Al Braatz has performed around the world working on productions across Europe and North America. Some credits include: Aladdin and the Twankey’s, as the title role, The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly and recently starred in an award winning feature film, That is All. His work ethic and experience in the industry has made him into the artist he is today. He is grateful for every opportunity to share his craft and make the world a better place, while sipping a nice cup of Sipology.

Megan Brewster is a Social Media and Branding coach who has been an online entrepreneur for 5 years.  She started off doing everything wrong and after years of studying marketing, social media platforms, psychology, and lots of experimenting, she found her passion in helping people build successful online businesses in a way that is both fun and sustainable.  She loves helping people become confident in sharing what makes them unique and make genuine connections with people online.

Jess is a Facebook and Instagram Story strategist who specializes in product based businesses. A multi passionate business owner herself with seven years in the Network Marketing Industry, she fell in love with stories when they first launched and has since used them to launch two different business. She believes the authenticity and closeness stories can bring to you and your audience is exactly why this feature can help you take your business to the next level. Shes shows people how to create a stories strategy designed to propel their business forward WITHOUT taking time away from other tasks.

Janice began her career as a teacher and during her 14th year of teaching met and fell in love with Direct Selling. She joined a new Direct Selling company to Canada - Discovery Toys in 1986 and moved into the top Leadership role, Executive Director in one year!
From there she became the only Diamond Director in Canada and developed a team of over 3000 consultants with 172 leaders within 5 years.
In 1996 she was given the opportunity to launch Pampered Chef in Canada. Janice started the business in her home and again enjoyed a successful start - but this time as a corporate leader. She began by doing shows and recruiting the founding consultants of the business. Within the first 6 months Pampered Chef had over 300 consultants and sales exceeded a million dollars!
In her 24 year career at Pampered Chef she wore many hats and ended her career as VP of International Business Operations, opening other countries for Pampered Chef including Mexico, Germany and the UK.
Currently she consults with Direct Sellers and coaches other leaders on Intentional Leadership.
Janice is passionate about leadership, teaching others and alerting people to the many opportunities within the Direct Selling world! From day one her passion was to share the many opportunities within the world of Direct Selling and how we can bring out the greatness in others through growing a business and leading others!

Kate Davis has the unique ability to find humour in any situation and offer creative solutions to defuse frustrations in both the workplace and at home.

A 12-time Canadian Comedy Awards nominee who has opened for Bill Clinton and Barabara Walters, Davis’ teaches effective tools for managing stress and sustaining motivation. As a writer, Davis has been published in Today’s Parent and Mom and Caregiver magazines. She is also the author of two books, The Breastfeeding Diaries, which won the iParenting media award, and Second Best Mom.

Melanie is the mom of 4 girls and has been in the Direct Sales industry for more than 25 years, starting first in the field as a Consultant & Leader before moving into Corporate DS positions.

For the last 10 years, Melanie has served as the VP of Sales at several Direct Sales companies, the Director of Training & Development at a social media software company and as a corporate business Consultant for various newly launching Direct Sales companies.  In the fall of 2019, Melanie launched her own training company called the Social Synergy Group where she & her team enjoy working with Consultants, Leaders, Coaches & Companies to exponentially grow their business online through training, private coaching and social media management.

Anne Marie Fauvel is a biologist, nature lover and a foodie. Her early interests translated into becoming a passionate beekeeper and honey bee health specialist. Anne Marie works for the Bee Informed Partnership (BIP), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving honey bee colony health. BIP brings together all sides of the beekeeping industry collaborating with academic institutions, researchers, and commercial, sideliner and backyard beekeepers. Anne Marie coordinates the efforts of the Technical Transfer Team based in 5 main hubs across the U.S. providing honey bee colony assessments, sampling and a variety of testing services to the commercial beekeepers in over 17 states. Anne Marie brings the tech team’s unique ‘birds’ eye’ perspective on the beekeeping industry and combines it with her own beekeeping experiences to discuss all things honey bees and honey.

A certified sommelier, journalist and wine educator, Erin literally drinks and throws parties for a living. Having earned her designation from the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers in 2008, she worked for some of Toronto’s leading venues, including Canoe and the Badminton and Racquet Club of Toronto, before opening The Wine Sisters.
A regular guest wine and drinks expert on CTV’s The Social, Erin’s wine writing has also been featured in the Huffington Post, Maclean’s, theloop.ca, and Canadian Meetings and Events magazine.

My name is Karen Lim and I’ve been working in the hospitality industry for 18 years. My expertise lies in specialty coffee, which I’ve immersed myself in over the last 4 years with my current role as the Senior Barista at Donut Monster. I love all things food and drink related. I am slowly expanding my interest and expertise in the bartending scene as well. My goal is to continue to gain as much knowledge from the hospitality industry as possible in order to continue to educate others and let my creativity flourish through food and drink products.