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Melissa Forziat
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Melissa
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Forziat
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Melissa Forziat is a Southern California-based marketer, speaker, consultant, and author. She uses her experience working with big organizations like Olympic Winter Games, Rugby World Cup, and the US Olympic Committee and now she teaches small businesses how to market on a budget and helps them execute their marketing strategies. She is the author of "Small Business Marketing on a Budget," and as a speaker she offers keynotes, presentations, workshops, and webinars.

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Melissa Forziat is a Southern California-based marketer, speaker, consultant, and author. She uses her experience working with big organizations like Olympic Winter Games, Rugby World Cup, and the US Olympic Committee and now she teaches small businesses how to market on a budget and helps them execute their marketing strategies. She is the author of "Small Business Marketing on a Budget," and as a speaker she offers keynotes, presentations, workshops, and webinars.
Shaquinta Richardson
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Shaquinta
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Richardson
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Dr. Shaquinta Richardson is a Life Coach for high-achieving Black women who are ready to break free of working twice as hard to get half as much. She helps Black women balance the priorities in their lives through strategic time management, radical self-care, and boundary setting so they can actually enjoy the life they have created. She has a Ph.D. in Human Development & Family Science and is a couple and family therapist by training. She also has a private therapy practice where she specializes in issues relating to identity-related stress, intergenerational trauma, and LGBTQ+ individual and relationship issues.

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Dr. Shaquinta Richardson is a Life Coach for high-achieving Black women who are ready to break free of working twice as hard to get half as much. She helps Black women balance the priorities in their lives through strategic time management, radical self-care, and boundary setting so they can actually enjoy the life they have created. She has a Ph.D. in Human Development & Family Science and is a couple and family therapist by training. She also has a private therapy practice where she specializes in issues relating to identity-related stress, intergenerational trauma, and LGBTQ+ individual and relationship issues.
Gareth Bain
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Gareth
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Bain
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Gareth is an award-winning Growth Marketer and over the last 14 years has helped businesses grow on an international scale. He has worked with Fortune 250 companies and bootstrapped startups. Gareth has a passion for the work he delivers and always puts himself in the customer's shoes. Gareth is the CEO and Founder of Got Legs Digital, the first Ethical Marketing Agency in the UK, helping both businesses and communities to Get Legs. "You can get everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want first".

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Gareth is an award-winning Growth Marketer and over the last 14 years has helped businesses grow on an international scale. He has worked with Fortune 250 companies and bootstrapped startups. Gareth has a passion for the work he delivers and always puts himself in the customer's shoes. Gareth is the CEO and Founder of Got Legs Digital, the first Ethical Marketing Agency in the UK, helping both businesses and communities to Get Legs. "You can get everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want first".
Rowena Winkler
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Rowena
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Winkler
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Dr. Rowena Winkler helps women find their voice and come back to their divine authenticity by using a combination of spiritual tools and practical strategies. Her mentoring approach encourages women to tap into self-love, build confidence, get unstuck, and make a change. As a marketing professional with over 15 years of experience, she is also a higher ed consultant and instructor who develops and teaches courses in strategic communication and writing.

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Dr. Rowena Winkler helps women find their voice and come back to their divine authenticity by using a combination of spiritual tools and practical strategies. Her mentoring approach encourages women to tap into self-love, build confidence, get unstuck, and make a change. As a marketing professional with over 15 years of experience, she is also a higher ed consultant and instructor who develops and teaches courses in strategic communication and writing.
Alexandra Isenegger
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Alexandra
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Isenegger
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Alexandra Isenegger is the CEO and co-founder of Linkilaw – the legal platform for startups and SMEs. At 21, Alexandra left her corporate law firm job, with a clear focus on marking legal work transparent and accessible to startups. From 2015 to 2017, Linkilaw pivoted from solely a legal marketplace to also becoming a legal platform for startups and SMEs. In 2017, Linkilaw acquired UK leading legal marketplace LawyerFair. This last year Linkilaw experienced 500% growth. Alex is also featured in Forbes 30 under 30. Her core strengths lie in legal, business strategy, implementing vision and culture in a team.

