Step UP your Biz!

2019 Online Conference

February 11th to February 22nd

Ready to grow, scale, make more money, stop feeling busy all the time, and feel like your business is becoming what you dreamed it would be when you started?!

To get there you need a leg up. You need support and knowledge on what to prioritize, what to spend your time on, and what is actually going to make the biggest difference to your bottom line as well as to how you feel and enjoy your business.  

That's what the Step Up Your Biz online conference is all about. Amazing experts are coming together to share knowledge, to talk about what they've created in their businesses, and to share how they've built their own businesses.  

Learn from these incredible entrepreneurs while committing to take intentional action in your business this year!

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Lara Wellman

CONFERENCE HOST

Lara Wellman, Certified Business Coach

Lara is certified business coach for small and micro-sized business owners, as well as solopreneurs. She helps people get crystal-clear on their business goals, give the support they need to reach them, and guide them toward creating the business and life they dream about.  

Conference Schedule*

*Please Note: Conference schedule is still being finalized and is subject to change.

Monday, February 11th  

9:30 am EST: Lara Wellman - Conference Kick off + What do I focus on next?

 1:00 pm EST: Tammy Plunkett – Pick a topic and write your book!  


Tuesday, February 12th  

10 am EST: Marsha Shandur – How to sell without feeling like you’re selling

Noon EST: Tanis Frame – Decide to Thrive  

2 pm EST: Jennifer Walker – Facebook Live

   

Wednesday, February 13th  

11 am EST: Rebecca Stanisic – Instagram Stories  

1 pm EST: Sam Hunter – Creating a Decision Making Process  

 

Thursday, February 14th  

9 am EST: Karine Parthenais - Leveraging your Personal Brand for your Business.

1 pm EST: Leigh Fowler - Leverage Your Book Launch: How to (finally) launch your book, tell the world, build leads for your business and earn the bestseller title!  

Friday, February 15th  

11 am EST: Cathy Richards - Energized Eating 101 for the Entrepreneur  

Monday, February 18th

Noon EST: Jessica Keats - What's Holding You Back From Expanding?  

 

Tuesday, February 19th  

9 am EST: Angie Cole – When Feminine is Fierce : Using flow to grow your business  


  Wednesday, February 20th  

1:30 pm EST: Holly LaRochelle - Let's Build Your Emotional Toolkit for Moving Past Triggers

8 pm EST: Anna Gatmon - The Expansive Entrepreneur Creating Spiritual-Material Abundance in Your Heart-Centered Business

  

Thursday, February 21st  

2:00 pm EDT: Laura Wright - How To Fill Your Calendar with Discovery Calls, Stack The Universal Deck in Your Favor + Create A Massive Income Boost  

Friday, February 22nd 

11 am EST: Rachel Allen - Websites That Work: How to Get Your Old Site Sounding Like the New You Fast.  

2:30 pm EST: Lara Wellman - What comes next + taking action!

Featured Conference Speakers


With over two decades in sales, Laura Wright has helped many different types of businesses grow and prosper. She has helped over 4,800 artists sell tens of thousands of work, selling and filling multi-million dollar events, turning over 6 figure profits on repeat in real estate, and more recently growing my clients' businesses from $250k in revenue to over $1.2 million in approximately 2 years. YES, if there's a sale, Laura can close it! She is here to help you make your sales EPIC.  


Session Topic: How To Fill Your Calendar with Discovery Calls, Stack The Universal Deck in Your Favor + Create A Massive Income Boost  

Where do you find ideal prospects + what do you say to invite them for a call. Viral FB Posts that WORK (This is my absolute favorite way to connect with prospects and you'll see why right away!). How to instantly create a connection. Psst... this is what I use most often to engage my ideal prospects. How to engage someone and remove any selling barriers (THIS also creates some of the most qualified leads)  

Turn your last 20 No's into 20 YES's!!!

