Past Events
2024 - 2020
Tough Broad: How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
April 2024, Online
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age. Caroline Paul and discusses her new book Tough Broad and her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must.
Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, Why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age?
We will discuss how we can keep our sense of exploration and outdoor adventure can improve our lives as we age.
About Caroline Paul: Caroline is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure and Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, which has been translated into fifteen languages. She is also the author of the memoir Fighting Fire, the middle-grade book You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World, and the novel East Wind, Rain. Her TED Talk, “To Raise Brave Girls, Encourage Adventure,” has been viewed over 2 million times. A longtime member of the Writers Grotto, she lives in San Francisco.
You can watch the event here
Spring Kampfire: A half day retreat in Port Townsend
April 2024, In-person
Spring is a magical time of awakening and blossoming. Plants awaken from winter's slumber, flowers blossom sharing their brightness with the world. What ideas, knowings and dreams are awakening within you? What magic is blossoming within you?
Join us for this special half-day retreat, co-hosted by Jaime Komer, the Founder of The Kampfire and RevelEleven Founder Joanie Parsons, to awaken, honor and nourish your body, mind and soul. Jaime will guide you through "The Kampfire Experience", a one-of-a-kind experience for nurturing your inner wisdom and daily life. Through a creative process we'll explore together what's awakening and blossoming within us. Soak up this sweet experience of being surrounded by a joyful constellation of women while in beautiful Port Townsend, WA.
May you feel lighter, brighter, with a sense of calm and inner knowing. May this retreat be exactly what you need at this time in your life.
About Jaime Komer: Jaime is the Founder and Creative Facilitator for The Kampfire, experiences for nurturing your personal growth. Each Kampfire session includes guided visualizations, reflections and discussion as a powerful tool for deepening connection with each other and strengthening inner knowing within you.
Jaime is an Olympic Medalist in Water Polo with over 15 years experience teaching and guiding in the Wellness field. She holds a master’s degree in Health and Wellness Coaching and has helped Olympic and Paralympic Athletes, entrepreneurs, parents and more through their life transitions and reframing their life direction and values. She's worked with Intuitive Mentors for over 10 years supporting her energetic and intuitive journey.
The Healing Power of Writing Your Story Workshop
April 2024, Online
New York Times bestselling author, memoir coach, and inspirational speaker Ingrid Ricks first discovered the healing power of personal narrative when she wrote her coming of age memoir, Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story. But it wasn’t until she began helping high school students write and publish the deeply personal stories they needed to tell that she uncovered its ability to foster the awareness, understanding, and empathy that is so crucial in today’s divisive world.
Expressive writing can result in a reduction in stress, anxiety, and depression; improve our sleep and performance; and bring greater focus and clarity. It can also be a powerful healing tool, helping us feel seen and heard, while working to understand how our stories affect us today.
In this generative 5-week workshop, Ricks will help you tap into the healing power of personal narrative and write the emotionally charged story you need to tell.
About Ingrid: Ingrid Ricks is passionate about leveraging personal storytelling to foster healing, awareness, empathy, and change. Over the past decade, she has helped thousands of students of every age find healing and empowerment by writing deeply personal stories they needed to tell and has produced eight anthologies in partnership with high schools and non-profits. Ingrid, who views personal storytelling as the key to healing and unity in today’s divided world, regularly presents her Unleashing the Power of Personal Storytelling workshops in partnership with organizations throughout the region and has delivered keynote talks on the subject to educators and social workers nationwide.
Ingrid’s books include the coming-of-age memoir, Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story, and Focus, a memoir about her journey with the blinding eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. She has also ghostwritten several books and has shared stories from her childhood on Salon and NPR.
Breaking Barriers to Investing for Financial Freedom
April 2024, Online
Chances are you were never taught anything about investing. And the idea of owning real estate seemed like a far-fetched dream. How can you ever master seeing the forest through the trees to financial freedom? Who do you trust in this crazy landscape of investing, and is there a way to be a part of the group that profits from it all?
In this video, we talk with Tamar Hermes, author of The Millionairess Mentality and founder and CEO of Wealth Building Concierge. We will give you the knowledge and permission to get over the hump of feeling overwhelmed so you can understand how deals are made.
We discuss why women make the best investors and how they can tap into their intuitions to make sound decisions from which they can profit. We will unpack the secrets to optimizing investment timing, keeping abreast of trends for informed decision-making, and integrating gut instincts with strategic planning.
About Tamar Hermes, Tamar Hermes is a full-time investor, coach, author, and founder of The Wealth Building Concierge, supporting driven women in getting wealthy by mastering wealth strategies and real estate investing. Today, she manages an $ 8-figure portfolio, including various asset classes in real estate, private equity, crypto, collectibles, and cannabis.
Creating Abundance with the Wisdom of Feng Shui
April 2024, Online
Amanda Gibby Peters, the founder of Simple Shui and the author of Simple Shui for Every Day: 365 Ways to Feng Shui Your Life shares her extensive Feng Shui experience and teach us how we can work with our homes to optimize our financial health and its flourishing growth.
Feng Shui is a wisdom that guides us in aligning our homes and ourselves with the energy of fortune. From this conversational practice, we’re able to deliberately and intentionally make changes, improvements, and adjustments in our surroundings that positively influence our lives.
While there are no quick fixes, there are practical “within reach” changes for everyone that deliver impressive results. In this conversation, we’ll discuss Feng Shui’s “best practices” for shifting the energy of abundance in your favor!
About Amanda Gibby Peters: Amanda is the voice and founder of Simple Shui — a modern-day, mission-driven, love-based practice of Feng Shui — and the host of the House Therapy podcast. She’s been teaching Feng Shui techniques and tips for nearly two decades, witnessing the breathtaking life transformations of her readers and clients. She is currently offering a course – Become Your Own Feng Shui Consultant.
Cultivated Confidence with Toni Purry
March 2024, Online
Whether you're navigating a career transition, striving for advancement, or simply seeking to own your seat at the table, Cultivated Confidence equips you with the tools and insights to step boldly into your future.
In a world where confidence is the key to unlocking endless opportunities, Cultivated Confidence offers a roadmap for building, refining, and ultimately embracing unwavering self-assurance.
At the heart of Cultivated Confidence lies the innovative concept of My Hype Book—a game-changing process born from personal experience. Developed during a time of profound self-doubt, My Hype Book has since empowered countless women to reclaim their confidence and thrive in both their personal and professional lives.
About Toni Purry: Toni Purry is an entrepreneur, corporate trainer, coach, and author. She empowers executives to become confident and effective brand spokespeople through her Know Your Narrative™ media training framework. Toni is the author of "My Hype Book" and creator of The Hype Method™, a professional development program for cultivating team and personal confidence.
Landesa's Seed the Change
March 2024, In-person
Join Joanie for Landesa's hallmark fundraising event, Seed the Change! Let's come together to reflect on International Women’s Day and celebrate Landesa’s commitment to bettering the lives of women and their families around the world. Indulge in a selection of globally inspired bites and beverages, learn directly from Landesa’s dedicated program staff, and immerse yourself in engaging activities about the profound impact of land rights. Your presence will make this an unforgettable experience as we unite for a cause that resonates across borders and generations.
About Landesa: Landesa champions and works to secure land rights for millions of the world’s poorest, mostly rural women and men, to provide opportunity and promote social justice. Landesa works at scale to create opportunities that help people and communities lift themselves out of poverty by working side by side with governments and other organizations to strengthen land rights for people experiencing landlessness – those 400 million women and 250 million men who lack either access to land or a secure stake in the land they farm.
Claim Your Worth with Jane Boulware
March 2024, Online
We all know the importance of standing up for someone else. But what about standing up for yourself? Not as easy, is it? Let’s learn about overcoming the circumstances, fear and people (including yourself) that limit your success.
Join us as we meet with Jane Boulware, one of our RevelEleven advisory board members and author of Worthy: From Cornfields to Corner Office of Microsoft, Stories of Overcoming. This event will help inspire and encourage us to rethink what is possible and to show up, stand up and lift up ourselves and others.
About Jane Boulware: From the cornfields of rural Iowa, Jane Boulware defied expectations to lead billion-dollar businesses and rise as a top Microsoft executive. By 52, she'd launched three major ventures, navigated the US's largest merger and enabled a generation of influential leaders in her wake because victory isn’t reaching the top, it’s helping others ascend. That’s why Jane is donating all her proceeds from WORTHY book sales to Boys & Girls Clubs for youth scholarships. Passionate about empowering others to recognize their worth, Jane now dedicates herself to speaking, mentoring, board service and gatherings with family. She lives in Bellevue, WA.
Ignite Your Intentions: Spring Equinox Workshop
March 2024, Online
Joanie’s annual intention setting workshop for Spring Equinox is on Sunday, March 17! Start your spring off strong to set some intentions for the next 90 days to the Summer Solstice.
