Having pioneered the work-at-home industry by creating a lifestyle-focused and online-based business for 23+ years (yes, before high speed internet)… Carrie's guidance and strategies are worth a look!An award-winning author, popular speaker and sought after interview personality, you’ll going to love learning from Carrie at Solo Con!

Stu McLaren coaches and consults New York Times best-selling authors, top rated speakers, experts and niche celebrities on how to launch, grow and scale high profit recurring revenue streams. As the former founder of the world's #1 membership platform for WordPress, WishList Member, he had the chance to serve and support over 60,000+ online communities and membership sites.  Through that experience, he gained a unique insight into the subtle membership nuances that produce massive results. Today he uses that knowledge to help his clients to launch and grow multiple high 6 and 7-figure membership sites. Stu never disappoints, and you're going to love learning from him live this year at Solo Con 2022!

Gillian grew up immersed in creativity, travel and adventure. At 21, she began her career as a professional dancer and actor. For the next 20 years she toured Europe and North America performing on stage with innovative dance and theatre companies, as well as acting in TV series, movies and hundreds of commercials.

In 2004, she joined Cirque du Soleil’s casting team, and began traveling the world scouting and auditioning artists for the company’s 22 shows. In 2006, was named the artistic casting director The Beatles LOVE show, featured at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. She was promoted in 2012 to Director of the Creative Lab for Cirque du Soleil Media, where she developed and co-produced projects for the international film, TV and new media (VR/AR) markets. Highlights include the video game Child of Light with Ubisoft, the preschool animated series Luna Petunia for Netflix in partnership with Saban Brands and the Emmy-award winning VR short Inside The Box: Kurios with Felix & Paul Studios.

Gillian is a certified coach of the Hendricks Institute, and a graduate of their 2-year Transformational Leadership program. She has coached artists, designers and entrepreneurs; clients include Sarah Selecky, Jeff McErlain, Emilie Baltz, Harris III, Melissa Mongiat and Suzy Batiz.

In 2018, Gillian founded Kite Parade, bringing together her years of experiences in storytelling, creative direction and large-scale production, with her knowledge and expertise in business and creative leadership. Kite Parade clients include: Cirque du Soleil, Poopourri, San Pellegrino, Supernatural, Toursime Montreal, Daily Tous Les Jours Design Studio, Neurological Institute of Montreal and others.

Mario’s unique gift is extracting the essence — the genius of someone, and amplifying that to make an impact on the world.

Mario started his career in hospitality and quickly moved up the corporate ladder. At one stage, Mario was managing 11 stores generating $2-3 million a year in sales, and realized that there is so much more to success than systems in a business.

He realized that his passion lies in business and psychology and since then, he began his journey in coaching. Over the last 7 years, he’s worked with thousands of business owners — helping them grow and scale their business with simplicity and in full alignment to their values. He does this by creating powerful marketing, sales and operational strategies utilizing the deep knowledge in human behavior.

Twelve years ago, while Vanessa Horn was expecting her first son, she stepped out of her comfort zone to become an entrepreneur so she could earn money while having time freedom for her growing family. Little did she know, it would become the journey of a lifetime and a platform for making such a big difference in the lives of others. Vanessa discovered and created sales and marketing systems that helped quickly create million dollar businesses, and have since taught tens of thousands of entrepreneurs these systems so they can be paid handsomely to do work they love and become top influencers in their field. Vanessa's specialty is working with purpose-driven professionals in direct sales, network marketing, coaching & consulting. The kind of people she attracts are driven by a desire to help others. By helping you make more money, she helps your work reach more people. We can't wait to learn from her at Solo Con 2022!

Kevin B. Jennings is a business coach and personal brand strategist. He helps ambitious creatives and leaders get unstuck with the credibility, clarity, and courage they need to turn their ideas into income and impact.

He is also the CEO of Junction 32, which offers marketing services and products to help small businesses grow their brands and increase revenue so they can impact people. Kevin is also the host of Executive Minds — a podcast helping professionals and leaders convert their potential into high performance so they can grow their careers.

Kevin has had the opportunity to serve influencers such as Tony Robbins, Dave Ramsey, Oprah Winfrey, Jen Hatmaker, Sarah Jakes Roberts, and Carey Nieuwhof. Whether he's working with best-selling authors or Inc. 5000 organizations, Kevin's mission is to bring out the best in people's careers, their ideas, and themselves to experience the joy of serving others through a purpose-driven life. When he's not helping businesses grow, Kevin is deejaying weddings and parties on the weekends.

He resides in the Nashville, TN area with his amazing wife and two wonderful children. Learn more at kevinbjennings.com.

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Ben Stewart is co-founder of Louder Agency. He’s spent over a decade helping brands make a great first impression online with intentional, customer-centric marketing and web strategies. Today he’s on a mission to help purposeful leaders increase their impact on the world by telling better stories. As the leading source for all things digital marketing for Harris III’s collective of brands, including STORY and Solo Con, Ben will be pulling back the curtain to become a source of guidance for you and your business as a Solopreneur. When Ben has a microphone, make sure you have a pen and paper nearby. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Chelsea Brinkley believes you can do great work from anywhere and that your life doesn’t have to revolve around an office building. This idea has made her a coach to remote workers and a hired gun for entrepreneurs who want to create a more efficient business by getting their systems and processes on track or adding a virtual executive assistant to their team.

Before having her own business, Chelsea worked for several years as the Executive Assistant to the CDO of a successful multi-million dollar company near Nashville, TN. Nowadays you’ll find her traveling with her husband, son, and pup, looking for the next mountain to hike, and occasionally sipping an old fashioned on the deck of her Colorado cabin— all while coaching, serving clients, and blogging about this life she gets to live after breaking free from the corporate world.

