Day 5: Dream & Do -Spark Your Passions

Rebecca Soler - How to Find Success and Time for Yourself

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Speaker Bio

Rebecca Soler grew up in Boston, but moved to Sugar Land, TX for high school where she met her best friend/future husband while in a riveting production of Fiddler on the Roof. She spends much of her time in a recording booth convincing you to buy stuff, making silly voices, and narrating novels. Consequently she is an expert in frozen yoghurt, unrequited love, and...dragons. She gave up marathons when her ankles betrayed her but can now be found sprinting after her young daughter in NYC.

She is an actress and producer, known for Pinkalicious & Peterrific (2018), Mosaic (2018) and Nella the Princess Knight (2017). She is also an award winning audio book narrator, known for voicing all the characters in the celebrated series, The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros.

Michelle Glogovac - How Podcast Interviews Can Grow Your Brand and Business

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Michelle Glogovac is THE Podcast Matchmaker™, a podcast publicist, author of How To Get On Podcasts and host of the award winning podcast, My Simplified Life. She works with entrepreneurs, authors, and experts hone their storytelling abilities, grow their businesses, and elevate themselves as thought leaders. Michelle is a wife, mom of two, stepmom of two, and a fur mom. She has her B.A. and M.S. in Law, and is the Founder + CEO of The MLG Collective®.


Andrew Chau - How to Know if Entrepreneurship Is Right for You

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Andrew Chau is the co-founder and CEO of Boba Guys Inc. He writes TED Talks about culture, branding, and pop culture. In a past life, he was a product and brand marketer with traditional CPG brand management and tech marketing experience.

He started Boba Guys and Tea People (food & beverage company) in 2011. He is a board member for The Daily Californian and National ACE. He is an Active Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise, and Business blogger for Huffington Post. He is also a co-author of The Boba Book.


Cara Bastone - Creating Space for the Life You Want

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Speaker Bio

Cara Bastone is a full time writer living and writing in Brooklyn with her husband, sons, and an almost-goldendoodle. Her goal with her work is to find the swoon in ordinary love stories. She has been a fan of the romance genre since she found a grocery bag filled with her grandmother’s old Harlequin Romances when she was in high school. She is a fangirl for pretzel sticks, long walks through Prospect Park, and love stories featuring men who aren’t hobbled by their own masculinity.

Her books can be found here.


Emily Arden Wells - The Importance of Saying Yes to Passion Projects

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Emily Arden Wells is a partner with the Colorado based architecture firm, Move Matter / Architects, and owns a digital media agency called Five O’Clock Creative, where she has won awards for her photography and food styling. She co-founded the award-winning cocktail and spirits website, Gastronomista.com and is considered to be one of the first cocktail influencers who has inspired generations of content creators. Her writing has been published in Saveur Magazine, Vanity FairTown & CountryBloomberg Pursuits, among others. She lives in Colorado with her husband and son. Eat Post Like is her first novel.


Ellie Palmer - Owning Your Story and Making Dreams Happen

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Speaker Bio

Ellie Palmer is the author of Four Weekends And a Funeral

 and Anywhere With You, and is a prototypical Midwesterner who routinely apologizes to inanimate objects when she bumps into them. When she’s not writing romantic comedies featuring delightfully messy characters, she’s at home in Minnesota, eating breakfast food, watching too much reality television, and triple texting her husband about their son.

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Amy Nesbitt - The Best Tools to Start A Business on a Budget

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Amy Nesbitt is a full-time working mama of two, blending corporate life with a passion for wellness, travel, books, and everyday joy. On her blog and socials as WholeWellnessMamas, she empowers moms to thrive through simple, intentional living. She also shares her love for Japanese culture, food, and travel on This Japanese American Life and dives into all things books on AmyNsReads. From summits to YouTube, Amy helps women find joy in the chaos and savor the everyday.