What is blossoming inside of you and what is ready to burst open into reality and success? Bring your journal and an open heart. We will start with personal goals, because when you are whole and complete everything else begins to fall into place.
Take on the next 90 days with the power of intentions and a powerful mindset.
Energy Rising: The Neuroscience of
Leading with Emotional Power
February 2024, Online
Can you control your brain’s energy? Some days we feel like we are firing on all cylinders while other days we struggle to keep focus. Is there a way to harness your brain’s energy in the moment and use it to empower you? Join Dr. Julia DiGangi the author of Energy Rising – The Neuroscience of Leading with Emotional Power to learn more.
She will teach us how to recognize and transform our brain’s energy through eight “codes” or principles. Some of them may surprise you, suggesting you do the opposite of what you want to do. You will learn why they work and how to apply them through exercises and reflections.
About the speaker: Dr. Julia DiGangi is the founder of NeuroHealth Partners and a practicing neuropsychologist and researcher in the neuroscience of emotional, cognitive, and social health. She is an expert on the effects of chronic stress on our brain and our behavior. She has treated stress and trauma in civilian, community, business, and military contexts. She has worked with traumatized and underserved communities around the globe for more than twenty years.
Cultivating Resilience Through Creativity
January 2024, Online
Using our creativity through storytelling allows us the power to see things anew, reconsider past challenges and hurdles by honoring your ability to grow, change and evolve. Are you ready to unlock your creativity, resilience, and potential?
Join authors and storytellers Dr. Vicki Atkinson and Wynne Leon for a what-when-why-how session to help you unload the weight on your shoulders. They'll help you find the hidden gifts that gleam when you unwrap what you’ve been carrying and write it down.
Whether you have a specific story to tell or are just ready to try a writing practice, Vicki and Wynne will walk you through how writing and creativity can help you open doors internally and interpersonally.
About the speakers: Dr. Vicki Atkinson and Wynne Leon are women on storytelling missions. Professionals outside of their writing careers, Vicki and Wynne believe in the power of writing for resilience and the potential that exists when we our explore our creative hearts as we strive to live intentionally – with love and joy abundant – despite the challenges that life presents. Both have authored books, “Surviving Sue” (ebook) and paperback by Dr. Vicki Atkinson and “Finding My Father’s Faith” by Wynne Leon.
She’s the Boss: Advice from 4 Female Founders
January 2024, In-Person
What does it take to be your own boss? To be the boss lady? Or a woman on the go and in-charge?
How do you take an idea and turn it into a solid business plan and a thriving business? At She’s the Boss, we will hear from four well-known female founders about their experience: leadership lessons, how to’s and go-to’s.
From spirits to cookies and rental fashion to sustainable lipstick, this amazing panel will energize you to make your vision a reality. Whether you are an entrepreneur, working your way up, or curious about what motivated these amazing women, this discussion will inspire you and frankly, it is spot-on for helping RevelEleven with our audacious goal of women running the world.
Join us and Ambika Singh, Founder and CEO of Armoire Clothing Rental; Jamie Hunt, Founder and CEO of Fast Penny Spirits; Robin Wehl Martin, co-owner and COO of Hello Robin Cookies; and Meg Diaz, CEO and Chief Product Officer of Vermouth Beauty.
Take Charge of Your Body, Boundaries + Bank Account
January 2024, Online
Do you often find yourself questioning how you should react because there is a young girl in your head telling you that your comment might offend? That you should just go ahead and agree so you don’t ruffle feathers? As women, most of us have been raised to be good girls and praised for obedience and people-pleasing.
Lisa Carmen Wang is a champion gymnast turned serial entrepreneur and investor empowers women to break free of Good Girl Brainwashing – perfectionism, people-please, permission-asking – to become their most authentic and powerful selves.
Join us as we meet Lisa and she introduces us to her new book The Bad Bitch Business Bible. Whether you’re launching your first business, transitioning in your career, trying to find your community, or making a life change, The Bad Bitch Business Bible is an invaluable resource that teaches you how to tap into the most powerful version of yourself.
Step Into Your Inner Wisdom, Heart + Badassery
January 2024, In-Person
We know we have it. An inner wisdom that guides us but is sometimes muted in the chaos of every day life. RevelEleven is inviting you to open 2024 with intention. Meet us in person for an evening of community and stories focused on accessing our inner strength and developing our mind/body connection.
Special guest Jennifer Cassetta will be joining us from Los Angeles. Jen will share a framework for building inner strength, and give tools centered on resilience, boundaries, communication and so much more.
Kimberly Dean, JD, MFT, CoPS, joins us to detail her journey through cancer and how she came out on top. She set out to conquer literal and figurative mountains in her healing journey and now pays it forward by leading others to experience the physical, emotional and mental vitality though outdoor adventures.
Manjeet Russell, an intuitive coach of more than 20 years, also joins us share how to embrace lives that are clear, balanced, and purposeful.
A Winter Solstice Celebration + Journaling Workshop: Journey to the Light
December 2023, Online
Since ancient times, people all over the world have recognized this important astronomical occurrence and celebrated the subsequent “return” of the light. It stands as an important reminder that the light is always within and waiting for you.
Take some time for yourself before the holiday crunch and join us for some inner reflection. What is glowing within you? What are you visioning for the New Year? Bring your journal and join RevelEleven Founder, Joanie Parsons, for a session of personal illumination.
Grab the Holly + Get Jolly: Winter Wreath Workshop
November 2023, In-Person
Adorn your door this holiday with a beautiful evergreen wreath – made by YOU! Join RevelEleven co-creator, Joanie Parsons, and prepare to get your creative juices flowing.
You will learn how to make a wreath using greens, pinecones, ribbons and more. Have a meaningful ornament? Bring it! This is all about YOU and your unique creativity, along with a whole lot of holiday fun with other gals.
On Thursday, November 30 from 5:30-8pm, we will gather in the Ballard area of Seattle, where bubbles + pizza from Serious Pie will be served.
Wreath, all greenery and goodies, ribbon, clippers will be provided. Just bring yourself and your creativity!
5 Power Principles to Create the Life You Want in Just One Year
November 2023, Online
Too many of us apply intention to one area of our lives. We excel in our career AND we put our life on hold. But what if you could have both? What if you could change the situation? What if you could “Fast Forward” and transform any area of your life with extraordinary results in just one year?
Sounds good to us!! Join us as we meet Wendy Leshgold, co-author of Fast Forward: 5 Power Principles to Create the Life You Want in Just One Year. We will discuss a simple, proven system that can help you move your bold vision forward. One that helps you focus, dream big and move beyond your limited beliefs. Let’s reframe our negative stories, gain control of our time and energy with powerful + fun exercises that generate insights and action.
Backed by psychological research and brain science and used by more than 100,000 people around the world, the Power Principles help you define where you want to be in one year.
Chakras 201: Integrating Mind, Body + Spirit
November 2023, Online
In this workshop, we will be expanding on the concepts we discussed in Chakras 101 (Check it out on Youtube if you missed it!). In Chakras 201, we will be connecting with our magical Chakra systems and identify which chakras feel out of balance and why. Manjeet will intuitively connect you to your chakras for participants who are looking for very specific direction and clarity to align and heal energetically.
Chakra in Sanskrit means ‘wheel’ or ‘Cycle’. There are 7 of these Chakras within our bodies that integrate our mind, body and Spirit in powerful ways that support our physical, emotional and spiritual growth. Manjeer believes that when these powerful energy centers are blocked, we feel stuck and confused - and when these energy centers are expanded and spinning, we feel balanced and energized.
About Manjeet: As an intuitive coach of more than 20 years specializing in one-on-one coaching, corporate coaching, intuitive vision boarding, and chakra coaching, my mission has been to help busy women embrace lives that are clear, balanced, and purposeful.
B(r)E(a)ST Practices for Breast Health: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October 2023, Online
It's Breast Cancer Awareness month, and a great time to brush up on your knowledge about reducing risk for yourself and your loved ones.
Join our experts and learn which screening exams are best and how often you do them, what the modifiable risk factors are, and lifestyle habits and diet are recommended for reducing risk.
Join Wendy Ellis, ND, a telemedicine provider for Gennev, the largest online platform serving peri/post-menopausal women, along with dietitians Katie Linville and Ginger Hultin to discuss what we can do to reduce our risk and come learn some recipes and dietary advice that support our breast health!
Beyond the Surface: How Emotions Shape Our Mind, Body + Skin
October 2023, Online
Ever get that sneaky feeling your body's got some secrets it's not sharing? Like how that stress from yesterday (or, let's be honest, ten years ago) might be playing sneaky tricks on your health today? Or how those emotional rollercoasters don't just mess with your heart, but might be leaving some very real marks on your complexion? The truth?
