Community & Guest List
Dan Pfister is a partner at The Business Source Corp., they’ve generated over 50k customers and have worked with brands like American Express and Tony Robbins. In 2016 Dan built a customer win-back process for The Business Source, and based on its success of it, he founded Strategic Winback Research & Advisory.
Tonya McKenzie is an author and public relations consultant by trade, a child advocate by choice. Tonya started her career in public relations at the Mt. Diablo Region YMCA, where she needed media coverage to help grow and expand the services provided to the city. After constructing and selling corporate membership packages, she was nominated and elected to the Oakley Chamber of Commerce and appointed to Contra Costa County's Youth Commission by Supervisor Federal Glover. While Tonya serves on the Board of Directors for the Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce and as Vice President of the North Redondo Beach Business Association, she to continues helping entrepreneurs, small businesses, and nonprofits gain media attention and grow their brand recognition through the company that she founded in 2014, Sand & Shores PR.
Angela Ficken is a psychotherapist and entrepreneur in Boston MA. Her psychotherapy practice and brand is ProgressWellness.com. She had worked previously at McLean Hospital and Harvard University before starting her full-time private practice. As a therapist, she specializes in OCD, eating disorders, and anxiety-related concerns. Angela also has a blog and has written for the HuffingtonPost.com, ThriveGlobal.com, Yourtango.com, marriage.com, and Today.com Parenting. Her expertise has been featured in Bustle.com, Buzzfeed.com, PopSugar.com, Yahoo! News, Nylon, among many other outlets.
Nectar Co-Founder, Sean Holmes attended VCU in Richmond, VA on a baseball scholarship in 2006 and left a semester early to pursue entrepreneurship. Nectar was founded in his apartment in Atlanta, GA, and launched in February of 2012 and he has been running the business ever since. The idea was simple, to create products fit for life’s greatest adventures without breaking the bank.
Stormi Knight is a Personal Trainer Based in LA. She just launched fitness app called “Stormi Fitness” Mental Health Awareness Advocate, everything starts with our mind and Stormi is a big believer and advocate on healing from your trauma in order to succeed in life. She is a 1st Phorm Elite Athlete, being part of a community and company that supports you and your brand, has helped her to truly help others but also helped her to grow in other areas as well.
Danielle Desir is an author, speaker, podcaster and the founder of WOC Podcasters, a community of 2,300 women of color podcasters looking to connect, share resources and learn. She is also the founder of The Thought Card, an award-winning affordable travel finance blog and podcast empowering people to make informed financial decisions – travel more, pay off debt and build wealth.
Jeff Link is an Investment Advisor Representative at Guardian Wealth Advisors, LLC and the founder of the BLUE LINE INVESTING process. With almost 25 years of experience, Jeff has been a proponent of risk-managed investing with firms like Smith Barney, Legg Mason, and Stifel Nicolaus. Today, Jeff helps investors who are within 20 years of retirement grow AND protect their wealth in a risk-managed and tax-efficient way. In 2020 during the middle of the pandemic Jeff published his first book - Protecting The Pig: How Stock Market Trends Reveal the Way to Grow and Preserve Your Wealth.
Paul Lachelier is a sociologist, and founder and director of Learning Life, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit lab innovating education and citizen engagement. Learning Life’s flagship program, the Family Diplomacy Initiative, is developing a family form of citizen diplomacy to help democratize diplomacy. Paul holds a B.A. in sociology from Georgetown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before founding Learning Life in 2012, he taught at Stetson, Harvard, Tufts and the University of Wisconsin. Paul’s writing, research and programmatic work focus on the intersection of democracy, culture and education. His writings have appeared in academic journals as well as popular media including the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Albuquerque Journal, and truthout.org. More at Paul’s Linkedin page and his website.
A native Washingtonian, Lisa Shapiro holds a BA in Psychology and Master’s in Educational Psychology from George Mason University. Professionally, she has decades of experience in communications, writing, research, digital marketing, and social media. She is a natural community organizer and integrator with a passion for connecting others. A self-described serial entrepreneur who started her own business at age 18, Lisa launched DCfempreneur to connect with other female entrepreneurs to help impact and grow their businesses to make them more purposeful, profitable and sustainable.
William Gadea is the Founder and Creative Director of IdeaRocket, a maker of videos for businesses. Since 2012 IdeaRocket has created videos for more than 20 Fortune 500 companies as well as a number of exciting new startups. His team works in a variety of techniques including 2d animation, 3d animation, whiteboard and live action.
