Writer | Performer | Facilitator

The Wicker Basket

Alison is a communications specialist with 15 years of experience in non-profit public relations and healthcare advertising. She has developed grassroots to global marketing campaigns and created content for several therapeutic product launches. She serves as a transformational leader at work and in her community. Overcoming adversity, including emotional trauma and financial loss, she found her path to self-discovery and success. She inspires others to act on their creative impulses so they too can get unstuck and move forward in their lives. As a certified yoga teacher, Alison leans on her spiritual and physical practices to support her positive mindset. She lives close to New York City and is currently working on her one-woman play.

Business Storyteller | Book Coach | Business News Video Host

All I Need

As a business storyteller and book coach, Denise brings an innate and tenacious curiosity along with her gift for writing to help others to uncover and articulate their true stories and to share them with the world. Her background includes working with a range of clients from start-ups to multi-national companies and her focus today is on working with small to medium sized businesses to help them get better results through better stories.

Speaker | Motivator | Resilience Coach

Hands on the Wheel

Serena is a speaker, motivator, and resilience coach. Her journey as a mother and wife, a successful entrepreneur in the restaurant industry and a career nurse, was marked with amazing wins and painful challenges.

Today Serena uses her rich skills and life experience to help others connect to the depth and beauty of their own life’s struggles. As a resilience coach Serena supports others to move through difficult setbacks, find their unique gifts and stand in the joy and freedom of their true value.

Entrepreneur | Communicator | Legacy builder 

A Gift for the Future

Denise is a creative entrepreneur, marketing & communications specialist and a legacy builder. As a wife and a mother to 4 beautiful daughters, Denise is known as a leader and role model for family values in her community. 

From her difficult early life experiences to a successful decade in communications/marketing, to a life changing experience as a wife and stay home mom, Denise cultivated her unique voice and spirit filled calling.

Today, as founder and CEO of Soul Story, Denise helps people curate and share the stories of their life in their own voice - so they can leave a legacy for their family and future generations.

Leader | Influencer | Executive Administrator

No More Shadows

Barb has spent over 25 years leading and working in senior administrative positions supporting the c-suite. Her areas of specialty include airline, telecommunications, legal and retail sectors and beyond! 

Through the ups and downs of her life experience she has cultivated a fiercely unique style and voice.  Today Barb is stepping out to share her contagious zest for life and inspire others to do the same! 

Entrepreneur | Speaker | Recovery Coach

Out of The Closet

As a Mentor and Recovery Coach, Clare believes that people are spiritual beings having a human experience. She has an indomitable spirit and meets any life challenge with a deep curiosity and dogged determination.

For the past 36 years, Clare has been on her own spiritual journey which has afforded her an opportunity to change and grow in ways she never dreamed possible.

Her passion is to support individuals who are looking for that sense of belonging without having to resort to an addictive behaviour to give them what is already within.

Social Entrepreneur | Leader | Healer

From 15,000 KM Away

Liz is the Founder of Redefin'd, a recovery community that brings love and connection to young people overcoming emotional trauma. She left Calgary's Oil and Gas Sector in 2016 to breathe life into a bold idea that meaningful work and belonging could heal people. Now, she's transforming the future for many of Calgary's vulnerable young adults. What started as a passion for helping others has become a journey to heal herself.

Social Worker | Author | Entrepreneur

No Apologies

Salvina Castiglione is a Registered Social Worker providing psychotherapy and counselling services through her private practice, The Cardinal Connection for Hope and Healing.

Salvina’s compassion for others and commitment to assist individuals through life’s transition has been a driving force in her thirty-five year social work career.

Salvina is the author of three memoirs and her most recent called Finding My Abandoned Self is scheduled to launch its release in October 2021.