Laura Wright

Rachel Allen

Rachel Allen is the founder of Bolt from the Blue Copywriting, a creative agency that loves to get your copy and content converting for your business. As the universal translator between your work and your people’s busy, distracted minds, we help you take the cap off your impact, influence, and income with words that work.  

Session Topic: Websites That Work: How to Get Your Old Site Sound When you're just starting out, any web copy is better than no web copy. But once you start to get your feet under you, that quickie copy comes back to bite you, costing you sales and making you look amateur-hour when you're actually an expert.  

During our call, I'll teach you the three things you HAVE to get right in your website copy if you're looking to take your business to the next level -- and give you really simple steps to make it happen. 


Anna Gatmon, PhD, is a visionary educator and spiritual innovator. She comes from an eclectic background that spans the USA, Israel, Sweden and France. Her rich life experience includes careers as a fashion model, founder of an alternative elementary school, counselor, speaker and author of Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World: Four Keys to Fulfillment and Balance. She is the creator of the Expansive Community, a membership for changemakers who are committed to creating spiritual-material abundance in all areas of their life and in the lives of the people they live, work, and play with. Anna holds a doctorate degree in Transformative Learning from the California Institute of Integral Studies and lives with her family in Sonoma County, California.  

Session Topic: The Expansive Entrepreneur Creating Spiritual-Material Abundance in Your Heart-Centered Business You are a portal for spiritual wisdom and it’s material expression through your unique personality and vision. In this webinar, we will focus on how to infuse your life and business with renewed energy by considering both the spiritual and material abundance that you offer the world through your products and services.  

Anna Gatmon

Together we will: - Explore why living in spiritual-material abundance is vital for your personal and professional fulfillment - Discover the essence of your calling and how to infuse it into your business and life - Identify the spiritual and material needs of your customers so you can build a heart-centered business create products and services that serve them.  

As a bonus, I'll also share an entire playbook that guides you through some of these activities in my presentation. I invite you to print it out and have it ready for the call so you can capture your ah-ha moments and insights and integrate them into your heart-centered business.  


Jennifer Walker


Jennifer Walker is a master connector, helping dozens of entrepreneurs take the overwhelm out of marketing their businesses by clarifying their messaging and creating strategies that allow them to genuinely connect with their customers. Her holistic style of coaching invites her clients to dig a little deeper, resulting in more authentic marketing and a shift in results. Genuine connection inspires lasting growth!


Session Topic: Facebook LIVE with Jennifer Walker Does the thought of going LIVE on Facebook to promote your business have you quaking in your boots? Jennifer Walker will discuss with Lara about how going LIVE can help increase your visibility, as well as tips and tricks to maximize your time spent going LIVE.  


Tammy Plunkett is the founder and CEO of Big Sky Author Services and an award-winning, bestselling author. She masterfully helps business owners write books that elevate their brand and increases their bottom line. Whether they choose traditional publishing or self-publishing, Tammy takes her clients from an idea to holding their book.  

Session Topic: Pick a Topic and Write Your Book Writing analysis paralysis is real. It’s absolutely overwhelming when you’re a smart, creative entrepreneur who taps into a never-ending supply of ideas. If you’ve fallen into the trap of making lists, writing outlines, and buying domains for your next book, but you’ve failed to actually write past chapter one, the madness stops now. This session will help you move from inertia to authorship by identifying which topic and structure are best for you so you can start, and more importantly, finish your book this year. 

Tammy Plunkett

Jessica Keats

Jessica Keats, of Inflow Therapeutics, is an Intuitive Healer who helps people release restrictions, heal from traumas and remove energies that are keeping them from the business and life of their dreams. She is passionate about healing, revealing hidden potential and witnessing the impossible become possible. She believes helping one person heal and find freedom, helps the world.  

