Weekly Inspiration

Jack Brown

Chief Investment Officer

Oh brother! Chief Investment Officer of Aviance Capital Partners and our brother, Jack Brown oversees all aspects of portfolio management and provides investment solutions as a registered investment advisor. His focus is on managing the firm’s value strategy but includes overall executive management, client service, and market and economic research.

Diana Davis

Photographer & Team Builder

Magnetic content creator and creative photographer Diana Davis is known not just for creating vibrant, inspirational photos, but also for building teams of badass women.  Diana understands her clients’ unique needs—whether they’re a freelance side hustler or a corporate marketing director. 

Kayla Rodriguez

Marketing & Branding Expert

Looking for ways to help your brand thrive? Kayla Rodriguez founder of KDL Creative Consulting knows the importance of utilizing branding, graphic design, and social media to help you build confidence and find your segment. Kayla helps her clients learn how to thrive in the crowded media marketplace.

Towanna Bazile

Speaker | Mentor | Coach

Have you failed to put on your oxygen mask and run out of gas? Too many times women and busy professionals place their primary focus on everything but themselves. YOU matter too! Towanna Gary Bazile founded For Mindfulness Sake to inspire others to be the best versions of themselves and discover their purpose: Mind, Body, Spirit.

Ashley Hanna

Entrepreneur & Yogi

Ashley Hanna has an unbreakable spirit that she shares with her clients via her yoga studio, Titanium Yoga. Ashley survived a near-fatal auto accident in 2016 to becoming the winner of the “2018 and 2019 Female Entrepreneur in the 904,” 2019 #1 Fitness Facility and 2019 #1 Yoga Studio in Northwest Florida.

Jamie Ratermann

Brand & Social Media Specialist

Jamie Ratermann helps cultivate brand identities, key partnerships, and data analysis which allows businesses to focus on what is most important: Your business!
 

Lindsay Honari

Executive Coach

We should diversify our personal lives like we diversify our portfolios. Lindsey Honari of Lindsey Honari Coaching and President-Elect of the Houston Charter Chapter of the International Coaching Federation believes in the value of variety in all aspects of our lives and that helping clients, friends, family, and even strangers achieve their goals or solve a dilemmas is what gets her up in the morning.

Becky Roth

Life & Career Coach

Fresh off her spotlight on Fox 5 DC News, Career & Life Coach Becky Roth, MSW, LMSW, CPC shares pointers on how to make the most of rebooting and rebranding your LinkedIn, dusting off your resume, and updating your professional network.

Helen Young-McLaughlin

Helen Young Coaching

Helen Young-McLaughlin might not be a magician, but like magic, she transforms employees from often overlooked commodities into a company’s most valuable assets.

Helen has been known to help slash turnover, transform morale, improve relationships, elevate “hard skills” all while cultivating critical space for leadership vulnerability.

Lisi Kempton

SoulTree Operations

For 20 years, Lisi Kempton and her team at SoulTree Operations have been guiding entrepreneurs and small teams to strategic, scalable, and long-term success.

Lisi's“Four S’s to Success” framework takes a whole-business and systematic approach to business growth. She is the author of the book: From Budding Entrepreneur to Empowered Business Owner.

Malissa Dunnings

Composition ID

Self-proclaimed fitness nerd Malissa Dunnings immersed herself in studying fitness and nutrition principles with scientific research to simplify nutrition. She is the founder and head coach at Composition ID, a leader in DEXA (body scanning) and nutrition services in Houston. 

Layne Lyons

Layne Lyons Legal

Layne Lyons is a business protector for women entrepreneurs. Layne makes the intimidating world of legal protections simple, approachable and easy to understand with her Legal UMBRELLA Method.

Jilliane Yawney

Narrative Coach

Professional storyteller & TedX Coach Jilliane Yawney helps entrepreneurs and businesses shape their story to better captivate their audience. She is the founder of A Narrative Approach and holds soldout Story Slam events.
 

