Victoria Colligan
Founder, Ladies Who Launch
Victoria is a serial visionary, leader in fun, and lover of style. Her insight,
savvy and understanding of female entrepreneurship have been acknowledged and
requested by experts worldwide.
As the founder of Ladies Who Launch, the first
new media company to provide encouragement, advice and exposure to women
entrepreneurs, Victoria created a platform that blends feminine sensibility
with business as it relates to lifestyle, creativity and the bottom line.
Since founding Ladies Who Launch in 2002, Victoria
appeared on The Today Show, ABC News, Time,
Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, Business Week, Women's Wear Daily,
Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and
MSNBC.com.
A versatile entrepreneur with an understanding of the importance of lifestyle,
family and flexibility for women business owners, Victoria co-authored
Ladies Who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship
and Creativity as a Lifestyle and Dream it!
Launch it! Live it!: Make Any Dream Real in 5-Minutes A Day. She recently
contributed to Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneurial Soul and
writes a regular column for
ForbesWoman.com.
Joan Lunden
Journalist, Author and Television Host
American journalist, author and entrepreneur. She was the co-host of
ABC's Good Morning America
from 1980 through 1997 and is the author of 8 best-selling books.
On Good Morning America for nearly two decades,
Joan Lunden was one of the most popular television co-hosts. Lunden started at
the ground level in the news business. She was hired as a trainee at
a local news station in 1973 and quickly rose up the ranks. By 1975,
Lunden was a weather person, reporter, and anchor for the station. That year,
she left her native California for New York City to take a job at WABC. Four
years later she won the coveted job as co-host of Good Morning America.
Raising three young children as America watched, Lunden became a role
model for working mothers everywhere. Despite a demanding schedule
that involved getting to work before dawn, she still found time for
other projects. In her autobiography, Good Morning,
I'm Joan Lunden,
she shared some of the challenges she faced as a female journalist.
In 1987 Lunden was paired with Charles Gibson forming a pair the audience
loved and launching the show to number 1 in the morning television race.
Today, Joan is an entrepreneur – under her Joan Lunden Brand is
her bedding line, Joan Lunden Home, sold on QVC and Walmart.com;
her child safety device, Kinderkord, which she developed,
brought to market, and is now selling nation-wide; and her
skincare line, Murad Resurgence. As a longtime women’s
health and wellness advocate, 5 years ago Lunden launched Camp Reveille,
girls getaways held around the country. All of Lunden’s ventures can be
seen on her new website focused on women’s health, wellness, and ease of living,
JoanLunden.com.
Molly Ringwald
Actress and Author of "Getting the Pretty Back"
The iconic Molly Ringwald shares intimate stories and candid advice in a fun, stylish and sexy girlfriend's guide to life conversation.
To her millions of fans Molly Ringwald will forever be sixteen. As the endearing and witty star of the beloved John Hughes classics Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink, Molly defined teenage angst, love, and heartbreak. While remembered eternally as the enviable high school princess Claire, or the shyly vulnerable Samantha, Molly is now a wife and mother, and just celebrated her fortieth birthday. Facing a completely new, angst-inducing time in her life, she is embracing being a woman, wife, mother of three, actress, and best friend with her trademark style, candor, and humor.
In her book, Getting the Pretty Back, Molly encourages every woman to become "the sexiest, funniest, smartest, best-dressed, and most confident woman that you can be" by sharing personal anecdotes and entertaining insights about the struggle to get through the murky milestones and identity issues that crop up long after prom ends. Whether she's discussing sex and beauty, personal style, travel and entertaining, motherhood, or friendship, Molly embodies the spirit of being fabulous at every age, and reminds us all that prettiness is a state of mind: it's "the part of you that knows what you really want, that takes risks."
Dr. Martha Beck
New York Times Best-Selling Author
With several bestselling books, a monthly column in O, The Oprah Magazine, three Harvard degrees, and decades of coaching experience, Dr. Martha Beck has strategies to put you on course for your right life. She'll help you dissolve limitations, realize your dreams, and enjoy a whole new journey.
Martha Beck is a writer and "life coach" who specializes in helping people design satisfying and meaningful life experiences. She holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies and master's and Ph.D. degrees in sociology, all from Harvard University.
She worked as a research associate at Harvard Business School, studying career paths and life-course changes in today's economic and social environment. Before becoming a life coach, Dr. Beck taught sociology, social psychology, organizational behaviour, and business management at Harvard and the American Graduate School of International Management. She has published academic books and articles on a variety of social science and business topics.
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