It's not just about the skincare routine you're on or that yoga class you missed last Tuesday. It's deeper. It's about the relationship with your authentic self, the unseen connection of the mind and body, and the whispers of your soul you've been ignoring. But it's not all doom and gloom!
Dive in with Dr. Keira Barr, who truly believes that "women deserve to feel their best at every stage of life." Discover how blending the marvels of science with your body's innate healing magic can rejuvenate not just your skin, but your spirit too. Join us for an hour of real, raw and refreshing conversation that will leave you feeling radiant!
Waterfront Walk + Happy Hour
September 2023, In-Person
Let's explore the Seattle Waterfront together! Join board members of Friends of Waterfront Seattle for a one-mile walking tour to learn about plans for our city's new 20-acre Waterfront Park that connects Pioneer Square to Belltown.
The waterfront is dedicated to rebuilding a renewed place to connect, to the water, to the mountains, to our city and to one another. You'll be astounded by the transformation that is taking place in the heart of our city as this expansive public space emerges from footprint of the old viaduct.
The project has amazing women Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott to thank for their amazing leadership in creating a world-class waterfront.
We hope you will join us for a no-host happy hour at Anthony's after our walk!
RevelEleven Summer Soirée Celebration
August 2023, In-Person
We simply love summer and even more - we love celebrating you. It is once again time for RevelEleven’s Summer Soirée and toast to what we have created together - a community for self-discovery, new friends and being inspired to journey through an authentic life. It's Adventure for Your Spirit!
Join us August 9th at 5pm on the rooftop deck of 450 Alaskan Way S on the Pioneer Square waterfront. Along with a spectacular view, we will be serving drinks, appetizers and loads of friendship. No speakers. No Agenda. Just Us!
Bring a friend and we will enter you for a chance to win one of our R11 door prizes. We have some surprises in store for the evening too! We can’t wait to see you and to celebrate summer together.
Becoming Flawesome with Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani
August 2023, Online
Your greatest potential comes from self-acceptance. Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani will teach us how to step into a fearless life full of unparalleled happiness by embracing your fully awesome self – flaws and all.
Kristina is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, mother, philanthropist, everyday-life philosopher, and a woman on her own journey of spiritual growth. In this session, she will talk about her book, “Becoming Flawesome” and lifestyle hacks and techniques to overcome self-doubt and shame by embracing your unique imperfections. Get ready to embark on a transformational journey that redefines your self-image and paves the way for a deeply authentic, beautifully imperfect life!
About Kristina: As an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, philanthropist, and mother, Kristina has been engaging in the personal transformation industry for over 19 years, collaborating and playing with leading thinkers and teachers in consciousness, relationships, human performance, and life optimization.
A Summer Evening in Three Eastside Gardens
July 2023, In-Person
Join three garden enthusiasts for an evening walk through their beautiful gardens.
We start the evening in the Baja-inspired garden of Susie Marglin with a glass of bubbly. Envision vignettes throughout with fountains, tile roofs and stone patios. Walk through the quarter acre of PNW plantings amidst the palm trees, bananas, cactus, agave, aloe and some surprises.
Next, we venture to the home of Nita Jo Roundtree, often referred to as the Queen of Color. She marries her lust for rare and unusual plants with color and fragrance. From the sunny front overflowing with annuals and perennials, you enter the backyard with a sloped and terraced backyard bounty.
Our tour ends with wine and heavy apps at the home of Denise Lane. Walk through the acre of mature trees and unusual plants. It’s a plant lover’s paradise where floral arrangements can be made year-round. Look for beautiful color combinations in this serene setting.
Love, Nature, Magic with Maria Rodale
July 2023, Online
How are women, nature and spirituality the key to both finding ourselves and our true voices and healing our personal, social and environmental ills?
Maria Rodale has spent her whole life trying to figure it out. In her book Love Nature Magic, she explores the connections between the things in nature that we are afraid of, or don’t like, and how to face those fears to find compassion and understanding, leading to a happier and healthier life for everyone.
Maria will join us to talk about how interconnected we all are with our natural world and how we can use that understanding in our garden.
About Maria: Maria Rodale is an explorer in search of the mysteries of the universe. Author, artist, activist, and recovering CEO, she serves on the board of the Rodale Institute and is also a former board co-chair.
Chakras 101: Integrating Mind, Body & Spirit
July 2023, Online
Chakra in Sanskrit translates to "wheel" or "Cycle." There are seven Chakras within our bodies that integrate our mind, body, and Spirit in powerful ways that support our physical, emotional, and spiritual growth. So, what do these energy centers mean for our wellbeing?
Intuitive coach Manjeet Russell believes that when these powerful energy centers are blocked, we feel stuck and confused. When these energy centers are expanded and spinning, we feel balanced and energized.
In this workshop, we will connect with our magical Chakra systems with a visualization exercise to discover where in your body you may feel empowered or blocked. After this exercise, we will discuss some strategies on how to keep our energy centers flowing for balance and healing.
Engaging with Sensory Gardens + The Power of Herbs
June 2023, Online
Discover the power of the fragrant herbs that surround you in a garden with award-winning garden designer Sue Goetz.
Herbs tell their stories simply through their aromatic oils. Lavender emits its powerful essence in the heat of the summer as the essential oil signals pollinators to join in. Mint uplifts and tingles when touched on the skin, and the oil of Rosemary cools the air.
Sue will go over tips and inspiration on how to engage the sense of smell with herbs designed in gardens and containers.
About Sue: Sue Goetz, CPH, ECO-pro, is an award-winning garden designer, writer, and speaker. Through her business, Creative Gardener, she works with clients to personalize outdoor spaces – from garden coaching to full landscape design.
Navigating Anxiety + Depression with Dr. Khalila Fordham
June 2023, Online
Our mothers didn’t talk about anxiety and depression. But it's time to talk about it. The number of women who experience these common mental health disorders is 25% more than men.
Dr. Khalila Fordham believes we can treat these mental health disorders through holistic healing practices. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, advocate, educator, and co-founder of Anomalous Partners, who helps expand access so we can all better navigate the system.
In this event, Dr. Fordham will give us an overview of anxiety & depression, and help us understand various factors in dealing with the mental health disorders in ourselves and our loves ones:
What is anxiety? How is it different than depression?
What is the influence of hormones? What solutions are there?
The pros and cons of taking anti-anxiety meds?
What are tools for dealing with A + D?
The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person
May 2023, Online
Everyone has a sensitive side, but nearly 1 in 3 people have the genes to be more sensitive than others—both physically and emotionally.
These are the people who pause before speaking and think before acting; they tune into subtle details and make connections that others miss. They tend to be intelligent, big-hearted, and wonderfully creative; they are wired to go deep, yet society tells them to hide the very sensitivity that makes them this way. Does this resonate?
Since embracing her own introversion and sensitivity, Jenn Granneman, founder of Introvert, Dear has helped others unlock the potential in this undervalued strength and leverage it across the most important areas of our lives: relationships, the workplace, leadership, and parenting.
Jenn is the co-author of SENSITIVE and the author of THE SECRET LIVES OF INTROVERTS.
May 2023, Online
When pandemic lockdowns stopped the world on a dime, seafaring scientist and president and co-founder of Ocean Conservation Society, Maddalena Bearzi, went from exploring the mysteries of the marine mammals teeming off the shore of L.A. to a life inside, re-discovering the nourishing connections of nature in her own backyard.
Bearzi joins us in conversation to help us find solace in nature in our own backyard and to talk about her new book, Stranded: Finding Nature in Uncertain Times. She describes the therapeutic power of nature and the ease we can feel when we unguard our hearts and minds to accept what nature offers.
Whether it be cultivating a drought-resistant garden on a carbon zero budget or observing the insectile social systems and avian courtships thrumming in her backyard, Bearzi will help us curate a daily wonder at the natural world and celebrate the marvel of ordinary wildlife with warmth and charisma.
Kitchen Gardening School with Willi Galloway
May 2023, Online
Want to learn more about garden to table cooking? Willi Galloway, author of Grow Cook Eat: A Food-Lover’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening, will cover the basics of creating an organic kitchen garden, including sharing her favorite delicious, unusual varieties, harvesting tips and recipes that use unusual parts of the plant (think radish blossoms and green coriander seeds).
You’ll learn about the easiest edibles to grow, ideas for harvesting your own salads in a matter of weeks, and tips on getting tomatoes to ripen even if you live in a cooler climate.
About Willi: Willi got her start gardening with her mom as a child and went on to become the West Coast Editor of Organic Gardening magazine, where she had the vegetable gardening beat.
Houseplants 101: Grow Healthy Indoor Plants
April 2023, Online
Whether you are a new plant parent or a houseplant addict, it can be overwhelming figuring out the basics. What’s the best spot for the new potted plant, how much water should I be giving it and why are the leaves turning yellow, brown, falling off?
