Angela Kelly
Organic and Fit
Audacious Business Goal:
To create a sustainable nutrition coaching business through programs and offerings that align with my values. (Through these offerings, I want to reach my ideal clients who value my expertise and the amount of passion and care I put into my work).
Audacious Life/Family Goal:
I want to make sure that I truly connect each week with my daughters (8 and 10 years old) so they don't have the disconnect I felt with my own mother starting at 10/11 years old. I want them to know that they, their feelings and opinions really matter (I want to create special days for each of them to be able to get to know what's going on with them).
My theme of helping others rings true professionally as well. After leaving College to come home to take care of both my Mother and younger brother, I was lead into automotive sales. I did very well. Although, it was a rough start in the beginning.Sales is about not letting a customer leave without closing the deal. I never wanted to pressure a customer and be the proverbial "Used Car Salesman!" My first month, my paycheck was inconsiderable.
It paid off in the end. Every family I worked with came back and made their purchase with me, which lead to a promotion in Finance. Between working with customers and getting deals funded with banks (at low rates) I succeeded, because I knew I was helping the customer! This period of my life was my most financially successful time, due to my mind set and also the economy. In1999 I left the automotive industry after the birth of my first daughter. In 2003 I began helping families and friends with outstanding medical debt. Due to my personal experiences of piling medical debt after the passing of my daughter and my Mom's continuous hospitalization, I felt there was a real need to help families navigate and negotiate inflated medical debt.
As time progressed, I began to assist Mortgage brokers in helping their clients negotiate debt and restore their credit. To this day, I still help guide families through this process but it became emotionally draining as my daughter Leila began to fall ill in 2006. I began extensively researching causes to her illness. I feel I was divinely led lead to an answer, an answer that changed my entire course of how I nourish my family and help others.
Since 2008, I have been helping others navigate special needs diets, learn more about auto-immune disorders and life threatening allergies.This journey has really only stayed at a "Grass Roots" level. Through word of mouth, through my Group X classes I teach and through social media. Could I do more? Absolutely. Why I don't is still not fully uncovered; I almost feel I'm afraid of it not succeeding.
I have taken steps to put myself and my passion out there (including MMSS). I look forward to gaining my confidence back and earning a living that will allow more financial freedom and time with family. Here's to saying 'Yes' to growth and opportunities!
Crystal Lequang
Founder | Event Producer
Audacious Business Goal:
To increase revenue by 50% ($150k).
Audacious Life/Family Goal:
To see and feel all of the facets of Crystal. I want to get that corporate edge or confidence back I once had as well as step into the salsa me again (working out, taking classes again and getting to the point where I can think about competing again).
Crystal was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and grew up in the Bay Area. She graduated from Santa Clara University with a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and went into the IT corporate project management world for 15 years. When she realized her love for planning events and passion for design, she took her business savvy and management skills to create Amazae Special Events in 2004. 10 years later it has now become Amazae Events Inc., a full service corporate, social and wedding event Planning, Design and Production Company. Crystal loves spending time with her two beautiful daughters and her loving husband, dances, and plans to visit all of the continents.
Bio:
Coming from parents who did not get the opportunity to go to college, I was set on graduating from Santa Clara University (majoring in OMIS and minoring in Computer Science) and jumping to the corporate world. Knowing how much my family had worked so hard in the entertainment music industry and being self employed most of their career. I had to make sure I was stable and successful….and that’s what I did, but there was always something missing. I tried to fill that void with dancing competitively, which has always been a passion I’d like to get back to. About 7 years into Hewlett Packard, realizing that HP was no longer what it was and the economy around us was changing, I decided to venture out with a business partner and target building a solution for event planners. In doing so, I decided to get certified to learn the requirements, and some how got sucked into the event world itself and started Amazae Special Events. The first 5 years of the business, I worked two jobs. As the business grew, I worked less for HP. Once the kids came, having a job that included being a mommy, corporate early mornings, and late evenings/full days as a business owner got too much. After 15 years at HP, I dedicated myself to the business only and of course being a mommy. Now 10 years old, the business has now become incorporated to Amazae Inc. Professionally between entertainments, corporate, an event experience, we definitely have a different approach to designing and planning all types of events. The past year, I’ve had the big AH-HA, that how I have ran my business the past 9 years prior will never get to the overall goal: Having a self sustaining successful business where I choose to work, not have to work. That has been my mission ever since so that I can spend more time with my kids with the financial freedom my husband and I have been working so hard to have. The goal I have for 2015: Work less, play more, and dance always!
