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Speakers & Workshop Leaders
Amy Ferris
Amy Ferris is an author, screenwriter, playwright. Her most recent memoir, Marrying George Clooney has become an Off-Broadway play. She has written film: Mr. Wonderful (Anthony Minghella, Director), and Funny Valentines (Julie Dash, Director). She has written for TV, and was nominated for Best Screenplay for Funny Valentines. She is also an editor; her first …
Ann Voorhees Baker
Ann Voorhees Baker is owner of Net Marketing-123, an agency that provides strategic planning, maintenance, and training in all aspects of online marketing and PR for small businesses. Her specialty is teaching social media marketing to business owners and executives age 50 and above, and her expertise includes media training, social media marketing, search engine …
Barbara Hannah Grufferman
Barbara Hannah Grufferman is the author of The Best of Everything After 50: The Experts’ Guide to Style, Sex, Health, Money and More, the best-selling manual for positive, healthy aging with tips from top experts in different fields, including Diane von Furstenberg, Frederic Fekkai, Dr. Patricia Wexler, and many others. She writes a weekly column …
Antonia Martinez, PhD
Antonia “Dr. M” Martinez, PhD—”The Inner Power Doctor”—has a way of provoking the kinds of conversations, interactions, and internal insights that open people up to an undiscovered path of personal evolution. She creates holistic mastermind programs for leadership, relationships, self-transformation, success, and wellness. Known for innovative approaches, Dr. M’s work in the field of achieving …
Cindy Joseph
Cindy Joseph‘s career as a make up artist started in the late 70s. Working with super models and celebrities, her natural make up style influenced the face of beauty for 25 years. As her career was flourishing, Cindy studied human behavior, psychology and philosophy along with health and fitness. She was inspired to do so …
Robin Plaskoff Horton
Robin Plaskoff Horton is the founder of Urban Gardens, an award-winning green lifestyle and design blog featuring innovative and eco-friendly designs, trends, and ideas that extend and blend the boundaries between indoors and out. Urban Gardens has received a Platinum Creativity Award, the Garden Writers Association Gold and Silver Awards, and was nominated for a …
Elizabeth Geitz
An Episcopal priest and award-winning author, Elizabeth Geitz‘s books have been hailed by New York Times bestselling authors Desmond Tutu, John Berendt, and Helen Prejean. With a focus on women’s spirituality and justice issues, her writings speak to people of passion who want to make a difference in the world. Elizabeth’s new book, I Am …
Hollye Dexter
Hollye Dexter is co-editor of Dancing At the Shame Prom (Seal Press), and recently completed a second memoir, What Doesn’t Kill You. Her essays have been published in anthologies (Chicken Soup for the Soul, Answered Prayers, Character Consciousness) and in many online publications. She writes for iPinion Syndicate and AOL Patch News. A singer/songwriter with …
Jody Feagan
Jody Feagan is the founder and former director of the San Miguel Writers Conference, which has played host to such literary luminaries as Barbara Kingsolver, Tom Robbins, Margaret Atwood and John Berendt. Thirteen years ago Jody moved with her family to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she lived full time for 10 years raising …
Molly Davis & Kristine Van Raden
Molly Davis and Kristine Van Raden are co-founders of Matters That Matter. Friendship, family, career and life challenges have taught them about what truly matters. Their mission is to inspire others to live according to their own deeply held values and priorities, through living with courage, contentment and grace. They are co-authors of the internationally …
Robyn Hatcher
Having been an extremely shy child, Robyn Hatcher is now passionate about transforming the way individuals communicate and express themselves. For the past 15 years, Robyn and SpeakEtc. have helped thousands of business professionals improve their communication skills. Clients include: AXA Equitable, Allstate Financial Services, Robinson Lehrer & Montgomery, Strategic Communication, Deloitte & Touche, The …
Suzanne Braun Levine
Suzanne Braun Levine is a nationally recognized authority on women, family issues and media. She was the first editor of Ms. Magazine (1972-1988) and the first woman editor of the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review. She produced the Peabody Award-winning HBO documentary She’s Nobody’s Baby: American Women in the Twentieth Century. Her feature, “Inventing the Rest …
Ivy Slater
Ivy Slater is dedicated to helping Women Entrepreneurs and Solo-Practitioners to achieve thriving business success on their terms – to gracefully achieve their goals, to earn a lucrative income, to love what they do, to stay in robust health physically, mentally, and emotionally, and to enjoy ample time for all their most heartfelt priorities. Before …
























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