Nikki Bryant is the houseplant specialist at Molbak’s Garden + Home and she’s got answers. Nikki will share some of her essentials for keeping those indoor plants alive and well; including directional lighting, watering methods and hacks, additives for healthy soil, and much more.
Join us to get the lowdown on the basics, plus so much more so you can turn your home into a green oasis with confidence.
April 2023, Online
Have you ever left an art gallery feeling a bit more relaxed, or felt at peace dragging a paintbrush across a canvas?
There’s a reason for that. It’s neuroaesthetics - the scientific study of how the brain is affected by creating and viewing art.
Susan Magsmen joins us to explain the emerging field of neuroarts, offer proof of how our brains and bodies are transformed when we participate in the arts and aesthetic experiences, and how this knowledge can improve our physical and mental health, help us flourish, and build stronger communities.
Susan Magsamen is the co-author of Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us and founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Goodbye Perfect! Embracing Life’s Beauty and Mess
April 2023, Online
Saying goodbye to the notion of being perfect leads to reclaiming self-improvement for what it really is: a journey of love and non-judgment toward our highest potential. Because it's impossible to self-actualize when we keep holding ourselves to impossible standards.
A good life isn't a perfect life. It is our moment-to-moment engagement with what is in all of life's beauty and mess. In this talk with positive psychology coach and cognitive behavioral therapist Homaira Kabir, we will talk about connecting back to that self within us – that imperfect self – so we can be joyfully engaged in the life that most calls us at any stage in our lives.
Homaira Kabir has more than a decade of experience as a life coach. Kabir is the host of the Goodbye Perfect Project and the author of Goodbye Perfect: How To Stop Pleasing, Proving and Pushing For Others… and Live For Yourself.
The Healthy Garden: Gardening for Body, Soul + The Natural World
April 2023, Online
How does your garden grow? Whether it’s tending to homegrown vegetables, or transforming a corner of the backyard into a leafy and peaceful getaway, there are an abundance of benefits of a healthy garden, not only for your -- body and soul – but for the natural world.
In their new book, The Healthy Garden—Simple Steps for a Greener World, Kathleen Norris Brenzel and Mary-Kate Mackey give us tips and practical advice for creating and living with a garden that uniquely fits its owner’s goals and passions. They join us to discuss five ways you can enjoy your garden and by extension, the larger landscape, with less work and more ease.
Kathleen Norris Brenzel is the editor of four editions of the top-selling Sunset Western Garden Book, and three editions of the Sunset Western Landscaping Book. Mary-Kate Mackey is a multiple-award-winning garden writer, speaker, and teacher.
More than "A Bad Headache": Migraines from Diagnosis to Treatment
April 2023, Online
More than 40 million Americans are affected by migraine or severe headache disorders, disproportionately affecting adult women.
Lisa Kleiman is no stranger to this common, disabling neurological disease, characterized by painful, debilitating headache attacks. She will be in conversation with Dr. Nina Riggins, Neurologist and Headache Specialist. Lisa will share her story with Migraine disorder, how she got diagnosed and eventually got help.
Dr. Riggins, also the Director of UC San Diego Health Headache Center, will explain what causes migraine disease and migraine attacks, common triggers, how migraines are diagnosed, how to find the right health care provider, latest treatment options for migraine disease, how to navigate insurance, how to best manage (and prevent) migraines, and more.
Career Transitions Workshop: Tips to Support You in Making a Shift
March 2023, Online
We are all in a period of re-imagining our workspaces, contemplating work with purpose and revisiting career choices. Conversations on the “great resignation” and “quiet quitting” are causing us to reflect on the silent battle of choice versus responsibility.
Choosing to let go of a career, or a professional identity, especially after we have invested years building it, can be difficult. Monica Huntsberry left her 25-year corporate career and began a journey to explore the emotional process of leaving and reframing identity.
Monica will provide tips to help you develop awareness about when it may be time for a change and tools to help you explore a career transition or exit.
Ignite Your Intentions: Spring Equinox 2023 Workshop
March 2023, Online
Joanie's back with another intention setting workshop on the Spring Equinox! Start your spring off strong to set some intentions for the next 90 days to the Summer Solstice.
What is blossoming inside of you and what is ready to burst open into reality and success? Bring your journal and an open heart. We will start with personal goals, because when you are whole and complete everything else begins to fall into place.
Take on the next 90 days with the power of intentions and a powerful mindset.
The Art of Badassery with Jennifer Cassetta
March 2023, Online
Get ready to remember just how powerful you are. Jennifer Cassetta is a nationally recognized health and empowerment coach who leads women on a journey to help build resilience, block negativity, elevate their energy and unleash the warrior within.
Cassetta has written a book called The Art of Badassery: Unleash your Mojo with the Power of the Dojo – and takes us from white belt to black belt, reclaiming all of your power along the way.
Equipped with her 3rd degree black belt in Hapkido, Masters degree in nutrition and various wellbeing certifications, she's spent the last two decades coaching people to feel strong, safe and powerful from the streets to the boardroom.
March 2023, Online
A warm cup of tea can do your body a lot of good. There is a ritual to making tea and it signals your body to slow down. It can enhance emotional well-being and spiritual connection. But there’s more to tea than a soothing drink. It can be a potent healing tool.
The first cups of tea date back thousands of years and are thought to have been used as medicine.
Today, we know that the botanicals used in tea can strengthen and tone immune function; they can prevent cancer, slow aging, and maintain cardiovascular functions, and alleviate common psychological symptoms, such as insomnia, anxiety, or mild depression.
Certified Holistic Health Counselor and Herbalist Megan Liebmann will share how to incorporate brewing your own tea as a medicinal practice.
February 2023, Online
Are you confused about what to eat for optimal health? What do terms like ‘organic', ‘grass fed’, ‘natural', 'low fat’, 'zero sugar’ really mean? Is the dietary cure-all veganism or paleo?
We are having a candid conversation with Stefanie Sacks, MS, CNS, CDN, Culinary Nutritionist, Author of What The Fork Are You Eating and Founder of WTFORK.com, a soon to be launched edutainment platform inspired by her book. Stefanie’s no-nonsense approach will be sure to enlighten. Her belief: it’s the small changes in how we understand and choose food that make the big differences in our health!
About Stefanie: For nearly three decades, Stefanie has helped transform the way people eat using hands-on experiences to inspire and educate, while offering practical tools for food lifestyle change.
Habits for a Healthy Heart & Brain with Dr. Annabelle Volgman
February 2023, Online
Healthy heart = healthy brain! Our major organs are connected, and keeping them healthy and running smoothly is important for disease prevention and lowers your risk for issues such as dementia or stroke.
From strengthening your heart with the foods you eat to moving everyday, Dr. Annabelle Volgman will share steps you can take for a healthy heart and brain for American Women’s Heart Month. She will also cover the importance of understanding symptoms of heart disease that are unique to women.
Dr. Annabelle Santos Volgman co-founder and medical director of the Rush Heart Center for Women in Chicago, the first heart program in Chicago devoted exclusively to women that opened in 2003. She is a nationally-recognized leader in cardiology care and research, and formed a unique relationship with leading neurologists to study the heart-brain connection.
Honest Sex: A Passionate Path to Deeper Connection and Strong Relationships
February 2023, Online
Do you know how to tell your partner what you really want and need in the bedroom? Sometimes the thing we want the most is the thing we know the least about!
Shana James has been a relationship coach for 20 years. She joins us just before the day of love on February 10 to talk about her book Honest Sex and guide us on the path to genuine pleasure and meaningful connection! She will dive into what sex actually is, beyond our cultural definition, and tips and tools we can use to strengthen communication and deepen intimacy.
Learn how to get the sex life you actually want this Valentine’s Day!
About Shana: Shana James has a Master’s in psychology, as well as DISC and Positive Intelligence certifications. As a relationship coach for 20 years, she humbly discovered the cause of disconnection and distrust in relationships, as well as how to build trust and keep passion alive.
Inviting Joy In: Creating Habitat for Joy
January 2023, Online
Joy can be a shy and wild creature. But what if you could create an ecosystem where it would come visit, nurture that environment, and make it want to come often?
One of our favorite speakers, Lorca Smetana, a human resilience and leadership guide, will offer us a look into what it takes to build a healthy setting in your life where joy persists and returns often. Resiliency in life is part of a magical combo where joy is a natural result.
Does resilience = joy? Take a journey with us to explore where joy finds you irresistible.
About Lorca: Lorca teaches about risk, leadership, buoyancy, and designing from joy. She holds an MA in diplomacy and is on the faculty in Human Leadership Development at Montana State University. A TEDx and keynote speaker, a celebrant, a sustainable farmer, and a writer, she's helped individuals, teams and communities better understand what it is to be powerfully resilient ecosystems.
