WOMEN FOR SUCCESS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Amelia “Mills” Bender

Mills Bender, the financial coach, business owner, and speaker is the founder and owner of Mills Know Bills (MKB), a company dedicated to teaching individuals and businesses how to manage and master their finances within 90 days. Mills started her financial journey a little over 6 years ago and understands the frustration around money mismanagement, struggling with where to start, and the courage it takes to take ownership of your finances.

In the past year, Mills has published a book, been featured on NBC6, helped over 35 clients achieve financial freedom, and donated financial literacy programs to three main communities in need through the "Mills Mission."

MASTERCLASS: How to Master Your Money without Stress, Anxiety, or Fear

Dana De Greff

Dana De Greff holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Miami. She has taught Creative Writing classes at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Miami, Miami Arts Charter, and Books & Books. She is the author of Alterations (winner of the 2018 Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series published by Seven Kitchens Press), and has been accepted or awarded scholarships from the Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop, The Key West Literary Seminar, the Lemon Tree House Residency, and Hedgebrook. Her work appears in Cosmonauts Avenue, PANK, Origins Journal, and Gulf Stream Magazine, among others. Most recently, she’s the recipient of a 2021 Pushcart Prize Nomination for her story “Storms,” published in the Winter 2020 Issue of Jabberwock Review and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 Key West Literary Seminar's Marianne Russo Award for her novel-in-progress, EVERYDAY MYSTICISM.

Find out more @DeGreffWriters or danadegreff.com.

LUNCH AND LEARN: Beating Imposter Syndrome for Creative Liberation

Gabriela Guzman

Gaby is a speaker, coach and strategist who is committed to helping women become who they really are so they can be free. As the Co-Founder and CEO of Las Comadres, an inclusive community of women uplifting each other in life and business - she holds space for connection, sisterhood and authenticity. Gaby's previous experience spans from Consulting to Advertising. She's passionate about civic engagement, social justice, and interior design. Gaby was raised in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, and she lives in South Florida with her 10-year-old son, Matias.

MASTERCLASS: Women, Money, and Community - Our Struggles and Opportunities

Anna Dilernia

Anna Dilernia is a self-described "Data Diva" with a passion for social impact. An unlikely superhero, she supports visionary leaders with data-driven strategy, grants, and performance improvement. Her superpowers include cross-sector expertise in healthcare, education, and philanthropy and an arsenal of technical skills including business operations, data science, evaluation, grant management, lean six sigma, and facilitation to name a few. She spends her days providing her expertise to executive directors, public/private partnerships, community organizers, and nonprofits boards to take them from "Good" to "Great".

Her headquarters are at Level Up Impact Group where she serves as the Chief Impact Engineer and Founder. She has been known to partner with agencies like Baptist Health South Florida, The Children's Trust, The Knight Foundation, and Miami Dade College. She was schooled in Economics at the University of Florida, Management and Strategy at Western Governors University, and Data Science at Harvard University.

MASTERCLASS: Let's Talk about Grants, Baby

Vivian Olodun

Serial Entrepreneur, Micro-Influencer, and Author; Vivian Olodun is a rising star, speaking honestly with her peers about what it is like to build a business that serves the rich and famous. Vivian Olodun is the ghostwriter behind luxury real estate articles published in the Miami Herald and Sun Sentinel. She co-founded a boutique marketing firm that has grown to over 6-figures in less than two years. Her nonprofit Behind The Leaf hosts Flourish Media Conference annually in Miami, FL, introducing her little-black-book of millionaires to small business owners looking for angel investors. 

MASTERCLASS: Small Business, Big Contracts: How to up-level your small business with 6-figure government contracts

Odalys Quevedo

Odalys Quevedo is an online written content expert. She uses her skills to write branded content for websites that boosts search engine ranking. And she creates engaging social media captions with the right hashtag strategy to organically grow your audience and convert them into paying clients. She has experience managing social media channels for a large feminine hygiene brand. And currently manages the social media accounts for Odalys Q Writer and Art Spark Design. She blogs about Mom Bosses at odalysqwriter.com. Odalys is also the Co-Founder of Virtual Mom Collective - an online community that hosts monthly webinars to help moms cope with #thisnewnormal. Reach out to her to ignite your business for online success!