Corinne Blackmon

Sustainability Coach

Corinne Blackmon launched her business, Girls Got Goals, with the mission to help rockstar women lose fat, gain confidence, embrace the scale and forever change her relationship with food.

Leesa Askew

Author, Speaker, Business Coach

When life gives you lemons, what should you do?  Leesa Askew's new book, When Life Gives You Lemons, shares how breaking the habits that sugarcoat your life allows you to step up to the plate and learn supreme accountability! Leesa is a transformational speaker and strategist. She partners with CEOs, executives, and solopreneurs to elevate their personal and professional presence.

Maria Hess

Partner, Madrona Venture Labs

As a Partner at Madrona Venture Labs, Maria Hess brings strategic guidance and passion to help founders build companies in a faster & smarter way using her experience with companies like Google, Amazon & Expedia leads her to a startup studio based in Seattle, WA.

LaVonna Roth

CEO & Founder,

Ignite Your S.H.I.N.E.

LaVonna Roth, Founder of Ignite Your S.H.I.N.E., has a gift for creating a culture shift in any organization, school or business and provides the tools to keep that momentum going!

Kristen Keen

Founder & Executive Director, ReThreaded

Kristin Keen, founder of Rethreaded Inc., creates jobs for survivors of human trafficking to offer stability, healing, empowerment, education and practical job skills. She creates business opportunities as a venue for change and empowerment.

Bria Burton

Author & Blogger

Award-winning author and runner Bria Burton finds inspiration everywhere. Her pets, for example, created a platform for her to author a series of humorous short stories about them. These short fiction stories have appeared in over twenty anthologies and magazines and she has earned four Royal Palm Literary Awards.

Heather Stouffer

Founder & CEO 

Mom Made Foods

The CEO of Mom Made Foods, Heather Stouffer, founded her company with a simple vision that healthy foods for kids should be easy.

Inspired by those freshly prepared, familiar recipes that kids and parents love, Mom Made Foods offers options including a clever solution for sending kids to school with a healthy lunch. 

Yana Khromova

Desiger, Founder, CEO

Yana K

Yana Khromova is an American Made Woman with Russian heritage. At the age 19, she persuaded her mother to invest in her boutique at the LA hotspot, Melrose Avenue. Today, her brand, Yana K, delivers quality comfort that allows women the versatility for home, work, nightlife, and travel.

Join the conversation to learn how this talented woman continues to make bold moves to lead her company.  It is where freedom of speech meets the freedom of design.

Claire Van Holland

Founder & Principal 

CV Ledger

Claire Van Holland, the founder of CV Ledger, is passionate about helping other creative business owners achieve financial autonomy through collaboration.  This Tuesday@2:00 (EST), we’ll speak with Claire to find out how she found freedom in launching her company while prioritizing her true passion: Dance. 

Coaches Corner

Founders and Sisters

Revel Coach

Coaches Corner provides us an opportunity to speak with a panel of coaches who share strategies to unlock their clients' potential and guide them back to their path. Whether you want to hire a coach, become a coach or expand your practice, this conversation is an opportunity to explore ideas about this fast-growing, $1 Billion industry.

Marrin Costello

CEO Marrin Costello, Inc.

 Marrin Costello is the face of her global luxury lifestyle brand. She is recognized as a lifestyle influencer, style icon, and tastemaker. Marrin joins us to share how she stays mindful as she builds a global luxury lifestyle brand whose mission is to help people feel like the best versions of themselves.

Samantha Dickinson

Entrepreneur,

Coraggio Consulting

Samantha Dickinson knows how to Light Up Your Brand. She is the founder of Coraggio Consulting and works with modern, forward-thinking companies in the industries of cannabis, wine, restaurants, food, non-alcoholic beverages. Find out how she completely re-routed her career after 45, and what secret ingredient she feels is essential to making that happen.

Roberta Coltman

Entrepreneur & Arbonne Area Manager

Wife, mother, IT Professional, Arbonne Area Manager, dual-citizen (Brazil and USA), and the list goes on.  If there’s one word to describe Roberta Coltman, it’s passionate. This week we uncover how she balances a healthy lifestyle, family and career. 

