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Danielle Kristine Toussaint, founder, and CEO of She Thinks Purple, is a storyteller, strategist, and social enterprise brand architect on a journey to help mission-driven start-ups make money and make a difference. She has been the writing pen behind op-eds and speeches for Huffington Post, Forbes.com, and TEDx. Danielle holds a B.A. in Political Science and African American Studies from Yale University and an M.S. Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education.

Blake is the host & voice of the Confessions of a Crappy Christian Podcast, the designer behind Magnolia Ink, wife to Jeremy, & mama to Pacey & Elliot. She’s also an Enneagram enthusiast (& 8) who somehow manages to find a way to squeeze her favorite topic into almost any conversation. She’s wildly passionate about women owning who they are in Christ & all the ways He’s gifted them, while resting in the truth that they were never intended to “do it all”.

As an accomplished strategic business development, marketing, and operations professional, Kim Bryden has focused her expertise on the food & beverage industry, and supporting small business growth at-large, for more than a decade. Her management experience ranges from working in and alongside governmental agencies, to increasing sales as Top Fortune 200 retail management, to deploying agile, innovative marketing and partnership strategies at food tech start-ups. Since founding Cureate LLC in 2014, Kim continues to build out this multi-sector, public-private partnership approach. Whether its working with Anchor Institutions in Baltimore City on localizing procurement, to reimagining retail experiences for corner store owners to grocery chains, to developing educational entrepreneurship curricula for economic development agencies, Cureate takes a 360-degree approach — and that growth mindset comes from Kim and her passion for learning.

When Fast Company interviewed her, they dubbed her “the CEO whisperer”. She points out most people use only 1 of our 7 different human intelligence systems. Thanks to her method (based not just in philosophy, but in science) this is a new territory that doesn't take years to find—instead, it can be discovered in minutes. While her focus is on elite C-suite executives and entrepreneurs, all you have to be to work with her is someone who wants to do something good with your life-for yourself and others.

Ron Curtis is a author, Credit Repair Consultant , and Co-Founder of a Non- Profit called First Base Inc. He is natural born leader and also a serial entrepreneur who has a passion for helping others. He aspires to teach as many people as he can about financial Literacy.