Anastasia Lipske is the founder of Access Speakers, a full-service speaker agency, where she has booked more than 1,500 speaking engagements for clients. Anastasia has the ear of speaker chairs and event planners who are seeking the right speakers for their events and meetings. 

Mary Lou Andre started her business with no clients, no capital, and very little personal money to build her dream company. So she sold her wedding dress and used the money to buy business cards and a used computer. Then she sold everything else she could in order to pay for a membership into a women’s organization where she could meet prospective clients.

Chase Harmer is the founder of Wishes, a FinTech app that is changing the transparency of charitable donations made by individual donors. With no formal background in tech, just hard won experience, Chase is a visionary who has created one of the most innovative platforms in charitable giving by providing validation for donated funds through transparency in e-commerce causes, crowdfunding and nonprofits.