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Hakeem Valles’ story is all about overcoming the odds. He made it to the NFL as an undrafted free agent and played in the league for three years with the Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions and New York Giants. But before he ever stepped foot on a professional football field, he first had to overcome staring death in the face. Valles is the grandson of Haitian immigrants and wanted to go back and visit his family’s roots. While on a mission trip to Haiti in 2015, right after graduating college, Valles and his family were tied up and robbed at gunpoint. The robbery began with a bullet through the house where his family was staying, followed by group of robbers kicking their way through the screen door. The strangers tied up Valles and his family and blindfolded them while the attackers ransacked the house. The men stole computers, flashlights and anything else they could find. They punched the woman who ran the nonprofit, with whom Hakeem was traveling, and attempted to rape another woman. A pastor who was hidden in a back room tried to call the police. But the police said they wouldn’t come. This is what can happen when you’re in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. One of the men in the house alerted a friend nearby of the attack. The friend shot a gun into the air, scaring the robbers. But the attackers quickly figured out they’d been tricked, came back to tie up some of the men, continued to steal everything in the house and then finally left for good. Hakeem was lucky to be alive. He quickly exited the country, but that whole incident helped him realize the fragility and preciousness of life. After returning to the U.S. and getting help for PTSD, he was motivated like never before to once again overcome the odds and make it to the NFL. At Monmouth University, he’d sat on the bench until his senior year, when he became a captain. After his scare in Haiti, he worked with every fiber of his being to join his brother Max in the NFL. Although he didn’t get drafted, Hakeem signed with the Arizona Cardinals in 2016 and began his three-year journey in the league. Valles, who retired from the NFL in 2019, is now a real estate guru and national speaker based in St. Louis. He invests in multi-family properties in emerging markets all around the country that have a high quality of life and very nice people. He’s enjoying time with his fiancé Marina and little girl Lucienne.
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Cornelius is a US Army veteran who served 3 combat deployments during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is also an entrepreneur, and a scholar who is inspiring millions with his leadership concepts, and Transition Units Theory. Mr. Maxwell has the inept ability to connect with audiences as young as elementary school level to influencing public policy.
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Mary Allison Jensen, LICSW, is an emotional resilience expert, trauma specialist, and the founder of A Legacy of Healing. With deep clinical insight and a soul-centered approach, she empowers purpose-driven professionals to rise after adversity and lead with clarity, compassion, and courage. Known for her grounded wisdom and transformative presence, Mary Allison’s signature talks reframe self-care as mental health hygiene and resilience as a daily practice—rooted in self-trust, nervous system safety, and aligned action.
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Brenda Crompton is an International Speaker, Entrepreneur, business consultant and coach who has spoken on stage with Dr. Phil, Steve Wozniak and interviewed Bethany Frankel creator of Skinny Girl Cocktails. Brenda’s entrepreneurial journey started at age 20, since then she’s been a founder in numerous tech companies and a consultant to C-suite leaders in businesses ranging from pre-revenue technology start-up’s to companies with billions in revenue in 20+ industries. Brenda’s mission is to help people achieve their goals and create their amazing life. Discover her latest projects at brendacrompton.com and her business coaching at profitgrowthgroup.com.
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Life Coach
Anna believes in sharing your voice, she understand what living in chaos and being lost is like. She has conquered addiction, abuse, and shame in her life. Most recently she walked through a suicide attempt with her younger daughter.
$1,501 - $5,000
effective strategy driven influencer marketing campaigns that result in ROI. Provide strategic business marketing advice to companies and brands of all sizes. Help brands create influencer marketing partnership strategies that align with their company business goals. Work with companies to develop a business marketing strategy that will shape the brand identity across all channels with the goal of ROI and LTV for new and existing customers. Help brands create a roadmap that encompasses a total business marketing strategy that includes paid digital ads, influencer marketing campaigns, social media marketing campaigns, and affiliate marketing campaigns. Results, growth, KPI and ROI driven with an outstanding work ethic and sense of urgency to resolve issues quickly and effectively. Awarded: 2011 "Social Media Marketing Pioneer" on the eHow Shift 100 mentioned in Bloomberg. Conferences: 2012 Featured Speaker for Social Media Marketing at the IMTC Conference. 2018 Creator of The Influencer Marketing Roadmap online course to help brands learn how to work with influencers. Companies worked with include: Brighter.com, Clutter Storage, Ecovacs Robotics, Guess Jeans, Kate Spade, BB Dakota, Johnny Was, Scrollmotion.com, O.N.E. Coconut Water, The County of Marin, Joie, Marz Sprays (as seen on Shark Tank), Bioadvantex, Twistory Entertainment Studios, Lucky Magazine, MyFox Home Alarms, MikeroweWORKS, Mike Rowe, Blue Heron Ventures, Chromadex, and Tru Niagen. My team created the Guess Jeans Pinterest campaign that was named "5 Interesting Pinterest Marketing Campaigns" by Mashable and Yahoo.