Sally Z is the founder of BeMoved and an award-winning speaker with a passion for helping purpose-driven leaders create and deliver talks that move their audiences and the world. She is the host of This Moved Me, an Apple Podcast “New and Noteworthy” show on the art of public speaking, and has had the privilege of interviewing some of the biggest names in the industry, sharing insights and inspiration with her audience.

Sally has worked with a wide array of clients - from corporations like Viacom, Cargill, Chick-Fil-A and Thomson Reuters - to small agencies, entrepreneurs, authors and creative professionals. She offers Premium 1:1 coaching, speaking and workshops - as well as online course offerings, webinars and community support through her learning platform, Movers-U. While most speaker coaches focus on creating more ‘perfect’ presentations, Sally’s focus is on bringing the human connection back to the front of the room through clear, compelling, authentic and intentional experiences.

It doesn’t matter what kind of Soloprener you are and the kind of work you do–you’re a communicator of vision and ideas. We can’t wait for you to learn from Sally so you can learn to better move those who are part of the story of your brand.

Angie has spent her career teaching others how to build meaningful relationships with their customers. That's something every solopreneur must learn how to do in order to succeed at growing a business.

This work began at The Walt Disney Company where she spent close to a decade in Marketing and PR. Upon moving to Nashville, TN she held various roles including Digital Marketer and Media Specialist, before she stepped in to help Amy Porterfield manage her constantly growing community of business owners around the world. In her current chapter as a solopreneur, she's taught her clients a thing or two about how to succeed and she’s at Solo Con this year to help you do the same!

Molly Balint is here to guide you every step of the way with tried-and-true business best practices and marketing strategies to help you stop feeling stressed and start seeing success.

She's worked as a freelance writer, a professional blogger + photographer, and a social media strategist. Her clients have ranged from the web’s number #1 online global media company for parents with an online audience of more than 2.5 million followers to small local businesses trying to get off the ground. While she loves clients of all sizes, she thrives most helping women who are ready to dig in and build the business they’ve always wanted.

Marc Pimsler is a solopreneur, published author, sought after experiential trainer, therapist, and coach. Since 2004 Marc has worked in a variety of counseling and consulting capacities. He is as passionate about being a part of clients’ healing, as he is about helping others unlock the power of experiential work to support the change process in individuals and teams.

Marc owns and operates MVP Consulting, a therapeutic consulting firm, where he serves individuals and families in need, specializing in addressing addiction, shame and trauma. Marc is the Clinical Experiential Specialist at Onsite Workshops, a world-renowned emotional health retreat center located in the rolling hills of Tennessee, an hour outside of Nashville. Marc also serves as the executive director of the International Society for Experiential Professionals (ISEP). In 2019, Marc was awarded the Georgia Counselor of the Year by the Georgia Addiction Counselor Association. In addition to his therapy certifications, Marc is certified as a yoga and meditation teacher.

Marc is passionate about the work of recovery, both his own as well as his clients’ and believes that sometimes all we need is a helping hand and a fresh perspective. Grounded in the belief system that everyone has the capacity to recover, Marc brings humor, spirituality, and creativity to everything he is involved in. What does experiential therapy have to do with your life as a Solopreneur? More than you may currently realize. We can’t wait for Marc to show you.

Shari understands ambition, hustle, and wanting to build something significant. What she has discovered, after years of working with artists and entrepreneurs, is that living life fully acquainted with our inner being, that sacred space and building intentional family creates an optimal environment for growing peace, connectedness and fulfillment. And when we take care of those spaces it multiplies ease and allows us to build our legacy from a place of overflow. Join us this year as Shari shares invaluable wisdom from this often over-looked area of expertise, so you can learn not just how to grow a business, but how to grow in presence as well.

Many people spend their whole lives searching the universe for that “thing”. The one gizmo that makes the mundane, fascinating; the mediocre, extraordinary; and the intangible, reachable.

Dave Lubelczyk | The Brain For Rent has made it his life’s quest to seek out that “thing”. To acquire concepts and ideologies from around the globe – both in the present and throughout history – in order to impart knowledge, experience and perspective on what it means to not just offer a solution, but to proactively strategize, utilize, and implement those solutions to their fullest potential.

Equal parts explorer, alchemist, and mad scientist, Dave knows how to harness the powers of transformation and creation, guiding you out of the cogs of monotony and back to a turbine which creates real momentum.

Dave understands how to maximize your business potential through creative strategy and bite-sized goal setting that is attainable.

Over the years, Dave has served as a branding columnist, business author, brand strategist, idea incubation consultant, and President of the branding firm IMAGEidentity, LTD. For 30+ years, he has provided creative and consultation services to large corporations, non-profits, and small start-ups.

Known for using his own creative blend of branding and organizational development, Dave knows how to inspire real creative strategies mixed with common sense solutions to foster exponential creativity which leads to tangible growth in his clients’ businesses.

Dave’s book, MYOB: Mind Your Own Brand, is a collection of articles designed to spark a new mindset about brands and business.

Dave also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Marketing from Bryant University, and has completed many advertising design courses at Rhode Island School of Design.

Get back to what you’re passionate about. Stop allowing your challenges and concerns to take up so much space in your head. Open up more space, rent Dave’s brain and transform your business into what it always meant to be. Learn how this year at Solo Con.

Janelle Traister has a passion for elevating the heartbeat and the stories woven into the fabric of every brand. She collaborates with visionary leaders and forward-thinkers to help them connect their message with the right people, so they can build meaningful brands that positively impact the world. As Louder Agency’s Brand Messaging Strategist and Content Lead for STORY and Solo Con, Janelle can’t wait to help you discover the stories you should be telling to connect with your audience, scale your business, and change your future.