Becoming Your Best Version

Kathleen Conner is the woman everyone calls when they need something—ranch hand, stucco guy, chief bottle washer—you name it. Known as the unofficial “mayor” and “Angie’s List of People,” she built a life of service as a business owner, wife, mother, volunteer and humanitarian. At 53, she realized she had built a perfect life serving everyone else while becoming nothing to herself. This awakening...

As an international business and life guide, Mel McSherry helps inspired but overwhelmed entrepreneurs honor their lives and become the architects of their own success. Mel uses their spiritual gifts and their 15+ years of business-building experience to slash entrepreneurs’ stress and bring their success to life! By merging Human Design with traditional business development tools, Mel coaches oth...

Wendy Valentine is the bestselling author of Women Waking Up:  The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play , and host of the top 1% podcast, "The Midlife Makeover Show." Before Wendy became a leader in midlife reinvention, she hit what looked like rock bottom, a “perfect storm” for which she did not plan. In her mid-forties, she faced a peaceful but painful divorce, uprooted her...

Shannon Russell is a Business Coach, speaker and author of  Start Your Second Act: How to Change Careers, Launch a Business, and Create Your Best Life.  She is also the host of the  Second Act Success Career Podcast , where she shares inspiring stories and actionable strategies to help professionals navigate career changes and start businesses with confidence. After spending more than 16 years as...

Who moves to a new country--one she has never been to, where she doesn't know anyone and doesn't speak the language--in the middle of COVID? Barbara Grassey did. She is a writer and expat, living in the Algarve, Portugal. She has written more than 60 books, manuals and home study courses over the past 20 years for national speakers, new speakers and small business owners. She ghostwrites b...

Bev Mitelman, M.A., specializes in helping women navigate the powerful intersection of attachment trauma, emotional health and menopause. Her work is grounded in science, compassion and lived experience — giving women (and the people who love them) the clarity, tools and support they need to feel secure, connected and confident again in midlife. Attachment therapy is designed to help people heal r...

Harper A. Bailey is the pen name of Dr. Tiosha Bailey, a Chicago native, public health leader and powerful storyteller who challenges the status quo. She manifests dreams through grief and creativity. She was the first Black woman to lead a prominent national women's healthcare nonprofit, where she prioritized health equity and amplified the voices of underserved communities. Her first book, I...

Michele Blood was a successful songwriter and rock singer in Australia and, after a near-fatal car accident, while in the hospital with many serious injuries, she created positive Affirmation Songs that not only healed her body but also took her to worldwide success. These Affirmation Songs affect the left and right hemispheres of the brain--lyrics, the left hemisphere, and melody and music, the r...

Tanja Brown, behavior analyst and psychologist, released a groundbreaking memoir revealing the impact of her age-gap relationship with a man 26 years her junior, while raising an autistic child. Unapologetically honest and intimate, this book is not about defending choices, but provides a powerful example for women navigating midlife, caregiving, love and identity. Tanja is a Board-Certified Behav...

Aline Ghorayeb is a visionary and spiritual guide whose work bridges inner alchemy, ancient wisdom and modern depth psychology. Her path is rooted in personal experience and years of study in the Science of Spirituality, the teachings of the Magdalene and the soul’s sacred journey of awakening. Certified in Applied Jungian Psychology and accredited as a coach, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, A...

Tanya was diagnosed with HIV when she was 21 years old, at a time when it was viewed as a death sentence. She began speaking at this time about resilience, sharing her story with medical professionals and more. As a speaker decades later, Tanya brings the same insight, empathy and authenticity to live audiences, guiding professional women and entrepreneurs to embrace visibility, clarity and confid...

Remi (pronounced Ray-me) Gibbs is a certified life coach, positive psychology practitioner and the author of Renovate Your Reality . She helps women in midlife reconnect with their purpose, reignite their confidence and design a life that actually feels good to live. After reinventing her own life multiple times—through career shifts, major moves, loss and midlife awakening—Remi now teaches women...

Dr. Erika Rasure — a former financial advisor and university professor turned financial therapist — has helped thousands of people approach their finances in more intentional, healthy ways. She serves as Chief Financial Wellness Advisor at Beyond Finance, where she meets weekly with hundreds of clients working their way out of debt and towards financial freedom. In addition to her work at Beyond F...

