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because she also loves baking and eating."
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.
Lori Tobin is the founder of SporTobin, a Hull-based apparel company specializing in workout clothing made in the USA for adults and children since 1991. Lori has spoken actively on the South Shore and beyond about healthy eating habits and exercise, especially in young children. She has also been involved in many causes and created and continues to teach her keepgoingkidz exercise class at the elementary school in Hull.
Lara Heimann is an international yoga pioneer and Physical Therapist focused on evolving the practice of yoga to empower movement and balance amidst a modern lifestyle of technology and sedentariness. With an advanced degree in physical therapy and more than 25 years of yoga practice and education, Lara is redefining the modern practice through her comprehensive LYT Method, emphasizing smart alignment, functional movement, and spiritual wellness. She offers online daily classes and a robust online yoga teacher training in addition to leading in- person workshops, trainings, and master classes internationally.
When Fast Company interviewed her, they dubbed her “the CEO whisperer”. Here’s the rest of the story: as she works with CEOs and other top performers, the herd becomes more totem than saddle: evidence of our primal instincts in action as Lisa pursues her mission to transform the people who are transforming the planet. The upside is when you become a better, more advanced human being, you become a better leader.
Laurie Seymour, M.A., is a 2x #1 international best-selling author, host of the Wisdom Talk Radio podcast, Executive Coach, international speaker and Founder/CEO of The Baca Institute. Twenty years ago, she was honored to receive the stewardship of a special esoteric technology that accelerates the process of innovation and creation in individuals and groups. Laurie's work is particularly valuable for professional innovators: thought leaders, product designers, company founders; because the work accelerates the time from ideation to implementation and revenue, while also opening the innovator to new levels of confidence, peace and satisfaction.
Help people is just in Liz Agboola’s nature and she has nearly 10 years of experience working with, and advocating for, the serious mental illness (SMI) population, and has successfully spearheaded community efforts to ensure the availability of suitable housing for the disenfranchised, homeless, elderly, and veteran community. Liz currently holds the position of CEO for three Valley organizations she founded with her parents and siblings: Senior Placement Services (SPS), an assistance program in Phoenix that provides housing resources for vulnerable veterans and homeless individuals who are unable to live independently due to medical or mental health conditions; Moses Behavioral Care (MBC), a mental health facility in Phoenix offering 24-hour, long-term care for the SMI population; and FreshStart, a health care staffing, recruiting, and training agency formed to meet the increased demand for highly qualified health care professionals. Liz is on the board of Valleywise Health Foundation and Dignity Health Hospital. She formed Valleywise’s program Emerging Leaders, which pairs diverse young professionals with executives for one-year mentorships, and she was handpicked to join the American Heart Association's committee, where she works to raise awareness and support AHA's life-changing breakthroughs. Agboola holds a masters in both Business and Education from Old Dominion University and she works diligently, with her family, to uphold mental health as a critical part of overall wellness.
Laura has nearly thirty years of experience managing front- and back-office operations and serving as a trusted assistant and advisor to executives. She works with solopreneurs and small businesses developing and implementing their office administration/management, digital marketing, and business operations strategies. Collaboration and true partnership are key for Laura in building her relationships with her clients.
Lenzy Ruffin is a video communications strategist and owner of Park Road Studios in Washington, DC. He specializes in teaching small business owners how to use video marketing to attract clients.
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.