MASTERCLASS: The Importance of Investing in your Website

Luis Bertot

Luis Bertot is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner with a Masters in Human Resources Management from Florida International University. Luis is passionate about building a diverse workplace where employees and leaders can work together harmoniously. He is committed to aligning businesses' strategies with their human capital to maximize productivity.

MASTERCLASS: Let's Shrink the Pay Gap and Negotiate Your Worth

Mio Santana

Mio Santana is a Certified Transformational Trainer with more than ten years of experience and study in self-actualization and self-mastery and is the Founder and C.E.O of Divine Journey, a transformational coaching program. She coaches on how to create joy from the inside out through developing a healthy relationship with the masculine and feminine energies and transforming patterns of behavior that block harmonious relationships with the self and others. She bases her work on the foundation of self-love and is an advocate of inner child healing. She believes the Divine Feminine is in harmonious resurgence and the wounded Masculine is ready for healing. Her soul’s purpose is the healing and empowerment of the Feminine and Masculine energies so that we may live in harmony as a species on Earth. She is based in Miami, FL where she delivers virtual workshops and coaching programs. You can find out more about her by visiting www.miosantana.com.

LUNCH AND LEARN: Self-love: Attaining Higher Levels of Success without Fear, Burnout, & Exhaustion

Luly B

A believer that everyone was born with a responsibility to share their gifts with this world, Luly B. empowers women and business owners to share their talents and abilities so they experience joy. She is a family-first speaker, trainer, consultant and author of Amazon best-seller “Balance is Bull$h!t.” By sharing her own expertise, challenges and experiences, Luly empowers women to create the lives and businesses they desire through inspirational events, personalized coaching, workshops and mastermind groups. She is a faculty member of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program at Babson College and Miami Dade College. Her message of leadership, empowerment, purpose and empathy has reached thousands of women and clients including Macy’s, GE, Marriott, Procter & Gamble and Dell. If you have a ton of ideas, feel like you’re all over the place, or ready for a tribe of women who climb, Luly is your girl to supporting you in making it happen!

MASTERCLASS: The Power of Investing in Yourself

MORNING MINDFULNESS: Be as Kind to Yourself as You Are to Others

Jacqueline Garcia-Arteaga

Jacqueline Garcia-Arteaga opened her first business at the age of 18 in order to put herself through FIU where she received her Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus in International Business. She then went to the St. Thomas University College of Law where she received her Juris Doctorate Degree and a Certificate in Intellectual Property. Jacqueline is licensed to practice Florida State Law and Federal Law. She now runs her own law firm that helps entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups, and creatives protect their businesses and brands through trademarking, copyrighting, contracts, business formations and more. With a love for serving her community, she helps set up small businesses for long term success and generational wealth.

MASTERCLASS: Essential Know-Hows to Legally Protect Your Brand

Tanai Milgram

Born and raised in Venezuela and Miami, Tanai graduated from Communications at The University of Florida and worked as a video producer in New York. However while building a career in a male targeted entertainment business, it quickly became clear that her passion was working on empowering women, specifically on the things she struggled with herself growing up: feeling free to be self-expressed and fully confident in herself. Combining her coaching training with her own experiences overcoming her own low self-esteem, body insecurities and fear of intimacy, Tanai wants to help “good” women feel confident with themselves, in the world, and with their sexuality.

MORNING MINDFULNESS: The People-Pleasing Detox: A Workshop on How to Stop People-Pleasing and Start Asking for What you Really Desire

Paula Barrera Scheer PA, Realtor

Raised in Miami from the age of two, Paula Barrera Scheer is a 19-year veteran real estate agent in Miami, Florida with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services EWM Realty. She loves her clients and her career which ranges from starter homes to multi-million dollar estates. Her aim is to make her client's lives better by achieving their real estate goals. Her favorite aspect of the real estate business? The friendships built for life! Paula also loves to sing and spend time outdoors and in the ocean, often with her husband and one and a half year old daughter.

