Christie Lee Ruffino

Christie Lee Ruffino is a serial entrepreneur, podcast host, international speaker, and best-selling author with 14 books. She has been featured on Inc.com, WGN Radio, and The Morning Blend on NBC TV. She is a Certified John Maxwell Coach and has studied under a long list of business icons such as Bob Burg, Jack Canfield, and Larry Winget.

She has over three decades of business experience, built three six-figure businesses, and has worked with over three thousand women, helping them increase their business revenue through clarity, collaboration, and increased visibility.

All this experience has come together in a way that now serves her clients at the highest level. As a Profitize Your Purpose™ Coach, Christie guides entrepreneurs through her process to harness the power of STORY, SYSTEMS, and COMMUNITY to build a more dynamic brand, attract more clients, and make more money.

Christie is an avid reader, a serial smart-ass, and a proud grandma of the two most adorable kids ever!!!! (And she has thousands of photos to prove it.) She swears she will NEVER skydive but is addicted to triple-digit speeds down open country roads on her Harley.

Christie Lee Ruffino
Mastery Unleashed Coaching
Christie@ChristieRuffino.com
www.ChristieRuffino.com
www.MasteryUnleashedCoaching.com
630-336-3773

Tomorrow Isn’t Promised

This is a story about a woman facing numerous challenges and a sense of unfulfillment who embarks on a transformative journey of self-discovery. Haunted by a vivid dream of her own mortality, she decides to break free from her comfort zone and seek her true purpose. Through a series of introspective moments, she uncovers her passions and desires. Determined to follow her calling, Christie takes brave steps, leaving behind the familiar to create a business that aligns with her genius zone. With guidance and faith, she crafts an unstoppable business model, gaining financial stability and fulfillment, inspiring others to break free and find their own purpose.

My Free Gift

Profitize Your Purpose Powerpack

The ultimate resource bundle to embrace your big mission and have a profitable business that lights you up.

INCLUDES:

• Living My Purpose Audio Affirmations MP3 File: To ensure you don’t stray, get overwhelmed, or become distracted.
• Profitize Your Purpose Micro-Course and Action Guide: To become crystal clear about your dream business so you can bring it to fruition directly and powerfully.
• EPIC Mastery Roadmap: To walk you through the step-by-step process to launch, sell, and scale a 6-figure Lux Group Coaching Program™ that guarantees EPIC results for your clients.
• EPIC Business Checklist: To identify what must be done to STOP trading hours for dollars and chasing down clients and START spending your time and money on strategies that get EPIC results.

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Mara Stefan

Mara has spent most of her more than 25-year career helping companies and executives establish thought leadership positions within their industries. Currently, she is the VP of Global Insights for ManpowerGroup, one of the world’s leading talent advisory and solutions companies. The firm employs more than 30,000 people in 75 countries who are focused on transforming the world of work. She previously led global thought leadership for The Adecco Group prior to joining ManpowerGroup.

Mara also directed strategic marketing and communications at Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. Mara founded and oversaw Emerge Public Relations, where she provided marketing, public relations, and strategic counsel to many Global 1000 organizations. Prior to Emerge PR, she spent nine years at The Horn Group, a Silicon Valley PR powerhouse, rising to General Partner in charge of the firm’s Boston office.

Prior to joining The Horn Group, Mara handled PR at Borland Software Corp. – the PC software firm co-founded by maverick entrepreneur Philippe Khan. She has also overseen strategic partnerships with many organizations, including The World Economic Forum, TED, The Nantucket Project, and Thinkers50, among others. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a Minor in Journalism from Stephen F. Austin University.

Mara Stefan
VP of Global Insights
ManpowerGroup
marajstefan@outlook.com
www.linkedin.com/in/marastefan
781-771-6911

Leaning In or Falling Out? We Need a New Playbook for Women and Work

It’s been a decade since Sheryl Sandberg wrote her manifesto, LEAN In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.  Are women still Leaning In or Falling Out?  Consider the pandemic and the number of women who fell out of the workforce and those that made the choice to not come back to full-time work due to continued challenges with childcare, eldercare, and flexibility needed to manage their work and personal lives.  Women today need a new playbook for managing the complexities and inequities that still persist.

Anastasia Paras

Anastasia is a super-connector and a possibility-creating powerhouse. She brings imagination, creativity, action, and consistency to everything she does. For the past ten years, she has designed a life most would envy. She has mastered a process, and in doing so, she has been able to build multiple businesses, several into seven figures. She is bright, funny, playful, and has great leadership discipline and instincts. She has coached, trained, inspired, and led big teams to sales success. Her superpower is connecting people with a passion to opportunities that build an income, all while designing their lives on their terms. She helps people start earning income immediately while moving in the direction of their dreams. She has developed a proven process. She has done this work thousands of times over the years. She was managing to accomplish all of this as a single mom, of a beautiful, high-energy daughter. Although busy running her own successful business life, she is also managing the demands of her busy child actor daughter, who is cast on the world’s most-watched television show. Anastasia will tell you that her greatest title, that of Mom, she earned in her early 40s after a miraculous IVF process. In fact, she and her daughter, Sophia, were recently featured on the cover of GO in January of 2023, sharing her incredible story. This busy mama and social media influencer is living her life on purpose, with joy, and the freedom to choose where she wants to be, without the need to ask for permission. She is practicing exactly what she preaches by living her life her way. If you are ready to make the move to take ownership of your life, you are going to want to know what Anastasia knows.