$1,501 - $5,000
Facilitator from Cape Town, South Africa. He is an ambassador for various organisations protecting our oceans and via mind blowing extreme swimming adventures he continues to push beyond boundaries and bring his learnings to the boardroom. “I take my audiences on a journey with me. Through story telling and strong visuals, I illustrate just how limited and governed we all are, in every aspect of our lives, by believing in our own limitations. How we under achieve in our comfort zones and how each and everyone of us can Push Past Impossible"
$5,001 - $10,000
Hello my friends! I graduated the Faculty of Medicine from Craiova / ROMANIA, in 1991. For five years I was manager in pharma multinational companies. But I found my passion in entrepreneurship. Begining with 1992, I developed, together with my parents and my brother, different businesses : Paneli (pastry-shop where we were trained by american specialists), TehnoProf (manufacture of pastry-making machinery), OptiPro (ophtalmological clinique), ProLens (distrubution of optical lens), ElectroSoft (manufacture of speed dies for locomotives), Control Systems (manufacture of EFIS machinery for military airplane YAR-99-Hawk). Being an entrepreneur means that you have to be dynamic...to reinvent yourself...to close what it’s not working and go where you see opprtunities. For this reason, in the last years I developed three new businesses: - Cristian Nicolae Inspiration: training, coaching and public speaking company (http://cristiannicolae.ro/en/) Why? Because my passion is to interact with people. To learn new things and to share true stories. To help people to develop themselves. To inspire. I am Founding Partner of John Maxwell Team Romania and certified trainer John Maxwell USA , certified coach by Academy of Executive Coaching UK, I have a certification in rhetoric and oratory branded by Casa Paleologu and I am trainer authorized by the Ministry of Education & Ministry of Labour in Romania (with entrepreneurship course certificated by National Qualifications Authority). I worked with people from corporations (Ford, Decathlon, Espack Eurologistica, Queisser Pharma, HL Display), from Romanian companies leaders in their field and also with people from small companies, but very dynamic. I was invited by young organizations (JCI, AIESEC, Romania HUB, ASE Bucuresti, Junior Achievement, BookLand etc.) to speak with different occasions. Motivational, leadership and public speaking trainings, coaching, mastermind groups, conferences, workshops...I tried everytime to be aligned with the words that my friend Ioan Nicut told about me: ”You can learn from Cristian to hope. To be optimist. To survive. No matter how many weights you pass. To find solutions for apparently impossible issues.” - stomatological clinique : CriniDent, together with my wife Cristiana. - SoftExpert Mobility: IT company, together with my brother Ciprian.
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Kevin Harrington brings over 30 years of experience working with small, medium, and large companies across a variety of industries. As a partner at Succession Plus, he provides strategic advice to business owners on succession planning and exit strategies. Before joining Succession Plus, Kevin served as Chief Marketing Officer at The Panoply, a publicly traded technology services company focused on acquiring niche IT consultancies. He was responsible for overseeing marketing operations during the business’s flotation on the London Stock Market. Kevin also held the role of Chief Commercial Officer at Tungsten Network, a leading provider of e-invoicing solutions. There, he focused on sales, marketing, and international business development. In previous positions, Kevin gained valuable expertise in payments, publishing, media, consumer technology, and telecommunications. He served as Managing Director of both the Emerging Payments Awards and the Prepaid Awards. He was Global Marketing Director at BBC Worldwide and worked in product marketing at Sony UK. Kevin began his career as a civil engineer and retains strong technical skills in design and project management. He brings this diligence and eye for detail to providing strategic counsel to his clients at Succession Plus. With experience spanning early-stage ventures to global corporations, Kevin understands the diverse challenges owners face and how to gain a competitive advantage by addressing them.
