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OUR MISSION…
UNLEASH your God-given purpose and become a powerful ambassador of Christ in the marketplace. This inspiring, transformative, and interactive conference will empower you to make a lasting impact in your community and beyond.
HELP A WOMAN…
CLARIFY THEIR PURPOSE
GET EQUIPPED TO LEAD
BE EMPOWERED TO LAUNCH
CHANGE THE WORLD AROUND THEM
April 2023 Line up
FEATURED SPEAKERS
1. Sazan Hendrix: Kurdish-American Believer, Wife & Mama, YouTuber, podcaster, storyteller, and entrepreneur. Listen to Sazan on the Jamie Ivey podcast, and follow her on IG HERE.
2. Cheryl Luke: After spending the majority of her life as a vocational ministry leader, pastor, and ministry director, Cheryl founded the Mosaic Life, a non-profit that exists to call up cultures & generations that cultivate healing, freedom, and unleashes them to live lives of intention. Find out more about Cheryl, HERE!
3. Heather Frierson: Founder of Created Woman non-profit and CEO of CW Collective. She is a leader, and entrepreneur with a heart to see women thrive. Find out more about Heather, HERE!
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What To Expect
April 22, 2023
Our 1-day Leadership Conference for Women fast-tracks those wanting to increase their influence in the marketplace.
9:00 Check in
9:30 Welcome and Open
10:00 Session I: Clarify Your Purpose Session
Featuring: Heather Frierson & Cheryl Luke
10:30 Break
10:45 Session III Faith in the Public Eye
Keynote Speaker: Sazan & Stevie Hendrix
11:30: Break
11:45 Session II EQUIPPED TO LEAD & EMPOWERED TO LAUNCH Breakout Sessions
Be Empowered To Launch with Leadership Panel
Finding Purpose: Learn how to find and cultivate your purpose and calling.
Featuring: Deanna Opheim, Hannah Breaux & Gena Anderson
Be Equipped To Lead and sit down with 4-5 mentors during the Speed Mentorship Breakout Session
Featuring Mentors from the marketplace (See bios below & plan out your questions)
Get next-step advice with speed mentorship opportunities.
12:15 Break for lunch
12:30 Lunch with a Fashion Show
1:00 Mini Session during lunch
1:30 Break & Shopping
2:00 Session IV: EQUIPPED TO LEAD & EMPOWERED TO LAUNCH
Be Empowered To Launch with Leadership Panel
Changing Strategies: Learn how to to pivot and change your strategies when things aren't working.
Featuring: Stacy McVane, Elaine Mingus, Sarah Burns
Be Equipped To Lead and sit down with 4-5 mentors during the Speed Mentorship Breakout Session
Featuring Mentors from the marketplace (See bios below & plan out your questions)
Get next-step advice with speed mentorship opportunities.
2:30 Break
2:45 Session V: CHANGE THE WORLD AROUND YOU
Learn how to boldly walk in your calling and effect change authentically.
Featuring: Heather Frierson, Crystal Breaux, Kendra Stanton, Penny Lanier, Kenzie Radke
3:15 Raffles
BONUS!
3:30 - 5:00 Happy Hour | Shopping |Networking
heather
frierson
Founder of Created Woman non-profit and CEO of CW Collective. She is a leader, and entrepreneur with a heart to see women thrive.
Sazan HendriX
Kurdish-American Believer, Wife & Mama, YouTuber, podcaster, storyteller, and entrepreneur.
Cheryl Luke
After spending the majority of her life as a vocational ministry leader, pastor, and ministry director, Cheryl founded the Mosaic Life, a non-profit that exists to call up cultures & generations that cultivate healing, freedom, and unleashes them to live lives of intention.
Finding Purpose Panel
Learn How to Find & Cultivate Your Purpose & Calling
DEANNA OPHEIM
Encourager of women, truth-teller, wordsmith, and part of the speaking team at Vintage Church Liberty Hill.
Gena Anderson
Nurse, fitness enthusiast, and writer with a heart for serving the Lord through teaching and writing about His Word, and how He works in her life. Gena believes that in order to pursue purpose, you must live a well life.
Hannah breaux
Board Member of Created Woman and a regional marketing director for Smile Doctors who believes you will find your purpose where your passion and your prayer life meet.
Changing Strategies Panel
Learn how to to pivot and change your strategies when things aren't working.
Stacy mcvane
As a leader in the marketplace and CW ministry, Stacy’s passion is to raise up the generation behind her and teach others how to lead well.
Elaine Mingus
With a platform of making broken things new, Elaine is currently Mrs. Williamson County and running for Mrs. Texas. Her story from abuse and addiction to mom of 7 and founder of Curb Vulture Vintage Furniture has taught her that God is the ultimate storyteller and believes that everyone can be made new.
sara burns
Sarah has seen the most change in her life in the last 10 years and knows personally how God’s purpose will prevail. From CW intern to CW Collective Brand Ambassador, she’s been a part of the CW Family for almost a decade.
Change The World around you Panel
Learn how to boldly walk in your calling and effect change authentically.