MASTERCLASS: How to Invest in Yourself and Achieve Against All Odds!

Andrea Cid

Originally from Santiago, Chile, Andrea has lived in 11 cities and is thrilled to call Miami her permanent home. After a successful career in real estate and banking, working for companies based in Latin America, the US, UK, and Asia, Andrea moved to Miami to be closer to family. Together with her brother she started her first business, Cid Botanicals. In 2016 the family purchased Concept II Cosmetics, a bath and body manufacturer in Doral. Last year, during lockdown, Andrea launched Miami Growth Machine, a manufacturing incubator for CPG start-ups. Working with entrepreneurs, Andrea is passionate about building an inclusive innovation ecosystem in Miami, where founders of all backgrounds can thrive.

MASTERCLASS: Top 5 Tips for Launching a Beauty Brand

Natalie Marino

Natalie Marino is an HR professional with over a decade of experience working with the intricacies of Professional Employer Organizations (PEO). She began her career in Benefits, which led her to the STEM world by way of Human Resource Information System, where she found her true passion. She has managed HRIS Technology Teams, with her most recent position, as Senior Product Owner for a prestigious Human Capital Management Firm. Outside of her professional life, she enjoys spending time with her family. She is a lover of the outdoors and her yoga practice. Her mission is to inspire women in STEM to be seen, heard and empowered.

MASTERCLASS: Invest in the right systems for your Small business

Jeanette Maseda

Jeanette Maseda is a Physical Therapist, online fitness coach, and business mentor. As a coach, she gives women the tools to live a healthy lifestyle and build an online fitness business.

She teaches the mindset model to manage your mind, feelings, and actions to get results. She is currently pursuing her Life Coaching Certification.

MORNING MINDFULNESS: Formula for a Healthy Mindset

Ilona Pamplona

Ilona Pamplona has helped dozens of women reconnect with their inner world, harness the magic of their emotions, and transform their most important relationship: the one they have with themselves. She combines her training in coaching from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Gabby Bernstein’s Spirit Junkie Masterclass one and two, and her Masters of Arts in Health and Wellness Coaching, with a concentration in Integrative Wellness Practices to create a sacred container for her clients to reveal themselves and develop their self-compassion muscle. To amplify the reconnection with your most magical self, Ilona explores the complexity of your astrological chart; uses chakra cards to balance the wisdom of your body’s energy centers; and demonstrates how essential oils assist in spiritual awakening.

MORNING MINDFULNESS: Astrology for Abundance & Prosperity

Luis Jimenez

Luis Jimenez was born in Sanctis Spiritus, Cuba and raised in Miami, FL since the age of 5 years. After graduating college with a degree in Computer Information Systems and having a 5 year stint as a Banker with Wells Fargo, Luis decided to become a Yoga teacher. He is now a 200 Hour Expert Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. In addition to being a Yoga teacher he is also a Thai Yoga practitioner, Functional Range Conditioning coach, photographer, writer and founder of the Healing Talks Podcast. Luis teaches Handstands and Arm-Balance workshops, Acro/Partner Yoga, Yin Restorative Yoga, Pranayama (Breathwork), Meditation as well as self development courses on Yoga philosophy like the Soul Tribe.

MORNING MINDFULNESS: Yoga Off The Mat: How 10 Simple Yogic Principles Changed My Life

Veronica Marquez

Veronica Marquez is a researcher and facilitator in somatic and relational openness. She’s also the founder of Dinner Confidential - a global community and a space to explore, reimagine and practice more open ways of relating –with ourselves and one another. DC offers communication programs, education, and dinners all around the world where we explore sensitive topics. Our mission is to contribute to a world that is more curious and compassionate towards difference (instead of feeling threatened by it). Veronica is obsessed with the practice of Open and Active Listening. It's powerful, transformative, and it can heal us all. She’s a trained practitioner in executive coaching, neuro-linguistics programming, reiki, and is currently doing a certification in Gabor Maté’s renowned program, Compassionate Inquiry.

