Experts Connect™ Spotlight Series
Meet the women building businesses on their own terms.
The Experts Connect™ Spotlight Series goes inside the real businesses, offers, and relationships of women who are doing extraordinary work in the world right now. Every interview is a front-row seat to what's actually possible, the offers they've built, the clients they serve, and the journeys that brought them here. These are women worth knowing. Worth referring. Worth learning from. Watch every interview right here, and come back... because new spotlights keep dropping.
Melanie Folkes-Mayers
Award-winning HR specialist
Melanie Folkes-Mayers is an award-winning People and Culture expert, Author, Trainer, Coach and Speaker with over 20 years of Strategic and Operational Human resource experience. The author of Leading for Growth, Melanie is particularly passionate about developing proactive, inclusive leaders and managers who support their teams to take ownership and deliver excellence.
Kim Parkinson
Podcast Growth Coach
Kim Parkinson is a Certified Podcast Growth Coach, Producer, and Host with 2,500+ episodes produced and 25+ podcast launches under her belt. Through KPCreative MEDIA, she helps spiritually aligned women entrepreneurs amplify their voices, grow their visibility, and attract aligned clients through the power of podcasting. With a signature approach rooted in organic growth, keyword strategy, and aligned business strategy, Kim turns podcasts into powerful client-attraction tools, without the hustle.
Renee Koster
Learning Designer
I help nonprofits and changemakers design learning experiences that are engaging, impactful, and worth every minute of your participants' time. Twenty-plus years in education, a background in anthropology, and a method that starts with the transformation, not the content. We build backward from your outcomes so every program, workshop, or course is structured, purposeful, and designed to stick. I'm a guide and co-creator, not a template-hander. Your learners will finish, take action, and come back for more.
Dori Durbin
Coach & Podcaster
Dori Durbin is a children’s book author, illustrator, book coach, host of the That’s Good Parenting podcast, and founder of the “That’s Good Parenting Club.” She helps entrepreneurs, coaches, educators, therapists, and parenting professionals turn their expertise into children’s books that increase visibility, gain more clients, and open doors to speaking opportunities, school partnerships, and family engagement. With a background in education and human services, Dori specializes in kid-sizing complex emotional, educational, and parenting concepts into engaging stories children and families can connect with together. Learn More
Julie Ruark
Marketing Strategist
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Laura DaGrossa
Thought Leadership Advisor
Laura DaGrossa is a Thought Leadership Advisor and founder of GrowKind. She helped experienced women translate decades of wisdom into visible authority, thought leadership, and meaningful recognition. Through strategic articulation, positioning, and visibility guidance, Laura helps thoughtful experts become more clearly understood, trusted, and recognized for the depth of work they do. Perspective Workbook , Learn More About My Work
Michelle Self
Dance Studio Website Strategist
Michelle Self is the founder of Spotlight Creative Studios, where she helps dance studios turn confusing websites into clear, parent-friendly enrollment tools. She blends 20+ years of tech and business strategy with hands-on experience in youth performing arts, theatre leadership, and studio-style programming. Through Spotlight Sites, Michelle creates done-for-you websites that guide families from “just looking” to booking a trial class, while giving owners a stronger online home that supports growth with less daily chaos.
Jen Dys
Email marketing & Content strategist
Jen Dys is the owner of Level Up Business Creative and the creator of the Social To Sold Out™ framework, a proven content strategy system that helps entrepreneurs turn their online presence into consistent clients and bookings.
From physical therapist to Pinterest marketing agency owner to now content strategist helping business owners stop guessing at their content and start seeing real results.
Jen works primarily with short-term rental owners and equine business professionals, but her frameworks are rooted in principles that work across industries: clear messaging, smart systems, and content that actually converts.
Whether you're ready to overhaul your entire content strategy or just figure out why yours isn't working, Jen makes it feel less overwhelming, and a lot more doable while getting you results!
Sandra Wint
Leadership Coach
Sandra Wint, GPCC, is a trauma-informed, Gestalt-certified women's leadership coach, corporate refugee, recovering people pleaser and founder of ME-HER-US. She helps women move beyond self-doubt, over-responsibility, and disconnection to reconnect with their authentic selves. Blending coaching, Human Design, nervous system regulation, and deep reflective inquiry, Sandra creates spaces where women can explore who they are, strengthen their voice, and lead with greater clarity, confidence, and alignment. She is known for her warmth, honesty, and ability to foster meaningful connection.
Kim Roth
AI & Automations (Guest)
I help established service-based business owners make more money and reclaim their evenings, through smart automation and AI that handles the heavy lifting. With 20+ years in fast-moving IT, I know duct tape when I see it. I'm a certified HighLevel Admin and master marketer, a mom of three (they all made it to 21, where's my gold star), and the person you call when you're done doing everything manually.
Mary Czarnecki
Keynote Speaker + Marketing strategist
Mary Czarnecki is a strategic storytelling expert, keynote speaker, and creator of the Sticky Note Marketing podcast. She helps professionals clarify their message and communicate with impact, from Fortune 500 boardrooms to scrappy founder launches. Disney, Mattel, Toyota, and Fidelity bring her in to sharpen messaging, build brand strategy, and teach leaders to inspire and stand out. Top-rated ANA faculty. MBA and MEM from Yale, BA from Princeton. Based in Oregon's Willamette Valley with sticky notes and great Pinot Noir.
Dina Pruitt
Marketing Measurement Strategist
Most businesses think they have a tracking problem. What they actually have is a measurement strategy problem. They've never defined what their data needs to answer.
As the founder of D2 Strategic, Dina helps marketing leaders bridge that gap by asking the right questions, capturing the right data, and building reporting that turns it into real answers.
With 25+ years in digital marketing spanning analytics, paid media, and website strategy, Dina works with organizations that need a trusted partner for GA4, GTM, and marketing measurement - someone who can diagnose what's broken and build what's missing.
Not sure where your measurement gaps are? Start with her free UTM Tracking Playbook for Marketers linked below.
Janine Hayden
CX Strategist
Janine Hayden is a Certified Customer Experience Strategist, Certified Marketer, and founder of Hayden Digital Group. She helps membership organizations, coaches, and growing businesses solve the problem that keeps most owners up at night — customers who said yes, then went silent. Not because they left. Because they got lost. Combining customer experience strategy with anticipatory hospitality, Janine designs journeys where people stay engaged. Her client work includes Food Revolution Network’s 8,000-member Whole Life Club and a leadership coach and influential speaker whose business she completely rebuilt around her customer journey. Paid Goals & Gaps Strategy Session
Wanda Cox
Operations expert & Strategist
Wanda Cox is an Operations Consultant working with women founders whose grit and gut instincts built their business, but won’t grow it. Through her Momentum Method, Wanda assesses what’s actually going on to ensure the right solution fits your specific business and not someone else’s blueprint. With over 20 years at Verizon and a decade in health coaching, she brings an operational perspective most consultants miss.
Robin Carberry
Executive Coach
I’m an executive coach who helps directors and VPs stop losing time, energy, and team performance to problems that aren’t as fixed as they feel. I’ve been in the room — I’ve led people development functions, coached leadership teams directly, and worked in Revenue Operations. I know what it looks like when the leadership conversation meets the business problem. And I know what it costs when it doesn’t.
Laura Lyles Reagan
Family Communication Coach
Laura Lyles Reagan, MS is a family sociologist specializing in family communication with families of teens. Her research-informed approach teaches conscious communication skills that lead parents and teens to co-create solutions together while respecting each family member’s boundaries. Laura is also the award-winning author of How to Raise Respectful Parents: Better Communication for Teen and Parent Relationships, which is based on original youth development research titled, "Dynamic Duos." Now the family communication model is the basis of an international coaching certification.
Dana Casale
Email Systems & Deliverability Specialist
Dana Casale is the founder of Inbox Confidence, helping small business owners and creators build an email presence that actually reaches their audience. She makes the technical side of email clear and approachable, strengthening deliverability and creating a reliable foundation for email marketing. Her goal is simple: to help clients feel confident every time they hit send. Outside of work, Dana is a mother, photographer, and nature-loving storyteller, most often found exploring the outdoors with her daughter.
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by Kim Parkinson
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by Renee Koster
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