Debra Rogers
Author, Speaker, Coach, & Relationship expert
Audacious Business Goal:
Last year was all about creating a successful book. This year is about creating a sustainable business!
Audacious Life/Family Goal:
To create a better balance between family & business. To have enhanced quality time with my daughter and to have more memorable experiences with my family.
Award-Winning Author, Relationship Expert, and Queen of Breakovers, Debra offers her relationship expertise as a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Digital Romance. Her book He Did You a Favor has been featured in Shape Magazine and is the winner of the 2014 Independent Publisher Award, the Next Generation Indie Award, and the Indie Reader Discovery Award (named as one of the “Best Indie Books of 2014”). Featured on She Knows as one of the top 7 books to read on Valentine’s night.
Bio:
Debra has guested on: The Color of Success, The Kovak Perspective, Blissful Living, The Kathy Jordan Show, Curvy Metalhead Show, Game Changers, Journey for the Truth, The Michael Dresser show, The Hollis Chapman Show, PPRN Live, Carry On Harry, Tell It Like It Is, and Making New Choices To Create A New Reality.
He Did You a Favor is her recipe for success, so you can have the life and relationships you’ve always dreamed of.
Before writing He Did You a Favor, Debra worked as a script analyst and Development Associate for both film and television.
She also built a successful voiceover career, voicing strong, powerful women in film and television, from “Streetfighter” to “Xena: Warrior Princess.” Through her experience, she discovered her own inner warrior and found that the strong heroines she’d been voicing were also within her.
Debra ‘s currently writing the follow-up books in her Did You a Favor series.
Emily Mughannam
Owner | Principal Designer
Audacious Business Goal:
To get clear on the (brand) vision I have for the business as well as to create a clear brand and unique message.
Audacious Life/Family Goal:
Carve out time for more consistent self-care and to really be with my kids (no multi-tasking). Overall, I want to make things more special, step out of the routine, and feeling more presence in my life.
Professional story of Emily Mughannam | Interior Designer & Stylist
Bachelors of Fine Arts with an Emphasis in Interior Design from Design Institute of San Diego.
Interior Designer from the get go. I’ve always been affected by my environment. Luckily, I found my career path at an early age.
Immediately after beginning college, I began interning and working at any place that would take me. Bed Bath & Beyond, Sears Home department, Furniture stores, Pottery Barn, Interior designer firms, and a Home staging firm. Which is where I was first introduced to the fast pace of styling and staging homes for the real estate market. I loved that job. I got paid to shop! I worked at Dulce design while finishing college but knew I would leave San Diego immediately after graduation and try to find a more ‘serious’ interior design gig in a bigger City.
I was an ambitious job hunter and would cold call any firm I liked and asked if they were hiring. 3 months after graduation, I found my first job at a small, women-owned firm. I was able to work hands on all aspects of the biz and learned the industry quickly. When they downsized, I scored a great gig being the hired as an interior designer at a small architecture firm based on the beach in Malibu. It was another small firm where I wore multiple hats. I learned a lot and very quickly but also realized how much I still didn’t know about design and wanted to be mentored.
