Meet Your Host
Jessica Abel
Jessica Abel is a graphic novelist, author, business coach for creatives, and the founder of Autonomous Creative. She supports midcareer creative professionals who are ready to start getting paid like the experts they are. Abel rejects the notion that creative fields are necessarily precarious and instead works to put the tools of making real money in less time—without creative compromise—into the hands of the artists, writers, and entrepreneurs who need them.
Meet Your Speakers
Oliver Burkeman
Finding Freedom in “Imperfectionism”
Oliver Burkeman is the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks, and of the newly released Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts. In his email newsletter The Imperfectionist, he writes about productivity, mortality, the power of limits and building a meaningful life in an age of distraction. After a decade in Brooklyn, he now lives in the North York Moors in England.
Marie Poulin
Productive By Nature
Marie teaches business owners to level up their digital systems, workflow, and knowledge management processes using Notion.
She’s the co-founder of Oki Doki and creator of Notion Mastery an online program and community that helps creators, entrepreneurs and small teams tame their work + life chaos by building life and business management systems with Notion and supporting technologies.
Diagnosed with ADHD at age 37, Marie is especially passionate about helping folks customize their workflows and workspaces to meet their unique needs and preferences.
She believes that Notion is especially powerful for neurodivergent folks who have long struggled to adhere to traditional or rigid project management processes, and may need a little extra customization and flexibility.
When she's not tinkering in Notion or doing live trainings, you can find her in the garden, playing softball, or cooking up some delicious vegetarian tacos.
Susan Boles
Calm is the New KPI
Most business owners don’t set out to build a chaotic, stressful business—but that’s exactly where they end up. Susan Boles helps them design and build something different.
As a COO/CFO and founder of Beyond Margins, Susan teaches thriving agency and consulting firm owners how to move from a Default Business™ (one that’s reactive and stressful) to a Calmer Business™ (one that’s intentional and sustainable). Using her Calmer Framework, she helps founders engineer calm into their operations—so they can scale without burning out.
She’s also the host of Calm is the New KPI, where she shares how to make calm your competitive advantage. Whether through speaking, strategy, or systems, Susan helps founders step out of day-to-day chaos and build a business that runs smoothly—without them holding it together.
Andréa Jones
CTRL+ALT+ENGAGE: Rebooting Your Social Media Approach
Meet Andréa Jones, the mindful marketing strategist who helps you grow with simpler, smarter marketing. As the founder of OnlineDrea, she’s all about turning marketing headaches into victories with a mix of savvy strategy and playful creativity.
With over a decade of experience, Andréa has guided over 4,000 students through her Mindful Marketing Lab, making social media fun and effective—no burnout required.
Andréa is also the host of the award-winning Mindful Marketing Podcast, where she shares the latest social media tips and marketing strategies. When she’s not whipping up winning content or recording her podcast, Andréa loves hanging out with her husband and daughters in beautiful Niagara Falls, Canada.
Her mantra? Your growth and your wellbeing go hand in hand.
Charlotte Ellis Maldari
Find More of Your Best Clients Without Content, Ads or Cold Calls
I’m Charlotte Ellis Maldari, founder of Kaffeen. Since 2005, I’ve helped creative agencies find clients and grow—without awkward pitches or endless prospecting. Along the way, I earned my MBA and became a bestselling author, all to refine practical, budget-friendly strategies that work.
I know creatives hate sales—you’d rather focus on your craft. That’s why I’ve spent nearly 20 years making client acquisition simpler and more natural. No hefty outsourcing fees. No full-time sales hires. Just proven systems that attract high-value clients on autopilot.
At Kaffeen, we’ve helped over 5,000 creative firms do just that. Whether you’re a coach, freelancer, or agency founder, I’ll help you get busy with the right clients—so you can focus on the work you love.
Let’s make growing your business easy.
Sarah Von Bargen
Uncomplicate Your Marketing
Sarah is a long-time online writer, coach, and now fractional marketing director. She helps people and companies who need more than Instagram, less than a marketing agency. She believes it's 100% possible to promote your work at services in a way that's un-gross and un-complicated.
Jacquette M. Timmons
Fix Your Pricing from the Inside Out
For three decades, Jacquette M. Timmons has been exploring the intersection of money, business, and life - through a cultural lens.
Her aim is to help people decrease their financial stress and increase their financial health and wealth by getting them to focus on both sides of the money equation - the numbers, along with the psychology and emotions of money.
Jacquette does this by helping people focus on their relationship with money. Because this relationship influences every swipe, every deposit, every fiscal choice you make. And, by helping business owners make decisions about their business model, sales process, and pricing strategy that centers the health of their personal finances.
She's the author of, "Financial Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate;" a frequent blogger; creator & trademark holder of "Pricing Made Human®; host of the podcast, "More Than Money," and a staunch advocate for getting people to focus on the human side of money.
