order of the day.

Dawnita Brown is a woman of many parts - co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Black
Girls Global Exchange (BGGE), a global ambassador program for girls which uniquely
cultivates leadership through artistic activism and service in a way that promotes an
equitable exchange of ideas addressing social issues between girls in the US and Africa,
former federal employee wellness coordinator, graphic designer, returned Peace Corps
Volunteer, host of The Selfull Caregiver Podcast, Certified Caregiving Consultant™
Educator™ Facilitator™, loving daughter and most of all proud full-time selfull caregiver to
her mama Joan.


Sudden caregiving for her mother was something Dawnita was not prepared for, but after
almost 4 years of serving as the sole caregiver for her fully dependent mother, she learned
the importance of caring for herself in order to better care for her mother. This philosophy,
known as “selfullness” (the sweet spot between selfish and selfless), has become Dawnita’s
mission. In 2021, she founded Hey Caregiver! a lifestyle brand that educates, equips, and
encourages caregivers to live a life of “selfullness” during their caregiving journey. She also
founded “The Binti Circle”, a support group for Black daughters caring for their mothers .
After navigating this journey primarily alone, Dawnita created the community she so
desperately needed and now envisions a community of holistically well caregivers living
selfull lives.

Danielle Miyoko Furuichi is a graduate student in the Masters of the Environment program at University of Colorado Boulder, studying urban resilience, sustainability, and environmental justice. They are also the founder of Furuichi Consulting LLC, providing inclusive language and LGBTQ+ inclusivity trainings to businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations. Danielle is passionate about creating inclusive and equitable spaces where people can live authentically as themselves and thrive."

website here: https://www.furuichiconsulting.com/

Cheryl Grace is a highly sought-after executive coach and speaker committed to coaching women on how to be their best multi-dimensional selves: unapologetically fabulous at work, in love and at home. With a corporate career that spanned 25+ years as a global brand strategist, managing high-stake projects Cheryl provided strategic counsel to Fortune 500 clients, C-suite executives, and elected officials. During her years as a corporate powerhouse she was regarded as a pioneer who shifted the narrative and changed the way the nation and corporations regarded Black America’s spending power and cultural influence, long before it was trendy to do so.

As the CEO and founder of Powerful Penny LLC, a transformative, lifestyle brand that provides empowerment resources, online courses, workshops and executive coaching services, Cheryl has refocused her work from successfully transforming corporate reputations to transforming individuals striving for next-level advancement. She has been profiled in Forbes, named one of Black Enterprise Magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Business Women,” a “Remarkable Person” by the Chicago Tribune and a “Distinguished Alum” by Purdue University.
For more information about negotiating, mindset tips, or how to get to your next level of “fabulosity,” visit my website. Follow me on LinkedIn at Cheryl Grace in addition to her Instagram at @IAmCherylGrace. You can also visit her Shop of Fabulosity to access online journals, workshops, coaching, and bootcamps to help make your most audacious goals come to life.

Pauline is one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs – but with difference. She is inspiration with substance. She teaches with warmth and humour, telling her own story of what can be achieved through key alignment of thoughts and intentions. She has a high-performing Western business background combined with an Eastern slant of spirituality.

Pauline is a best-selling author and award-winning businesswoman – and her achievements are all the more impressive for her having escaped Vietnam on a boat and survived a Thai refugee camp. She has overcome these adverse beginnings to transform her approach to success by re-engineering her beliefs, questioning the status quo and hacking cultural norms.

To become one of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs takes hard work, determination, inspiration and substance. It also takes the courage to defy conventional wisdom and the tenacity to get back up again, no matter how many times life knocks you down. Pauline has learned to reframe the events of her tumultuous childhood, and often describes her upbringing as her ‘training’.

Pauline became a master of her thoughts, behaviours and emotions and approached everything with an unshakable spirit. Her day-to-day professional life was in orbit around her life principles, and not the other way around. This self-actualisation has carried her to prosperity while running the awarded restaurant Red Lantern, (the most awarded Vietnamese restaurant in the world) and authoring bestseller, Secrets of the Red Lantern. Her unique philosophy also inspired her newest release, The Way of the Spiritual Entrepreneur.

Kelley Holland is the founder and CEO of Own Your Destiny, where she provides financial coaching and empowerment programs for women. She is also the author of the forthcoming book “You Are Worthy: Change Your Money Mindset, Build Your Wealth & Fund Your Future.” Previously, Kelley spent two decades as an award-winning business and personal finance journalist with The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and CNBC. One of her cover stories helped BusinessWeek win a National Magazine Award. Kelley holds a graduate business degree from the Yale School of Management, and she is a Chartered Financial Analyst. She lives in northern New Jersey with her husband and an ever-changing number of her adult children.

Kay Adams, LCSW is a coach, educator, clinician, writer, speaker, and trainer. She is the founder of Compassion Works, LLC which provides individualized dementia coaching, workshops, and educational offerings to families, professional care partners and organizations on a variety of topics related to dementia. In addition, Kay is also a Certified Dementia Consultant and Trainer for Teepa Snow and Positive Approach to Care. Kay is passionate about supporting people living with dementia, as well as the families, care partners, and communities entrusted with their care. Kay’s extensive background as a medical social worker in geriatrics, hospice, palliative care and mental health allows her to address the diverse and complex experiences of her audiences in a very relatable way. Known for bringing passion, integrity, humor, and a unique authenticity to her work, Kay can make often uncomfortable topics safe to explore for family and professional caregivers alike.
Kay is the author of “Bedside Witness: Stories of Hope, Healing and Humanity” which will be released in the summer of 2022. This is her first book.