Heather Momyer

Founder, Arc Pair Press

 Heather Momyer is the founder of Arc Pair Press, a publisher of perfect-bound, prose mini-books.  This Tuesday@2:00, Heather will share how she uncovered a niche that brings the spirit of stories to the short attention span of America. 

Christina Cole

Regional Director, Pet I.Q.

Christina Peterson, Regional Director of Wellness Centers at Pet IQ, is a passionate, results-driven leader whose desire is to empower her team to develop to their greatest potential. Hear how Christina is able to bridge her love for animals with her intentional leadership goals.

Brittanni Below

Founder

BB Coaching, LLC

Brittanni Below is the founder of BB Coaching, LLC. As a leading Confidence Strategist, she is a passionate business professional and dedicated to helping women with realistic and effective goal setting in their career, life, and business relationships. Brittanni helps you transform fear, lack of confidence, and life challenges into the fuel you need to crush the goals that you've set for yourself that will elevate your career. Her personal mission is to develop and cultivate the qualities of confidence, inspiration, and overall well-being so that her clients are able to live each day with success and enjoy life to the fullest. 

Katherine Morales

President / Founder

Authentic Brand Strategist Katherine Morales, President of Inflection Point Communications helps entrepreneurs connect with the best customers and clients to grow their business and discover their most genuinely joyful business. 

Keele Burgin

Author / Entrepreneur

Successful businesswoman Keele Burgin is in a relentless pursuit to help women find their voice.  She believes when a woman finds her voice, she will change the world around her. In the true sense of architecting her life, Keele realized that her true purpose was to bring her writing to the world. She is the author of Wholly Unraveled.

Ande Bluett

Founder & Owner

It was an idea born of inspiration from the West Coast.  When the founders of Fla Juice & Bowl, Ande & Daniel Bluett, moved to Jacksonville Beach, they quickly noticed a void in the market. This week, we'll speak with Ande to find out how she and her husband went from concept to the town’s favorite place to fuel up and chill out. 

ElizabethGainer

Counselor

Elizabeth Gainer specializes in providing spiritually integrative psychodynamic counseling to individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, loss & grief, transitional issues, and crises of meaning in life. Her approach helps clients identify what is not working in their lives and enables change of destructive emotional patterns, clearing the way for the individual growth and adoption of new, more effective life skills.

Jennifer Ryan

CEO Volunteers in Medicine

Jennifer Ryan is an inspiration to all as the leader of Volunteers in Medicine, a free healthcare clinic that provides outpatient primary and specialty  medical services to Northeast Florida's WORKING, low-income, uninsured individuals and their families.  

Jessie Norman

Owner, Aesthetician

From event planner to anti-aging aesthetician, Jessie Norman has found her passion in helping people look their best. Listen to how Jessie was able to make the switch from employee to self-employed by doing what she loves. @jessielindstromaesthetics

Leyla Hasbun

Founder / Fitness Coach 

Leyla Hasbun of HappyGoLeyla_Fit has overcome health struggles to become a balanced, passionate fitness coach. Leyla generously shares her approach to wellness on Instagram and helps her 13,700 followers take back control of their bodies & health.

Carmen Maxwell

Founder & CEO

 Carmen Maxwell, founder & CEO of Maxwell SMART Solutions, discusses her twenty plus years of combined leadership and management knowledge to share her experience and passion for owning your own business. @4smartsolutions

Adeline & Taylor

Revel Coach Interns

Thank you to our amazing interns from UCLA. The job of a media consultant intern for Revel Coach entails managing the company’s Instagram account, @revelcoach.

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Julie Hasson

Founder

The Founder of Chalk & Chances, Julie Schmidt Hasson, will share how her mission became her life's work. Everyone will appreciate her fresh perspective and research about the difference teachers make in the lives of their students.   We'll also discuss how to get started in a passion project and inspire your audience about your cause.

Kendall Nissen

Strategic Account Manager

Are Google Ads Right For You? 

