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Joyce BrothersMeet Dr. Joyce Brothers - KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Seminar Title: 24 New Things I've Learned About Men & Women, and Other Topics
Seminar Time: Sunday 1:15 - 2:15 pm
Seminar Description: "The world's most popular psychologist" Sunday, September 11 and attend her seminar "24 New Things I've Learned About Men & Women, and Other Topics" from 1:15 - 2:15 pm. Attendees can also bring one her 10 published books for her to sign.

Carol EvansMeet Carol Evans - KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Seminar Title: Work/Life Balance For Working Moms
Seminar Time: Saturday 1:30 - 2:30 pm
Seminar Description: Working Mother Magazine's Carol Evans will present a seminar on work-life balancing for working mothers.
Speaker Bio: Carol Evans, CEO of Working Mother Media (publisher of Working Mother magazine & the influential 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers annual list), is one of the country's foremost experts on working mothers - and probably their most enthusiastic cheerleader. A working mom herself, Carol understands both the challenges and the joys of this life. In her upcoming untitled book, she shares stories and real-life strategies from her expert experiences as a working mom. The book is scheduled to be published in May 2006.

DR. KIMDR. KIM - Animal Communicator - KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Seminar Title: Work/Life Balance For Working Moms
Seminar Time: Saturday 2:30 - 3:30 pm & Sunday 1:30 - 2:15 pm
Speaker Bio: Kim Ogden-Avrutik, Dr.P.H., has helped resolve problems for thousands of animals and their human companions & has appeared on: ABC World News Tonight, CBS, NBC, ESPN, FOX TV, WGN, WMAQ, National Public Radio's Living On Earth Program with Steve Curwood & featured in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Whole Life Times & Conscious Choice magazines. She is the author of "Ask the Animals", & has a new CD "Songs to Make Dogs Happy!"

Crystal AndrusCrystal Andrus: Genuine Health USA
Seminar Title: Transform Your Life from the Inside Out!
Seminar Description: In this exciting workshop you'll learn all about Simply . . . Woman! A week-by-week body/mind/soul total transformation program that encompasses every facet of a woman's life. From your daily demands and frustrations to your wants, needs, and fears, this revolutionary plan elevates the experience of weight loss far beyond the physical. With steps, which are gently laid out over 12 weeks, this workshop effectively empowers you to take back control of your health, discover your passion, override your fears, and create a life filled with joy and serenity-thin thighs are just the by-product! Simply . . . Woman! Will truly transform your life from the inside out!
Speaker Bio: As spokesperson and official health and fitness expert for Genuine Health U.S. Crystal Andrus is one of North America's most dynamic health and fitness experts, motivational speakers, and is a leading authority on balancing a woman's work, family, and personal well-being. Her fifteen-year track record as a fitness model, health-club owner, personal trainer-to-the-stars, life coach and mother-of-two attests to her success. Andrus is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine, The Canadian School of Natural Nutrition and the Canadian Fitness Professionals. She lectures with top inspirational speakers such as Dr. Phil, Sylvia Browne, Naomi Judd and many more, and is the author of the best selling book, SimplyÉWoman! The 12 Week BODY-MIND-SOUL Total Transformation Program. Her Dedication to empowering and strengthening the spirit of women can be felt everywhere from her weekly radio show on Hay House Radio to her numerous appearances on television and radio shows including the Discovery Channel and The Shopping Channel.

Melody BakerMelody Baker, Life Coach
Seminar Title: Goal Setting: Life By Design
Seminar Description: We spend all of our time living our lives and rarely take time to DESIGN our lives. Here is an opportunity to design your future! Participants create an outline of what they want to accomplish for the end of 2005 & 2006. Discussion topics include setting objectives, timelines, support structures, resources and boundaries. Tolerations and energy drains are explored to look for pitfalls in meeting goals. We strengthen these areas and add the groundwork for accomplishing objectives. Life By Design will leave you in action with tools to accomplish your goals!
Speaker Bio: Melody Baker, Life Coach, Coach University, B.A. Queens College, Communications. Melody has more than 10 years of coaching experience with individuals and small companies and works as a Life Coach with her clients on all aspects of their lives. Melody lives with husband and two children in Norwalk, Ct.

