2012 Program Highlights:
Three days of interactive workshops from incredible speakers and experts sharing their insights, strategies, experiences and life lessons to help you take charge of your career, business, finances, relationships, health, wellness, life fulfillment and balance. You’ll get inspired, motivated, educated, and equipped to move forward with your professional and personal goals.
Keynote Sessions
Fascinating, captivating and motivating insights from inspiring women will be featured during our general session keynotes. Our expert speakers are coming armed with their experiences, successes, failures, and life lessons to keep you growing into the life you deserve. Sharing extremely practical information, you’ll leave each session with ideas that you can put into action immediately.
Doreen Rainey: 
The Mindset to Create RADICAL Success
What are the traits and characteristics of those who create self-defined success? Discover the mindset strategies of those who achieve their personal and professional goals. Success lies in what you think, your perspective, and your ability to create from the inside out. Doreen will share how to position yourself to have a clear vision and move into action.
Jillian Michaels: The Unlimited Life – Inside & Out
Forget surviving; it’s your time to thrive. You do have the ability and potential to achieve unlimited health, wealth, and happiness. Getting there won’t all be easy – nothing worthwhile ever is – but the possibilities are unlimited. Your life is waiting for you to break free and claim it. Jillian will be sharing her strategies for getting dramatic change in your life – NOW.
Suze Orman: The Money Class
With honesty, empathy, and a dazzling knowledge of how money works, Suze will share how our lives and finances can prosper in harmony. Her insights will help you financially take care of your family, your home, your career, and planning for retirement—no matter where you are in your life or where the economy is heading.
Lisa Nichols: Surpassing Average and Ordinary to Reach Extraordinary
Learn to leave average and ordinary way behind and only settle for radical and extraordinary results in every area of your life. Lisa shows how you can adopt the “No Matter What” mentality and how to achieve your goals regardless of what is happening around you. Understand how to use your bounce back muscles to get what you want EVERY time.
Ali Bro
wn: Reinventing Success
Can you feel it? There’s a change in the air. The old way of doing business isn’t working anymore. Whether you’re a corporate professional or an entrepreneur, there has never been a more ideal time for women to step up—and recent studies and data are documenting the trend. Ali shares the 7 compelling trends that are paving the path for women to step out of the supporting role and into the spotlight.
Monique Greenwood: Having What Matters
Monique Greenwood knows that having it all isn’t where it’s at—it’s having what matters. The former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine now owns acclaimed bed-and-breakfast inns. Through her varied life experiences, she’ll share actionable advice on how to achieve the elusive balanced life, making time for “me”, and still make your dreams come true.
Breakout Sessions
Our conference attracts women from across the country – and beyond – and each person is looking for answers to their own situations. Our breakout sessions provide the perfect opportunity for you to choose the topics most relevant to your own life. Led by experts in their field, each session will be packed with techniques and how-tos that you can implement into your life, business or career – now.
Attend Sessions from Life Compass Track or Entrepreneur Track
Life Compass Track
These sessions focus on relationships, life balance, career growth and living a purposeful life. Led by experts in their field, the interactive format gives you the chance to get the information you need to create a tangible, implementable action steps.
Beth Caldwell: Weathering Life’s Storms
Life’s obstacles affect everyone. Whether your “storm” has been health issues, financial challenges, divorce, loss of a job, death of a family member, disappointment, broken heart or an actual natural disaster, the steps to recovery are the same.
Beth Caldwell, single mom, entrepreneur, popular author and 2011 Radical Woman of The Year award winner shares her compelling story and the strategies she used to overcome numerous obstacles and challenges in her business and life. Beth will share 7 Strategies that anyone can use to recover from life storms. This practical and helpful workshop will teach you how to recover from whatever obstacles come your way.
Patricia E. Perkins: Get Your Promotion Now!: 7 Fast-Track Strategies to Drive Your Career to the Next Level
Feeling stuck or left behind in your career? Well, you’re not alone. The percentage of women that experience making quantum leaps in their career advancement is getting smaller. If you want to personally exceed that number, learn how to “Get Your Promotion Now!™. This session will show you how to progress smarter, move ahead faster, experience less effort in the process. This session is equally important for the woman who’s currently on the fast track or feels she’s still trying to design and build the track as she goes.
During this powerful breakout session, you’ll learn how to:
- Get Unstuck and Take Action Now
- Communicate Powerfully and Be Heard
- Promote your Results without Bragging
- Build Rapport with Decision Makers and be on their Radar
- Create an Career Action Plan to Advance to the Next Level
Amy Barnes: The Four Foundations of Success
Six years after being homeless and weighing nearly 500 lbs, Amy took control of her life and pursued the life that she always dreamed of. Now, she is carrying her message of hope and change to inspire others to achieve their dreams. It is possible to live the life you have always wanted. With the help of some extraordinary women, Amy was able to break the cycle of abuse. And through a process of self education and self discovery, she overcame her addiction to food.
Understanding that all addictions and negative behaviors stem from one centralized theme, she now teaches people how to identify the barriers preventing them from success, and develops strategies to break through them. She will be sharing four foundational tools that will put you on the path to overcoming your own setbacks.