Penny Lanier
Penny has been in ministry for over 20 years and, along with her husband, oversees several churhes in Africa. But you can find her during the week taking care of her grand-babies and believes that changing the world is more tangible than you think.
Crystal Breaux
As Regional Director of Talent Development for LA/SETX CHRISTUS Health, Coaching and Developing, Crystal has helped a lot of leaders in the marketplace find purpose and passion in their position. However, as a mom of two, Crystal is very aware that changing the world begins right at home.
kendra stanton
As a beauty influencer, pastor, speaker, and author, Kendra has made her mark through content creation and loves helping others share their stories and brand through words.
KenZie Radke
Kenzie is a leader at Wilco Workspaces & DCX Community who is passionate about bringing marketplace leaders together to make a community and global impact.
More coming soon!
Get next-step advice with speed mentorship opportunities
Hover over each picture to read mentor’s bios, see their specific area of mentoring below each picture and choose at least 5 mentors you would like to sit with during speed mentorship.
Barbara leverages her experience of being on the inside of two corporations who both went number one in the world to serve as Coach and Consultant to corporate executives, business and organizational leaders in realizing their significant goals. Her clients are high producers, who are passionate about their goals and getting results. She has a unique gifting of creating a safe and dynamic space where extreme clarity of what truly matters is captured and what it will take to achieve it.
Barbara Salisbury
Business and Leadership Growth
Crystal is an entrepreneur and owner of Wilcox Insurance Agency in Round Rock, Texas: a customer-first insurance agency that provides home, auto, business, and life insurance at competitive rates with unbeatable service. Her insurance agency was born out of a passion to serve her community as a leader rooted in faith, making people the heart of everything she does. Crystal serves on the board for the Williamson County CASA, advocating for the children, and the people she works with each and every day. She also joined forces with the Catalyst Collective as a Purpose Project Guide. In her spare time, Crystal loves to read, workout, explore photography, and is obsessed with her family, friends, and fur babies.
Crystal Wilcox
- Entrepreneurship
-New business ownership
-Insurance
Dana Malouff has been a pastor and life coach for the last 25 years and has recently started a new venture as a business owner. She understands life transitions, job transitions, and believing God when He asks you to step out in faith! Dana loves to help people with right perspective to be the best version of themselves they can be. Dana is happily married to her husband of 25 years and has two beautiful children.
Dana Malouff
-Life transitions
-Life coaching
-Parenting
-Culture creator
Kim Barnes has spent 30+ years on the air! She loves working with executives, entrepreneurs, speakers and small business owners who want to improve their on camera presence for video, virtual presentations and media interviews. Kim was an award-winning reporter and news anchor for 15 years. She's spent another 15+ doing corporate videos, commercials and voiceover work. She works with her former sportscaster husband as Barnes Team Media. Kim & her husband are also building an online community called Parenting Aging Parents. In 18 months they've grown their private Facebook group to more than 4100 people from around the country and are building what started as a passion project into a business.
Kim Barnes
Confident Communication on Camera & Public Speaking ~ Building an Online Community
As the Director of Partnerships, Morgan Alexander serves as a client-partner advocate and resource, focusing on building and maintaining strategic long-term partner relationships, and business development for Zilker Media.
Morgan Alexander
Building and maintaining strategic long-term partner relationships
Christy is an entrepreneur and owner of CGN Web Design. While receiving my Bachelors Degree in Computer Science at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, I was lucky enough to be hired by a research facility on campus that allowed me to design websites for NOAA. At that job I learned how much I loved designing websites, playing with Adobe Photoshop, and working with databases to create informational reports that help others make important decisions. I enjoy working with local businesses and want to build relationships with my clients not just projects. I am happy to say I have been a freelance web designer for the past 14 years and during that time I have been given the opportunity to help local businesses be successful by assisting in the design of their websites with WordPress, Squarespace and Shopify.
Christy Nunnally
Passionate about helping businesses and individuals build user-friendly digital experiences through website development.
Lucia Csoma is an ICF Certified Personal Development Coach with a diverse background. Her expertise covers leadership, product management in the tech startup sector, and change management for top pharmaceutical companies. Now, as the founder of her coaching business, Lucia is dedicated to supporting individuals in overcoming barriers, reaching their goals, and discovering their inner greatness. Guided by the principle that the answers lie within each person, Lucia empowers her clients to unlock their full
Lucia Csoma
-Solid goals to drive success
-Tips to grow business on Linkedin
I have owned 5 businesses from interior design to coaching. I currently own a sales agency that brings "Shark Tank" type products to the retail market. I work with entrepreneurs to bring their creative, innovative products to the retail market. I love to support women and help them wherever they are in the business start-up process.
Lisa Feddersen
Start Up Businesses
For the last 20 years, through surrender to God, diligent work ethic and embracing my personal value proposition as a female leader, I have experienced remarkable success in the marketplace both in entrepreneurship and as an executive for National Aesthetic medicine brands. As an operations excellence leader, I help organizations effectively deliver on strategic objectives while managing the associated change that must occur to get there. My goal in mentorship is to help women thrive in positions of influence by partnering with God to become the strategic solution that He designed them to be.