Debra Gordon BernsteinDebra Gordon Bernstein, Founder/President DGB Consulting & Coaching Ltd.
Seminar Title: Women, Leadership and Power: Mastering Your inherent abilities to create the life you want
Seminar Description: This topic explores issues around personal leadership and inner power. We discuss clarifying values, developing a life vision and harnessing inner power to create the life we want. This discussion explores the difference between leading a life out of circumstances vs. abundant possibilities. As for power, we discuss how women have specific challenges based on the varied roles they play and mixed messages they received from a variety of sources most importantly themselves. Participants leave this session with a renewed commitment to themselves to follow and pursue their dreams and goals.
Speaker Bio: Deborah Gordon Bernstein is the Founder and President of DGB Consulting & Coaching Ltd. She has a BA in Sociology, an MBA in Organizational Behavior, and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. Deborah is a highly skilled and dynamic Leadership Consultant, Executive Coach, Life Coach, Speaker and Author. She has diversified global human resources experience as a generalist with expertise in leadership development, organizational effectiveness and executive coaching. Deborah has demonstrated her ability to assess organization needs and design and implement successful solutions. With over 16 years of in-house corporate experience, Deborah's work has enhanced leadership performance across a wide range of global business functions and environments.

Hillary DavisHillary Davis, Author/Motivational Speaker
Seminar Title: Get Me To The Next Level!! - Write to heal, get a better job, or to achieve your dreams and goals!
Seminar Description: Join author, book coach, and motivational speaker Hillary Davis for insights into how using the tool of writing enables you to achieve your dreams and goals. Learn what it takes to write your way to a better job, to less stress and better health, to success and the career you dream of. Forget about rules, spelling and punctuation. This is about tapping your inner voice and passion and making it work for you!
Speaker Bio: Hillary Davis is a Motivational Writing/Publishing Lecturer and has a degree in Economics from Colombia University in New York and a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from Cambridge University in England. She is the Author of critically acclaimed book on the financial markets A Million A Minute, The Two Blondes Restaurant Guide to Southern New Hampshire, and Follow Me! Guide to Lower Manhattan. She regularly writes and does commentary about food, travel, writing, and publishing for regional, national and international publications such as New Hampshire Magazine and Taste Of New England.

Nicole DavisNicole Davis, Certified Fitness Instructor
Seminar Title: Body Intuiting and the Mind/Body Connection
Seminar Description: Discover how your inner intuitive can empower you to make positive life choices or alert you to potential health problems. By increasing awareness through the Body/Mind connection, this workshop will empower you to utilize the vast amount of information stored in your auric fields and bodies. Our bodies are like great record keepers of ouremotions and experiences. Using body intuition is an inspiring process, it gives us the ability to have faith in ourselves while allowing us to experience a deeper sense of our souls. Come and explore what your body has to say about you!!
Speaker Bio: Nicole's intuitive understanding of the human body stems from a variety of experiences. Nicole studied human anatomy from the perspective of an artist, as a group fitness instructor and from the point of view of a healer. She is a certified fitness instructor (AFAA) and certified Pilates instructor (The School of Kane Core Integration) with 20 years of anatomical and kinesthetic experience. She is also a 2nd degree attuned Reiki practitioner of 15 years. Nicole's unique approach to being a successful woman in the 21st century is a direct result of her combined experiences broadened and heightened by also being a mother of two boys.

Donna FerberDonna F. Ferber, Psychotherapist
Seminar Title: How to be Your Best at the Worst Time of Your Life
Seminar Description: Facilitated by Psychotherapist Donna F. Ferber, LPC, LADC, this seminar will explore 15 principles that help rebuild self-esteem, minimize the distress of divorce, and facilitate healing. These simple steps help fight the ravages of stress and keep you focused, relaxed and empowered. The importance of friendships, choosing the right divorce attorney and self-care tips are among the items to be addressed. This upbeat workshop is appropriate for anyone going through a divorce or other life transition.
Speaker Bio: Donna is the author of the popular self-help book, From Ex-Wife to Exceptional Life: A Woman's Journey through Divorce, published earlier this year. During her 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist, she has run groups, facilitated overnight retreats, given workshops and seminars and counseled hundreds of women dealing with the demise of their marriage. Her book is available for purchase for $20.00 plus 6% Ct sales tax and she will be signing books during the show.

