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Cathryn Lavery is an entrepreneur and creator, currently residing in Austin, Texas. She is the CEO of BestSelf Co., which she grew from zero to 8-figures in less than two years. Cathryn graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a Masters in Architecture in 2011 and moved to NYC to start her architecture career. In 2013, she left the architecture industry entirely. She launched the Self Journal on Kickstarter in 2015, raising $322,696 in 34 days. Cathryn won Shopify’s Build a Business Competition in 2016 and the Build a BIGGER Business competition in 2017. In 2022, BestSelf was acquired. Cathryn was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, and her work has been featured in Fast Company’s 2017 Innovation by Design Awards, Entrepreneur, MTV, Huffington Post, Forbes, and Inc.

Carolina Baffigo is an architect, engineer, and builder focused on bringing purpose, performance, and profit together. She has almost thirty years of experience building things, starting as a mechanical engineer designing products and systems, and then moving into leadership roles building teams and commercial organizations. Her work focuses on helping organizations tighten how they sell and refine what they bring to market through Project Fluent™ and Profit Arc™ methodologies. Carolina helps leaders and teams who want their businesses to run better with clearer priorities, stronger execution, and healthier profit. She believes meaning and purpose show up through how we work, lead, and build.

Braelinn Frank is the founder and CEO of Rave Nailz. Her creative journey began in the music industry, where she designed logos and brand identities for EDM acts. Her passion for artistic expression led her to launch Rave Nailz, which quickly grew in 2020. Braelinn identified a gap in the beauty market and created expressive press-on nails without the high cost and time commitment of salon visits. She started by painting blank press-on nails and listing them on Etsy, making Rave Nailz the first press-on nail brand on the platform. Rave Nailz has grown from a hand-painted Etsy shop to a manufactured beauty brand with collaborations including retailers like Urban Outfitters, Hot Topic, and Spencer’s.

Ayman Al-Abdullah is a CEO coach who helps 7-figure founders become 9-figure CEOs. He was previously the CEO at AppSumo, where he worked from 2015 to 2021 and scaled the company's annual revenue from $3 million to $80 million. His strategy at AppSumo centered around people development. Now, Ayman focuses on mentoring other CEOs, sharing his lessons about business scaling, leadership, and delegation. He encourages CEOs to step back from the day-to-day grind to work on the business rather than in the business.

Ari Sohn is a 3x founder, event MC, and community builder. He is passionate about creating meaningful impact through technology and human connection. Ari co-founded PreservUs, and is the Head of Community and Ecosystem at TxtCart. He hosts the Heartfelt Event Show, a live podcast on LinkedIn, and has hosted Cart Basel and various industry events. In 2021, Ari became a stem cell donor.

Anne Palermo is a writer and content strategist. She helps brands connect with their audiences through storytelling. She has over a decade of experience in digital media and marketing. Anne has worked with a variety of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. She is passionate about creating content that is both informative and engaging. Anne is based in New York City.

Ania Wysocka is the founder of Rootd, an app for managing panic attacks. She bootstrapped Rootd to over 3.5 million users and 60,000+ reviews across Apple & Google, supporting millions of users in over 150 countries. Previously, she led a digital marketing bootcamp that supported over 6,000 small businesses in British Columbia. She also created and ran a digital marketing bootcamp at Alacrity Canada, partnering with the Province of British Columbia and helping over 6,000 small businesses in BC, particularly those impacted by COVID-19. Ania speaks five languages. Her passions include mental health, travel, and ultra marathon training. Rootd has been featured on the App Store 100+ times and named as one of the “best apps for anxiety” by Healthline, Cosmopolitan, and Women’s Health, and featured in the Time Magazine special edition: The Age of Anxiety.

Andy Sommer is the Founder of OffChance and Co-Founder of Somco Capital and RemoTeams. OffChance is a Houston-based studio and holding company focused on creating profitable and thoughtful brands. Somco Capital develops commercial real estate. RemoTeams is an offshore talent agency that powers all of Andy's businesses. His approach integrates commercial spaces with the brands he launches, creating ecosystems where interesting people can do interesting things.

Alex Lieberman is a Co-founder of Morning Brew and Storyarb. He is the Host of Founder’s Journal and a Co-host of The Crazy Ones. He considers himself a business barista, entrepreneur, and content creator. He offers candid advice on building businesses and explores how today’s world impacts founders. He spent over eight years at Morning Brew, including time as CEO, and helped grow the company to deliver business news to over 2 million readers daily. He is an Advisor at GrowthPair and an investor in ventures like MicroAcquire, Bark Social, and SoleSavy. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, storytelling, and empowering the next generation of builders.

Aiden Fishbein is the Founder and Principal of BRAEID Multimedia. He is a multimedia creator and entrepreneur who brings together cinematic storytelling, strategic thinking, and cutting-edge technology. He has spent over a decade delivering video content and creative services for corporate, tech, and creative clients. Aiden is also an independent filmmaker, musician, and experimental storyteller, always testing new technologies like generative AI and immersive media. His career weaves together creativity, strategy, and an ongoing search for meaningful impact. He was formerly Creative Director and COO at Vitals Agency and VP of Accounts at Viewstream.

