District Bliss

Sara Alepin is a lover of lattes, spontaneity, popcorn & laughing loudly. She’s a go-getter with a background in Art Education. After leaving the public school sector, she began to focus on her photography business, Photos from the Harty. Hoping to create a community of supportive and like-minded creatives, entrepreneurs, and artists, Sara co-founded District Bliss. She has – and continues to be – amazed at how many wonderful, talented people have joined the DB chapters across the USA! When she is not working, she’s reading, traveling, enjoying a glass of earthy red wine, spending time outdoors with her puppy, or hanging with her friends and family

Aligned Online

Parker Bennett has been writing, designing, and building brands for over 25 years. He’s won awards working at major ad agencies, and written for magazines, movies, and TV. As Founder and Creative Director of Aligned Online, Parker helps entrepreneurs make a real impact online — easily and effectively.

“I’m so excited to be here at PLAY BIG this year! It was at a PLAY BIG event a few years back where I first made the decision to create this business, and got the support I needed to make it a reality.” – Parker

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The Luxury Look

Kristine Vowles has been putting her creativity to work for others and adding her special touch to events for over 30 years. She has a background in Design, Luxury Home Staging, Events, and Real Estate, combined with a unique take on Luxury Concierge Services. Kristine specializes in taking care of the successful and making any guest or client feel like a VIP. To sum it up Kristine is a Wife, Entrepreneur, Community and Business Leader, Creative Thinker, Event Planner, Stager, Trainer and Realtor and she loves doing all of it! She is inspired by the quote “taking chances almost always makes for happy endings” – Barbara
Corcoran

The Invincible Artist

Kim Wimmer, MAPP, is an educator, actor, singer,
recording artist, writer, speaker, and founder of
The Invincible Artist. She currently chairs the theatre
department at The Young Americans College of the
Performing Arts and is an assistant instructor for the
Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at The University of Pennsylvania. Kim is on a mission to empower actors, performers, and creatives to re-ignite their passion & purpose, supercharge their resilience, and ignite their creative careers.

Backbone Creative

Jess Joswick creates branding for the brave with established companies and startups at all stages of growth who have something big to share. With an iterative process that develops a brand’s authentic voice, personality, and style, our clients leap from obscurity into the limelight. They work with you to transform meek, useless, and forgettable marketing into fearless, powerful, and innovative messaging that communicates your vision and connects with your customers immediately and effortlessly. The result: a devoted tribe, momentum, and an unstoppable company.

Heisler Coaching

Abraham Heisler is a transformational life coach who works with socially conscious entrepreneurs to grow their business and increase their impact. At the start of 2017, Abraham was an overworked and underpaid filmmaker, sleeping on the floor of a yogic monastery. Resolved to change, Abraham quite his job, moved out and began his coaching practice. In less than one year, he built a six figure business guided by determination and a willingness to face his own truth.Abraham utilizes his background in storytelling to identify limiting beliefs, which prevent success and guides clients to step into their own greatness.

Active Voice Productions

Dylan Brody is an award-winning humorist and playwright, author, radio personality, a delightful houseguest and our MC for Play BIG! He has written for comedic legends, including Jay Leno (for his Tonight Show monologues), Robin Williams and dozens of others. His work has appeared in periodicals ranging from Harvard Press’ Annals of Improbable Research and Dragon Magazine to the esteemed Weekly Bystander. He dresses well and obsesses over his weight.

The Sheltering Tree

Maryann Udel was suddenly and unexpectedly introduced to the world of grief at the age of 24 when her husband died in an automobile accident. Overnight she went from being a young wife to a young widow. Family and friends were extremely supportive and helpful but ultimately she had to figure out how to move on with her life, to live, laugh, love and find joy again after loss. She found a way to not only live but also thrive.

In 2015, she proudly launched Sheltering Tree to formalize and share the lessons she learned over the years. Her desire is to assist those dealing with loss – whether from the death of a loved one, a divorce, a breakup or job loss –  to help them create a plan to get the life back in their life.

M Lange Media

Michelle Lange is video and messaging expert with over 17 year’s experience helping Hollywood heavy-hitters and top companies across the nation get raving fans and skyrockets sales. She has helped several entrepreneurs generate six and multi-six figures sales by mastering their message and maximizing their impact with video. She specializes in video strategy, video production, content development, and DIY video training.

Femargent

Cholee Spicer is the founder of FEMARGENT. “Any woman can have a business, your skills is your currency.” She helped create the first entrepreneurial based app designed
specifically for female entrepreneurs reach their goals through collaborations, exchanging of services, and establish lifelong connections with like-minded people.

Confident Cancer Coaching

Kim Selbert, is a Certified Cancer Coach, a Licensed Occupational Therapist, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader and a Cancer Survivor. Through her live workshops, 1-on-1 and group programs, she offers clarity, support, grounded-direction, and community in a uniquely creative way.