Mirabai HollandMirabai Holland, Certified Fitness Expert
STAGE DEMONSTRATION: Skeletal Fitness by Mirabai Holland® Description: We can prevent and help reverse the effects of osteoporosis by working out our bones. Evidence clearly points to weight bearing exercise as a protector and developer of bone mass. Get important information about your bones and osteoporosis. Learn the Do's & Don'ts of exercising with low bone mass. Experience exercises specifically geared towards the areas most at risk for osteoporosis. Remember it's never too early or too late to start taking care of your bones!
Speaker Bio: Mirabai Holland M.F.A. is one of the leading authorities in the Health & Fitness industry, and public health activist who specializing in preventive and rehabilitative exercise for women. Her Moving Freeª approach to exercise is designed to provide a movement experience so pleasant it doesn't feel like work. She is the creator of Skeletal Fitness by Mirabai Holland®: A Workout For Your Bones, the Fabulous Forever® Easy Aerobics, and Fabulous Forever® Easy Stretch home exercise video. Founder of movingfree.com, a women's health information website. She is certified by the American Council on Exercise (ACE), the Aquatic Exercise Association, holds 2 certifications by the American College of Sports Medicine (A.C.S.M.), and a Medical Exercise Specialist certification from the American Academy of Health & Fitness Professionals. Currently, she is Director of Fitness & Wellness Programs at the 92nd Street Y, in New York City.

Chase Koopersmith, Fashion Stylist
Seminar Title: Fashion Forward
Seminar Description: Look your best on any budget
Speaker Bio: Chase Koopersmith is not your average 15 year old. She is the youngest fashion stylist, and author of "How To Be A Teen Fashionista." She has dressed television hosts, CO-hosts, and R&B bands. She has appeared on E! News Live, Soap Talk, Sirius Satellite Radio, and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times and Teen Newsweek. Chase attends Beverly Hills High School.

Linda KoopersmithLinda Koopersmith, The Beverly Hills Organizer
Seminar Title: Organize It
Seminar Description: Come join Linda Koopersmith and learn the pros solutions for your organizing dilemmas. Follow her simple tips to get you on the right track to a clutter-free existence. Her uncanny ability to figure out solutions to even the most vexing storage, time management & organizational problems has endeared her to thousands of people who have experienced her sold-out seminars, and even more who have experienced her in the media. Her credo is this: Organization should be easy, inexpensive, obtainable and maintainable -- and begun at an early age.
Speaker Bio: Linda Koopersmith, The Beverly Hills Organizer, is the organizational expert on the Style Network's hit series, Clean House, and author of The Beverly Hills Organizer's Home Organizing Bible. Since starting her business in 1989, Linda has helped thousands of clients organize their homes and offices. Linda has been featured on many television & radio programs and in several national magazines as well, including LADIES HOME JOURNAL, GLAMOUR, REDBOOK, ALL ABOUT YOU and MARIE CLAIRE. Linda lives in Beverly Hills.

Angela Mueller
Seminar Title: Sensari - Free Facial
Seminar Description: Sensaria promotes nurturing rituals with natural products formulated to enhance health, wholeness and individual beauty. Sensaria has a full range of naturally based products designed specifically for your individual skin type.
Speaker Bio: Angela Mueller has been with Sensaria for over a year helping men, women and children with a variety of skin conditions and sensitivities. She felt the need for naturally based products within her own family and became very excited when she found Sensaria. She is thrilled to help others learn how they too can "Bring the Spa Home".

Nancy MonsonNancy Monson, Author
Seminar Title: The Healing Power Of Crafts
Seminar Description: Time heals all wounds. But until time kicks in, what do you do while you're waiting? If you're like millions of other Americans, you craft. Crafting is a multibillion-dollar business in America, and over three-quarters of households engage in crafts. What's more, researchers are now finding that pursuing a hobby can help relieve stress as much as meditation, deep breathing, and other relaxation techniques. This presentation will offer information on the latest research on the benefits of crafting, and it will show attendees how they can harness the healing powers of crafts for themselves by finding their craft personality, overcoming their fear of a "lack" of artistic talent and much more.
Speaker Bio: Nancy Monson is the author of the new book Craft to Heal: Soothing Your Soul with Sewing, Painting, and Other Pastimes (2005) and the Smart Guide to Boosting Your Energy. She has written numerous articles for national magazines such as Fitness, Glamour, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Shape, and Woman's Day on topics ranging from crafts to lifestyle and relationships, health, nutrition, fitness, and entertainment. She has also appeared on national television shows to talk about her articles. She is a lifelong crafter and an avid quilter.

