Community & Guest List
Chris Spear, is the chef and owner of Perfect Little Bites, an in-home personal chef business based in Frederick, Maryland. He’s also the host of the Chefs Without Restaurants podcast, and the man behind the culinary networking organization of the same name. A graduate of Johnson & Wales University, Chris has been working in the foodservice industry for almost 30 years.
Chase Louderback, a Virginia native, began his real estate career in 2012 as a sophomore in college with the purchase of his first investment property. In the past 7 years, he has renovated numerous single-family homes to rent or resell and has subsequently co-founded Lioncrest Investments LLC, a manufactured home community investment company in 2019.
Chris Erhardt is the CEO and co-founder of the online recording studio and music publishing house Tunedly. He co-founded Tunedly in 2015 and led the company through two business accelerators in New York and St. Louis, raised angel and VC funds and now manages a team of five employees and over 30 independent contractors. Throughout his career Chris has become deeply involved in business development and advocacy. He has been a speaker at an increasing number of tech and music conferences, including CMW, several accelerator events, and coast to coast startup festivals.
Christopher J. Kidawski has been a strength and conditioning coach for the last 20 years training everyone from Navy SEALs, to Pro athletes and even your modern day housewives. Dubbed “The Body Architect”, he has a master’s in Kinesiology from the University of Hawai’i but has educated himself and become proficient in all aspects of heath and wellness. He lives and runs his business Influential Health Solutions in South Florida.
Chandler Sterling founded the California Beard Company in 2016. A cartographer by training but a lover of beards by birth he became frustrated by the cosmetics industry after searching for a high-quality natural beard oil. Fed up with being unable to find a suitable beard oil, and being a DIYer at heart, he set out to create his own recipe that would meet his high standards. The goal was to create something simple, only containing materials that came from the earth, that could mimic a product from the era before cosmetics were synthesized and contained potentially harmful chemicals. The result of this experiment led to California Beard Company’s Original Beard Oil recipe. After months of serious use, he realized that this product needed to be shared with the world, and it’s been a wild ride ever since.
Carlos Castelan is the Founder & Managing Director of The Navio Group a consulting firm that works with retail leaders who want transform their business.
Cathy H Harkless, is the founder of Yhtack in Stitches. Yhtack in Stitches is a embroidery company offering embroidery & digitizing of logos, designs and images. We personalize, individualize and customize. Our 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 our clients expectations by imagining the possibilities in the amazing world of needle arts.
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Christa was a two-sport division scholarship athlete in Women’s Fast-pitch Softball and Women’s Volleyball at George Mason University. After graduating she played with the Connecticut Brakettes, a Women Majors fast-pitch team. In August 2002 Christa made the Greek National Softball Team which won GOLD at the 2003 European Championships B-Pool. In 2004 she was selected to be an alternate and assistant coach for the team at the OLYMPIC SUMMER GAMES in Athens, Greece. In 2005 she helped the team win an A Pool Silver at the European Championships. In the gym, Christa is known for her sarcasm and her ability to ‘Christa’ people. To be Christa’d is to suddenly find yourself doing something you had no intention of doing. Not a bad trick for a trainer! Christa enjoys spending her time off with Jeff and their son Gordon and her twin girls Eleni & Zephera. She loves anything to do with being outdoors.
Canadian born adventure backpacker that fell in love with the travel life and chased everything to keep it going. She landed in Australia just over 3 years ago and has made it a home base since. From what started as an Instagram handle, Traveller By Trade has now turned into an online business. Chelsea is now a website developer, primarily for services based business and online entrepreneurs, and content photographer for companies all over the world.