Adam Reed Rozan is a museum professional, educator, and writer based in Washington, D.C. He currently works at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. His work focuses on audience and civic engagement, staff learning and culture, and Gen Z participation. He is a founding and steering committee member of the International Audience Engagement (IAE) Network and serves on the CoMuseum International Advisory Board. In the United States, he serves as National Programming Chair for Made By Us and as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Lead for Civic Season. He previously taught a course on museum audience engagement at Harvard University’s Extension School. In 2025, he received the Smithsonian Education Achievement Award for founding the Staff Learning Series. In 2023, he was named one of Blooloop’s Top Ten Museum Influencers. He holds a Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art from Elon University.

Alfred Megally is an artist, entrepreneur and adventurer. His website serves as an archive of his work. He suggests signing up for his friend's email to keep in touch. His projects include photo albums, books, notes, and various other works such as Transporting Bubbles, Landmass, Goods Sold, Mirror World Map, and Bike Across the US.

Allison Preisinger is a Tacoma-based performing songwriter and Berklee College of Music graduate. Her music features an evocative, Americana-infused sound influenced by artists like Iron & Wine, Tom Petty, and Gillian Welch. Her recent release, Standing Steady, is a personal and therapeutic work intertwining her music with poems. She also contributed to an album produced by The National Park Service, writing a song honoring Olympic National Park. A multi-instrumentalist with a passion for storytelling, Allison aims to uplift, connect, and share the beauty and complexity of the human experience through her art.

Andersen Silva is a New Jersey resident, aesthelosopher, musician, and songwriter. Born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1970 to immigrants from Brazil, he is a blue-eyed, blond-haired southpaw. He enjoys Apple, penguins, squirrels, science fiction, and horror. He released an album, Joy in the New, in 2004 and a double album, I'll Live, in 2016. He has also done stunt and acting work in the "Hassel" series of short films by Rick Ford.

Fabriq.fm was founded by the members of Uniform Motion. Initially, it was used as a business structure to manage releasing Uniform Motion’s music. It has since branched out to become a label for other artists, as well as offering music licensing, voice-overs, and sound design services. Fabriq.fm is a non-profit organization.

Ben Tanaka is originally from Europe, holding a British passport and having been born in Germany and raised in Spain. He moved to Sendai in July 2000 and has worked in education since. He was an ALT for the Sendai Board of Education, then Chief ALT Advisor for Miyagi. From 2009 to 2022, he worked at Tohoku University. He presents at conferences and is interested in teaching English to children, phonics, reading instruction, extensive reading, teaching effectiveness, curriculum change, and the English education system in Japan. Since 2003, he has been helping his wife run her English school, Cambridge English in Sendai. He co-wrote The Fluency Course, a supplementary course for junior high school students. He also runs RetireJapan, a website providing financial advice to English-speaking residents of Japan.

Cathy Grier, also known as NYC Subway Girl, is a subway performer and lifelong troubadour. She is part of the MTA MUSIC (Music Under New York) program, which enhances the transit environment through performing arts. Cathy provides information and resources for buskers in the NYC subway system on her website, including MTA rules and regulations, and links to advocacy groups like BuskNY. She aims to keep the information updated but notes that it may not always be the most current.

Chai is a family man and learner for life living in New Zealand. He maintains a blog as a public journal to recount his thoughts and life experiences, both for his future self and others. He enjoys writing, sharing, and reflecting. Chai helps people with WordPress websites, blogs, and online stores in his day job. He reads, writes, moves, and meditates, and enjoys flat white coffee, avocado toast, and desserts.

Clark Gaither, MD, FAAFP, is a board-certified family physician in private practice in Goldsboro, NC. He has been in the full-time practice of medicine for 24 years. Through his website, Dr. Burnout, he blogs and produces podcasts focused on reigniting life with passion and purpose. His primary focus is helping individuals transform their lives by retooling their mindset for success and unleashing their creative potential, particularly those feeling burned out. He provides coaching to individuals and consulting to organizations to detect, mitigate, and prevent job-related burnout.

Dan Palladino is a guitarist, vocalist and composer based in Central New Jersey. He began playing guitar at the age of seven and has performed publicly for 50 years. He has backed Broadway stars, opened for comedians, and performed with jazz groups, singer/songwriters, and R&B groups. Currently, Dan performs live with Acoustic NRG, an acoustic cover trio. Dan's latest release is the ambient album, *Lunar Currents*. In 2019, Dan released his first ambient album, *Pastoral Memory*, which was awarded Best Meditation Album of 2019 by New Age Music Guide, and Best Ambient Album of 2019 by One World Music Radio. From 2005 - 2022, Dan was on the music faculty at County College of Morris, where he taught music courses. He has also taught private guitar lessons for 35 years. Dan earned his Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in 1985.