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Casandra Austin-McDonald is from Springfield, IL. She is a speaker, poet, life coach and the author of Unclothed Memoir of a Naked Soul. Casandra founded the self-esteem empowerment movement, Be Pretty Inside, Inc; is the founder and CEO of the Live Greater Institute; and also the host of the Grow Thru It podcast. Casandra has a son in high school, a bonus son in junior high school, and is a wife to the love of her life. Casandra can be found on all social media platforms.
Melissa Eboli AKA Chef Via Melissa is a nutritional chef based out of NY. Her services include event catering, dinner parties, cooking classes and recipe development. When she's not in the kitchen, she can be seen making guest appearances on Dr. Oz , in addition to being published in the likes of Women's Day, Readers Digest and Huffington post to name a few. Her passion as a chef is to create healthy dishes with a modern twist using the cleanest of ingredients.
As Co-Founder and CEO, Armon created Coalesce, the only data transformation tool built for scale. Prior, Armon was part of the founding team at WhereScape, a leading provider of data automation software. At WhereScape, Armon served as national sales manager for almost a decade.
As the official Zig Ziglar Small Business Lawyer and a Ziglar Legacy Certified Trainer, it’s no wonder that Scott Reib is known as “America’s Legal Coach.” For the last two decades, Scott has been helping business owners, entrepreneurs, and coaches “shatterproof” their businesses by implementing specific strategies for structure, growth, and protection. Over the last three years, Scott has been sharing these strategies with business owners and coaches, and watching them grow and succeed!
Dubbed the vacation rental gurus, Wendy Schultz and her husband Scott, are revolutionizing the vacation rental industry (Airbnb)! After leaving a high stress corporate job in healthcare over 5 years ago to pursue her dream of owning a business, Wendy has developed a company that incorporates her love for vacations and real estate known as The Simple Life Hospitality. Her team teaches investors how to get started in vacation rentals and offers consultation from property selection to remodeling/furnishing to ongoing property management.
Melane Mullings is a successful entrepreneur, Founder of Aere Management Consulting and author. A self-described ‘Venture Catalyst’, Melane catalyzes the reaction that turns seemingly simple, esoteric business ideas - born out of passion and purpose - into ventures that experience combustible success. Thirteen years after establishing and operating her first entrepreneurial venture in the healthcare recruiting space, Melane successfully sold the business, and is now sharing her unconventional strategies to success in her book: 'Lemonade! Squeeze Your Challenging Life Experiences Into a Successful Business', and through her consulting practice, Aere Management Consulting. Her book and consultancy grant her the opportunity to help struggling entrepreneurs and business owners build a solid foundation for their ventures, and achieve purpose-driven, impactful, sustainable success.
Michael Wang is Founder & CEO of Inspiren, an award winning healthcare technology company. He is a registered nurse and nurse practitioner with vast clinical experience in cardiothoracic surgery and direct patient care. In addition, he holds numerous patents on innovate technologies in both the healthcare and hospitality industry and has founded two successful companies prior to Inspiren. He received a bachelors degree from Emory University, majoring in Biology and Sociology. He attended graduate school at Columbia University, studying both business and nursing.
Scott Flear is the CEO of Rugby Warfare which is a rugby clothing brand based in the UK. Scott is a self-taught internet marketer having built and sold his first fitness site by age 19. Rugby Warfare started as a side-hustle whilst working as head of SEO for a luxury games room retailer and then Performance Marketing Manager for a social sports club in London. He's an avid Rugby fan and player and saw a gap in the market for a Rugby brand to deliver the 3 Cs, content, community and clothing.
Originally a British industrial designer & artist, Matt turned everything upside down to launch a tech company in Sydney Australia. After a couple of false-starts, Bonjoro was born from a sales hack for his first business, where Matt would send every new lead a personal video instead of a plain-text email. Matt’s love of building great products is only surpassed by his total commitment to building great business culture, and Matt asserts that Bonjoro’s “customers as friends” culture has been the main driver of the businesses success. His goal is to be the next Zappos, to be the most loved brand in the world.
ABOUT: EVIE BROOKS (Atlanta, GA and Veracruz, Panama) is a former Advanced “Rich Dad Poor Dad” Trainer, Real Estate Educator/Investor, and My Panama Vacation Realty Founder. Brooks has guided thousands of investors for 24+ years through the process of locating, evaluating and analyzing transactions for cash flow and ROI (Return On Investment) in 13+ countries and 30+ states in the United States. Today, she specializes in real estate and agriculture investments in Panama, and does regular VIP Tours for investors (14 maximum at a time) where they visit hard-to-find deals and smart greenhouse farms. Brooks’ work has been featured on Joe Fairless: Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, ESPN Cover Your Assets, Think Realty, The Real Estate Syndication Show, Women Investing Network, VoiceAmerica, Moving Abroad Podcast, Atlanta Business Radio and many more real estate investing podcasts. As a disclaimer, Brooks and her employees and affiliates are not investment or tax advisors, and do not offer investment advice. To learn more, visit https://mypanamavacationrealty.com and https://eviebrookspanama.com