Dr. Diane Dreher helps us learn better ways to deal with stress and how to find more hope and joy. She is the author of eight nonfiction books including the best-selling Tao of Inner Peace and her new book, Pathways to Inner Peace . She is an award-winning university professor and positive psychology researcher whose work on hope has been recognized internationally. Her books, workshops and webina...

Eileen Noyes is an author, speaker, mentor, podcast host at The Unsidelined Life, and founder of Lady Bellator. She lives in California with her husband and eight of their combined 15 children. Eileen journeyed through the limelight as a former pro-athlete’s wife in the public eye, escaped cult involvement, established single motherhood to eight children and is now remarried and spearheading the L...

Wendy S. Meadows is a seasoned family law attorney, former litigator and certified life coach. She is also a mediator and the author of the best-selling book, sparkle & GRIT , a framework that helps high-achieving women break free from burnout and live on purpose. Before expanding into coaching, Wendy spent decades practicing family law, guiding clients through some of life’s most challenging...

Sylvie Beljanski wants to share what’s working in integrative cancer care. Sylvie is a French lawyer turned health advocate, author and entrepreneur. She continues her family’s legacy as leaders in integrative health and cancer research, following her father's successful treatment of French President Francois Mitterrand. She devoted her life to continuing her father's legacy and helping those in t...

"One binge drinking moment can end a life," Colleen Clifford says.  "Will it be yours?" Colleen is a former binge drinker who knows the struggle firsthand.  For 34 years, she's worked as a commercial fisherwoman, a lifestyle that fueled the drinking pattern of denial she now calls the 95-5 factor.  After losing her husband to an alcohol-related suicide in 2011 and later fin...

Wendy B. Correa is a former music industry insider, radio DJ and now author with the release of her new book:  My Pretty Baby   (She Writes Press, Nov. 2025). Approximately 64% of adults in the U.S. have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE) before age 18, and nearly 1 in 6 people (17.3%) report experiencing 4 or more, according to the CDC. Wendy is on a mission to destigmati...

Kellie Grutko, known as the "Spark Strategist," is a transformative leader dedicated to empowering accomplished women to navigate life's transitions with clarity, confidence and purpose. As the Founder and Chief Pivot Officer of Purposeful Pivot, LLC, she leverages her personal journey of reinvention—from a high-level corporate executive to a certified transition coach—to guide women...

“The goal isn't to be sober, the goal is to love yourself so much you don't need to drink," Sarah Rusbatch says. Sarah is author of the bestselling book Beyond Booze, How to Create a Life You Love Alcohol Free, a multi-award-winning Health and Wellbeing Coach, an accredited Grey Area Drinking Coach, a menopause coach and a keynote speaker sharing her journey to sobriety and impact of...

Bronwyn Schweigerdt is a licensed psychotherapist and anger expert. She helps her clients and podcast listeners come back to life through integrating with their inner child, dislodging shame, and healing their relationship with anger. Her podcast is Angry at the Right Things.  Instead of fixing peoples’ messes, Bronwyn’s goal is to elicit feelings people are most ashamed to have, such as hatred an...

Qin (“Ching”) Sun Stubis was born in the rubble of a Shanghai shantytown during the Great Chinese Famine, which killed some 50 million people. She was left alone in her crude bamboo crib for two years while her parents worked to scrape together a few coins each day for their daily handful of rice. Growing up, she and her sisters were at first ignored by the rest of the family for being “worthless”...

Aishah Iqbal is a first-time filmmaker and marketing executive who directed the award-winning film, #whitehairdontcare: A New Era in Beauty. The documentary challenges ageism in the beauty industry. With 15+ years in global analytics and advertising, she blends storytelling, strategy and social impact to empower women to embrace their natural aging process. The film explores the question: Who gets...

Lynda Samphire is a highly intuitive transformational coach -- a trusted guide for those ready to explore their gifts, creativity and inner wisdom. Fueled by the loss of her mother at a very early age and a lifelong fascination with human behavior and the mystical, Lynda’s journey has been shaped by a profound commitment to inner exploration and self-healing. The more whole she felt the more she d...