$1,501 - $5,000
Future lawyer gone rogue. I mean, farmer! I co-founded Trifecta Ecosystem, an urban aquaponics farming group, in 2012. We were on a mission to feed ourselves using aquaponics and wanted to help others make the shift in their own lives. The company has significantly evolved since those humble beginnings. Today, we still want to help people make a healthy local shift, in fact we are looking to help more than people feed themselves. Nowadays, we are on a mission to create cities that feed themselves, empowered by our technology, network of farmers and distribution channels. To learn more about our mission, our farm or aquaponics please check out our new website at www.trifectaecosystems.com or www.citythatfeedsitself.com Creating Trifecta Ecosystems was the most challenging and yet most rewarding thing I ever set out to do. It was a decision to take on an undertaking that will take a lifetime and maybe more to accomplish- to leave a lasting impact and to have a direct effect on our planets ability to feed current and future populations. We constantly hear how we positively impact peoples plates, education programs in classrooms and therapeutic services across Connecticut. It's been incredibly rewarding, and we're just at the tip of the iceberg. As a result of my experiences as an entrepreneur and farmer, I'm inspired to share our story and strongly advocate for farmers across the state of Connecticut. I have testified at our state's legislature, spoken at conferences, accelerator programs, classrooms and panels. My presentation topics typically range from aquaponics to food systems to navigating startup investment. Please reach out if you would like to learn more!
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Whitney Holtzman is a passionate go-getter, who is the founder and CEO of Social Victories, a social media and marketing consulting company for the leaders in the sports world. She currently has clients across pro sports, including many NFL players and professional sports leagues. She’s a certified NFL marketing agent and has worked with players on the Bucs, as well as attended the Super Bowl with a number of her athletes. She also helped all 600 guys who played in the AAF build their brands by presenting marketing strategies to all eight teams at their inaugural training camp. Her passion has always been at the intersection of sports and giving back. Not only did she assist Brandon Marshall, an NFL wide receiver for 13 years, with his marketing opportunities, she also ran the digital and marketing strategies for his mental health non-profit and his line of fitness training centers. Prior to her role representing players, she oversaw the digital and social media platforms for RISE (Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality), which uses the power of sports to promote racial equality. RISE was founded by Stephen Ross, the owner of the Miami Dolphins. The organization has the commissioners of every major sports league and head of every major TV network on the board. RISE is unprecedented in that it's the first time all of the sports leagues have come together for one cause. Whitney’s sports career began right out of college, as she helped launched espnW, ESPN’s women’s initiative, where she had the opportunity to cover some of the best athletes and most riveting stories in the world of sports. She then moved on to operate the social media channels for Major League Baseball and all 30 teams. Her pivot into the marketing world came when she met Gary Vaynerchuk and landed at his marketing agency, where she ran the social and digital strategy for a variety of brands, including the Miami Dolphins. At VaynerMedia, she also consulted startups, Fortune 100 companies and sports franchises on digital brand strategy, with a focus on social media and emerging technology. Whitney grew up in Tampa, Florida (a city she loves)! She’s an avid sports fan, thanks to her dad, who made Monday Night Football a staple in the Holtzman household. She attended the University of Florida during the Tebow era and experienced two football championships and a basketball title during her time as a Gator. In college, Whitney interned for the Tampa Bay Rays, Turner Sports and ESPN. She is an avid traveler, who hopes to visit every state and continent. Whitney is also the only non-lawyer in her family, but is excited she’s found her passion at the intersection of sports and making the world a better place.
$5,001 - $10,000
Rachel Cheatham, PhD. is Founder & CEO of Foodscape Group, LLC, a nutrition marketing consultancy based in Chicago, IL, USA. Serving as a navigation partner, Rachel helps companies, brands and entrepreneurs successfully conceptualize, create, and position healthier foods and beverages in the global marketplace. Rachel holds a doctorate in nutritional biochemistry from Tufts University, where she is an adjunct Assistant Professor of Food Marketing. She has been a commercial television producer, Director at the International Food Information Council, and Senior Vice President at Weber Shandwick, a global public relations firm. She is a Professional Member of the Institute of Food Technologists and a member of both the American Society of Nutrition and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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