When she began, Kendall Nissen had questions. Now she has answers. Want your organization to be found on a web search--quickly and at the top? Consider a Paid Search campaign. Paid Search uses keywords and key phrases to help your perfect demographic find you. Pay only when someone clicks on the ad and put a limit on spending to help you manage your budget.

As a young college athlete, Nan Carney-DeBord asked her coach why women athletes were treated differently than their male counterparts? When she heard an answer she didn’t like, she launched her commitment to creating a better answer. Today, as one of the few female athletic directors in college sports, Nan is a role model for women everywhere.

The food we eat can be our medicine and help heal us from the inside out. Certified Health Coach and Integrative Health Specialist Amy Bowers helps her clients discover how anti-inflammatory foods nourish the mind and body to help heal us from the inside out. Find divine recipes on her coaching page at Optimum Health and Nutrition.

Change is hard, but it doesn’t have to be. Heather Dias, MEd Counseling Psychology, partners with women in transition to discover their life purpose and helps them uncover their TRILL (True & Real) journey to becoming exceptional.

We love Heather's quote: “I have been privileged to walk alongside strong, amazing women as they traveled through various transitions, trials, and relationships in their journeys."

After 22+ years in a corporate career, Mari J. Perez took a leap of faith to focus on coaching, consulting, speaking and her true love of DREAM BUILDING. Her Dreambuilder Coaching Program offers transformational development for professional women with lofty goals.

Design is in the details. Neela Asaddi, CEO + Creative Director of Asaadi Graphics offers solutions for weddings, business, and personal events. Neela uses a collaborative approach to create a stress-free experience for brides and business owners. 

You’re not crazy for feeling crazy! While our children are transitioning to a variety of learning environments, Revolution Prep’s senior academic advisor Christina Brownell is here to support you. 

Revolution Prep offers interactive online tutoring to help your child get the most experienced tutors anywhere, expertly matched to your needs and learning style. Whether you have one high school senior or six under sixth grade, Christina can help you feel less overwhelmed with simple ideas for maintaining “normal.”

Gwinn Volen knows how to treat her clients with top-notch flare. As a luxury real estate agent specializing in digital marketing, Gwinn strives to make each customer experience special.

The idea to launch the company Kite Linens came to the founder Sierra Wallizer while making her bed frustrated that she must re-tuck her sheets e.v.e.r.y.t.i.m.e.! With a conviction that it could be possible, she spent the next 24 hours designing her prototype of a sheet that won’t untuck. 

Scout & Cellar is on a mission to disrupt the wine industry. They partner with growers and family-owned farms to create delicious wine that's better on the vine, in the bottle, and in your glass. Going beyond organic, their Clean-Crafted™ wine is always free from synthetic pesticides and chemical additives and sweeteners.

Lana Kitcher has the best reputation for “getting sh*t done.” Her company, LK Consultants, coaches small business owners on all things from time management, to paper & digital organization.

For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned. 

Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable. Darla Neal started her business, College Admissions Services, with this motto and inspires her clients to do the same. Through creating a custom roadmap, Darla increases her clients’ confidence as they reach the highest level of achievement possible. 

Marci McCarthy CEO & President of T.E.N. is passionate about the cyber security industry.  Nominated for numerous awards and known for her networking, Marci inspires us with her success in a male dominated industry.

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Terra Bohlmann is a Business Coach and Strategist for Women Entrepreneurs. She created The Business Map Method™, where she helps women fast-track their 5-year plan in less than one year. From Houston, Texas, Terra has a huge passion for traveling and loves coming home to her family including her spoiled dog and cat.   

Six Degrees Society is a professional women’s network of future friends, collaborators and changemakers that have yet to meet. Their programming is presented in fireside chats, moderated panels, workshops and experiences. Emily Merrell is not only the ultimate connector, but also a professional springboard. This Tuesday@2:00, we’ll chat with Emily to learn how’s she’s found success while sipping rosé – I mean come on! 

Kathleen Booth, Vice President of Marketing at IMPACT, a digital sales and marketing company, focuses on empowering business leaders with the education, tools, training and support needed to grow their companies and careers. 