Happy, Healthy, Sober: A Rethink Your Drink Event with Janey Lee Grace
January 2023, Online
Have you ever woken up at 3am berating yourself for drinking too much? Found yourself saying 'I will only have one drink' only to find yourself saying 'yes' to the second and then a third? Wondered if not drinking will isolate you from your friends?
A recent survey of 2,000 millennial women found nearly 40% are sober curious – rethinking their relationship with alcohol for personal or health reasons. More and more women are choosing to abstain from or reduce their drinking, discovering benefits like more energy and better sleep.
Join RevelEleven and Janey Lee Grace, author of 'Happy Healthy Sober', on January 25th for a candid conversation about rethinking your drink. Whether you're doing Dry January or wondering what it means to be sober curious, we'll look at ways to reduce or ditch alcohol altogether.
Awakened Living in the New Year
January 2023, Online
Kick of the New Year with a greater connection to your mind, body and natural rhythms. Christina Tidwell, MN, RN, NC-BC, functional nutrition coach and founder of Live Well with Christina, will join us to help lay a foundation for awakened living in 2023.
This session will help you reconnect to your inherent rhythms and cycles in order come more deeply into connection with your body and its varied needs through the day, month and year. Often times we only operate at one speed, and life demands us to grow, bloom and produce all year round. What would it feel like to notice and relax into different rhythms and seasons within the body?
This session will include:
Brief meditation exercise to connect to the body
Introduction of the 4 seasons
Framework for how to determine which "season" you are in
Tips and practices to help align to each season
A Winter Solstice Celebration: Journey to the Light
December 2022, Online
Take the solstice as an opportunity to find your light for 2023 and envision a brighter year. Since ancient times, people all over the world have recognized this important astronomical occurrence and celebrated the subsequent “return” of the light. It stands as an important reminder that the light is always within and waiting for you.
Take some time for yourself before the holiday crunch and join us for some inner reflection. What is glowing within you? What are you visioning for the New Year? Bring your journal and join RevelEleven co-founder, Joanie Parsons, for a session of personal illumination.
Deck the Halls + Table this Holiday Season
December 2022, Online
Are you ready to wow your guests with an unforgettable, nature-inspired wreath and table-setting this holiday season? Designer Sue Stark is back this year for a wreathmaking follow along and a table setting demo! Sue joined us last year and we had a great time making wreaths and watching her transform an ordinary table setting into a festive tablescape!
Sue owns The Wild Blume, a floral design studio in Bozeman, Montana where she creates unique, elegant and natural bouquets using thoughtfully sourced seasonal blooms for her clients. In this event, she’ll give us tips and tricks to create our own!
About Sue: Sue Stark is an entrepreneur who loves and lives in the creative, floral & entertaining space. She and her partner live in Bozeman, Montana, nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains where she owns a seasoned floral event business, The Wild Blume. She also owns Wild Tables, offering thoughtfully curated tablescape sets, delivered to your door.
The Joy of Dressing for the Season
November 2022, Online
Are you uninspired with your wardrobe? Wondering what to wear for all the upcoming holiday parties, but nothing in your closet excites you? Megan Dillon joins us to help you dress fun, functional and fabulous this season.
Megan has always had a heart for fashion and delights in bringing out the best in people through showing them the joy of dressing. At 52, she’s spent years working in the production industry, and is now blending her production experience with her love of fashion in producing events for Vogue and Condé Nast.
Megan will spend an hour with us to give us tips on curating a wardrobe you love and enjoy. She will showcase some of her own pieces and how she adds fun touches to her outfits, as well as help us understand how to leverage thrift and second-hand shopping.
Ready to feel good in your clothes and invest in yourself through clothing? Come join us!
The Art of Meaningful Connection
November 2022, Online
Are you tired of small talk? Have you ever wondered what makes some connections feel more fulfilling than others? Well, some of us have forgotten how to create those lasting connections and could use a tune-up after a period of being less social.
If you envision gatherings full of openness, curiosity, connection, friendship, and great conversation, this event with the enthusiastic and insightful Kat Vellos is for you!
Kat Vellos is the author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships and the creator of the Better than Small Talk conversation cards. Kat will help us bring more meaning into our conversations as we enter the holiday season, which will result in lasting relationships you can cherish.
About Kat: Kat Vellos is a connection coach and trusted expert on the power of cultivating meaningful friendships. Her interviews can be found in a variety of media outlets including The New York Times, Real Simple, Forbes, and NPR. Kat has graced the stages of TEDx and San Francisco Design Week.
November 2022, Online
Do you remember a time when you would stay out all day and play with your neighborhood friends. Running, jumping and riding bikes? Movement was a habit we created at a very young age.
Today, adults tend to live sedentary lifestyles and are caught up in taking care of other people’s needs before our own. Join us and Sarah Gascon, PhD, to explore how we can put our needs first. We will discuss the five pillars of health: exercise, nutrition, hydration, meditation, and sleep. Each pillar will help you shed light on the importance of achieving your ideal performance state and creating a change in your lifestyle. These minor adjustments can significantly improve your health, bring joy and movement back into your life.
About Sarah Gascon: Sarah is a certified fitness trainer, wellness coach and Captain of the USA Women's Handball Team. She recently earned her PhD in Kinesiology focused in Biomechanics from Auburn University, while training full-time for the 2020 Olympic Games.
Sober Curious: Ditch the Drink
October 2022, Online
Have you ever woken up at 3am berating yourself for drinking too much? Found yourself saying 'I will only have one drink' only to find yourself saying 'yes' to the second and then a third? Wondered if not drinking will isolate you from your friends?
A recent survey of 2,000 millennial women found nearly 40% have quit or reduced their drinking! More and more women are becoming 'sober curious' -- avoiding alcohol for personal or health reasons.
Join RevelEleven and Janey Lee Grace for a candid conversation about reducing, even eliminating alcohol altogether. Janey Lee Grace is the author of 'Happy Healthy Sober'. Together we will look at ways to ditch the alcohol and what it means to be sober curious.
She is also the founder of The Sober Club, hosts the podcast, 'Alcohol Free Life' and gave a TEDx talk Sobriety Rocks – Who Knew!
About Janey Lee Grace: Janey Lee Grace is an author, commentator, and co-presenter on the UK’s biggest radio show, BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon.
Get Your Shit Together: Prepping for Life’s What-Ifs
September 2022, Online
After losing her husband in a tragic accident, Chanel Reynolds learned from firsthand experience that most of us in this country are living one accident or illness away from financial ruin. She founded the internationally acclaimed Get Your Shit Together website to help other people take care of estate-planning tasks to be “less screwed when life goes sideways.” She is the author of “What Matters Most: The Get Your Shit Together Guide to Wills, Money, Insurance, and Life’s What-ifs", named both ‘Best in Wellness’ and a ‘Top 10 Self-Help’ book of the year. Chanel leads classes and workshops across the country and is working on her second book.
Chanel has been featured in the New York Times, on NPR, CNBC, and BBC and has reached millions of people worldwide with her unique ‘kick in the pants’ to help make end-of–life planning less overwhelming and complicated.
Turning Your Home or Office Into a Sacred Space
August 2022, Online
Do you wish you loved the space that you live and work in?
Join Jill to learn practical and spiritual tools to help create your own sacred space. Learn easy-to-implement steps to transform your home or office into a harmonious refuge. Create a space that allows you to connect with the divine, the natural world, and most importantly, yourself.
About Jill: Jill Angelo worked for nearly two decades in business management before changing her life’s direction to pursue an inner calling. For the past decade, she has traveled extensively, studying and working with a number of leading spiritual, self-help authors including Caroline Myss, Marianne Williamson, Andrew Harvey, Mathew Fox and Mona Lisa Schulz. Her Sacred Space practice combines her business acumen with spiritual altruism and represents an amalgam of the sacred places she visited and the myriad luminaries she has worked with.
Finding Your Creative Compass: An Introduction
August 2022, Online
Unlike a traditional compass, which helps you chart a course in a predetermined reality that you can’t change and don’t seem to have much power to influence, the Creative Compass is creative by nature. It is one of those rare things in life that changes everything, first by changing how you see yourself and your life.
Whether you want to make changes in your life, your career, your health or your relationships, master creativity coach Leah Badertscher will show us how these shifts in your Creative Compass can chart a path on a journey to a life you have always desired.
In this virtual event, Leah joins us in preparation for our fall in-person event and retreat about honing in on our Creative Compass.
As well as being a master creativity coach, Leah Badertscher is an artist, writer, and the podcast host of “The Art School”, which is in the top 5% of podcasts internationally.
Beyond Roe: Protecting Reproductive Rights Now
August 2022, Online
Do you feel motivated into action? Want to better understand the changes in reproductive rights and women's healthcare?
Chris Charbonneau will review the monumental changes that occurred in the reversal of Roe v Wade. If you have asked ‘what can we do next?’ to help support women’s reproductive rights, Chris is here to answer with ways in which we can help protect women’s healthcare.