MORNING MINDFULNESS: Build Somatic Resilience Through the Power of Open and Active Listening

Paulette Piñero

Paulette Piñero is the owner of LEAD Media LLC, a leadership coaching and management consulting firm that helps professionals of color get the confidence and skills they need to take the next step in their careers. Her mission is to get Latinas the job, business, and pay they want through transformational content, personalized coaching, and strategy consulting to create a world where leadership is diverse, purpose-driven, and joyful. With over 15 years of experience in leadership positions in the non-profit field, she is skilled in Strategic Planning, Strategic Partnership Development, Employee Management/Coaching (in-person and remote), DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), Inter-generational Programming, and Technical Writing. In addition to coaching professionals, she provides consulting services to companies looking to redesign their remote work systems, expand their impact, and develop equitable and inclusive talent strategies.

LUNCH AND LEARN: How To Negotiate Your Salary With Confidence

Kathy Rivera

Kathy is a Yoga and Breathwork Practitioner, Certified Health Coach, and Behavior Change Specialist in the DC area and online. She helps humans clear the negative emotional blocks to shift their mindsets, so they can navigate life from a heart-centered space. Kathy is dedicated to helping humans awaken to their healing journey, and cultivating lasting self-love and connection, so they can craft the life and future they desire.

MORNING MINDFULNESS: Investing in Your Wellness

Noel Ferrufino

Noel Ferrufino has been in banking for 15 years. For 11 of those years, he was in business/commercial lending for JPM Chase and HSBC North America. For the last 2 years, he has been doing only SBA lending at Valley National Bank.

LUNCH AND LEARN: Know What SBA Loans Can Do for You

Karla Merrel

Karla understands how it feels to wonder "When would I be able to have everything I want?" A recovered attorney, Karla has evolved into a business strategist and motivational speaker whose life mission is to move working women into action so they can BE, DO and HAVE exactly what they want from life. After building a successful live event business from the ground up, Karla expanded her reach by creating the Client Maximizer Course that has helped female entrepreneurs find and convert their audiences into paying clients. Knowing that there is more to life than financial success, Karla invested 100 days in a mental and physical reboot of intentional self-improvement. She now shares her formula for permanent physical, mental, financial, and spiritual change by leading her GROWTH Circle on which she had compiled over $60,000 and 5 years of coaching in one accessible community for working women. Karla is on a mission to help 10,000 women create more time and energy into achieving their goals by the time she retires and is opening her Circle to you.

MASTERCLASS: Goals Are Temporary: The 4 C's to Becoming a Successful Woman by Investing in Permanent Change

Vanessa Duran

Vanessa Duran, Principal of DCC Accounting, is a financial executive with a decade of business consulting and entrepreneurship, financial analysis, accounting, and tax services experience. Throughout her career, she has supported the launch and growth of over 100 small and now, medium-sized businesses in various industries. She continually uses her experience to guide her clients in navigating their financials to support their entrepreneurial journey.

LUNCH AND LEARN: Align Personal Vision with your Business Purpose in 3 Steps

Yanyn San Luis

Yanyn "Yany" San Luis is an epic expert in sales and negotiation and has helped fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, and Hyatt increase their bottom line by millions of dollars and coach their sales teams in leveling up their daily performance. As an adjunct professor, she has taught her fail-proof negotiation framework to hundreds of sales/marketing students at Florida International University. Through her tried and true methodology, she has secured millions in individual and corporate philanthropy for South Florida non-profit organizations. During 2020 during the global pandemic she was able to raise over $3M + in less than six months. She is passionate about helping individuals leverage their strengths, demystify the negotiation process, and ensure they walk away with what they are worth. In 2020, she released her first book titled “Building Badassery: A Guide to Stepping into your own Badassery & Staying There” which instantly hit Amazon’s Best Seller List for Two-Hour Business & Money Short Reads.

LUNCH AND LEARN: Negotiate Like a Boss