Kathy Wilson: The Unacceptable Woman
If you have ever felt that your imperfections – including the indiscretions, poor choices, disappointments, traumas, shame and failures that all women have experienced – in some way make you unacceptable, then you are not alone. What you may not realize is that those very feelings of unacceptability also heavily influence your feelings of worth, which in turn influence how you show up in the world and what you believe you’re able to achieve. But you can transform an im-PER-fection into an im-POWER-fection when you realize that all of those things you believe are unacceptable about you and your past are actually part of the patchwork that makes your life unique, and gives you your true power.
This session turns off all the negative voices in your head that have been keeping you from the life you deserve. It is your opportunity to stop the toxic and futile pursuit of perfection, and bring and end to all the machinations that you’re using to cover up your unacceptability. It is your opportunity to start celebrating being…Powerfully Imperfect!
Entrepreneur Track
Getting the right tools to start or develop your business is critical to getting the success in your business you want – and deserve. Sessions focus on marketing, networking, and foundational strategies to grow a sustainable business in a challenging economy.
Natalie MacNeil: A MAP for Being Your Own Boss, Working Happy, and Living on Purpose
In this interactive workshop, Emmy Award-winning Media Producer and acclaimed entrepreneur, Natalie MacNeil, helps you create your own personal Master Action Plan (MAP). In the MAP session, we’ll cover:
The only way to profit from your passion
How to discover a niche that needs you
Crafting a story that sells
Writing a No-BS Business Plan
Building a team to help you reach your goals
Connecting the dots to dream bigger and reach higher in business –and in life
Dr. Patty Ann Tublin: Relationship Expert
Create the THRILL of it ALL! with rock solid Relationship Skills for Creating Success in Your Business Without Having to Sacrifice Happiness in Your Marriage/Relationships and Family”
Do you ever feel like you have to make a false choice between success in your business and happiness in your marriage and family life? You know you can be a successful entrepreneur in a happy marriage BUT nobody has ever showed you how!
Are you ready for creating the best of both worlds? A booming business with a rockin’ relationship that supports and encourages your business and your family and relationship dreams?
During this session Dr. Patty Ann will share with you 3 rock solid strategies for creating success in your business without having to sacrifice happiness in your marriage/relationships and family life.
Tonya R. Taylor: 5 Ways to Rev Up Your Website
No doubt about it, the best marketing funnel ever created is completely useless without a steady flow of website traffic pouring into it. You paid a ton of money to have that AWESOME website created for your business, right? Now it’s time to get some traffic because without traffic, what’s the point of having a website to begin with!
This session shares 5 ways to draw traffic website. You’ll also learn the 3 biggest mistakes business owners make with their website that hinders their ability to get traffic.
Jessica Eaves Mathews: The 7 Legal Disasters Hidden In Your Business and Easy Solutions You Can Put In Place Today
As a women business owner and entrepreneur, you know there are things you have to do to protect yourself legally, but if you are like most of us, you have been avoiding them either because they are too scary or seem too complicated or expensive to tackle. You may not even know where to start. What you may not realize, however, is that the quality of your legal foundation will directly affect how happy and successful you can be as a business owner.
Start up right: Choosing the right entity and operate your business for long term success
Claim Your Name: How to choose your business name and navigating the trademark jungle
Be An Original: How to protect your brilliant ideas and intellectual property
The Fine Print: How to avoid legal problems with your website
Email 101: What the federal government expects from your and how to avoid getting on their radar
Relationship Insurance: How to set up all of your business relationships to thrive and succeed from the beginning
Beth Caldwell: Get Paid What You’re Worth! A Guide for Professional Women
Do you struggle with asking for payment for your services?
Do you find yourself giving away services instead of charging for them?
Are you uncertain about how to structure your fees?
Struggle with clients who want to barter for services rather than pay you?
Is it time to implement a billing system, or even a collections system?
Join us at this interactive and informative workshop and learn how other professional women have overcome these challenges.
Presented by Beth Caldwell, Author and Small Business Expert, 2011 Radical Woman of the Year Award Winner
Beth Caldwell owns a public relations firm in Pittsburgh, PA where she specializes in working with small business owners and entrepreneurs. She is a “40 under 40” Winner, having been recognized by Pittsburgh Magazine as one of the city of Pittsburgh’s most influential young business leaders.
Meet & Greet Networking Reception
Friday evening is the perfect opportunity to nibble, sip and mingle with attendees and several of the speakers. Get to know other RADICAL women, award nominees, and our partners and sponsors. You’ll have the chance to meet and talk with women who share a passion for living their best life – making new friends, possible business connections, and enjoying the laughs and camaraderie. The networking party is for those who have a Premier or VIP Registration. Don’t miss this fun-filled evening!
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Awards Celebration
Our RADICAL Awards Celebration acknowledges the extraordinary accomplishments of women. This Saturday evening reception highlights the nominees and honors our 2012 recipients. This event is for those who have a Premier or VIP registration.
RADICAL Woman Award: Recognizes the woman who has overcome extraordinary challenges to design a life full of passion, purpose and their own self defined success.
RADICAL Entrepreneur Award: Honors the woman who stepped out on her own to grow a business that not only provides a living but also has an impact on the community at large.
Exclusive VIP Events
Our VIP attendees enjoy these all access events that puts them up close and personal with some of our incredible keynote speakers and host. This includes the unique chance to attend a luncheon and meet and greet with Jillian Michaels or Suze Orman, as well as other events with the Conference Host, Doreen Rainey. The registrations for these programs are extremely limited to provide for an exceptional experience.
You can view a general agenda for each day here.
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