Meet our storytellers

Bold & Visible Monologues

September 9, 2023 Virtual edition


Jil McMahon-Bazant

Facilitator | Creator | Phoenix Whisperer

Story title: It Goes Like This

Jil is a passionate adult educator with an irreverent sense of humor who loves helping people grow in life and business. As a cultivator, she skillfully guides founders to become successful business owners and has helped launch over 300 micro-businesses in Calgary. Having risen from the ashes of multiple life-altering events Jil is gifted at helping people and organizations navigate difficult transitions. She believes that everyone is resourceful, resilient, and creative beyond measure. Her mission is to help others tap into those resources to create meaningful and magical lives and businesses.


Kelly Koerpel

Heart-Centered Coach | Community Builder |Event & Retreat Creator

Story title: Red Paper Heart

Kelly's ability to bring people together in deep connection is truly inspiring. She infuses heart and soul into everything she does, from planning events to officiating weddings and coordinating memorable gatherings for loved ones and friends. Kelly's passion for working with people and creating meaningful experiences for others have led to the expansion of her ceremony design business into a travel retreat and coaching company, providing clients with purposeful adventures and the opportunity to embody a deep sense of love and connection within themselves and within the world. 


Melissa Jeng

Life Coach | Entrepreneur | Writer

Living in the Bubble

Melissa brings her compassionate coaching skills and over 35 years in the medical industry to her own venture, Opulent Soul Coaching. She created her practice from a deep desire to serve family caregivers. Melissa brings a uniquely rounded perspective to the family caregiver journey with her experience as a lifetime patient and a medical professional. In overcoming her own caregiving struggles of isolation, guilt and grief, she discovered the 4 Ps of caregiving: Perspective, Purpose, Privilege, and Passion. Melissa helps family caregivers find their 4 Ps and guides them as they travel from overwhelm and a sense of obligation to feeling amazing and supported in their unique journey. With a passion for writing, her first book focuses on navigating the various pillars of family caregiving.


Kim Alexander Curd

Writer | Paradigm Shifter | Spiritual Therapist

Story title: Circles of Love

Kim is a writer and spiritual therapist. She explores questions that open passages for the betterment of all life committed to revealing who we are is love.

Working with the energetic discoveries of our time, her mission is to influence the fulfillment of the grandest expression of love for the planet and humanity. Kim lives with her beloved people and animals on a rewilding farm.


Lori Gitanjali Rivera

Performer | Teacher | Transformational Leader

Story title: Circling Around

Lori Gitanjali Rivera is a singer, actor, and teacher of meditation and yoga. Lori leads transformational retreats where she guides people to find their true, creative, and joyful expression. She lives in Santa Cruz, California with her wonderful husband and their pets.


Sherri Green

Business Owner| Healer | Intuitive Guide

Story title: Beloved

Sherri’s gift of healing and transformation was ignited by the Aloha Spirit of Maui, where she lived for three decades. She has spent over forty years studying and practicing mind, body, and spirit modalities, including acupuncture, bodywork, and energetic healing. Sheri believes in the resilience of the human spirit. Through her Coal to Diamonds program, Sherri supports others to connect with their inner flame of transformation and awaken their limitless potential.


Siri Shabad

Vocal Alchemist | Somatic Synthesizer | Dream Enabler

Story title: Freestyle

As a spiritual psychologist and embodiment coach, Siri offers visionary guidance for individuals to reconnect with their true selves and the sentience of the Earth and all life; through embodied presence and empowered voice, Siri encourages people to open themselves to the resonance of life and co-create a new paradigm on the planet. According to Siri, the greatest contribution that one can make to the world is to receive oneself first and foremost. It's showtime!


Tracy Trittle

Executive Coach | Global Advocate | Writer

Story title: GiGi and Me!

Tracy, a visionary executive coach, global advocate, corporate strategist, and writer, inspires people to unleash their extraordinary potential and live life beyond the ordinary. She is a passionate advocate for global peace, drawing inspiration from the Alaskan wilderness where she lives. Tracy's expertise in holding space for transformative growth has helped countless corporations and individuals achieve their full potential. She is an energetic way finder and guiding light for the future.


Clare Keany

Entrepreneur | Speaker | Recovery Coach

Story title: Out of The Closet

Clare has led a full and adventurous life. She has lived in three countries and, for the past 38 years, has been on a healing journey that has led her to gaining a degree in Spiritual Psychology and becoming a Life and Addiction Coach. She previously had a successful career supporting C-Suite executives in the advertising industry, which gave her an insight into the challenges corporate executives face when challenged with their own mental health issues and addictions. Clare has an indomitable spirit and has turned her childhood challenges into blessings. Her passion is to help people uncover and discover the precious gem which resides within. Her life experiences, wisdom and sheer grit for the truth, has given her the ability to hold sacred spaces for people from all walks of life.


Stella Brookes

Paradigm Shifter | Entrepreneur | Coach

Story title: Made for This

Stella believes that to be alive now is to be the version of the soul that all the others have worked towards.

We have a sacred duty to get our act together and do what we came here for.

As a specialist kinesiologist, workshop facilitator and coach, Stella is an innovator in the world of energy and consciousness. Her work has been described as pioneering and paradigm shifting.

Stella unapologetically encourages those she works with towards radical self-responsibility.


Sharleen Gatcha

Changemaker | Purposeful | In Pursuit Of Wholeness

Story Title: The Butterfly Effect

Sharleen has been on a life-long journey of personal growth and development. After spending most of her life focused on pleasing others and disappearing herself, she spent time in self-discovery to better understand and appreciate her own self-worth. She learned for herself that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change, and she is enjoying the empowerment that comes with being bold and visible! Although her journey has been one of many ups and downs, Sharleen believes the Universe is always supporting and guiding us in the right direction and toward our true purpose. She is a values-driven and energetic leader in the energy sector, now putting one foot in front of the other instead of racing to the finish line. The game of life is not meant to be won, it is meant to be lived joyfully and in full colour. Sharleen enjoys working with other women to help them see their true value and potential and believes that all women are Unapologetically Worthy.


Khera Defamie

Feminine Leader | Coach | Creative

Story Title: Leader of My Life

French coach, living in Paris. Deeply convinced that the world would be happier, safer and much more peaceful if there were a parity between men and women at the highest level of decision making. Her mission is to empower women in an innovative program for feminine leaders in corporate France.


Eddy Aguilar

Mother | Friend | Wife

Story Title: Limitless

Eddy Aguilar is a dynamic and multi-faceted individual who brings together her roles as, mother, wife, immigrant and dedicated professional in the banking industry with her deep love for music and her vibrant Latina heritage. As an immigrant, her journey has been marked by courage and a relentless pursuit of a better life. Leaving her homeland Colombia behind, she embarked on a new chapter in a new country her new home Canada, with a vision of building a brighter future for herself and her family. Her most cherished role is that of a loving and dedicated mother. Despite her demanding full-time job, she has always made her children a priority, creating a loving and nurturing environment for her family.