Chris is a 40-year Planned Parenthood veteran and formidable figure in national reproductive rights.
At RevelEleven we believe that women's rights include access for all women to reproductive healthcare, which is why we will be donating any ticket sales to Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and Idaho.
Curate an Unforgettable Summer with Engaging Outdoor Events
July 2022, Online
Summertime entertaining is in full swing. You want any event you throw to go off without a hitch but also make it an experience that guests will remember long after they’ve gone home.
Seattle’s entertaining maven, Kelley Moore, will share some dos and don’ts of hosting a gathering, how to keep guests engaged and how to make it an experience to remember. Kelley has shared her knowledge on The View, HGTV and Discovery +.
Kelley shares her tips on entertaining whether you are at your home, in a park or on a boat!
About Kelley: Kelley Moore has built a career around design and entertaining. Now Kelley has launched a new venture, Pink Bateau, creating and curating cruise experiences on Seattle’s waterways.
A Summer Evening in Three Seattle Gardens
July 2022, In-Person
Join three gardenmakers for an evening walk through their gardens -- each with a unique inspiration and flare. We’ll start the evening in Gillian Mathews' small urban garden with some bites and sparkling wine. Gillian is the founder of Ravenna Gardens at University Village and recently planted her lush garden in the hardscape design by Richard Hartlage of Land Morphology.
Next, we will venture to the garden of Lisa Bauer, owner of Chartreuse Landscape Design. Lisa is a certified landscape designer whose philosophy is that the best gardens are designed as dynamic works of art. Through this endeavor, she hopes to bring her garden-goers into a closer relationship with nature.
Our tour will end with wine and heavy apps at the Tuscany-inspired garden of Sue Tong in the Inverness neighborhood. Sue thinks of her garden as a healing space for her, family and friends.
See more photos and learn a bit more about each garden on our blog here!
Our “Annual” Summer Soirée
July 2022, In-Person
It’s that moment of the year to celebrate RevelEleven and toast to what we have created together—a community of fabulous and inspirational women! Drinks, appetizers and lovely conversation on top of a beautiful building on the Pioneer Square waterfront. Wine will be provided by Ashley Trout, owner and winemaker of Brook & Bull Wines and head winemaker of Vital Wines.
Oh, and there will be a couple of surprises along the way. Summer is here so come celebrate with us!
Effortless & Elevated: Tips for Dining Al Fresco
July 2022, Online
Creating an outdoor space worthy of summer dinners can be intimidating, but Cynthia Zamaria joins us to give her tips on how to make it easy on the wallet, unique to your personal style and fun! Cynthia is a home and garden creative and the author of House + Flower: Reviving forgotten homes and gardens.
As Cynthia told the New York Times, “a collected table is a more interesting table.” She’s used repurposed garden urns and chillers, tree trunks as rustic stools, inexpensive tea towels as napkins, mismatched vintage china. Cynthia will dive into her principles around creating an elevated outdoor space, while embracing some old-school tradition with a modern twist.
Cultivating Radical Creativity with Diane Sherman
June 2022, Online
Artist Diane Sherman believes radical creativity has the power to transform our lives.
Diane will show us that cultivating a creative practice is not only a way to bring about more joy through self-expression, but it is a way to activate some fundamental life tools such as play, getting curious, experimenting and risk taking.
We will also dive into the seven fundamental truths about life, which will lead us to live our fullest, most unique expression of THIS life we are given. Join us!
About Diane Sherman: As an interdisciplinary artist, Diane is devoted to the exploration of shifting consciousness using the creative process whether that be through movement, writing or visual art.
Happy Hour by the Lake with Robin Layton
June 2022, In-Person
Join us IN-PERSON for happy hour, delicious bites and joyful conversation overlooking Lake Washington this summer!
What does JOY mean to you? Joy is a state of happiness or felicity; otherwise known as bliss. For our first in-person event in two years, we are joining award-winning photographer Robin Layton at her home.
Robin found her joy of photography and art at a very young age. She believes that one of the main reasons we are here on this earth is to find, share + experience joy. Robin's photography career has taken her around the world to photograph royalty, presidents, celebrities and people on the street. Oprah proudly displays her work! She's authored four books, including The Lake, a collection of photographs of Lake Washington, and A Letter to My Dog, featuring portraits and letters from celebrity owners (like Kristen Bell and Mario Lopez) to their dogs.
The Joy Generator with Manjeet Russell
June 2022, Online
Ready for a deep dive into how JOY wants to manifest in your life? We will discover the 'Joy Generator' with Manjeet Russell to create some clarity on what JOY looks like in your life. With this awareness, we can start aligning ourselves in the direction of Joy in all areas of our lives. When we intentionally choose joy, our action becomes strategic, purposeful and …. well, joyful!
Manjeet views the world with unending optimism and joy and is ready to guide us through a workshop where we can grow into our most joyful selves and create a life of intention. Don’t miss this virtual event on June 8 at 8 a.m. PT!
About Manjeet: As a Certified Intuitive Life Coach for close to 20 years, Manjeet Russell's mission has been to help busy women embrace a life of clarity, balance, and purpose.
Awakening to Joy with Ellen Newhouse
June 2022, Online
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” -Rumi
Please join Ellen Newhouse as we open into our beautiful heart chakras (center), allowing ourselves to sit where Joy resides. As you deepen into yourselves, you will experience a Joy that is not dependent merely on your outer life circumstances but rather a divine force of energy.
Ellen will take you through a writing exercise that will allow you to excavate the layers surrounding your Joy and express Joy itself. She will close with a Sound Healing.
About Ellen: Ellen Newhouse is a Transformational Healer, Acupuncturist, Sound Healer, Author of Nothing Ever Goes On Here and Speaker. For the past 30 years, Ellen has been integrating Acupuncture, Sound Healing, Energy Medicine and Intuitive Coaching in her private practice.
How to Play Bigger Without Asking Permission
April 2022, Online
Take up space, play bigger, and DON’T ask for permission. For too long the world has asked women to stay quiet, edit their thoughts and opinions and be smaller.
We say ENOUGH! We’ve asked Sara Dean, podcaster, leadership coach and all-around Shameless Mom, to join us and share her tips on how to speak up and show up in big ways!
This conversation is bound to spark some lightbulb moments – register for a great conversation with Sara Dean, from the Shameless Mom Academy.
About Sara: Sara Dean is a keynote speaker, a business and leadership coach, and a Step into Your Moxie® facilitator. She is also the creator and host of the Shameless Mom Academy Podcast, a top rated podcast with 4 million downloads.
Plant-Based, Disease-Free: One Woman’s Health Journey
April 2022, Online
Doctors diagnosed Brooke Goldner with kidney disease when she was 16. For years, she suffered through chronic fatigue, pain and Lupus until she decided to take control. At 28, Brooke changed her diet and changed her life.
Now a board-certified physician, Dr. Brooke Goldner will share her journey and how she believes her diet helped her become symptom free with no trace of disease in her body – and she says it all started in her shopping cart.
Join us to hear why Dr. Goldner believes her plant-based diet and her change in lifestyle led to a healthier future for herself and her family.
About Brooke: Brooke Goldner, M.D. Medical Doctor | Plant-Based Healer | Author
Dr. Goldner is a board-certified medical doctor and the author of 3 best-selling books, Goodbye Lupus, Goodbye Autoimmune Disease, and Green Smoothie Recipes to Kick-Start Your Health & Healing.
Revel in Your Garden with Hot Gardening Authors
April 2022, Online
Grab your toolbelt and freshen up on your spring gardening chops! Join us for a roundup of several great selections for your garden bookshelf. Meet some of the BLOOM Imprint authors, smart, creative and inventive women who share their love of design, flowers, the garden and nature. These women will leave you inspired to reconnect with the soil, nature, and your roots.
Meet the authors:
Teresa J. Speight, Garden Writer + Author of Black Flora. She also has a blog and podcast called Cottage in the Court.
Cynthia Zamaria, Home + Garden Creative and Author of House + Flower.
Jennifer O'Neal, Master Gardener + Author of Small Farm, Big Dreams and owner of PepperHarrow Farm with her husband Adam.
Robin Avni: Co-Founder and Creative Director of Bloom Imprint Publishing Company.
Curiosity is the Cure: Transforming Relationships in Times of Pressure and Uncertainty
March 2022, Online
In today’s polarized world, more people struggle to fully understand and respect one another as individuals. As a result, many lose sight of the importance of building relationships and being curious and listening to others. Join Fortune 500 leadership coaches and authors, Jennifer Edwards and Katie McCleary, to use the social psychology of human connection and curiosity to drive meaningful communication and collaboration at work and at home.
Jennifer and Katie believe that how you show up—from your energy and presence to your listening and language—shapes key interactions and outcomes. You can learn how to communicate clearly with a wide range of people at any level or from any background, navigating any emotion or situation. The authors of BRIDGE THE GAP: Breakthrough Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships from Challenging to Collaborative, illustrate how these skills can set the stage for more rewarding relationships and results.