Anastasia Paras
Life Designer
risethroughwithme@gmail.com 
www.facebook.com/anastasia.paras
www.bossladybio.com/parasgirls
www.instagram.com/theanastasiaparas

Designing Life on Your Terms

Anastasia overcomes her fear of public speaking and then realizes that she needs to make changes in her personal life as well. She goes through a process of self-reflection and takes steps to create a better life for herself and her daughter.

Dr. Susie Warden

Growing up in MT allowed Dr. Susie to enjoy an active lifestyle that she wanted to continue throughout her college days and career. She pursued a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Physiology and graduated from Arizona State University with plans to help people change their lives through health and fitness.

She continued her passion for health and helping people as she started her own fitness consulting business at 22 years old in Boca Raton, Florida. She consulted corporations to help get their employees healthier, therefore saving 100’s of thousands of dollars in insurance premiums. She became acutely aware that there were A LOT of people who needed more than fitness consulting! One day, she met a young woman who was a chiropractor, and this conversation changed the trajectory of Dr. Susie’s life.

“I saw this chiropractor help people in ACUTE and chronic pain, and without the use of drugs or surgery, totally change their lives! I decided right then to pursue a degree in chiropractic and never turned back!”

After finishing the prerequisites needed before starting her chiropractic education, Dr. Susie, Chris, her husband, and two children packed up and moved from Florida to Chicago, where she attended the National College of Chiropractic in Lombard. It was 1994 when she started the program; in 1997, Dr. Susie earned her Doctor of Chiropractic, had two more boys, and has been practicing her love of natural healthcare ever since!

She and her husband knew that they would raise the five boys, open multiple offices, and train other chiropractors and healthcare practitioners to work together and help people change their lives to a healthier version. They have been phenomenally successful in all aspects, with a few life-changing challenges, for the past 30 years!

Dr. Susie’s passion is to coach and encourage people, whether in the office or in packed conference rooms, to decide to be a better version of themselves. As a health coach and motivational speaker, she encourages people, through sharing her own life challenges, never to give up on their passion to be better! She likes to do one-on-one sessions with people and encourages them to get out of their comfort zones so they can live the life of their dreams.

She uses her degrees, years of experience, and personal stories to encourage people NOT to settle for less than their dream life! Giving back to her community is also one of Dr. Susie’s passions by speaking to students, professional organizations, women’s groups, and churches. You can find her in Wheaton volunteering at various events and helping people in the community.

Dr. Susie Warden
Advanced Healthcare Associates
www.facebook.com/susie.warden.73
www.instagram.com/drsusieadvancedhealthcare 
www.advancedhealth.us
630-260-1300

Posture UP

This is a story of a real-life NIGHTMARE where she chose to use her strength, POSTURE, and positive character to not only deal with it but walk boldly through it! Dr. Susie chose to use this as a springboard to take her to new heights and help others do the same. ​

Dr. Katrina Nguyen

Dr. Katrina Nguyen is an award-winning, board-certified pediatric gastroenterologist, keynote speaker, international best-selling author, and founder of a nonprofit to fight childhood obesity.  She is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford.

She has shared her expertise via EWTN Global Catholic Network, YMCA podcast, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

She was just 14 months old when her family escaped by boat from Communist Vietnam in April 1975 after the Fall of Saigon. She nearly died twice during her journey to freedom and to live the American Dream.

Dr. Nguyen provides telemedicine services through MyCatholicDoctor and serves as a locum tenens physician. Her Christian faith drives her to serve others. She established a charity fund with Raymond James, and her nonprofit’s sponsors include Chick-fil-A and Panera Bread.

She was nominated for the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award in 2016 and 2017. She was awarded the Faculty and Staff Aureus Award from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 2017. She was nominated for the Crusader Community Health Annual Spirit of Caring Award, only one of seven nominees in the Rockford region in 2018.

Dr. Nguyen lives in Illinois with her husband, Dr. Marconi Deladisma. She enjoys being a dog mom, gardening, and traveling.

Dr. Katrina Nguyen
Faithful-2-Fitness^®
mdkatrina1974@gmail.com
www.mdkatrina.com
706-294-7995

From Poverty to Generosity

As a Vietnamese refugee, I overcame barriers to become a physician and nonprofit founder. I teach families to achieve a healthier lifestyle by helping them overcome the same barriers, including knowledge, attitude, access, finances, environment, and motivation.

My Free Gift

3 Steps to a Healthier You

Three tips to jumpstart your journey to a healthier lifestyle.

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