Michelle Warner
Relationship or Traffic Marketing? Why Choosing the Right Strategy Changes Everything
Michelle Warner designs tiny companies that are built for the long run. With an MBA from one of the world's top business schools and 15+ years growing small businesses, Michelle knows how to help you diagnose and fix what's not working while designing a new iteration of your business that will work for you.
She’s the host of Sequence Over Strategy, a podcast that reminds you that the steps you take in your business and the order in which you take them is more important than how well you implement any strategy. She’s also the creator of Networking That Pays, the introvert-friendly, always awkward-free connection system that delivers reliable leads, consistent referrals and meaningful connections.
Tara McMullin
When Your Business Stops Working: What to Redesign First
Tara McMullin is a writer, podcaster, and critic who studies emerging forms of work and identity in the 21st-century economy. Bringing a rigorous critique of conventional wisdom to topics like success and productivity, she melds conceptual curiosity with practical application. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Quartz, and The Muse.
Sandra Booker
Find the One Number That Matters—And Stop Wasting Time on the Rest
Sandra specializes in helping overworked, overwhelmed, multi-hatted entrepreneurs become the CEOs of sustainably scalable, and powerfully profitable businesses.
After helping local businesses thrive, and receiving accolades in her community (like the 40 Under 40 award) Sandra turned her attention to the world of online service providers, and her clients include familiar names like Tarzan Kay, and Laura Belgray. In her (efficiently used) spare time, she teaches others how to build and grow their own 6-figure virtual assistant practices and is on a mission to create a million jobs by helping her clients and students scale their businesses.
Gina Knox
Never Run Dry
Gina Knox is a financial coach for entrepreneurs with variable income. She teaches entrepreneurs how to build their business savings to $1k, $10k, then $100k in her 12 month program 6 Figure Saver, then she helps her clients create a 7 figure wealth portfolio with her mastermind 7 Figure Wealth. Over her career as a coach Gina has helped her clients save over 6 million dollars in less than 3 years.
Gina is a Mexican Mom, an art school grad, a designer, a hobby potter, a world traveler, and a money nerd.
Michael Bungay Stanier
How to Begin
Michael Bungay Stanier gives people the tools and confidence to make a real difference in the work they do.
He’s best known for his book The Coaching Habit, which is the best-selling book on coaching this century and is considered a classic.
His most recent book is How to Work with (Almost) Anyone, and it shows how to build the Best Possible Relationship with the key people at work.
He’s also the host of the Change Signal podcast.
He left Australia about 30 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University … where his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian … which is why he now lives in Toronto, having spent time in London and Boston.
LaChelle Barnett
Turn Your Expertise Into a Group Program
My name is LaChelle Barnett and I am what they call a Business Therapist. You see 50% of the time I’m leveraging my decades of experience as a licensed therapist helping successful entrepreneurs navigate the internal challenges of entrepreneurship. And the other 50% of the time I’m actually in the trenches helping industry experts turn their expertise into legendary bodies of work, supporting you with business strategy and curriculum design. I love both roles because I see too many powerhouse helpers live in survival mode when they desire & deserve fulfillment and freedom.
Jay Acunzo
What If You Had to Whisper? How to Craft a Message that Moves Your Market
Jay Acunzo helps business leaders become stronger speakers and storytellers. A former marketer at Google and HubSpot, Jay started his soloist journey as a professional speaker and show host. Today, he helps creatives, entrepreneurs, and brands like Mailchimp, Wistia, and Salesforce develop stronger messaging, stories, and speeches.
Melanie Deziel
Turn Your Ideas into IP
Melanie Deziel is a Creative Systems Architect, keynote speaker and award-winning branded content creator who is passionate about helping individuals, teams, and organizations unlock their creative potential and organize their creative efforts.
She produces the Creative Constructs newsletter, and is the author of both “The Content Fuel Framework: How to Generate Unlimited Story Ideas” and “Prove It: Exactly How Modern Marketers Earn Trust.”
Matt Madden
Thinking Inside the Box: How to Use Constraints as a Source of Creativity and Innovation
Matt Madden is an internationally renowned cartoonist dubbed by The New York Times as “the stuntman-philosopher of American comics.”
He is well-known around the world for his canonical book is 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style, which takes a single page comic and spins out 99 inventive and surprising variations. This project has inspired other cartoonists, filmmakers, and writers around the world and has been translated and published in ten languages and counting.
Matt regularly teaches workshops online and IRL as well as offering a one-on-one coaching program for cartoonists.
Matt is married to Jessica Abel and the couple live in Philadelphia with their two teenagers.
Tarzan Kay
Write Better Emails: From Information to Connection
Ex-bossbabe Tarzan Kay is the writer of Emails, but better, a much-loved newsletter that’s fun to read and more addictive than whatever you’re watching on Netflix right now. Her programs teach business owners how to write highly-readable, story-driven emails that sell using consent-based strategies to grow and sell with email. She spent years quietly dismantling her 7-figure boss-babe empire and building a more inclusive online business that prioritizes people over profits. She lives in Ontario, Canada with her two children and many boats.