Session Topic: What's Holding You Back From Expanding? Have you been getting the nudge to play big? Grow your Business, Reach for a big Promotion or Build something New? Words like Collaboration, Leveraging, Scaling, Negotiations can bring up past stories, hurt feelings and beliefs that are getting in the way of your Expansion.  

During the call Lara will chat with Jessica Keats about how we can become aware of what is getting in the way and how Energy Healing can help clear and reveal an easier path to expansion for all of us.  


Karine Parthenais is the Connexionista. She helps small business owners realize their goals and look good online. Her work is focused on personal branding and building a solid online presence. She is also a big advocate for the small business hustle and does everything possible to support people who are pursuing what sets their souls on fire.

Session Topic: Leveraging your personal brand for your business In small business, your personal brand is critical for success. How you interact on and offline will determine if someone relates to you and if they would like to take the next step of working with you. This talk will offer a fresh perspective on how to leverage who you are as a human being for business.  

Karine Parthenais

Marsha Shandur


Marsha Shandur (Yes Yes Marsha) helps big-hearted, big-thinking business owners and speakers instantly create the kind of connection that makes people feel like they’ve known you for years.

Session Topic: How to sell without feeling like you're selling Does writing sales copy make you feel like you need a shower afterwards? During this interactive session Marsha will help you find the language and wording that will help you sell your goods or services in a way that benefits people even if they don't buy from you — turning sales into something that actually feels good (really!)  


Leigh Fowler is a strategic content amplifier for established experts, speakers, consultants and authors - helping them become more visible and convert their followers into buyers with feel-good content strategies. After 20 years of experience working in the publishing and marketing industry, Leigh knows that content that converts is a strategy, not an accident.  

Session Topic: Leverage Your Book Launch: How to (finally) launch your book, tell the world, build leads for your business and earn the bestseller title! If you’re looking for a way to stand out and differentiate yourself from the crowd, then planning a leveraged book launch is a business strategy you just can’t ignore! In this training, Leigh Fowler will inspire you with proactive pre-press success strategies, how to use your book launch to attract more leads and media plus insider secrets behind bestseller attempts for experts, consultants, speakers and business coaches. 

 

Leigh Fowler

Holly LaRochelle

Holly LaRochelle is a multi-passionate entrepreneur who helps creative & innovative people step into their wild & free lives, build new passionate businesses and learn new skills. She's on a mission to help everyone escape the shackles of who the world expects you to be, and step into who you truly are, doing what you love, and finding joy in life-long learning. When she's not at her keyboard, you'll find her in her Northern Alberta backyard playing, planting and adventuring with her husband, two kids and one very hairy Border Collie.  

Session Topic: Let's Build Your Emotional Toolkit for Moving Past Triggers Entrepreneurs deal with a roller coaster of emotions on a daily (and sometimes hourly) basis. One minute we're up, and the next we're down. Instead of sabotaging your business or throwing the covers over your head, or buying a new tool or course that won't fix it, let's figure out what your emotional signposts are, how you get triggered, and how to climb back into the saddle.  




Rebecca Stanisic is a freelance writer and digital content creator. She's been blogging on her website, A Little Bit of Momsense, since 2009 and for almost as many years has helped fellow bloggers and small business owners create and curate relevant digital content for their own businesses. She's the proud mom to two and is fueled by fiction and coffee. 


Session Topic: Instagram Stories It may feel like Instagram Stories is just another social media 'thing' to do - and I get it, there are so many tools and platforms to share information on - but 400 million people are watching stories every day. Paired with the fact that it's a great way to build rapport, share information, and create a personal connection with clients and customers, it's no surprise that I am focused on stories, and excited to share some of my secrets to make stories easier for you. In my mini webinar, I'll also offer a few tricks and techniques that will get more people watching your stories every day (and taking action from them).  

Rebecca Stanisic

Tanis Frame

Leadership coach and professional speaker, Tanis Frame, is relentlessly curious about what cultivates thriving and what gets in the way. Her mission is to support others to thrive so our families and communities can thrive in turn. A long time facilitator, she has a background steeped in science ranging from biology to environmental health, and from applied positive psychology to conflict resolution.  