Ronnie Ann RyanRonnie Ann Ryan, Dating Coach
Seminar Title: It's Never Too Late for Love
Seminar Description: Dating sure is different than 20 years ago-it seems like all the rules have gone out the window! But in this dynamic and entertaining presentation, you'll discover five important principles that when followed, are guaranteed to make dating so much simpler. Learn how to attract men like never before, find an abundance of prospects, flirt with flair, clear up courtship confusion, improve confidence, as well as many critical do's and don'ts. Plus you'll hear how to avoid the biggest dating mistake that women make today! It will change the way you approach dating forever -so you can get the results you want-a lasting, loving relationship.
Speaker Bio: Ronnie Ann Ryan, MBA, CCC is a professional Dating Coach, Speaker, workshop leader and author of MANifesting Mr. Right: It's Never Too Late To Find The Love You Want. She has worked with hundreds of people to accelerate or jumpstart their search for love. A vivacious and inspiring speaker, Ronnie shares proven strategies and poignant anecdotes including her own success story about finding her husband. She infuses people with a fresh, positive outlook essential for effective dating today.

Kelly Sullivan WaldenKelly Sullivan Walden, Hypnotherapist
Seminar Title: The Essence of Succes..12 Principles of Success from the Inside Out!
Seminar Description: Every woman is encoded for success and that includes you! If you are ready to express and say "YES!" to the success you know you are capable of, then this seminar is for you!!! Discover your unique, one-of-a-kind, custom tailored blueprint of success in your career, relationships, health, wealth and creative Imagicnation in order to be healthier, wealthier, wiser & Free to be the magnificent, self-empowered, joyous woman you were born to be!
Speaker Bio: Kelly Sullivan Walden is the author of "Discover Your Inner Goddess QueenÉan Inspirational Journey from Drama Queen to Goddess Queen" Kelly will blend her talents as a certified, clinical Hypnotherapist, Human Design Analyst, Practitioner of Religious Science and God-based Shaman in an experiential, inspirational and transformational seminar that will inspire the unique masterpiece that you are into womanifestation!

Amy WellsAmy Wells: Better Bedding
Seminar Title: Four Things You Should Know for a Better Night's Sleep
Seminar Description: This topic covers the benefits of quality sleep to both our minds and our bodies, including the latest research on sleep and weight control. Some discussions will cover; What happens when we sleep: the stages and cycles of sleep, factors that interfere with quality sleep: what can go wrong? Solutions for better sleep.
Speaker Bio: Amy Wells had been With Select Comfort since July 1997 holding a variety of positions from Customer Service to Training, and Retail. Amy was named the 2004 Sales Professional of the Year, and was also a QVC on-air guest for the Sleep Number bed.

Dr. Alicia Stanton & Gene Gresh, Pharmacist
Seminar Title: Hormone Balance and Nutrition to Reclaim Health, Prevent Chronic Disease and Manage Your Weight
Seminar Description: Do these symptoms control your life? Fatigue, stress, depression, anxiety, weight gain, mood swings, water retention, irritability, low sex drive, hot flashes, foggy thinking, sleep disturbances, breast tenderness, uterine fibroids, fibrocystic breasts. Our speakers will discuss the differences between conventional and bio-identical hormones and how balancing hormones and proper nutrition can alleviate many of these symptoms, prevent chronic disease and are key factors involved in weight management.
Speaker Bios: -Dr. Alicia Stanton is a board Certified Ob/Gyn in private practice with offices in Enfield and Hartford. She is also a Diplomat of the Board of Anti- Aging Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine. Dr. Stanton has a special interest in hormone balance and its effects on menopausal symptoms, weight gain, PMS, energy levels and stress. -Gene Gresh is a Pharmacist and a compounding specialist with over twenty years experience counseling patients concerning healthcare issues and is a leader in his field on the topic of hormone replacement therapy. He holds a fellowship in the International Association of Compounding Pharmacists.

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Melissa Valentin and Pam Gianett: State Farm Insurance
Seminar Title: What You Should Know About Buying Insurance
Seminar Description: This seminar will Cover the basics of insurance theory and pricing; how to shop for car, property and life coverage.
Speaker Bios: Melissa Valentin & Pam Gianette: State Farm Executives.


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