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Deborah C. Smith is a business coach, marketing strategist, podcast host, and longtime entrepreneur who helps women turn their expertise into profitable businesses without losing themselves in the process.

She’s been self-employed for nearly two decades, with a career that has taken her from running a plant-based catering company and juice truck in New York City to building online businesses, digital products, and coaching programs for women entrepreneurs to help clarify their marketing and sales systems.

Deborah is the host of the Mindset to Market podcast and founder of Soul Aligned Systems, where she brings together practical business strategy, authentic storytelling, and a deeply human approach to entrepreneurship.

Outside of business, she’s a songwriter and musician, an enthusiastic gardener and food grower, and a firm believer that a meaningful life is allowed to contain more than one passion.

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Kim Benoy is the founder of Midlife with Courage™, a platform dedicated to helping women recognize their worth, stop minimizing themselves, and embrace what’s possible in the second half of life.
A speaker, workshop facilitator, and host of the Midlife with Courage™ podcast, Kim creates honest conversations about the challenges and opportunities that come with midlife. Her signature workshop, It’s Not J.U.S.T. You, explores the subtle ways women shrink themselves through the words they use, the expectations they carry, and the space they allow themselves to take up.
Before creating Midlife with Courage™, Kim spent 27 years as a registered nurse and later became a certified aromatherapist. Her career has always centered on caring for and educating others.
Today, Kim encourages women to stop settling for the life they think they’re supposed to want and find the courage to create a life that feels authentically theirs.

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Dr. Julie Marty-Pearson is a Podcasting Mentor for Purpose-Driven Women, helping women in business amplify their voices through podcast hosting, guesting, and speaking. Whether you’re launching a show, becoming a sought-after guest, or refining your message, she helps guide you in sharing stories that build trust, spark connection, and grow your impact. Julie hosts two podcasts: 1) Podcast Your Story, which focuses on inspiring stories from women podcasters and guests about how they amplify their voices and grow their business through podcasting; and 2) Still becoming Women Unmuted, focused on discussing important topics for women by women and advocating for women’s health and wellness. Julie also created the Women's Podcaster Party Networking Community and the Podcast Your Story Community Membership to further support women and non-binary podcasters, guests, and speakers to connect, collaborate, and grow together.

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Chrissy Hogue Bartels is a SAG-AFTRA actor, producer, consultant, author, and Assistant Professor of Communication with over 25 years of professional training and experience. A multiple Telly, Addy, and acting award winner, she recently co-starred on Chicago P.D. and is the creator and host of Violent Women in Film, which has garnered more than 150,000 views. She is the author of Talk to Me Like You Love Me and Make a Living Acting Anywhere: UGC Creators Version. Through The Prosperity Ascent LLC, Chrissy helps purpose-driven professionals, entrepreneurs, creatives, and aspiring leaders develop the mindset, communication skills, and business systems needed to create greater freedom, prosperity, and fulfillment.

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Paula Mathias brings over a decade of experience in leadership, recruiting, and workforce development. As a speaker and author, she helps women recognize their agency and use their voice to shape their careers and lives.

Most people aren’t stuck because they don’t know what to do. They’re stuck because they keep saying yes to things that don’t support the life they want. The YES Test™ offers a simple way to change that.

Through real stories and practical tools, Paula shows how to move from default decisions to aligned choices using The YES Test™ framework.

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Rhiannon Andersen is an executive who seamlessly fuses high-stakes corporate leadership with a deep commitment to conscious, regenerative impact. As the Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Owner of Steelhead Productions, an 8 figure event production agency in Las Vegas, she drives the marketing and brand strategy, leveraging nearly 2 decades of industry experience to redefine excellence in brand experiences. Simultaneously, as Founder and President of the Give Happy Foundation, she is a dedicated architect of corporate social responsibility, actively bridging the philanthropy gap between businesses and non-profits through innovative, heart-centered initiatives.

A self-described "sophisticated misfit," Rhiannon balances her professional intensity with a nomadic, high-vibration lifestyle spanning Las Vegas, Mexico, and Europe. Whether she is scaling Steelhead’s market share, her work is unified by a singular mission: to integrate professional mastery with radical authenticity. Rhiannon proves that business success and soulful, impactful living are not merely compatible—they are the ultimate evolution of the modern leader.

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Erin Henry is a Registered Dietitian and midlife women’s strength coach who has spent more than 20 years helping women improve their health through nutrition, movement, and behavior change.

She began her career as a senior dietitian and exercise physiologist in a physician-supervised weight-management practice, where she provided medical nutrition therapy to more than 4,000 patients. It was there that she began questioning some of the conventional approaches to weight loss. She watched many successful, intelligent women lose weight, regain it, and return increasingly defeated, often allowing a number on the scale to determine how successful they felt not only with their health, but with themselves.

That experience ultimately changed the trajectory of her work.

Today, through Erin Henry Wellness, Erin works primarily with women in midlife, helping them navigate the changing physiology of their 40s, 50s, and beyond with a different goal: to become stronger, not smaller.

Her approach brings together nutrition, progressive strength training, metabolic health, and recovery to help women preserve muscle, support their metabolism, and build the physical capacity they’ll need for the decades ahead. But for Erin, the work has become about much more than physical strength.

She believes women have spent far too much of their lives being encouraged to shrink - their bodies, their needs, their voices, and sometimes even their ambitions. She sees midlife not as a season of inevitable decline, but as an opportunity for expansion and reinvention.

Because when a woman begins getting physically stronger, Erin has found that other shifts begin to occur. She trusts herself more. Her confidence grows. Her boundaries become clearer. She begins thinking less about what her body looks like and more about what she - and it - are capable of.

At 48 and navigating this season of life alongside the women she coaches, Erin is passionate about changing the conversation around what it means for women to age well.

Her message is simple: The second half of life isn’t the time to disappear. It may be the time to take up more space than ever.

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Barb Allen spent more than 30 years in commercial construction, climbing the ladder from boots on the ground to heels in the corner office, from Tradeswoman to Operations Director. Her career gave her a front-row seat to the challenges that stall women's advancement in predominantly male industries and to what it takes to eliminate those challenges. She is the author of OneLadder to Leadership and host of the Constructive Behaviors podcast, and now speaks to leaders and organizations across construction and other predominantly male industries to build stronger, more equitable paths to leadership. 

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Jim Tracy is one of the highest demand influencers and speakers on workplace culture in
North America. He combines real life CEO experience with candid stories about resilience
and team building. Having spent decades at the helm of multi-generational organizations,
he understands the challenges of rolling out teams in a dynamic and changing marketplace.
Jim is not just a successful bootstrapping CEO, he is a podcaster, jet pilot, best selling
Author, Grampion to 18 grandkids and award winning business person. Jim was inducted
into the Wireless History Foundation's Wireless Hall of Fame, awarded the prestigious Bill
Carlson Lifetime Service Award from NATE, and recently named a Business ICON of Idaho.
Jim has founded, built, scaled, bought and sold multiple businesses. He has testified before
the United States House of Representatives. Tracy has been trained by F-16 fighter pilots
and continues to fly jets. He has completed over three hundred and fifty podcasts and
authored three books.