Susan Sly is an award-winning AI entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, and the Founder and CEO of thePause.ai, an AI-driven platform revolutionizing menopause management with personalized, gamified solutions. In November, thePause.ai won first place in the HITLAB x Versalie™ Innovation Challenge. Susan also co-founded RadiusAI, a visual intelligence company specializing in the retail and healthcare sectors. RadiusAI earned the prestigious AI Innovator at The Edge award from VentureBeat in 2022 for its cutting-edge computer vision technology. Susan also hosts two podcasts, Raw and Real Entrepreneurship and The Menopause Health Podcast.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🔥 🤖 Transformative Power of Agentic AI: How autonomous “AI agents” are revolutionizing business operations and decision-making processes, enabling smaller teams to achieve more by process immense volumes of data and interact with each other to assist humans in decision-making, and what it means for the future of work.

🏥 🌱 AI in Health and Wellness: How thePause.ai is personalizing solutions for menopause management, from tracking symptoms to offering lifestyle recommendations.

💡 🌈 AI Ethics and Transparency: Who trains the AI? What biases lurk in the data? Why transparent, unbiased, inclusive and validated data is vital for the responsible deployment of AI solutions, so AI models are fair, equitable, and representative of the diverse populations they serve. 

💡 🧑‍💻 Company Policies: It’s time to move beyond just the Company Employee Handbook. Learn why all companies need clear AI Mission Statements to align their AI initiatives with ethical standards, the advantages of having an AI steering committee comprising diverse perspectives.

👩‍🔬 💪Empowering Women in AI: Why women’s leadership in AI is vital, both in the architecture of the underlying data models and their application.

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Karine Nassim is the co-founder of DayNew, a new technology platform designed to help people through trauma associated with grief and loss. After experiencing the sudden loss of her spouse, she joined forces with fellow serial entrepreneur Eloise Bune to build an AI-powered community platform that helps users navigate through the challenges that come with unexpected changes. Karine also co-founded with her late husband DogVacay, the “Airbnb for dogs” that raised $47 million and fast expanded before being acquired by Rover. She also founded SHMASK, a Covid-era business producing stylish shirts with masks attached featured on NBC’s Today Show.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

👥 ✨The Power of Shared Healing: How trauma can be healed in a social community-centered app that helps users navigate their grief and trauma in an organized and emotional manner.

🧠🤖 AI Personalization: How artificial intelligence can be deployed to offer organizational, emotional, and social assistance tailored to different personality types and healing stages, whether checking in on your mood to offer suggestions or helping you manage your daily tasks.

🚀 🤟Bootstrapping Tech: Why DayNew decided to self-fund and focus on sustainable growth, proving key metrics before seeking growth capital.

🔥🛠️Why Entrepreneurs Must Be Expert Marketers: Get valuable tips on tailoring social media strategies for different platforms and the importance of outsourcing tasks to specialized experts, particularly in the fast-evolving landscape of marketing and consumer behavior.

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Rebecca Fitzsimmons is the founder of Tactical Harmony, an online business dedicated to mentoring ambitious professionals and businesses on holistic leadership and mindset strategies. She is also the host of the Tactical Harmony podcast, in which she shares game-changing tactics supporting her community to gracefully navigate their career and homelife, while enjoying freedom, abundance and bliss. Over the last two decades, Rebecca served as an NCIS Special Agent and as a senior leader at a technology company. Throughout her global experience living and working around the world, Rebecca saw first-hand why holistic leadership answers every challenge. Rebecca is also author of the new book, Unleashed: Holistic Leadership Insights from Our Canine Companions.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

✨ 🌱 Holistic Leadership: Discover the core pillars of Tactical Harmony—planning, alignment, execution, and receiving—designed to balance professional and personal life so you can achieve wholeness, peace, and freedom, aiming for genuine fulfillment.

🐾 🦋What Dogs Can Teach Us: How our furry friends can teach us mindfulness, gratitude, discipline, love, and resilience.