The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward
March 2022, Online
What if our problem isn’t a lack of motivation? What is really going on with all that doom scrolling and procrastination? What if the solution is something other than beating ourselves up or just trying harder? In her book The Science of Stuck, therapist and trauma specialist Britt Frank, LSCSW, set out to find the answers and discovered good news: we are not lazy, crazy, or unmotivated.
She will guide us through her empowering and action-oriented guide to discovering why we can’t think our way forward—and how to break through what’s holding us back in life, in love, and in work. Britt will give us tips for breaking old habits and patterns and gaining perspective on pain and trauma from the past.
About Britt: Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP is a clinician, educator and trauma specialist. You can find Britt on Instagram @brittfrank or on her website www.scienceofstuck.com.
Still Becoming: A Reflection on Identity
March 2022, Online
Ready to shed those old narratives to make more space for who you are becoming today? Join us and Monica DiCristina as we explore our identities outside of our roles and relationships at any age or stage.
Monica DiCristina is a Licensed Professional Counselor and host of the podcast Still Becoming. She inspires and helps individuals of all ages process difficult experiences and bring healing into their relationships with self and others, as well as establish boundaries both externally and internally. Through her podcast, writing, speaking, and counseling work, Monica carries out her heartfelt mission to collaborate with others in their process of healing, hope, and becoming.
About Monica: Monica DiCristina has over fifteen years of experience in mental health. She runs a private practice in Atlanta serving individuals and couples in therapy. The intersection of her years of therapy experience, as well as her personal mental health journey, inform her perspective.
Planning for End of Life: It Matters
March 2022, Online
Why don’t we plan for the end of life? No one wants to talk about death – in fact, 90% of the population doesn’t. But when an unexpected health crisis is suddenly cast upon us (or our loved ones), we end up in a doctor’s office or an emergency room having to make decisions that no one is prepared for. Most people don’t even consider planning until their 70s.
Wendy Norman is an end-of-life consultant who joins us on March 16 to give us a holistic view of end-of-life choices and how we can have autonomy over our final days, at any age, under any scenario. She will cover all of the end-of-life choices to be considered – what medical providers and those closest to you need to know and what documents you need to have in place to ensure your end-of-life wishes will be honored.
About Wendy: Wendy has spent the past two years with End of Life Washington to develop and launch an awareness campaign called End of Life Ready.
March 2022, Online
Why is it that some foods or meals can transport you back to a particular place? For cookbook author and culinary consultant Cynthia Nims, that food is shellfish.
Some varieties are only found in certain regions of the world and oysters in particular are distinctly influenced by the waters in which they grow. Cynthia will show us that exploring shellfish not only a delicious proposition, but also one that invites adventure.
With special attention to the mollusks of the Northwest, Cynthia will share anecdotes and a recipe from her new cookbook, Shellfish, which will be released in March. She’ll share, too, stories from some of the countless experiences she’s had with shellfish while traveling.
About Cynthia: Cynthia has served as food editor for Seattle magazine, written cookbooks based on celebrated iconic foods such as oysters and wild mushrooms, and has cooked for some fascinating people, including Julia Child and the Flying Karamazov Brothers.
Intuitive Eating for Mind + Body
March 2022, Online
What would it feel like to befriend your body - you know, really have each other's back in this crazy world of thin beauty ideals? What would it feel like to honor your health based on your internal wisdom and personal definition of wellness and beauty? This workshop is not another diet-lifestyle-wellness prescription. It's about redefining health starting with your relationship with food and your body.
Register Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Amanda Bullat will teach you how to heal your relationship with food and your body through gentle nutrition, mindful eating, and body respect. Learn how messages about health and body image can keep you stuck in old diet and exercise habits and how to get unstuck by trusting your body's unique wisdom with eating, movement, and emotional regulation.
About Amanda: Over the past 2 decades, Amanda has navigated healing her relationship with food and her body. She has a master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics from Bastyr University.
February 2022, Online
Please join us for A Sound Healing for World Peace with Ellen Newhouse!
Sound Healing raises your vibration at the cellular level. As we each raise our vibrational frequency, we increase the vibration of the world. Using our intentions for peace within ourselves and the world, we are able to affect the vibration in the world. Studies have shown that meditation groups have significantly shifted violence in by as much 23%, murders decrease significantly, and quality of life factors increase. Together, we can shift the vibration within ourselves and the world.
Ellen Newhouse has been integrating Sound Healing with Acupuncture and Energy Medicine for the past 32 years.
"Ellen lovingly demonstrates what spiritual masters have known for centuries--that sound is the most impactful way of realigning the energy field of the human body." Bart Paff, Ph.D.
Moving With Ease: Daily 10-Minute Practices
February 2022, Online
Do you have trouble fitting movement into your schedule or can’t stay motivated, no matter how many times you make that “exercise more” resolution? So how can we begin to see exercise in our daily lives not as a “should goal” but as a “gift goal”?
Carol Frazey is a fitness coach and author who has appeared in Woman’s Day and Real Simple. She helps her clients make small changes allowing them to fit daily exercise into busy schedules and have fun doing it. Carol will guide us to become consciously aware of our movement and the well of energy and self-love that it can bring into our lives. We will see exercise in the vein of “intention” versus “doing”.
About Carol Frazey: Carol Frazey is the author of The Fit School Diet Plan: 1 Year to a Nutritionally and Physically Fit Life e-book and co-author of 26.2 Life Lessons: Helping You Keep Pace with the Marathon of Life.
How to Build Your Money Mindset
February 2022, Online
Start 2022 off with a moment of self-care and reflection about money. We all have unique money stories that have shaped how we view finances and grow wealth – Erin Papworth wants to help us identify our own stories and use that knowledge to redefine our money future.
Erin started her company Nav.it to help women practice money mindfulness, improve money habits, and decrease financial stress. She joins us to demystify the conversation surrounding money.
About Erin Papworth: Erin Papworth, MPH, is a two-time entrepreneur. She spent over a decade managing multi-million dollar programs and working for organizations like Johns Hopkins University, Doctors without Borders, the United Nations, and the United States Government. She is now the CEO and co-founder of Nav.it.
A Gift to Yourself: Wonder + Awe
February 2022, Online
You know that “Wow!” feeling you get when seeing a gorgeous sunset or a wild animal in nature? That feeling is awe: a feeling so vast is stops us in our tracks. Resilience coach Lorca Smetana says we can find wonder and awe in our everyday life.
Wonder + awe increase your health and bring grace and lightness to your life. They also boost your mood, decrease stress and re-align priorities. We will learn to harvest fulfillment all around us with one of our favorite speakers, Lorca Smetana.
"Wonder is like mycelium -- it is not immediately sexy, but it is feeding the health of everything else in your life.” - Lorca Smetana
About Lorca: Lorca teaches about risk, leadership, buoyancy, and designing from joy. She holds an MA in diplomacy and is on the faculty in Human Leadership Development at Montana State University.
Becoming a Lightmaker: Finding Your Joy in Action
January 2022, Online
Changing the world – it’s a daunting task. Through her work with inspiring thought leaders like Brené Brown, activist, author, photographer, and leadership coach Karen Walrond will show us how to make change without losing the spark that got us interested in the first place.
We will talk to Karen about her journey towards activism – and her new book, "The Lightmaker's Manifesto”. Walrond will share how to work for change without losing your joy for the causes you care about. This will be a heart-based conversation about joyfully advocating for justice, peace, and liberation – in the words of Walrond, becoming makers of light!
About Karen: Karen Walrond is an author, lawyer, leadership coach, and activist. A Certified Dare To Lead™ facilitator, Karen has helped thousands of people around the world find purpose and meaning in their work.
Minimalista: Simplify, De-stress + Transform
January 2022, Online
“Minimalism is not about living in a stark white box - it's about living intentionally, and creating a home that reflects your authentic style and deepest values.” - Shira Gill.
Author of Minimalista: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Better Home, Wardrobe, and Life and home-organizing expert Shira Gill will teach us about her visionary lifestyle to de-clutter our homes while elevating our personal style. She will give us tips on how to trim our belongings, one room at a time, and transform our lives. So, join us on January 21 at 9 a.m. to take the first small step!
About Shira Gill: Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Shira Gill is a home organizing expert, speaker, coach, and author with a less-is-more philosophy.
January 2022, Online
Are there areas of your life that you feel exhausting? Areas that no longer align with who you’ve become?
Anna Sun Choi is an energy coach that helps her clients find peace in times of chaos, embody brilliance and master their own energy. By drilling down to the root cause of what’s disrupting our energy, we become free of what's inauthentic and are able to rebuild and embody our true calling. In this workshop, you will learn Anna’s ALIVE model to reclaim your energy:
-Identify where to double down on your yin versus yang
-Discover how to make decisions using your 3 inner advisors
-Experience energy management hacks to keep you in flow
Anna will offer in-depth experiences through her five keys and will leave us inspired to take action.