After being burnt out on LA I began searching for jobs in SF or NYC. I interviewed in both places, looking for a larger firm with more street cred, if you will. In December of 2005 I was simultaneously offered jobs at two very different places- 1- a very reputable firm Hirch Bender & Associates commercial design (who do projects such as the Four Seasons and St. Regis) and at a smaller interior design firm Jeffers Design Group. I was at a crossroads…. go with the big guys or go with what feels right = residential design. And so I did. Moving to SF and working with Jay Jeffers was an incredible experience. I had a great group of mentors and also met some of my best friends at that firm. I only stayed a 1.5yrs before I realized what I truly wanted was to be a business owner. I was happy there and loved being inspired by others’ ideas but really longed for full control.
It’s been a struggle ever since but the reality is… I have what I asked for. I left JDG to get married and start a family & a business. I married the love of my life and over a year later had my son. Slowly dabbled with starting my own biz while I stayed home with my son and got used to my new life as a mother. The economy was sinking and there wasn’t much work out there. I kept consulting to make ends meet but what kept me going was my son and the inspiration I got after having a child. My eyes opened up and I was given a whole new perspective on … everything.
I was coming into a new sense of creativity and started blogging to keep my design mind satisfied while I was home with my son and decided to go for baby #2. Here I was, stay at home mom in SF, the economy had dramatically tanked but more importantly, I had drastically changed after having kids.
It felt surreal trying to get back into the design world but I had a timely re-launch in 2012 when I was selected to design a room for the SF Showcase house. It’s a prestigious honor for Bay Area designers. I designed a Teen room, which received a wide range of exposure and oodles of press. My business took off quickly and we had really good months. My husband quit his job to take care of the kids. Then we had some really slow months. A roller coaster of ups and downs, all the while we made the decision to simply our life and move to a small town- Sonoma.
We immediately loved it up there, finally something just fit! We had our personal life figured out; two beautiful young kids, a place we loved… if only we could get our careers in order. I had a constant stream of clientele but wasn’t bringing in enough money to support our family. My husband decided to go back to work and I had decided I needed to make a change if I was going to sustain being an entrepreneur.
About 9 months into our new life, a real estate agent friend asked if I’d ever stage a home. I thought- why not?! She asked if I would introduce myself at the beginning of a real estate class. I had 5 minutes to give my spiel to 15 people. I introduced myself as a stager / stylist. The group seemed enthused, I passed out my cards and they started spreading the word as the new designer in town.
In January of 2014, my sister flew me to NYC for a weekend away. We spent the entire 5 hour flight brain storming my business and she walked me through a worksheet talking about who, what, how to launch this new business. I came home 3 days later and hit the ground running.
We got our first client by word of mouth-someone trusted me, we styled their home for the market and it sold in 1 week. Being it was such a small town and I had tried networking with the top agents, word spread quickly and people were giving us a try. I had a little experience staging from my job in college but that was over 10 years ago! And I certainly didn’t know about any of the logistics, pricing and business structure, so I just made it up as I went along. Each job was an experiment. I invested very penny I earned back into the business.
All of a sudden I was more than a designer, I was a Business Owner. Or so I felt.
By the middle of the summer, we were turning away work because we couldn’t keep up with demand. We had done it. We made a name and defiantly made a look in town that people recognized. We had captured the eye of our small town Sonoma and had no competition. We started getting design jobs out of it; styling jobs, offer to help with events, offers from Investors. And here we are today. Entering a new year, about to lock in a new warehouse, new staff, new office, new van, new marketing and I still wonder how fast do I grow? What are the right decisions? How much do I invest? How do I enjoy this ride yet learn how to breath and enjoy my family without being a stressed out mess! I love what I do and it brings me so much joy and inspiration. Being a creative person, I am my work. But I am a mother now and I want to be able to take care of my family and myself without being consumed by work 24/7. Fletcher Rhodes 2015 here we come!
Erin Shirey
Master Trainer & Coach for Power Fitness PDX, Dig Deep. Play HARD! and Founding Advisory Board for Ryte, Inc.
Mutlitastic Mama to 3 Dynamic Daughters
Audacious Business Goal:
Create the international arm of my business, while making sure there's a cohesive and a dynamic infrastructure for the business (the business: health, wellness, fitness and living your most vibrant life).
