Community & Guest List
Chris Hervochon is the owner of SOAR (Strategic Operational Accounting Resources) which is a sole proprietor CPA firm started in 2018. SOAR provides outsourced accounting and tax preparation for businesses and individuals. Prior to forming SOAR, Chris spent the prior ten years between forensic accounting and corporate accounting and finance, most recently as Finance Director for a large healthcare organization. Chris is highly involved in the accounting profession, volunteering with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and South Carolina Association of CPAs (SCACPA) and is also a 2018 graduate of the AICPA Leadership Academy.
For close to 10 years, Cheree Warrick helped companies raise millions of dollars as a business plan writer. The most successful fundraisers already had a network of high net worth individuals and could raise millions within a few weeks of Cheree completing their business plan. Her black clients (most of whom had great ideas but didn’t have these relationships) would struggle to receive funding. Cheree has a solution to this massive problem. She's building the largest community of black small dollar investors who want to help fund black businesses.
Catie Harris, PhD, MBA, and Registered Nurse is the NursePreneur Mentor who has empowered hundreds of nurses to monetize their knowledge and skills in business, while inspiring them to change the way healthcare is perceived and delivered. She strives to undo the perception that nursing care is limited to the hospital setting. Through her intensive mentorship program, Catie shows nurses how their nursing knowledge can transcend the hospital system into a profitable business.
Catie is an international speaker who has been featured in ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News and Huffington Post. She has also shared her innovative mentorship work on National and International Podcasts and TV including Be Efficient TV, Dubai One and Copy Chief with Kevin Rogers.
Catie is an international speaker who has been featured in ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News and Huffington Post. She has also shared her innovative mentorship work on National and International Podcasts and TV including Be Efficient TV, Dubai One and Copy Chief with Kevin Rogers.
Christan Hiscock is on a personal mission to change the conversation in the business world, moving away from the pursuit of success, to focusing on fulfillment instead. Because if you’re fulfilled, success is a given, but not so much the other way around. You’ll often hear him saying, “You mean more than you know,” because he believes that as people learn to understand their worth, their fears fade, and amazing feats become reality. He considers this the foundation for all his achievements as the Co-Founder and CEO of Kardia and leader of 16 thriving companies. Through Kardia, which means heart in Greek, Christan is determined to bring more heart into the business world.
Christine McKay is a Business Negotiation Strategist, international speaker, host of In the Venn Zone podcast, and author of Why Not Ask? A Conversation about Getting More. Christine holds a Harvard MBA and is the CEO/Founder of Venn Negotiation. She has negotiated with more than half of the Fortune 100 & hundreds of small and mid-sized companies across 53 countries. She loves leveling the playing field for her clients and empowers entrepreneurs and business owners to ask for more of what they want and shows them how to get it. Her mission is to reduce business failure rates by helping people elevate their negotiation skills! She was born and raised in a rural community in Montana, graduating with the same 20 kids she grew up with. Christine’s been married to the love of her life for almost 30 years and is a proud mom of three grown children.
Chandler is a visionary business leader with high emotional intelligence and a rare mix of strategic, technology, marketing, sales and expertise combined with a true talent for devising and applying new ideas and innovation to propel companies to build competitive advantage.
Coyetta is a CEO, business coach, and the host of the BeingCocoaB podcast. She started MyWaveLife™ Hair 2016 at to allow the natural hair community to freely express themselves while providing beautiful, quality products as inspiration. Over the years she has seen a shift towards entrepreneurship and wanted to allow other women the opportunity to own their own business by creating a comprehensive course and coaching services to guide them through the process. Her desire is empower and inspire women by being a resource and a support system.
Charlotte runs The Work In Process, a systems and workflows consultancy for business owners who are tired of the hustle and crave more time and freedom in their businesses. She works with clients all over the glove, providing VIP Level support in creating custom workflows, automations and client experiences using software like Dubsado, Acuity and Asana.
Cody is a co-founder of Gold City Ventures. He is also the co-founder of the Financial Freedom Summit, owner of Fly to FI, and co-host of The FI Show. He left his corporate banking job at age 22 to pursue entrepreneurship full time and now teaches others how to do the same.
Corey Lewis is the CEO and Founder of 1AND1 LIFE, a Black-owned mental health and wellness performance platform that curates and customizes content, tools, and products to inform, guide, and empower its community. Due to the lack of mental health and fitness resources provided for African Americans, specifically African American men, Corey saw the need to address this issue by simplifying the options, creating accessible information, and disrupting the wellness landscape as a whole. In turn, a majority of the content curated by Corey and the 1AND1 LIFE Team is powered by the discussion of what mental health and wellness mean to the Black Community and how, together, we can break the stigma. Corey is now a certified personal trainer and motivational speaker who helps others reach their fitness goals through fitness activity, nutrition plans, and mental health resources.