Tanis is also proud mama to two fierce young girls and has been facilitating groups and high-performance teams for over 2 decades and currently leads the international Decide to Thrive Movement from her home in Whistler BC.  

Tanis speaks and runs workshops on many pivotal topics related to thriving as individuals and teams. She also hosts retreats and runs her signature annual deep dive, the Decide to Thrive Immersion.

Session Topic: Decide to Thrive When we decide to thrive, we play by a different set of rules. Join this interactive playshop to find out how you can play your way to powerful clarity and alignment in your business and your life.  



Angie Cole is a magic maker. Her style of coaching blends the best of nitty-gritty life coaching, badass business consulting, and soulful intuitive healing. She too has been on the journey away from, and back to, her fiercely feminine power and wisdom. Angie has been a coach since the days when no one knew what that meant, and a full-time entrepreneur since 2013.

Session Topic: When Feminine is Fierce - Using Flow to Grow your Business We see ‘the rise of the feminine’ all around us, but in many ways, we’re still missing the mark. In this session, we’ll explore how to truly engage your feminine instincts, and balance them with your masculine drive, to create the impact you dream of having in your business, and on the world.  

Angie Cole

Sam Hunter

Sam Hunter is the owner of Hunter's Design Studio, a pattern design company for the quilting industry. When she's not at the sewing machine, you can find her championing the rights of her fellow craftspeople to earn a living wage through her movement We Are $ew Worth It!  

Session Topic: Creating a decision making process During this conversation with Lara, Sam will be sharing her decision process and the twenty questions that you can ask when deciding to take on any project so that you can see if the decision supports your long term goals and your personal values. This process will help you avoid swirl and churn around new projects or tasks, identify the places where you should be hiring out portions of the work you do yourself and pinpoint your personal triggers for making decisions that don't support your business goals (for example, always dropping everything to help a needy friend). 


Cathy Richards is a mom of 3 young kids and a Registered Dietitian with over 18 years experience. Cathy loves working with mompreneurs who are ready to UPLEVEL their life and business by getting the energy to work efficiently, boost productivity and ultimately skyrocket their profits! Her evidence based practice has involved working with various government departments, the department of National defence and 2 different universities and now she uses this wealth of experience to offer bespoke support to other busy mompreneurs. Cathy believes that if you're not healthy, you won't get wealthy.  

Session Topic: Energized Eating 101 for the Entrepreneur As a busy entrepreneur it can be tempting to finish one more task and put off (or even forget all together) eating your lunch! Though you may not feel the immediate effects of this it can actually be making you less productive and cause you to lose focus. Join Cathy as she shares five simple strategies to make energized eating a seamless part of your day so that you can get the energy to work efficiently, boost productivity and ultimately skyrocket your profits. If you’re not healthy, you won’t get wealthy!  

Cathy Richards

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Why attend?

From February 11th to the 22nd the Step Up Your Biz online conference will showcase a series of guest speakers talking about topics that matter the most to you, giving you tips, tricks and training that will empower you to take action and figure out what you need to prioritize in 2019.  

This conference is all about helping you figure out where to spend your valuable time to grow, scale, optimize and increase your revenue this year!

How will the conference work?

The conference is happening online and it's a mix of webinar style trainings, interactive Q&A sessions, and interview style conversations around topics that concern business owners.  

You will receive all schedule information as it's confirmed. You can either attend sessions live or watch the recordings in the private Facebook Group or from the email links you will receive throughout the program.  

This conference is designed for the entrepreneur who wants to learn on their own time or the entrepreneur who gets the most out of being live on a call with an expert. The Facebook Group gives you an added opportunity to engage with the experts and get the most out of the learning opportunities during the 11-day conference - PLUS you can stay connected with all conference participants permanently.

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