Audacious Life/Family Goal:
Create a weekly schedule that makes me feel as supported in business as it does in family (presence).
My name is Erin Kreitz Shirey. I own Power Fitness PDX, blog at DigDeepPlayHard.com and am on the Founding Advisory Board for Ryte. Married to my soccer loving Jack, Mama to Makenzie10.5, Emerson 7 and Finley, newly 1. Recently celebrating my 39th, I decided this is the year of 39 Adventures. Adventure 1 is making the commitment to not only dream, but believe that I can and am deserving of the huge potential in my business, financial, fitness, family and travel goals. I often say, "The only thing in life we don't get back is time, so why waste it".
I went to Cal Poly and got a BS in Kinesiology, emphasis in helping one's self esteem through athletics. The realization of the importance of self-esteem building, stemmed from having an eating disorder when younger. Interestingly at age 16 is when I knew I wanted to help others break the cycle of not feeling good enough.
I began as a Personal Trainer at Club ONE, grew to Corporate Fitness, to owning Baby Boot Camp Portland & Beaverton. I love teaching, motivating, energizing Moms/Dads to be active with their kids. Empowering Moms to take ownership of their new bodies. But I also excelled building an incredible team of instructors and helping other Franchise Owners succeed in their businesses. Portland & Beaverton became the biggest Baby Boot Camp in the country. The Corporate Team became part of my job titles, in addition to Regional Manager, Fitness Editor for Better TV/Good Day Oregon, Fitness Writer and Power Fitness PDX boot camp owner. All while a competitive triathlete. Huge work success was happening!
In 2008, at 7 weeks, Emerson was hospitalized with pneumonia, pertussis and RSV at the same time my Dad suffered a heart condition. Work success incredible, life challenging and nerve wracking. Keeping a smile on my face, I suffered PPD while helping other postnatal women battle it through exercise. It led me to know changes had to happen. Throughout the next year I sold Baby Boot Camp and resigned from the Corporate Team.
January 2010, due to Jack getting laid off, we relocated for a fresh start to CA. I started Power Fitness PDX again and took on writing gigs. We were thriving, my classes were waitlisted, I was placing 1st and 2nd in races entered, all were happy! Then in September 2010, Makenzie was hospitalized with life threatening conditions. She had multi organ failure and Pancreatitis. Told she wouldn’t make it, she became our hero fighting. We learned hospital life again for 3+ months. That time shaped and helped redefine our family; what’s important and for me, what I was possibly capable and not capable of.
Fast forward to today. Once we made it through 2011, I worked at owning my potential in work and rebranded PFPDX, awarded Alameda’s Most Motivational Personal Trainer and PFP‘s Top 10 International Trainers. Excited to excel in work, but scared because a tragic life experience may happen again.
December 2013 Finley blissfully completed our family. Not regretting any time held back, I said No to work without guilt to soak in every moment with Fin. In June I felt ready for something bigger and was asked in July to be on an ESPN Panel and Ryte’s Founding Advisory Board. Now I want to say yes to TRAVEL and combine it with work. To believe I truly can excel in what I am capable of -helping women around the world make their lives the healthiest most active and dynamic yet…all while striving to believe and own that it’s ok for mine to be as dynamic too.
Meredith Mills
Fitness Consultant & Life Coach
Audacious Business Goal:
To create a clear brand and unique message (how I'm unique and who the target market that sells.
Audacious Life/Family Goal:
Having the money and time for my kids…for the best schools (college fund!), after school activities and vacations (Paris and Hawaii!).
After marrying my College Sweetheart (from UC Santa Barbara Cycling Team) and being married for 10 years I have been divorced and a single Mom now for 5 years.
I worked in Corporate for 10 years, 3 years at Deckers Outdoor Corporation (the owners of Ugg Boots among other brands) and 5 years at Levi Strass. As an introvert and problem solver I mostly did inventory management and accounting.
