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Rachael is the owner of Fiori Marketing, a social media and digital marketing firm based in Spokane, WA. She helps small businesses and solo-preneurs simplify the complex world of social media and focus on marketing that makes a difference. Rachael studied public relations at Pepperdine University and has worked in marketing for the last 9 years. Initially, she started her career working for universities and then branched out to a wide variety of clients through marketing firms. Now, she has her own firm that you can find on Instagram at @fiorimarketing.
Lauren Befus is the founder and chief historian of Memory Lane Jane, a national life story writing company that partners with individuals and families to preserve their loved ones’ life stories and legacies in custom heirloom books. Lauren’s company is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she lives with her husband and four kids, but she travels around the country interviewing and working with life story clients.
Jonathan Kazarian is the Founder and CEO of Accelevents, a leading virtual, hybrid, and in-person event management platform recently recognized by Inc. 5000 as a top 200 fastest-growing private company in America. As CEO, Jon is focused on leading the company’s vision of helping event planners and marketing professionals transform their events through innovative technology solutions. As an industry thought leader, Jon actively publishes insights on the events landscape and frequently speaks at industry events such as EventMB’s Event Tech Innovation Summit, BizBash Live, and INBOUND. Jon also chairs the board for the Fall Formal fundraiser benefiting the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Deevo is a photographer, videographer, blogger, serial entrepreneur, former corporate executive, single father of two promising young ladies and now an emerging strategy consultant who is fast making his way as an expert in creative digital architecture to help small businesses and entrepreneurs brand and market using social media effectively. His current company, Fusion Photography, is an international photo, video, and content creation studio, based in Charlotte, North Carolina and is consistently recognized as one of the top three photography studios in the south. Prior to Fusion, Deevo started, scaled and then sold the largest adult social company in the Carolinas. Running concurrently to his entrepreneurial life, he worked for a Fortune 50 company for over 20 years as the Senior Project Director managing multi-million dollar projects and international business teams.
Deevo is currently the Co-Director of Sprout Connectors, a human-centered digital outreach agency, with offices in Charlotte and Hilton Head and is the co-anchor of the popular podcast Mind Body Business.
Deevo is currently the Co-Director of Sprout Connectors, a human-centered digital outreach agency, with offices in Charlotte and Hilton Head and is the co-anchor of the popular podcast Mind Body Business.
Greg Connolly is a veteran entrepreneur with five startups and 18 years of experience including two successful acquisitions. Greg is currently the CEO and founder of Trifecta-- the #1 organic meal delivery service in the United States. Since its inception in 2015, Greg has helped grow Trifecta from non-existent to a category leader with a nine-figure run rate. Connolly has established exclusive partnerships for Trifecta with premiere global sports leagues including the UFC, PGA Tour, Team USA Weightlifting, The CrossFit Games, and Mr. Olympia.
Kristin Marquet is the founder and creative director of Femfounder.co and she is releasing her second book “Publicity Jumpstart.”
Lauren is a former CPA turned blogger, and she and her business partner, Alex Nerney, run two successful blogs together. Their first blog, Avocadu, is a health and wellness blog that teaches women how to lose weight. After earning six figures with that blog in their first year, they started Create and Go, where they teach others how to start and monetize their own blogs. She now runs both blogs full-time while traveling the world as a digital nomad.
Beth Dessen Duffy was a Landscape Architecture major for two years before graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Education from Cornell University. She began her career at Florida Power and Light Company educating homeowners about how to save money on electric bills. Beth transitioned and became involved in PA state politics and lobbying, educating and discussing pertinent issues. Beth is now a CEO and Entrepreneur and the creator of the Christmas Tree of Kindness App. Beth is sharing their family Christmas tradition with others and hopes to help individuals , families and groups teach and practice kindness by using this app activity.
Jeff Butler is a speaker, author and passionate millennial who helps organizations improve their relationships with millennial employees. You may have see on him on Forbes, USA Weekly, or on the TED stage. A native Californian and raised in Silicon Valley, he graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science. During his time in college, he was training for the Olympics under 3 time Olympian Tore Gustafsson, but left that pursuit because software engineering paid more. Unlike other experts on millennials, Jeff has been in the trenches of what it means to be a millennial and what it takes to retain and keep them engaged. With Jeff ‘s versatile background, he has addressed companies like Amazon and Google as well as thousands of professionals across the North America.
Lauren is owner and operator of Good Vibrations Complete Health and Wellness and founder of Move To Connect. Move To Connect is a membership of women coming together to find movement as medicine and move their bodies as an act of self love. Lauren is passionate about rewriting our stories of what it means to be healthy, busy free of these societal norms and help women feel sexy and strong in their bodies- every shape, every size. I’m a firm believer our biggest wins come from going after our core desired feelings vs our desired weight goals.