Owning your story is not always easy, but often a foundation of our future success.  Keele Burgin, shares her personal journey finding her voice, publishing her memoir “Wholly Unraveled,” and hosting (B)Tribes Retreats that guide women to architect the life they are meant to live. 

Marrin is an advocate for women to follow their passions. As an international style influencer and businesswoman, she is on a mission to help people feel like the best versions of themselves. Her advice for entrepreneurs is to always do the right thing for your brand even if it's not advantageous. The dividends will pay off in the end with repeat business and happy customers.  

 If you’ve ever dreamed of publishing a novel, join us this week to learn from Jennifer Irwin, a native New Yorker and captivating storyteller. Her novel, A Dress the Color of the Sky, is a raw, emotional and compelling story that helps you understand just how resilient victims of trauma can be. It’s a romance novel that teaches you a simple truth: no matter what you have done in your past, you are person who is worthy of unconditional love.

 
Jan Healy is on a mission to inspire donors & educate organizations that all women and girls deserve the dignity of having essential menstrual products.   Homeless women typically know where to find a safe place to sleep or a hot meal to eat. But when it comes to taking care of their feminine hygiene needs, they often have nowhere to turn. Compounding the issue is when a clean shower is unavailable, infections are a typical result. 

Emily's dream was to do her own thing. Once the right opportunity presented itself, Molly was all in. Her advice, do your research, build your team, and go after your dream. Once you are on the right path, a bit of trial and error will help define the right routine.  

They say “when little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm. Not join their chaos.” As a middle school guidance counselor, Brynne Plant understands the value of this advice. This week, Brynne joins us to share how she helps kids (and parents!) get through their days and the many bumps in the road as they grow to find their voice and place in this world. 

How to decide if you should continue what you are doing or if it's time to make a change? Our Tuesday@2:00 conversation is an opportunity to explore solutions.  Each week, we are Called to Action through the unique insight and inspiration from our featured speakers. Today, we speak with Maggie Sabatier-Smith, who is a catalyst, speaker, coach, and writer.

Happiness is unique. What makes one happy is different than what makes another happy. Yet what could our world be like with more joy & harmony? 

Lynette Hanover is on a Big Time Happiness mission to spread happiness in to our communities. Discover how Lynette narrowed her goals to live a more joyful life this Tuesday@2:00. 

 Basma Kakoun: Wellness Coach and Certified Personal Trainer is on a mission to inspire and motivate everyone to embrace the power of their own bodies. Starting her career in Dubai, Basma believes in the power of the human body and mind.  ”The Body Achieves What The Mind Believes.”

Nicole Donnelly Pece, Director of the Betty Griffin Center, is on a mission to end domestic violence and sexual abuse.  Our conversation focuses on raising community awareness, providing quality programs, and staying positive in the face of adversity.

Living in Florida, we can attest that everybody loves the shade!  Inspired by the desire to keep our skin protected and healthy while going wherever the sun takes us, Lani Liuzza & Brynne Peck, co-founders of Bimini-Me, are charting their path to create a fun, stylish "next" accessory. 

Sally Kent Peebles has quickly become a leading voice on cannabis law and policy in Florida, and Folio Weekly magazine included her in its "Best of Jax 2018" list of the "Best Marijuana Lawyers" in Jacksonville. She has even been featured on the NPR Political Podcast First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross.

Patience is quickly becoming a lost art for entrepreneurs. This Tuesday, Sonia Nadel will share her authentic journey & approach to inspiring gratitude & long-lasting solutions.

Fertile Health, LLC founder Monica Moore has built a team whose mission is to provide thorough, unique and interactive education and training tools for fertility nurses. Monica believes that proper training in reproductive health practices empowers nurses and allows them to provide a considerate and productive experience to each patient they see.

As a Digital & Creative Services Account Manager at TEKsystems, Amanda is focused on the Digital space where IT and Marketing converge. TEKsystems Digital provides skilled design, development, functional and technical resources to support your interactive, creative and digital initiatives.