When I had my daughter I instantly wanted to be a stay at home Mom. My husband at the time said I had to work so I went back to my Health & Science minor and got certified as a Personal Trainer and bought a Baby Boot Camp franchise. For 3 years I ran and operated the Eugene & Springfield, Oregon chapter of Baby Boot Camp. It was my first taste of being an entrepreneur and I loved it even though I wrote Newsletters at midnight and my kids came to work with me everyday.
When I went thru my divorce I decided the only way I was going to make it in one piece thru my divorce was to move back to California specifically the San Francisco Bay Area
Last Fall I had a huge desire to do more than personal training and have a larger influence and longer lasting effect on my clients so I spent all of 2014 becoming a Diving Living Certified Coach. In a nutshell I had to drop the deficit story I had picked up in my divorce and start living in abundance. 2014 was a big year for transformation and personal growth for me and for changing how I did my business. I moved out from sharing a house with my parents, renewed by expired passport and travelled to Greece, Italy, France and Mexico all why working on the evolution of my Health & Life Coaching business as well as being a super cool loving and supportive Mom to my two children: Carleigh 9 and Ryder 7. Making my own money and being healthy are my top two goals for 2015.
I've joined Mom to Mogul to continue to grow and define my packages. Dreaming of bringing Life Coaching to triathletes, Life Coaching Divorced Mothers transforming their men and money stories and supporting women leading healthier lives. This will be my first Mastermind group and I am looking forward to it.
Tanya Beaubrun
Family Practitioner/ Lactation Consultant
Audacious Business Goal:
Creating a clear message and brand to launch for my new health and wellness business (stepping out of medicine/being a doctor).
Audacious Life/Family
Goal: Writing and sharing my stories weekly (that will eventually add up to my book).
I am Tanya Destang – Beaubrun, a 46-year-old mother, wife, Family Physician from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
Born September 11, 1968 to Joyce and Desmond Destang, both teachers by profession; the first of their 3 children. I have a younger sister who is an orthodontist, and a brother who manages our group of Hotels – the Bay Gardens Resorts.
For the past 22 years, I have been married to Matthew, a businessman, and the current Chairman of our local Tourist Board. He is the Wind beneath my Wings.
I have three wonderful children –
Nicolas, aged 21, a senior in College
Jason- 18, a senior in High School
Ariana- 14, a freshman in High School
I attended primary and High school in St. Lucia, excelling at our A'Level exam to attain the St. Lucia Island Scholarship, awarded to the person attaining the highest grades in the National exams.
In 1986, I proceeded to Jamaica to study Medicine at the University of the West Indies.
5 years later, in 1991, I graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree.
After completing my internship at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados, in 1992, I returned to St. Lucia to work at our local hospital.
After two years working in the Government medical service, I decided to go into private practice in order to provide medical services of the quality I felt was needed in the northern part of the island where I now lived.
In 1994, I opened my solo practice, which provided much needed medical services to the rapidly increasing population in that area.
In May 2009, I decided that it was necessary to expand the services, and we built a new full service, state of the art Medical clinic to provide urgent care services, along with primary care, diagnostic centre and a laboratory.
This clinic is the first of its kind on the island, and we continue to expand our services to serve the ever-changing needs of our population.
I am a board certified Lactation Consultant, and have worked as a consultant with UNICEF in Hospitals in Barbados and Trinidad.
I have served as Secretary, and President of our national Medical Association, as well as Vice President of our Planned Parenthood Association.
I currently serve as Chairperson of the Board of our International School.
After 20 years of practicing traditional western medicine, I became increasingly disillusioned by the inability of western medicine to provide for the full physical, emotional and spiritual needs of our patients. I felt that we were treating disease and not truly treating people as individuals. So last year, I enrolled in a course in Health Coaching.
It is with great pride that in February of this year, I will graduate as an Integrative Nutrition health coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York.