I AM CEO Podcast Episode

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Alexandra Isenegger is the CEO and co-founder of Linkilaw – the legal platform for startups and SMEs. At 21, Alexandra left her corporate law firm job, with a clear focus on marking legal work transparent and accessible to startups. From 2015 to 2017, Linkilaw pivoted from solely a legal marketplace to also becoming a legal platform for startups and SMEs. In 2017, Linkilaw acquired UK leading legal marketplace LawyerFair. This last year Linkilaw experienced 500% growth. Alex is also featured in Forbes 30 under 30. Her core strengths lie in legal, business strategy, implementing vision and culture in a team.
Erma Williams
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Erma
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Williams
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Erma is a lifelong Brooklynite, nearly lifelong naturalista, and owner of The Pomade Shop. She created The Pomade Shop to help fill the void all-natural pomade products. When she isn’t creating her healthy hair pomades, Erma writes about health and wellness.

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Erma is a lifelong Brooklynite, nearly lifelong naturalista, and owner of The Pomade Shop. She created The Pomade Shop to help fill the void all-natural pomade products. When she isn’t creating her healthy hair pomades, Erma writes about health and wellness.
Daree Allen
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Daree
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Allen
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As an award-winning technical writer, authorpreneur, voice talent, speaker, life coach, and podcaster, Daree Allen enjoys inspiring people and using her voice for good.

Daree is the author of three books, including “What's Wrong With Me?,” in which she shares her stories about self-esteem, media influence, premarital sex, family and personal relationships, and gives advice to teens about it all. Her latest book, “Ending the Blame Game,” discusses relationship advice for Black couples based on interviews with numerous Black men, coaches and therapists.

When Daree is not reading, traveling, jumping into a line dance, or on social media, she enjoys spending time with her beautiful daughter, Kaia. Find out more about her work at KickinitwithDaree.com and DareeVoiceover.com.

I AM CEO Podcast Episode

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As an award-winning technical writer, authorpreneur, voice talent, speaker, life coach, and podcaster, Daree Allen enjoys inspiring people and using her voice for good.

Daree is the author of three books, including “What's Wrong With Me?,” in which she shares her stories about self-esteem, media influence, premarital sex, family and personal relationships, and gives advice to teens about it all. Her latest book, “Ending the Blame Game,” discusses relationship advice for Black couples based on interviews with numerous Black men, coaches and therapists.

When Daree is not reading, traveling, jumping into a line dance, or on social media, she enjoys spending time with her beautiful daughter, Kaia. Find out more about her work at KickinitwithDaree.com and DareeVoiceover.com.
Cathy H Harkless
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Cathy
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Harkless
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Cathy H Harkless, is the founder of Yhtack in Stitches. Yhtack in Stitches is an embroidery company offering embroidery & digitizing of logos, designs and images. They personalize, individualize and customize products for their clients. Their talented team consists of needle arts have a passion for crochet and embroidery personalizing gifts with bling and embellishment for gift giving for life events such as babies, birthdays, weddings, retirements, memorials, gift baskets and our gorgeous line of realtor gift baskets. The Yhtack team strives to exceed their client's expectations by imagining the possibilities in the amazing world of needle arts.

I AM CEO Podcast Episode

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Cathy H Harkless, is the founder of Yhtack in Stitches. Yhtack in Stitches is an embroidery company offering embroidery & digitizing of logos, designs and images. They personalize, individualize and customize products for their clients. Their talented team consists of needle arts have a passion for crochet and embroidery personalizing gifts with bling and embellishment for gift giving for life events such as babies, birthdays, weddings, retirements, memorials, gift baskets and our gorgeous line of realtor gift baskets. The Yhtack team strives to exceed their client's expectations by imagining the possibilities in the amazing world of needle arts.
Don Schmincke
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Don
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Schmincke
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Don Schmincke is the author of the Best-Selling book The Code of Executive and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He is an Award-Winning Speaker, Researcher, Founder of the SAGA Leadership Institute and delivered over 1,700 speeches.

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Don Schmincke is the author of the Best-Selling book The Code of Executive and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He is an Award-Winning Speaker, Researcher, Founder of the SAGA Leadership Institute and delivered over 1,700 speeches.
Karen Bate
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Karen is also co-founder of Awesome Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) with more than 200 local women business owners as members of six chapters throughout the DC region. Karen passionately believes that collaboration
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not competition
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and women supporting women are the keys to success in business and in life."

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A former journalist and Congressional press secretary, Karen Bate founded KB Concepts P.R. in 2007. She and her team help companies and nonprofits strengthen their brands; achieve their mission and goals; garner key media placements; and harness the variety of social media tools to tell clients’ stories and inspire others to support them. Great Ideas for Good Causes is not just her company tagline; it is the guiding philosophy of her work.
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