🌟💡Tactical Harmony's Dual Approach: Learn the two-track approach for mastering mindset to overcome limiting beliefs, enhance leadership skills master conflict resolution.

🧘‍♀️🔄 Mastering Self-Leadership: Why it’s vital to envision success to achieve it, plus the secrets of mental preparation, and following your intuition no matter how illogical it may seem to others.

🚀 💪Entrepreneurial Challenges: How to transition from the hands-on “doing it all” start-up founder roles to building and aligning a team for growth, and why strategic focus always beats multitasking.

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Julia Krieger is an experienced venture investor and startup founder who recently co-founded PariPassu, a private investor app that gives fellow founders, operators, and accredited investors access to angel invest in the most highly competitive deals in the venture ecosystem and be a part of the village that helps these founders succeed. As Managing Partner at Pari Passu Venture Partners (PPVP), a founder-led, founder-backed early-stage venture firm investing in the future of commerce, SaaS, and consumer tech, Julia has backed 19 companies to date. Previously Julia founded and ran VillageLuxe, a venture-backed peer-to-peer luxury rental marketplace, for which she was awarded the Forbes 30 Under 30 accolade. She was also an investor at Insight Partners, investing over $100M in SaaS and marketplace companies globally. Julia serves on the board of YPO Metro New York and is active in the Harvard alumni communities.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

👥 🌱 It Takes a Village: Learn how Pari Passu reinvents venture capital with a community-centric investment platform that allows investors to choose deals they want to back, with no membership fees or fixed commitments, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment for both investors and founders.

❤️💭Why Humility Wins in Entrepreneurship: Learn how to balance perseverance with the openness to feedback, and why admitting what you don't know and seeking help is your secret weapon for growth and investment.

🚀🔥Why Founders Make the Best Investors: Why investment is more than just the money. Learn why the best VCs are those with startup and executive experience able to help founders address challenges and build relationships.

👩‍🔬 💰Women Investing in Women: Learn how Pari Passu enables investment in strong startups with minimum investments as low as $10,000 and the chance to pick the companies of the future. 

✨ 🛠️ Flow Vs Force: The power of creating and innovating from a place of humility and flow for balance, efficiency and community support, plus how to integrate motherhood into entrepreneurship.

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Julie Perkins is the founder of Wyseminds, a coaching and mentoring business to help female founders get to the next level. Previously, Julie was the founder of Specsavers, an optical and hearing retail brand. With a passion for decluttering the minds of female entrepreneurs, Julie helps translate her 20+ years in business and researched theories into a language that helps you see the path to growth, all while ensuring it’s an exciting adventure. In the New Year, Julie is launching a money program for women Your Relationship with Success and Money.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

👭🛑Why Women Entrepreneurs Get Stuck:  Learn how to avoid the trap of perfectionism and control, so you can do less to achieve more and free yourself from the ongoing burden of trying to “do it all” 

🚀 👥 How to Build An Empowered Team: Learn the secrets of inspired leadership, and learn how to foster a collaborative and trust-based environment for your team to prosper ensures long-term growth. 

❤️ 🧠 Why Every Founder Needs Mentors: Entrepreneurship is all about constant challenge and growth, and we all need external mentors and coaches as we navigate and master different stages of business growth so you can unlock your business potential and reignite your passion.

✨🔥Know Your Purpose: Discover why aligning your business with your core purpose, vision, and values is critical for sustainable growth, and how to refine organizational structures and decision-making processes around these elements can drive lasting success.

🌍💡 Dream Big: Too many women create small businesses. Learn how to cast a big vision to inspire your team and enable them to drive the vision forward.

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Jeriel Sydney and Bobbie Cunningham are the co-founders of holistic beauty brand FABLERUNE with a mission to educate and support women through their own self-care journeys and ancestral wisdom. With a degree in women's studies and trained in aromatherapy, ayrvedic massage, and community activism, Jeriel joined forces with Bobbie, a licensed cosmetologist and trained esthetician, with a background in sustainable and renewable manufacturing and production workflow, to grow FABLERUNE into a growing luxury brand of skincare, haircare and other wellness products available direct to consumer and through 15 boutique hotels. They are also co-authors of The Fable Book of Runes.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🌿🛁 Holistic Beauty: Why a safe and shame-free environment is vital for women to explore and address their skincare and beauty needs, custom crafted to hormonal changes through life, and how to build a "no shame" philosophy about women’s wellness choices. 

