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Aviva Pinto, is a Managing Director of Wealthspire Advisors. She has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry.  Aviva is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA™) and Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS™). She specializes in helping those in transitions (divorce, widowed, inheritance, sale of a business) to determine the most appropriate course of action for their financial...

Respected Parent/Child Relationship Coach Crystal Olivarria helps parents develop better relationships with their child so they can more easily influence them to make better personal, academic and career decisions.  While Crystal’s dream career of being a fashion designer was off to a great start, she encountered many challenges transitioning from school to the workforce, getting and keeping a goo...

Meredith Essalat is a school principal in San Francisco, CA and author of The Overly Honest Teacher, which will be published on October 13, 2020. She previously spent nine years in middle school education as both teacher and Dean of Middle School Curriculum. She possesses a B.A. in Mass Communication, a California-Clear Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, a...

Mixing it with Nicki Kris shares award-winning singer/songwriter and performer Natalie Jean. Extremely versatile, Natalie sings and writes in numerous genres and languages including, French, Spanish, English, and Haitian Creole. Her musical portfolio includes six albums along with a multitude of singles. Natalie has garnered more than 100 nominations for her  work and has won multiple awards. She...

After decades of working and living according to traditional societal rules – get a job, get a pension, climb the corporate ladder, and don’t make waves, our guest decided to jump on a different path. Veronica Vargas is the founder of Shaboo Prints, a boutique lifestyle brand designing positive products that will reawaken your joy. Veronica uses “imaginovation,” inventing ground-breaking products...

With 16 years of experience, Jen Myers is on a mission to help mompreneurs successfully homeschool their kids WHILE running a profitable business. When entrepreneurs homeschool their kids, their entire family experiences flexibility and freedom! She was not a homeschooling mom with a side hustle. She was an entrepreneur with a profitable business who also homeschooled. She ran her business and fam...

Shantay Carter, RN (A.K.A. The Nurse Philanthropist) is a Registered Nurse, the Founder of Women Of Integrity, Best Selling Author of Destined For Greatness Book and Destined For Greatness Journal, Founder of Men Of Integrity Inc., and Co-Founder of Nurses Of Integrity. I am a Public Speaker, Mentor, and Award Winning Empowerment Leader. My passion and purpose is to empower and educate the Women a...

Co-founder and CEO of PROVEN Skincare, Ming S. Zhao is an entrepreneur, business strategist, investor, and podcast host. PROVEN Skincare has become a beloved beauty brand and is a Y Combinator alum and the 2018 recipient of the MIT AI Idol Award. Based on a simple, 3-minute Skin Genome Quiz PROVEN creates a personalized skincare routine based on 45+ factors including genetics, lifestyle, geography...

Stephanie Newman, Ph. D., a psychoanalyst/psychologist/author and public speaker has practiced in New York over 25 years, treating adults/adolescents and families struggling with anxiety, depression, workplace concerns and more recently Covid-19 stress. Her new novel, BARBARIANS AT THE PTA, explores bullying and quickly became an Amazon best-seller in multiple categories.  Set in a wealthy NY subu...

Today we’re talking about Reality. It’s a little off course from what I normally discuss but over the last few months it’s become very clear to me that we’re all trying to operate as though things are normal, when in reality our entire worlds have changed. I see overworked small business owners beating themselves up for not being able to stay on top of things the way everyone else seems to be doin...

Dr. Jovon Willis holds a Ph. D in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.  She is currently a Financial Advisor Support Specialist at Edward Jones.  She is founder and C.E.O of Higher Ground LLC; a non-profit organization that specializes in the support of single parent college students.  She has a blog called, Ask Jovi, where she discusses a wide range of issues from parenting to politics.  Sh...

Janis Isaman is the owner of MyBodyCouture.com, a private, one-to-one health studio. She is a highly certified movement specialist who specializes in working with Type A clients suffering from nagging aches and pains. She develops highly practical, sustainable, scalable plans so her clients can move better and feel better to get on with their other goals in life. Janis has been quoted in Reader’s...

Brittany May is a girl mom of two, a military spouse, and runs two businesses from her home in Germany, where her husband is stationed. Her biggest passion is to help other women streamline and create smarter systems to not only save them time but scale their business simply. She believes in working smarter not harder and that running your business should be exciting, fun, and simple! Her goal is...

