"I empower women entrepreneurs with the mindset, mojo, and money to grow successful business." Melinda Wittstock

If you want a profitable return from all those social media posts, shares, pins and Tweets, talk to Melinda.

Melinda’s predictive social intelligence company Verifeed generates and measures your ROA™ - that is, your Return on Authenticity™ so you can genuinely connect with your customers and scale your growth by any metric, be it traffic, conversions, revenue, even company valuation.

A serial entrepreneur and an award-winning technology innovator and journalist, Melinda knows how to harness #failforward entrepreneurial learning into valuable, scalable opportunities for business and personal growth. Melinda launched her first ”business“ when she was 5, earning $100 getting neighbors to pre-pay for her ”show“. Verifeed is her fourth business, in a career that has also won her numerous awards as a correspondent on the Times of London, a TV news anchor (ABC, BBC, MSNBC), and the founder of Capitol News Connection and NewsiT.

She is a single mom with two great kids and a golden retriever, and a believer in all things meditation, mindfulness and gratitude.

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"I want to inspire one million people that are disheartened in their current careers or life path to make the gutsy decision to change it." Todd Nevins

Todd is the Founder of CLICKPlacement, an AdWords agency working with startups, small businesses and non-profits. He's also the Host of the Go Hunt Life podcast and explores stories of people that pulled the ripcord on the normal, safe path in life to embark on the unknown journey. 

He is nearing his own ripcord moment as him, his wife and their English Bulldog embark on a permanent road trip through Mexico in pursuit of adventure off of the beaten path while they run their online businesses from anywhere.

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"If you don't have the mindset that you can do it, then you're never going to do it." - Laura Belmar

"I learned to be a little more patient" - Luke Sabis 

Luke Sabis - Filmmaker 

Luke Sabis is a filmmaker and musician. He has just released his debut feature film, the drama/thriller Missing Child, available on Amazon. He is currently working on his next feature film, Ghost Tenant.

Luke was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. He graduated from St. John's University with a degree in Computer Science. Early in his adult life he worked as a Computer Programmer by day, and pursued his musical dreams at night with his band, “The Take.” He wrote and played original Rock songs, showcasing at clubs such as CBGB's, The Bitter End and Kenny's Castaways. Luke continued his stage career as an actor on the Off Off Broadway stages of New York City, including a stint with the Curan Repertory Company, led by Ken Terrell.

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"You just need to overcome that fear and not let it get in the way." - Nancy Hernon

Nancy Hernon, Co-founder/CEO at G3Translate

Nancy came to New York via Ohio and Germany nearly 20 years ago to jump into translation industry providing a global voice to clients across several industries. She has worked with major corporations helping them to roll-out new products, engaging in the launch of global websites, overseeing translations for technical content, branding and advertising content, legal contracts and briefs, as well as trade journals. Nancy’s passion lies in the translation of market research documentation bringing new products to market and helping brands to expand on a global scale.

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"A woman's vision is realized the moment she truly believes in the power of her purpose."

Nineveh Madsen is a Swedish-born, ethnic Assyrian American television personality. She is the Founder of HER Magazine and VP of Marketing & PR at OpenVPN, a tech company in the Bay Area. 

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"I feel like my biggest failure as an entrepreneur has been that everything has taken longer than I wanted." - Steve Benson

Steve Benson - Founder of Badger Maps 

After receiving his MBA from Stanford, Steven worked in Sales at IBM, HP and Google where he was Google Enterprise's Top Sales Executive in 2009. In 2012, Steven founded Badger Maps, the #1 Sales App in the Apple App Store, which helps Field Sales People be more successful.

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"If you want to build a great empire, you have to start with a solid foundation." - Sunny Durante

Sunny Durante - Founder of Epic Life

After tasting success young in multiple industries, Sunny took a bold step to trade in his "looks-good-on-paper-life" for one that brought him REAL joy and fulfillment. Now, he helps men in film and high-tech create more freedom and fulfillment, so they can wake up excited again, break through plateaus, and multiply their income + impact... on their terms. 

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"If it can be read by humans it should be able to interact with a bot." - Adrien Schmidt

Adrien Schmidt, CEO of Bouquet, is a successful entrepreneur, engineer and innovator. In 2004 he co-founded Squid Solutions, a software company based in Paris that provides usage analytics to publishers around the world. As Squid Solutions rapidly turned companies into data-driven enterprises, he went on to open offices for Squid Solutions in Beijing in 2006 and San Francisco in 2014. On a mission to become a market leader in a new generation of analytics tools, Adrien co-founded Bouquet in 2015, creating a product that brings a fulfilling experience of analytics to thousands of users in their daily jobs with chatbots powered by artificial intelligence.

Raised in both the U.S. and France, Adrien has dedicated his career to innovation and entrepreneurship on a global level. In 2013, Adrien served as Chairman of NUMA, France’s most recognized accelerator, supervising the transition from local non-profit to international accelerator, increasing its budget, facilities, and international presence. Additionally, Adrien served as the Vice President of JCI France, an economic empowerment program promoting the cooperation between French SMB’s and large companies in China. In 2010, he went on to serve as Treasurer and Board Member for Comité Richelieu, the leading French lobby for technology SMB’s.
Adrien speaks five languages, is a Huffington Post contributor and most recently a featured speaker at Plotcon and IoT World.

"When somebody sees the Nuuvo logo I want them to associate it with quality." - Lydia Speck

Lydia Speck - Founding Partner, Nuuvo Health

Lydia Speck is an expert in health and wellness and specializes in health management. Raised in the Dallas area, she chose Texas State University where she received a degree in Consumer Science and a minor in Business. Upon graduation, she pursued a career in fitness and personal training. It was there that she realized, when it came to maximizing results, fitness was most advantageous when paired with medicine. Since that realization, she focused on understanding how to apply these new medical approaches with lifestyle changes to achieve maximum results in the pursuit of a healthier and better life.