✨ 🌱 Values-Driven Partnerships: How Fablerune partners with environmentally conscious and value-aligned boutique stores and hotels to uphold their brand ethos, prioritizing conscious and sustainable practices for intentional growth that helps people and the planet.

💪👭 Empowerment Through Community: Why it’s vital for women to support women, whether it’s how you build supportive communities with and for your customers or through buying from, promoting, mentoring, or investing in each other's businesses to foster a community of support and collaboration for sustained growth and empowerment.

🌍🌙 The Power of Ancient Runes: How to harness the ancient wisdom of women, with a rune guide created by Fablerune that offers comfort and insight in turbulent times.

💖 🚀 Supporting and Giving Back: How to create a charity-first business model with a robust give-back program, that builds community support, customer loyalty, and sustainable profits. 

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Jenna Biancavilla is a trailblazing entrepreneur on a mission to empower people to take charge of their financial future. In 2016 Jenna launched her company, Pearl Capital Management, a fiduciary financial planning firm advising on over $180 Million in assets under management. Alongside her sister, she co-founded Svvy, a disruptive technology company aiming to revolutionize the financial services industry by empowering women investors and providing them with vetted advisor connections they can trust. Jenna is also deeply committed to giving back to her community. She volunteers with several charities, including mentoring foster children through Court Appointed Special Advocates and is a foster mom to a rotating cast of shelter dogs.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

👥 🔥Hire Fast: Learn why it’s never too early to invest in team members to help you grow your business so it can run without you.

💪❤️Empower Your Team: Beyond the power of effective delegation, learn why it’s important to be a great coach and mentor to your team.

⏱️🌙Guard Your Time: Learn the time management secrets that enable Jenna to run several businesses, volunteer and have a fulfilling, enjoyable life.

📈 🚀Bootstrapping to Success: How women-led companies can thrive even without outside investment, and how to create optimistic yet realistic financial projections to attract investors while emphasizing sustainability.

💼 💡 Financial Navigation and Resources: How Pearl Capital Management acts as a "financial quarterback," ensuring coordinated and comprehensive financial plans, plus how the fintech firm BeSvvy.com is connecting business owners to trusted local advisors through a smart matchmaking service.

👩‍🔬 💰 Funding Women Entrepreneurs: Why more women must start investing in each other’s startups to change the game of venture capital, how women founders outperform exclusively male teams, and how to present your opportunity to investors.

🐾 🤟 Balancing Act: How to manage multiple roles with passion and purpose.

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Ashley Stanford is the CEO and Founder of Ice Cream Social, a gamification platform that converts customers into a influencers. She’s a digital marketing consultant with more than 15 years of experience specializing in building strategic marketing plans, mapping strategy execution, and tactics that optimize conversions and referrals.  She is also the EVP of Client Strategy at TicketSocket, where she originally “intrapreneured” Ice Cream Social.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🎮❤️ Reward Your Customers: How incorporating gamification tactics and innovative referral systems boosts customer engagement and referrals by transforming customers into brand influencers through incentives. 

💡 📣 Influencer Marketing Mistakes: Learn how some efforts to turn customers into influential endorsement machines can backfire, and how get the best results.

💸 📈 Cost-Efficient Marketing Alternatives: Learn how Ice Cream Social offers cost-effective alternatives to traditional advertising by leveraging word-of-mouth and reducing customer acquisition costs. 

📊 📱Navigating Data and Measurement: Marketing without measurement is like sailing without a compass. Learn strategies for tracking influencer marketing success, and best practices for using promo codes, unique URLs, and affiliate links to gauge impact. 

🎯 🚀 Tackling Marketing Challenges: How to overcome marketing overwhelm, understand your target market and integrate smart, cost-effective marketing strategies. 