Kristi Knowles is the CEO of Mother Raw, a brand of delicious, organic, plant-based products on a mission to encourage everyone, everywhere to eat more plants! Mother Raw refreshes the dressing and marinade, dip and condiment categories with clean, natural, allergen friendly and refrigerated offerings. With more than 25 years of experience as a senior executive with S&P 500 companies, Kristi i...

Lynn Power is a 30 year advertising executive (most recently CEO of J. Walter Thompson NY) turned entrepreneur.  Lynn and her co-founder, James Hammett, launched MASAMI in February 2020. MASAMI is clean premium haircare with a unique Japanese ocean botanical for massive hydration. MASAMI is luxurious and high performing, without any bad ingredients:  no sulfates, parabens or phthalates. Their debu...

The Kumbaya App is a marketplace where parents can hire teens! Chen Yahav-Levanon is the Co-founder and CEO of the Kumbaya App. She is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and led self-funded and profitable SimilarTech and ClicksMob. In 2019, Chen was featured in Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 under 40 as an individual to watch. Dr. Adi Zief-Balteriski is the Co-founder and Ch...

Nicki Kris is an award-winning singer/songwriter based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her songs have been featured in award-winning movies, TV shows, radio stations worldwide, and she has been on the official ballot for the Grammy Awards for the past seven years.  Join us for Mixing it with Nicki Kris and her debut show September 14th at 1pmET/10amPt and then in archive. Connect with Nicki on her sit...

Elizabeth (Liz) Rietz is the CEO and co-founder of Bleuet, creator of apparel designed to give girls’ the freedom and confidence to do what they love. As a mom of two daughters (ages 11 and 14), Rietz founded Bleuet along with her husband, Bill, after a fruitless search for comfortable camisoles and bras for their tween daughters, one of which is sensory sensitive. Liz believes girls deserve bette...

Her name is Sugar McCauley and she invented sugarshirts™. because she is happy when she feels good and looks good...and miserably uncomfortable when she is wearing a bra! Each sugarshirts™ style is worn bra free, while looking great for every occasion. As Sugar says, "Equality feels like a sugarshirts™.." Join us on Health Habits September 9th at 1pmET/10amPT and then in archive. Be sure to get yo...

Inbal Baum has been passionate about food and travel for as long as she can remember. After practicing as an attorney, and finding her zen as a yoga instructor, Inbal followed her heart to Israel where she has guided global political leaders, Hollywood celebs, chefs from the world’s best restaurants and more to eat and hear the stories behind Israel's best foods. DeliciousExperiences.com connects...

Deidra Gurn brings a cornucopia of experience to her industry. She went from being an Associate Producer and a Broadcast Traffic Director in Advertising to a High School English Teacher. Deidra found the best use of her gifts of leading people and making a difference in the community in opening Spaulding Decon/Plano – a franchise that restores people homes during some of the worst times in their l...

Lori Caplan-Colon is one of the nation’s leading speech language pathologists, specializing in pediatric feeding disorders with American Speech and Hearing Association certification, over 18 years of clinical experience, and an extensive background in areas of oral motor and feeding dysfunction. She is the founder of Montclair Speech Therapy, a family friendly practice that provides services for i...

Megan Bennett has been part of the Light Years Ahead team for over 18 years. Her expertise focuses on managing clients and exceeding their expectations on a daily basis. She has spearheaded and implemented countless successful PR campaigns on behalf of numerous brands and is proud of the positive, lasting relationships she cultivates with the media on an ongoing basis. Megan’s forté lies in her ou...

Kim Miller is a native New Yorker and an empowering motivational speaker that touches your heart, mind and soul. This award-winning spoken word poet loves writing and performing. Her poetry is her heart expressed in words: opinionated, blunt, thought provoking and real. She is an author with several published books. She recently co-authored a book called: The Ultimate Guide To Self-Healing, Volume...

Jennifer Covello is an award-winning author, freelance writer, blogger, and podcast host. As a freelance writer, Jennifer helps clients tell the stories that promote their business and brand. In her weekly blog and podcast, “Elevate the Day,” Jennifer shares how faith in God and a relationship with His Son, Jesus, heals your heart and your life. Jennifer holds a B.S. degree in Management Informati...