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Danielle is an illustrator and animator from Israel with a degree in Visual Communication from Shenkar College in Israel, specializing in character design, comics, 2D animation, and editorial illustrations. She was born visually impaired, but it never stopped her from pursuing her goals and dreams. She worked with a variety of clients around the world. She also exhibited her art in galleries internationally and shared her life stor...

As a life coach, Martina turns her traumas and mentalillness into helping professional women thrive after trauma. She overcame her disability to do this important work. Before becoming disabled with her trauma and bipolar disorder, Martina was a licensed clinical social worker, a religious education professional, a college instructor, and ran severalnon-profit agencies, among other things. Recognized by Marquis Who’s Who in America...

Kellina is a deaf coach and advocate, a podcast speaker, abest-selling 4x author, and a passionate entrepreneur on a mission to help young adults with disabilities achieve their goals while also educating others about the deaf community.  What makes her story even more incredible is that Kellina is actually a hard of hearing person who lost 100% of her hearing at the young age of 4. 

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Barb Zablotney was paralyzed on impact in a motor vehicle accident when she was 21 years old. After a decade of struggling with depression, she won the title of Ms. Wheelchair Pennsylvania 2018 with the platform “Changing Ignorance with Education & Inclusion.” She went on to earn her BA degree in Disability Studies from William Paterson University and is currently pursuing her MA degree in Disability Studies at City University ...

Virginie is a Certified Medical Revenue Manager at Optimal Revenue Cycle Management. She has over 18 years of experience in the healthcare field. Optimal Revenue Cycle Management provides various practice management solutions for providers in small to medium private practices. This includes but is not limited to medical billing, following up on accounts receivable, preparing for Medicare or HIPAA audits, online reputation managemen...

Born in Kinshasa, Republic Democratic of Congo, in a family of career teachers. Carl grew in conservative Christian family. At the young age of six (6), Carl was a victim of sexual assaults from an individual close to his family. This event played a significant role in shaping his teenage years and later on, as he faced challenges with his sexual identity while in college. He studied medicine in Algeria, first at the University of ...

Ellen Violette, also known as The Original eBook Coach, is a sought-after self-publishing and award-winning online business coach. Her passion is helping independent professionals, entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and authors communicate their message through self-publishing and content marketing, turning their books into bestsellers and 10K clients as well as long-term passive income with low-tech easy-to-follow solutions.

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Liz Benditt isLiz Benditt is a 4-time cancer survivor. She is President and CEO of The Balm Box, a self-care and gifting site for breast cancer patients. In addition to teaching undergraduate business marketing courses at University of Kansas, Benditt also serves on the Education First Shawnee Mission board of directors, and volunteers with The Mainstream Coalition and National Charity League. She lives in the Kansas City suburbs w...

Born and raised in Albany, New York, Gayle has called Tucson home for 22 years. She has been married to her best friend and most avid supporter, Al, for 40 years. Her 8 year-old step-daughter moved in 3 weeks after they got married.

At age 2 ½ Gayle was accidentally burned when she tipped over a fresh pot of coffee, resulting in physical and emotional burns that have lasted a lifetime. Since then, she has turned obstacles into posi...

Brian Sachetta is an author, blogger, and software developer from Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston College in 2012 with a degree in management and computer science. After college, Brian put his computer science background to use as both a consultant and a writer. His first book, “Get Out of Your Head,” draws parallels between computer systems and the human mind and gives readers practical strategies for overcoming a...

Terry Tucker is a sought-after speaker who believes in the power of a good story to motivate, inspire, and encourage others to lead their uncommon and extraordinary lives.
By combining his ten-year cancer journey with his diverse business, athletic coaching, and law enforcement expertise, he delivers compelling yet relatable presentations for conferences, virtual events, panels, meetings, and seminars.
Terry is the Founder of...

Tina Fumo thinks ALL children are beautiful and deserve the utmost of our attention, energy and care. She traveled to a small town in Canada and found herself in the most stressful situation of her life. The 'authorities' have apprehended her two-week-old granddaughter. The journey to get back the child was nothing less of a feat, as she and her family are shocked to discover what the child welfare system in Canada is truly...

Ben Cooper is a husband, father, author, speaker, educator, and beekeeper. He grew up on a family farm in western Pennsylvania and went on to get an Agricultural Science degree from Penn State University. Ben retired after working as an Agricultural Specialist for the state of Maryland. He teaches Beekeeping courses at Allegheny College of Maryland and mentors new beekeepers.

Ben and his wife live in southern Pennsylvania, where th...

Rob combines lessons learned while sailing around the world with the science of human happiness to deliver sound strategies audience members can implement immediately to better relate to their teams and become happier people themselves.

He has been married to Dee, his business and life partner for 41 years.  When not motivating others Rob spends his time skiing, mountain biking, kayaking and flying his gyroplane near his home i...

Ayanna Davis, also known as phenomenallyautistic on social media, is an autism advocate, children’s book illustrator, designer, former choreographer, and lover of all performing arts. Along with being autistic, she has survived over 300 seizures, is living with chronic illnesses and has 3 autoimmune diseases. She is passionate about spreading her messages of self-love, joy, equality, diversity, inclusion, and autism awareness &...

Dana Hagstrong is a retired mother of four beautiful children, and four very loving Japanese Chins.  She and her husband recently moved abroad for their retirement and are living in Jalisco, Mexico.  They are busy learning the language, making new friends, playing music and following Jesus’ new and exciting plan for them.

Dana is also a child of God who loves to write.  Since she was a little girl, her imagination would find its vo...

Jon Baker founded Introvert In Business after many years of coaching leaders, business owners, and accountants and discovering that many of them were introverts. He quickly realized that the standard coaching methods do not work for introverts and that there is a better and more effective way to support them.

Jon identifies as being an introvert himself, but maybe people would not recognize him, nor his clients, as well. For suppor...