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Alicia Berberich is a visionary leader who’s made it her mission to connect women to each other in inclusive, collaborative and supportive networks to help them grow their businesses. She began the Women in Business Roundtable in 1992 in San Francisco, which became the largest networking group through the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. She went on to found the Women's Marketing Luncheon series to create a smaller environment and now Alicia coaches women entrepreneurs to achieve their goals by harnessing the power of manifesting and overcoming their negative self-talk.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🚀 📈 Manifesting Business Success: Learn the DESIGNED framework for actionable steps to manifest goals—from clarifying desires and aligned energy to inspired action gratitude, and beyond. 

💼 🔥Support and Mentorship: Why women must support one another in business for all of us to succeed, and why collaborative and inclusive networks foster the connections and capital we all need to grow successful businesses.  

👩‍🔬 🤟 Harnessing Wisdom and Energy: Learn why women in their 50s and 60s bring a unique blend of experience, confidence, and renewed energy, often finding their entrepreneurial stride as they navigate life changes like children leaving home and post-menopause vitality.

🧠 💡 Mindset Mastery: How to overcome inner saboteurs and negative self-talk and foster a positive mindset, and why using "loving kindness" and positive self-dialogue can help overcome imposter syndrome or anything holding you back from your dreams.

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Maria Maldonado Smith is the founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of MMS Consulting and creator of the Executive Vision Imagery program. After 18 years of award-winning success in the corporate space, working as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, Maria brings her unparalleled combination of experience to her proprietary process and interactive trainings, helping companies understand the science and benefits of goal setting for their employees.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

🌍✨Align on Vision and Values: Learn why uniting a team around shared vision and values and a roadmap for how those are operationalized leads to a happy workplace culture with increased productivity and productivity. 

⚖️📈Balance in Management: How to avoid toxic micromanagement without confusing employees with too much autonomy, and strike the balance between the trust and independence team members need, with clear expectations and onboarding processes to set them up for success.

💡 🌱Understanding Employee Goals: Why it’s vital to engage with team members on a personal level. Ask: "What do you want? Who do you want to become? What do you want to create?" This understanding helps in aligning individual aspirations with company objectives and enhancing overall team engagement.

⚡ 🚀 Challenges in Growing Companies: Rapid growth can be overwhelming for founders. Learn how to set yourself up for success by having proper systems and practices in place to maintain quality as you scale.

🤝 👥 Hiring to Trust: How to patiently build recruitment and hiring processes that help you align your new hires around shared values and expectations so you can feel safe empowering your team.

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Caitlin Copple and Holly Conti are the co-owners of Full Swing Public Relations, a fast-growing agency helping underrecognized leaders positively impact the world as entrepreneurs, authors, speakers and political candidates. Caitlin founded Full Swing in 2019, brought Holly in as Head of Digital Marketing, and together they’ve grown into a 7-figure company, with clients featured in Fast Company, Inc. Forbes, New York Times, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, PopSugar, CNN, and many others. They’ve helped clients launch multi-six-figure courses and memberships, earn six-figure book deals,10x their email lists, and 100x their social following.

🔑Key Takeaways🔑

📌 💡 Why Long-Term Thinking Beats Quick Wins: How to focus on long-term relationship building with media partners, and understanding what journalists are looking for and how to best approach them.

💪 🚀 How to Bolster Earned Media: Learn how to make your brand story and solution relevant to journalists and the news agenda, a why a "soft pitch" strategy and crafting strong, problem-solving stories tailored for journalists always wins the day. 

🤖 🤝 AI vs. Humans: AI can boost efficiency in research and content creation but there is no replacement for authentic human connection in securing impactful media placements. Plus, the need for more transparency and diversity in AI models.

👩‍🔬 🌱 Balancing Entrepreneurship with Motherhood: How it’s possible to find leverage in your business to be both a good mom and a successful business owner, and why its vital that women support each other.

Plus, hear the story of how Full Swing PR lead the impactful “My Village” campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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