Christiana White
Strategic Leadership
Kristy's strong faith and tenacity are evident in the roles she possesses. She's a loving wife and engaged mom, a co-pastor along with her husband of a flourishing church in the Austin area, and manages her thriving accounting firm with a high level of integrity. As a young Hispanic female, she participated in the Youth Legislative Session through the National Hispanic Institute and continues to lead by example in her sphere of influence. She coined the goal of "running a business with vision eyes" enabling her to elevate the manner in which she efficiently serves her clients and staff faith-first.
Kristy Cortez
-Navigating Company Ownership. - Leading Faith First - Strategic Planning - Balancing Roles and Responsibilities
Kaitlyn Tinney works with a local non profit that helps someone discover their unique design and purpose. Let’s build some excitement using one of our simple tools to clarify your ideas, focus your efforts, use your time and resources productively, and increase your chances of achieving what you want in life!"
Kaitlyn Tinney
How to get unstuck!
Morgan Potts started her company, Granarly, with zero business experience and $100. She has know grown her company into your favorite Central Market, Whole Foods, and soon to be national retailer that can't be announced just yet. While building her business, she helped other successful women build their business through branding, field marketing, social media, marketing strategy, and more. Her favorite thing to do is encourage others to get out there and go for it. Her mission is to inspire others to chase after the thing that sets your soul on fire, life's too short not to.
Morgan Potts
- Marketing - Branding - CPG - Starting a busines - Food - Women in business
Dr. Brittany Hines, DC started her 1st practice in Dallas in 2012 from scratch with only $11k & a little bit of equipment that was gifted to her. She just purchased her 2nd practice in Austin last year, which was a 60-yr old family practice formerly known as Shannan Chiropractic. She has consistently seen God’s faithfulness in His provision along the way & a is a firm believer that “if God calls you to it, He (and responsible, thoughtful stewardship) will see you through it!”
Dr. Brittany Hines
How to start & run a profitable business on a shoestring budget & how to trust God for provision in the process
My team and I work together to give our clients financial security, clarity, and peace of mind. Our goal is for you to walk away educated and confident in YOUR financial plan and YOUR future.
Kearney McTigue
Holistic Financial Planning
I’ve been an interior designer for 53 years! I have started many things- I started a ministry for teenagers and grade school children from the the bottom up that went national and are still functioning- teen community Bible study, eTeen and ASK community Bible student and Student Community Bible Study about 30 years ago, I was Co producer of a video series for children - the series was called Hurleyville and was sold in many large chain stores- Press-On Productions. I enjoy making ideas a reality. My design business includes commercial and home design and I have enjoyed working with many amazing clients around the US although I am Based in Midland for 47 years- I had an office in Dallas also for 30 years. I work with 18-24 year olds, high school and jr high young women and a lot with 5 th and 6 th grades women- 4 evenings a week. Basically I life coach them around the Bible.
Janice Henry
-Designer
-Producer
Maloree is a Professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX, and also holds the position of Buyer at rue21 in Pittsburgh, PA. With over 5 years of experience in the fashion industry, Maloree has honed her expertise in various areas including merchandising, product development, sourcing, marketing, and advertising, gained from her work at renowned organizations such as Warner Brothers Discovery and Texas based JCPenney. She is deeply passionate about mentoring and supporting individuals in achieving success in the fashion and education sectors.
Maloree Malone
- Merchandising - Business - Entrepreneurship - Education - Org-development
oanie Rapier has spent decades working on Joy as a Habit. It wasn't until recently that she began using "Joy Is a Habit" as a handle on social media and as a motto in life. Joanie regularly is told she carries joy with her where ever she goes and through her social media, spreads joy and offers inspiration and hope. Her goal is to give some useful tips, encouragement and wisdom on how to make JOY a habit in your life!
Joanie Rapier - The Habit of Joy
Originally from Maryland, for the past 10 years Rebecca has called Texas and the financial industry home. She began working for BB&T in client service roles and discovered a passion for empowering individuals around their money. Rebecca served as a regional financial wellness and business development AVP for both the Austin and DFW markets, earning recognition as a Sterling Performance Award winner among other accolades. In the midst of the 2020 pandemic Rebecca joined Northwestern Mutual where her dream of helping others achieve holistic financial greatness is achieved at even greater levels.
Rebecca Marsh
Holistic Financial Planning
Addie is the founder and CEO of Red Oak Hope (nonprofit) and Freeleaf (for profit). Through these enterprises, she works to stop trafficking on a large scale while simultaneously providing holistic care to individuals already affected in Austin, Asia, and Uganda. When Addie started Red Oak in 2012 with a simple desire to help one woman escape her trafficker in Asia and return home to freedom, she never could have imagined what has now become a global movement serving over 600 survivors and at-risk individuals in 10 countries over the last 10 years. Additionally her enterprise has employed 20 surivors and been recognized by Spanx and Good Morning America. With a MA in International Community Development, a passion for finding beauty amidst chaos, and a commitment to sustainability, Addie loves the work that she gets to do and considers leading Red Oak & Freeleaf and walking alongside survivors to be one of her greatest privileges.
Addie P
-Impact
-Trauma
-Org-development