In May of this year, I hope to start a course in Integrative and Functional Medicine, which would build upon my western medical training and the IIN course.
My dream is to expand my clinic into a full Integrative Medicine Health Clinic, another first for St. Lucia and the Caribbean.
I would like it to be a haven for patients throughout the Caribbean, where they can come to be healed from within; a place where they will find true wellness.
I plan on temporarily relocating to Florida in July of this year, in order to complete the Integrative Medicine course, and to take some much needed time for me.
To focus on my needs and that of my three children, who now attend schools in the USA.
It is a sabbatical with a focus on ME!!!
I love yoga, running, spinning, Pilates.
I am a certified spinning instructor and would also like to do a course in yoga teacher training.
In addition to all of this, it is my ultimate dream to write and speak and motivate others to live as fully and authentically as they can.
I am so looking forward to the Mom Mastermind group, to meeting new people, embracing new ideas, and to the endless possibilities that will present themselves.
Whitney Stoner
Owner
Audacious Business Goal:
Focus more on the management of my events team than being part of it; in essence, work to set up WF to run without me (pretending as if we're setting up to sell the business).
Audacious Life/Family Goal:
Focus more on my physical and emotional energy and well-being so I can be my best for others (presence).
Planning— From my first memory, I have been planning “something”. From the simplest thrill of getting friends together to decorating with my mom and celebrating holidays with family turned into a entrepreneurial spirit deep inside of me! Through college, I followed a safe path of schooling. Did I know where I was going, or what I wanted to do? No. Did I seize opportunities as they presented themselves to me? From where I stand today, it has become crystal clear to me, I DID JUST THAT.
The first real leap towards my career was a job at Dreamsports, a marketing and event company. I was employee number 2. My mentor/boss showed me many ways to organize an event….. And in the same, how not to. When she left abruptly, the owner of the business ask me to take her position at 22 years old. I never looked back. After almost ten years of working for him in different capacities, he let me spread my wings with support and confidence. WHITNEYfusion was born.
Over the next ten years, I started a sister company, WHITNEYfusion swag…..in addition, {enter personal life} husband, friends, 2 children and a very big family geographic move. As I began to move into the next ten years (and beyond), I struggled to keep the balance with a husband, 2 babies and 2 business.
I came across well-known failure-rate statistics for small business: 40% fail in 1 year. Of those who survive 1 year, 80% fail in 5 years, and of those who survive 5 years, another 80% fail. At ten years, still 29% of businesses fail. It was evident to me at that moment, if I didn’t make a change, I could be the “29er”. I want to be part of the 71% that continue to grow and flourish.
My business, my pride of ownership, my work has always driven me, however, I felt a pull to make an internal shift. I need to drive my business and work on my business. I need to motivate the women who work for me, and give them the empowerment, expertise and excitement that I used to be successful. I owe it to them. I owe it to me. This has been brewing inside of me for 16 months, and I am ready.
Bio:
Whitney developed her skills early as an event manager at Dream Sports, a sports marketing and events management company owned by Ronnie Lott. Her four years with Dream Sports led to a position with Woodside-based venture capital firm, HRJ Capital (formerly Champion Ventures). Whitney organized corporate meetings and special events that involved the Bay Area's top venture capital firms and some of the most well known sports figures in the nation.
In 2004, Whitney branched off from HRJ to form WHITNEYfusion events. With her experience, creativity and desire for perfection, Whitney has earned a reputation for superior service and outstanding results. Whitney holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Santa Clara University, where she founded and managed a sports marketing internship program. She has been active on the Santa Clara University Alumni Board of Directors and sat on the San Francisco Zoo Auxiliary. A native Nevadan, Whitney has made California her home since 1992. She began her dream of being an entrepreneur in San Francisco's Marina, whose unique sights and sounds provided her with daily motivation. Recently moving to and setting roots in Sonoma, she still continues to be inspired by the sunlight dancing on the city skyline; the low, comforting moan of the foghorns; and the brilliance, grace and strength of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge.