Professional Women: Cassidy Creative Solutions Profile

Mrs.Frances Prado is?the proud daughter of immigrants who?were once field workers in Bakersfield, California. At?one point as a child, her family was?homeless and sleeping in their car. Today, she is?among the 7%?of sole female inventors in the United States and among 0.3% of sole female Latina inventors who?have ever been granted a patent in the United States. Her?invention, Hanging Secrets, is on?store shelves and available online

Mrs. Prado won a national search on the Home Shopping Network for the next great American inventor and was profiled for her work to the world.

Founder and CEO of Nathalie Virem Foundation and Nathalie Virem Inc.

They are the premiere resource for developing enlightened, aligned, committed and engaged leaders of meaningful, thriving and ethically sustainable ventures that serve the greater good.

Her mission is to guide, and shape the leaders of tomorrow by aligning their personal and business purpose, so they can have a bigger and more positive impact in the world.

Her International Best-Selling book ‘’Live With Purpose’’ and online entrepreneurship program are an integral part of the curriculum at California State University Fully Employed MBA program, where She teaches entrepreneurship.

Her team is developing the single largest worldwide academy for conscious business owners, executives, and leaders.

This academy offers events (workshops, seminars, retreats), online courses, books, and scholarships for underprivileged business students and entrepreneurs.

Her work has been honored by the State of California and the City of Los Angeles

The bigger picture of the Foundation includes charity events with global media coverage raising funds through charitable contributions and donations for human development projects.

She is also a direct contributing writer to Arianna Huffington's newly launched Thrive Global platform. Our mission is to end the stress and burnout epidemic by offering companies and individuals sustainable, science-based solutions to enhance both well-being and performance.

As a direct contributor for Arianna's Huffington's Thrive Global platform, She has interviewed thought leaders such as New York Times Best Seller Simon Sinek, Former Mayor Of Beverly Hills Lili Bosse, Chef Eric Ripert, Latin TV Personality Marco Antonio Regil, Youngest International Speaker David Laroche, ESPN Award-Winning Host John Brenkus, Former Chief Marketing Officer of the Eastman Kodak Company and Global Business Celebrity Jeffrey Hazlett, and many more

FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Vanguard Culture

SUSANNA PEREDO SWAP?has over twenty years of?experience?as an arts administrator, actor, jazz vocalist, arts advocate, and public relations specialist. While working for the?San Diego International Airport Art Program?she curated over eighty exhibitions with some of San Diego’s best museums, artists and galleries; as well as a fantastic roster of talent for its performing arts series.

She has previously served on the board of the?San Diego Art Institute,?as Vice President of the?Alliance Fran?aise de San Diego,?Vice President of the?San Diego REPertory Theatre,?President of the?National City Public Art Committee?and Vice Chair on the?Port of San Diego’s Public Art Committee. Susanna is a?magna cum laude?graduate of?San Diego State University?where she majored in Humanities and minored in French. She holds a Professional Certificate in The Cycle:?Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organizations from the?Devos Institute of Arts Management, University of Maryland; a Professional Certificate in?Business for Arts and Nonprofit Arts Organizations?from?University of San Diego; a?Certificate in?Photography: Images and Techniques?from?University of California, San Diego; studied Art History at the?Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV);?and History of Video Art at the?école du Louvre?in Paris, France. Her passion for the visual, performing, and culinary arts has taken her to over fifteen countries and inspired her to create an organization that aims to bring people together across different backgrounds, interests and creative professions.

Vanguard Culture was profiled to millions of people on National Geographic

Ms. Nitara Osbourne is a professional writer who successfully writes and edits books and screenplays. She bring 20+ years of professional writing experience to The Infinite Writer Agency, a content creation agency that provides content for producers, publishers, as well as for successful sales and business professionals seeking help developing their personal life stories into nonfiction books and movie scripts.

She was hired to edit the book You Are Enough: 5 Steps to Move from Struggle to Strength. The book has gone on to earn my client Megan R. Fenyoe the Bestselling Author distinction, and was the #1 new release on Amazon in August of 2018.

She has won three prestigious Telly Awards for the feature-length film Running on Empty Dreams, which She had written, produced, and directed. The film went on to be in Blockbusters nationwide, ran its course on Netflix, and can now be purchased on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com. This film depicts a part of her personal life story.

Her articles for Hollywood Weekly magazine have made the cover of the distinguished publication several times over in a short period of time, including interviewing and writing about talented individuals like Emmy Award-winning Film Producer Dante James and Global Producer Jamee Natella.

Her blog The UnCloseted Professor has over 36,000 subscribers and seeks to provide advice and tips to entrepreneurs to help them move forward and to thrive. It has organically reached its current level of success because She ensures that It will create valuable content.

Producer & Talk Show Host of Eliana Contigo TV Show Telemundo

Eliana Contigo TV Show is an amazing show created to inspire and encourage the Hispanic community to grow, progress, and to reach their dreams in this country.

Every week through Telemundo 20, Milenio TV, and social media, people have the chance to witness and enjoy personal interviews with empowered Latin entrepreneurs, artists and professionals with incredible stories and testimonies that will help you reignite your passion for life, and become a rock star in your business.

Eliana Contigo TV also is an open spot for everyone with a successful story who wants to share with others, it is the place to inspire and motivate your community into a more authentic life.

Cheryl Angela “The Superpower Catalyst” and world renowned “Harpreneur” is a transformational coach, healer, and musician (harp and voice) who grew up between Nottingham, England and Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her strong intuitive and healing abilities were apparent from early childhood and she has honed these gifts over her lifetime to use in the service of humanity. Cheryl currently resides in San Diego, CA where she maintains a global practice working with powerful leaders, global change-makers, celebrities, Hollywood actors, major artists and musicians, innovators, impact entrepreneurs, , healers and philanthropists helping them to access and ignite their “super-powers” and their X-factor so they can be of highest contribution. Cheryl is a certified Life and Business Coach, Flow and Performance Consultant and uses Wealth Dynamics with her clients. She has worked as a consulting coach to clients of a number of leading edge global companies including Entrepreneurs Institute. She began working with energy healing in her early teens with great results for those she was serving. Since then she has trained and certified in numerous healing modalities including Reiki, Theta DNA, High Frequency Energy Healing, Instant Miracle and Therapeutic Harp. Cheryl is an award winning harpist, vocalist, composer and voice over actor. Her music is highly transformational and truly healing and Angelic. She has a gift for spontaneous composition. Cheryl has performed healing concerts across the USA, Canada and Europe. She has performed for the events of many global visionaries. For the past 9 years, she has been the transformational musician for workshops of Deepak Chopra and Lisa Nichols and the worldwide movement Daybreaker. She has performed for the events of presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson, and many celebrities, joining line ups that included Earth, Wind and Fire, Emmanuel Kelly, Chris Martin, Snoop Dogg and Akon. She has released 3 of her own original albums, is featured in numerous collaborations of film, DVD & CDs including the multiple award winning film soundtrack, “The Omo Child”. Cheryl works with and contributes to numerous non-profits across a range of social and planetary issues. She is a B1G1 Champion and received the Legacy Maker recognition for helping to empower 200 million impacts globally. She is a contributing author to the #1 best-selling book, Legacy. She serves on the executive team of the non-profit, Global Prosperity & Peace Initiative and the International Youth Parliament that operates in 150 nations.

Katty Ibarra was recently appointed as the Acting Director of the new San Diego & Imperial Women’s Business Center, hosted by Southwestern College. Katty is a bilingual entrepreneur and business advisor excited to empower female entrepreneurs. Katty holds Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from the Universidad del Valle de Mexico. She has extensive experience in branding, marketing and social media. Katty owns her binational marketing firm and has more than 15 years of experience solving business graphic communication and marketing strategies.

Katty has worked at the San Diego Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for over two years assisting small business owners with starting a business, increasing their sales, developing marketing plans, and conducting trainings for start-ups on how to start a business and workshops on social media management and email marketing.

Katty is excited and motivated to be joining the Women’s Business Center. “My goal is to empower women to accomplish their dreams of having their own business."

Songstress of the light, Lena Belle sings from a deep love in her soul and shares that love with the world. Her lyrics connect our hearts to nature and the wisdom of our innermost selves. Her joyful mix of crystal clear, soaring vocals, inventive beats, solfeggio frequencies, and healing sounds weave a tapestry of love that is a breath of fresh air for the listener. Her single Nature Knows reminds us to get out in nature and let go, remembering we are always held and loved by the Earth.

Originally from San Diego, born of an Italian family, raised on Sicilian food and music, she currently lives, performs, and offers sound healing in New York City. Lena Belle travels around the world offering music performances, voice activation workshops, and sound healing.

She is currently booking a summer 2019 festival tour. For inquiries, email [email protected].

Ms. Territa Torres is the founder of Territa Torres Designs, a Women’s Ready To Wear (RTW) fashion line entrepreneur, a Veteran of the U.S. Navy and major trend setter. She attended the Art Institute of California – San Diego where she was named Outstanding Student in 2013. She showcased three collections with Fashion Week San Diego (FWSD) and one with Fashion Week Las Vegas where she was awarded 2018 Emerging Fashion Designer. Her professional life has been profiled within NBC channel 7 San Diego, Fox5News, FINE Magazine, LOCALE Magazine, Presidio Sentinel, San Diego Union Tribune, La Jolla Light, La Jolla.com, San Diego Downtown News, The Block TV and Pacific San Diego Magazine.

Within industry publications KEEL Magazine, Obscurae Magazine, NUESS Magazine, SD Voyager, Ranch & Coast San Diego’s Ultimate Lifestyle Magazine, San Diego Travel Blog, California Live HD.com, EatDrinkSD.com, San Diego Spirits Festival.com, Daily Aztec.com, Fashion United.com, Fashion TV Shimmer Magazine, Here San Diego, Examiner.com and international publication INSPO magazine along with being featured in fashion blogs such as The HOFB official blog, Lions2Fashion, SD Style Bloggers.com, The Chrissy Collective and The Glam Giraffe clothing line offers shirts, shorts, pants, skirts, dresses, jackets, and evening wear.

You can purchase her line at www.territatorresdesigns.com

Ms Astha Saini is the the Creative Director of Random Nest; an online Art Boutique company, that believes life is best lived through gratitude. She is an artist that lines emotions with ink on paper. An avid writer and a storyteller; She most enjoys logic in design theory and writing about people and places that ignite awareness.

She states that "Anything that inspires is design. Simple things from the past; a sense of time or a place, that leaves us in a reverie of emotions that cannot be expressed but are felt strongly enough to elevate us to another plane.”

Random Nest provides you with the ability to create a custom experience package from Astha’s Art Collection with special pairing of Art & Poetry.

Astha is also a food lover and a baker. She opened her French Cafe in Del Mar, California “Le Macaron French Pastries” to further her experiences in the food industry. Home bound during the quarantine in 2020, she delved full time into baking her Cake Dreams and now bakes for events on orders. She specializes in edible floral arrangements to enhance her cakes and delicately pairs them as art. Her subtle and elegant food canvas is a true representation of her as an artist.

You can contact Astha at: [email protected]

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Ms. Cory DeLisle has spent her life in wellness & beauty, in one form or another. She has great working relationships with all the manufacturers she has met over the years and has always tried to further her own education in every way possible on various subjects that could assist her in delivering the best possible services and experiences to her clients.

She is a licensed esthetician and owner of Simply Scentual Spa-a green spa dedicated to the health and well being of her clients; results oriented; skincare & bodycare.

She graduated from Bellus Academy and taught as the Night Esthetics Instructor. She is trained in advanced techniques, such as: chemical peels, microdermabrasion, micro-current, high frequency, waxing, anti-cellulite treatments, body treatments, scrubs, body wraps, several facial treatments, eyelash extenstions, spray tanning & the ECHO facial.

She is very well known in Southern California for organizing large events through Chic & Savvy Events which is a high end experience geared toward ladies and enhancing their lives. Her events tend to highlight women in business, small businesses and support other women in the community. She states "We are stronger together. We have exhibitors from many industries including. beauty, fashion, accesories, health/fitness, family, home decor, education, entertainment, diy, hospitality & art."

She has developed partnerships with great organizations like elivelife.com, Luxe Kurves Media, KYXY Radio 96.5FM, The Princess Project & Avian's House Catering. She is always looking for great partnerships.

Ms. Sohaila Handelsman is the Founder of The CEO Agency; Helping Corporate Renegades with targeted leads.

Sohaila International and The CEO Agency is a global umbrella brand to help create your vision and get results by targeting highly qualified leads for your success. Being in the field of Health & Wellness for over 40 years, Sohaila knows the importance of combining your vision and passion and succeeding.

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Within this umbrella is

The Sense-ual woman? brand, offering mentoring and coaching, specialized clothing line, instructional DVDs, online courses, books, empowerment programs, retreats, speaking engagements, live performances and private events.

NewVo fitness is also under this umbrella. NewVo fitness is a multi-cultural inspired fitness program taking you around the world with different dance genres infused with Middle focus is connecting women with their businesses on a deeper level by re-discovering their passion.

Sohaila International has been profiled in Time Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Sun Line CruiseShip ‘The original Love Boat” Pireas Greece, Union Tribune San Diego, Hoy Mismo TV station, Eco TV, Mexico City, Fox5 San Diego, Channel 10, NBC San Diego, VIP performances Balboa Park San Diego, Mexico City Tourism Guide, Utah State University, Palomar College San Marcos, Sheraton Damascus Syria, Forte Grand Amman Jordan, Meridian Nile Cairo Egypt, Claridge Hotel Dubai UAE, Adonis Restaurant Mexico City.

Live performances in major venues nationwide and internationally for Dignitaries, Presidents, Ambassadors, Royalty, in California, Florida, Texas, Utah, Washington, Mexico, Paris, Germany, Greece, El Salvador, Guatemala, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Dubai, and Israel.

Ms. Joanne Cardinal is the founder of Cardinal Creative Consulting, Corporate Trainer and Sales Director for eVantage360 and Business Development Executive with ShareNode. Cardinal Creative Consulting offers global solutions in Marketing, Branding and Creative Problem Solving for small and medium sized enterprises.

She specializes in helping business owners reach their target market and sales goals using the latest in digital technologies. As a Business Development Executive for NASGO, She assists with both international recruiting and B2B sales. Nasgo is a Blockchain Internet Platform that Integrates 4 Technologies: Decentralized Hosting, dAPP Store, Payment Gateway Utilizing Digital Currency and Blockchain. (What GoDaddy is to dotcom, Nasgo is to BlockCom?)

As a Corporate Trainer and Sales Director with eVantage360, she has trained thousands of agents on their product offerings in the digital space. In addition, She has help business owners stay ahead of the curve in an ever changing digital world. Some of their services offered include custom digital apps, social media marketing, online reputation management and retargeting.

Cardinal Creative Consulting has over 30 years experience in sales & marketing. Specializing in start-ups, entrepreneurs, small-medium sized enterprises and political figures.

She is a relationship expert that understands the needs of business owners and entrepreneurs looking to expand their market place.

She has extensive creative writing experience including press releases, ad copy, website content, and corporate training FAQ’s.

Cardinal Creative Consulting offers corporate training with an emphasis on relationship selling. We are passionate about working with sales teams and helping companies and individuals realize their goals.

Find her on Linkedin if you are interested in her professional services.

Mani Anand is the Founder of Appienz.

Apphienz is a registered Salesforce Consulting Partner. They provide On Demand services that are customized solutions unique to your company.

Apphienz offers: Solution Design, Implementation and Integration Services, Project Management, Administration & Development, Training Services, Application Design & Development, Rehabilitation (Best Practice Implementation), and Support & Maintenance Services.

She founded her company in 2014. Mani hold 20 years of experience working with Salesforce. In all her years working with this Customer Relationship Management platform, She saw chronic issues that many companies face when using the platform’s cloud-based services. She witnessed companies attempting to configure and manage the complex data systems without proper support and training, which leads to companies getting frustrated by not getting the return on investment on their purchase of Salesforce. She decided to solve this problem by starting my company and helping her clients get the most out of their investment.

She has helped over 100 corporations of all sizes and several nonprofit organizations. Her company Apphienz has helped with sales and marketing enablement and automation by bringing the various departments within an organization like Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Helpdesk, Partners, Human Resources and other groups closer together. This has led to increase in revenue, improvement in efficiency, reduction in duplication of effort and a 360 degree view of their customers and internal employees performance.

Her clients state they enjoy working with her because she is very passionate about helping companies improve their processes and productivity with Salesforce in addition to depth of her knowledge and experience. She is a person that enjoys empowering her clients.

??Founder of ??Arte Pad ? Drawn Together ??

They provide personal coaching, online training courses, and fun, local events like the Arte Pad Festival for artists and musicians to build a successful career using their unique self-expression. ??Arte Pad Festival and her artists have been featured on 91X with Tim Pyles, The San Diego Union Tribune, Pacific San Diego Magazine, KPBS Arts, and various fashion bloggers including Glitz and Glam by Tiff. One of her fashion show directors, Ali Ricke, went on to create her own festival fashion show brand and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times. ??She is currently developing Arte Pad San Diego, a creative arts megaplex open 24 hours a day, providing innovation and ingenuity for every style of art known to man! It includes a creative and performing arts center, healing arts center, a DJ and recording studio, a fashion design house, boutique shop, and a 24 hour organic vegan café.

?? Arte Pad works with innovation, tourism, health, wellness, beauty, education, entertainment, and fashion design industries throughout the world.

President of The Multi-Cultural Conventions Service Network (MCCSN)

Clara Carter being honored and selected by community of San Diego as a Black Pioneer in Hospitality and Tourism. She is pictured here in a special exhibition at San Diego History Center Museum in Balboa Park.

Conference Chair, Clara Carter, President of The Multi-Cultural Conventions Service Network (MCCSN), and award-winning meeting professional, provides hotel sourcing and contract negotiation services to her clients. In her spare time, this serial entrepreneur is creating exciting programs such as the Multicultural FAM tour, which generates millions of tourism dollars back into the local economy, and her most recent creation, the Women in Tourism and Hospitality (W.I.T.H.). W.I.T.H. supports, empowers and strengthens diversity and inclusion for women in the industry, and recognizes the many contributions of women professionals in the industry. Clara is a community leader, SDSU Instructor, business consultant, and serves on several advisory boards.

Pam Covarrubias is a dynamically skilled as an Intuitive Brand Builder, Productivity Coach, Podcaster, Speaker, Certified Crystal Healer, EFT Practitioner, and Recovering Procrastinator. Pam primarily spends her time elevating womxn and small businesses by helping them develop their brand in intuitive ways, while also staying true to their unique story. Throughout her diverse career, Pam learned the importance of branding and positioning in an ever-changing market. She utilizes her natural skills, as a highly intuitive and creative human and as a strategic marketer and coach, to develop systems that help individuals accomplish their intentions. She brilliantly blends creativity and practicality to help her clients achieve success. Pam’s mission is to Spread Ideas, Move People. As a creator, speaker, mentor, and visionary, she strives to bring products, support, insight, and accountability to those around her.

Nicole Hansult?is a Health and Wellness Entrepreneur, Physical Therapist, Personal Trainer, Transformational Mastery Coach and Life/Health Coach who is an experienced helping people for the last 20 years in Europe, Asia and the United States.?Her passion is helping men and women achieve their personal fitness goals as well as, improve and sustain their overall health and quality of life.?Her years of further education in Pilates, Sports Performance Training, Rehab Training, Kinesiology, and Reiki allows her to analyze my clients movements and provide direction for move effective positioning during exercise so that they can gain more strength and flexibility, enhance their cardio vascular function despite any physical limitations.

Sheila (Szilagyi) Noseworthy?is an Award Winning Stained Glass Artist, Prop Builder, SFX Makeup Artist and Maker. She is the founder of an exclusive line of heirloom quality stained glass accessories. Using rare and vintage architectural glass, She translates a traditional rigid building process into fluid, intricate and wearable fine art. She has cracked and shattered endless pieces of glass. It is a beautiful and maddening medium. Creating with glass is a delicate balance of reading color and texture and coercing a fragile fragment into something resilient and timeless. She creates both traditional custom flat panels and contemporary three-dimensional glasswork using the time honored Tiffany method. A custom pattern is created and rare opalescent glass is selected for it's unique and wildly varying color and texture. Individual pieces of glass are hand cut, ground to refine their shape, wrapped in copper foil, burnished and soldered one by one to each other at 410 degrees C. She also hand cut copper overlay, inset beading or crystals and reinforce with copper or zinc to provide hidden strength and character to each build. I love to mix vintage hand-rolled glass with modern materials. Every piece carries its own distinct fingerprint of color, texture and depth of movement. her love of visual story telling is multidisciplinary. She is also a Special Effects Makeup artist and enjoy the world of cosplay and prop building. Her cosplays have regularly been highlighted in international and national media outlets. My characters have been featured in the LA Times, China Daily, Getty Images, USA Today.com, Bored Panda, San Diego Reader, Reuters, San Diego Union Tribune, Den of Geek, Bored Panda, Times of San Diego and the UK Mirror. She has had the honor of exhibiting glassworks with the US Grant Luxury Collection, La Bodega Gallery, Ashton Gallery, Brea Gallery, Yuma Arts Center, The Studio Door and Alexandar Salazar Fine Art.

Rebecca Custodio Mora is a wife, late-bloomer mama, health and?anti-cancer coach who is world renowned. HOME | Gut Gal

Her patients are inspired by her countless efforts of collaboration, continuous follow-up, personalized attention, customizable services and outgoing personality in order to provide the best customer service. Her image has graced the entertainment industry as a previous University of Oregon Cheerleader, coach and choreographer. Dance runner-up for Michael Jackson Pepsi commercial. Resourceful Rebecca was featured in various movies and music videos such as "Last Name" by Carrie Underwood.

Kimberly Powers is the founder of the Happily Keto Program.

Happily Keto is a seven-week program offering a simple and effective way for participants to adopt a Ketogenic lifestyle. She works to educate and improve the lives of military spouses, professionals in the corporate world, health & wellness leaders and their patients, real estate companies and agents, educators, women entrepreneurs and celebrities in local media. Under her coaching, her clients experience almost effortless weight loss when following the customized plan she creates for each person. One of her passions is to connect with parents who have children who suffer from ADD/ADHD, cognitive learning issues, acne and weight concerns. Her program has been successful in helping people heal from the damage done by the Standard American Diet (SAD). Many of her clients show improvement in lowering their AIC which is a test that indicates whether you are diabetic or on your way to living life as a diabetic. In fact, some of her clients have been able to reverse their diabetes all together just by changing the way they eat. She was trained through the Ketogenic Living Certification program which is the best ketogenic nutrition program on the market and is being offered throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, and Asia. This program is approved and recognized by the National Academy of Sports Medicine, the Athletics and Fitness Association of America, the Canadian Fitness Professionals (Canfitpro) and the International Sports Sciences Association.

Scarlett Santamaria is a Show Producer, DJ Emcee Host, YouTube Personality and Creative Influential Empowering Others and founder of Scarlett Enterprises which is an entertainment company that has five elements. She has an online show that profiles music artists, promoters, experience creators, entertainment executives, performers, and start-ups in entertainment. She specializes in lifestyle videos and event coverage within California. Her work has been profiled in Univision San Diego, Voyage Group of Magazines in Los Angeles and San Diego. She has performed live at Blonde Bar, an artist community haven in Southern California, Petco Park, Macy’s special events, Qualcomm Stadium, and She has been a host of several hundred professional, commercial, and private events. She is one-woman creative director and producer of my own brand. She developed the first radio show for the underground music scene. She is a gifted the social media manager, videographer, editor, writer, graphic designer, host, and talent agent. Her focus is empowering and connecting creatives in the music and entertainment industry. She is a born creative soul. She started performing live at the age of 16 and today I have become one of the most influential creatives in the San Diego entertainment and music community.

Yovanna Torres Blanco is a world respected Mexican and Modern Dancer, Director of Viva la Vida Festival & Luna Celta Dance, Translator and Interpreter living and working out of Ireland. She had performed live within the United States, Mexico, Ireland and Spain.

Sherry O'Hara A native of Baltimore, MD, this singer/songwriter was born with music in her soul. Graduating two full years early, she entered college at 16 years old with an immediate focus on musical theatre which led her to begin her career in music at 20 years old.?Shortly after her career began, she was introduced to the spiritual healing modality, Reiki. This opened up her mind to things she had naturally understood for so long but never shaped into a daily practice. She began studying alongside Buddhist monks at a local temple and attending workshops and classes on metaphysics and spirituality. Soon after, she opened a holistic healing practice, and started teaching workshops and classes of her own. As she deepened in her spirituality, her music and lyrics grew along with her, taking on the depth and maturity that is experienced in her music today. As a published poet, she enjoys?creating new poetry as well as writing and performing her new music and has also written, directed and often produces her one-woman show, "I Am Here: A Story of the Unbreakable Spirit” based on her personal life experiences and her journey to personal freedom.?She's also a devotional chanting artist, photographer, vlogger, public speaker, promoter, animal rights activist, human rights activist, and an advocate for children in the foster care system, encouraging families to consider fostering and/or adoption as part of their family planning.

Chiara Capobianco was born in Milano, Italy and has attended some of the most famous music schools in the Northern Italian region; She is fluent in 6 languages. She has travelled the world with my harps across land and sea. She has lived, played and taught in Italy, Thailand, India, Great Britain and California. She has performed for aristocracies, dignitaries and for executive luxury events worldwide. She is a musician, harp performer, harp and piano teacher. She was a featured entertainer and event promoter for the Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth 2 and all the cruise liners of the luxury brand Cunard line. She was appointed resident harpist for Luxury Resorts in Thailand, prior to that I performed for the largest weddings in India with Bollywood stars and for corporate executives.

In my many years as a business growth strategist I have witnessed each of these professional women develop on their business path, move forward with dreams and have seen them empower thousands of other professional women in the process. I have been humbled to be of service to each of them on this journey we call life.

I am an International Business Growth Strategist within the digital age with over 30 years of experience in business development.

I have worked on business strategy with professionals from within the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Italy, Germany and Spain.

My clients and partners have been featured in the following global sites: The New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine,WGBH Boston, Univision, ABC News, CNN, CBS News, NBC Latino, People en Espa?ol,The Huffington Post,Thrive Global,the front page of Yahoo!,UT San Diego, San Diego Reader, KPBS San Diego, iHeart, Fox 5 San Diego,Channel 6 San Diego,The Times of San Diego Magazine,San Diego CityBEAT, San Diego Magazine,La Jolla Light Newspaper,Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Business Journal, San Diego Business Journal, BBC Ireland and the Irish Times

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This blog post empowering women in business is in memory of my mother. All my success in my life has been because of her love and support.

Colleen Carpenter

BIRTH?17 JUN 1935?

DEATH?17 DEC 2020?