About Anna: Anna Sun Choi is an Energy Coach, TEDx Speaker, and Forbes Author.
Moving Through Transitions with Grace + Possibility
January 2022, Online
The New Year creates an opportunity to revisit intentions, dreams, and plans for change. Even when it’s by design, letting go of something familiar to welcome something new can be difficult. Join Monica Huntsberry for a workshop that will help you move through transitions with grace and possibility; embrace and honor your emotions; and identify ways to care for yourself in the process.
Please bring your current reflections as well as your experiences of transitions in the past to share as we come together in this interactive workshop.
About Monica: Monica Huntsberry is a sales executive who enjoys combining her business experience and creative journey. She is a host and advisor for RevelEleven.
The Art of Kindness with Diane Sherman
January 2022, Online
Join us and Diane Sherman to cultivate compassion towards ourselves and one another, with the fun and play of the creative process! The Art of Kindness is a workshop that activates joy as you play and experiment with a variety of creative tools. In this workshop you will be guided through a process of creating a set of nine beautiful cards for yourself, on which you will then write positive affirmations on the back as intentions of kindness for yourself. It is a workshop that cultivates creativity, connection, and community. A great way to begin the year!
About Diane: As an interdisciplinary artist, Diane is devoted to the transformative process of shifting consciousness using the creative process whether that be through movement, writing or visual art. Her mission is to ignite peoples’ connection to their inner lives and offer them a modality through which to express their unique life experience. She is based out of Spokane, WA.
New Year: Revel in You with Tina + Joanie
January 2022, Online
Start the year off with yoga, meditation and journaling with Tina Templeman + co-creator of RevelEleven Joanie Parsons. We will begin with yoga to soothe the mind, body and soul. Then, we will set intentions for the next 30, 60 or 90 days and vision it into reality. Give yourself the gift of mind, body + spirit for this 75 minute class.
Ritual: A Personalized Tool to Deepen and Refresh Holiday Traditions
December 2021, Online
When we can stop and honor the significance of our experiences and the transitions we experience in our lives, we discover and reclaim a sense of wonder, strength and connectedness. The holidays are a time ripe with the possibility for this reclamation. By infusing our traditions with the powerful tool of Ritual, we move closer to having a holiday that is deeply satisfying on many levels.
Magdalena Garcia joins us to explain how this healing, symbolic artform can be accessible to everyone, regardless of their experience, lack of experience or their spiritual leanings. In this interactive workshop, there will be reflection opportunities and a co-created, End-of-the-Year community Ritual to mark our collective transition into another year.
About Magdalena: Magdalena is a mother, storyteller, educator, creator and ceremony leader.
The Holidays: A Time for Resilience
December 2021, Online
Are you aware of the story that you are living in?The holidays are rife with stories that some of us have carried around our whole lives. But all of us, whether we know it or not, are living inside of a story of our own creation. Evolving our stories is how we grow and succeed in our lives. Join Laila Tarraf, Chief People Officer for AllBirds, to learn more about how you can recognize when you need to reexamine your story to continue being your most true and authentic self.
Laila will teach us how she’s evolved her leadership and life philosophy into one that embraces the inherent duality of life – balancing courage with compassion, integrating head with heart, infusing power with tenderness.
About Laila Tarraf: Laila Tarraf is a talent management and leadership development executive with over 25 years of experience.
Profiteroles with Caprial Pence: The Classic French Dessert Made Easy
December 2021, Online
Don’t have all day to spend in the kitchen? No problem! Learn from James Beard award-winning chef Caprial Pence how to create tender pates au choux pastry filled with ice cream and brandied dried cherries, and topped with homemade caramel sauce. This simple yet beautiful dessert will wow your guests. Join us on December 13 at 5 p.m. PT!
About Caprial Pence: Caprial graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and in 1986 began working at Fullers Restaurant at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel. Under Caprial's direction, Fullers was a leader in Seattle's nouvelle cuisine, and in 1990 Caprial was honored with the James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Northwest. In 1992 Caprial and her husband moved to Portland and opened their own neighborhood restaurant, now called Caprial's Bistro, acclaimed for its eclectic Northwest cuisine. Caprial purchased Madison Kitchen in Seattle’s Madison Valley neighborhood in September 2019.
Aging Well
Growing Your Career in Senior Living
December 2021, Online
From real estate to hospitality, health care to operations, the senior housing industry is booming with opportunities to advance your career. It’s a multi-faceted industry with opportunities to gain useful and transferable skills with room to grow. We will talk with five women from Leisure Care who have diverse roles within the senior housing industry. Some started as interns in the industry and others found senior housing later in their careers.
Bre Grubbs, Partner & Executive Vice President of Leisure Care
Diane Umayam, Senior Health Services Director of Leisure Care
Jamie Bravato, General Manager of Fairwinds Spokane, a Leisure Care community
Katie Smith, Sales Manager at the Ackerly of Timberland, a Leisure Care community
Moderator: Meghna Davidson, VP of Operations of Leisure Care
Aging Well
Financial Wisdom: Understanding the Importance of Financial + Estate Planning
December 2021, Online
Do you want to feel secure in your financial future? Join us for this informative event!
Join us and the women of Brighton Jones as we explore new ways to live a richer life, understand the importance of financial planning, and discuss how estate planning plays a major role in securing your future. The discussion will help you answer the following questions:
What does financial wellbeing mean?
What tax and estate strategies should I be aware of at different stages of my life?
What are the key takeaways I should be focusing on when creating a financial plan?
Tama Smith, Head of Women Living a Richer Life
Taralynn Casperson, Estate Planning Attorney at Brighton Jones
Jesica Ray, CFP, Lead Advisor at Brighton Jones
Aging Well
December 2021, Online
What does it take to thrive at all ages? Perhaps a little audacity, courage and positivity.
We will hear from three women who are living it up in their “third act of life”. At 86, Rosanne Cohn is updating her popular book, ‘DISCOVER WASHINGTON WITH KIDS,’ which was first published more than 40 years ago. Assunta Ng isn’t retiring anytime soon as the founder and publisher of the acclaimed Northwest Asian Weekly. Martha Johnson is 81 and an eco-warrior, traveling the world with Earthwatch and helping conservationists and scientists. How have these women kept their daring and courageous spirit throughout their lives? Find out as we take an audacious journey through their stories.
Aging Well
Living Well: Mind, Body, Spirit
December 2021 at the Murano, Seattle + Online
Aging is not for the faint of heart, but how you align your mind, body + spirit can significantly help you thrive in older adulthood! We’ll get the details from four experts as we tackle the challenges and opportunities of our mental and physical health.
From patient-centered medical care to fitness and mindfulness, how can you move forward as you age with a balanced body and a balanced mind? Find out from these extraordinary resources:
Dr. TK, Founder & CEO of 6M Geriatrics and Hospital Medicine
Ruben Pereyra, PrimeFit instructor
About Anne Arntson, ERYT200, YACEP®, Breathworks® Accredited: The Mindful Living Project
Dr. Jane Tornatore, Psychologist
This event was held in-person at The Murano at 620 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA.
Aging Well
Aging Parents: What You Need to Know
December 2021, Online
Supporting an aging parent can bring up many emotions besides pride… guilt, frustration, exhaustion, and a sense of loss. As a daughter or son, it can be hard to juggle relationships, parenting and a career in order to assist our aging parents. In this session, we’ll have a heart-to-heart conversation about being a family caregiver.
Psychologist Dr. Jane Tornatore and founder of Aging Wisdom, Lisa Mayfield, will provide tips and tools that you can use as you navigate this next chapter of your life, and your parents' lives. They’ll answer questions you might have about accessing help for your parent, discussing ways to approach parents who might be reluctant to accept help, and figuring out how to take care of yourself without feeling selfish.
About Dr. Jane Tornatore: Dr. Jane Tornatore is a therapist, author and speaker based in Seattle.
About Lisa Mayfield: Lisa Mayfield founded Aging Wisdom®,
Deck the Halls and Tables this Holiday Season
November 2021, Online
Are you ready to wow your guests with an unforgettable, nature-inspired wreath and table-setting this holiday season? Join designer Sue Stark for a wreathmaking follow along and a table setting demo!
Sue is the owner of The Wild Blume, a floral design studio in Bozeman, Montana. She creates unique, elegant and natural bouquets using thoughtfully sourced seasonal blooms and goods for her clients. In this event, she’ll give us tips and tricks to create our own!
About Sue: Sue Stark is an entrepreneur who loves and lives in the creative, floral & entertaining space. She owns The Wild Blume. She is also building a new business, Wild Tables. She is inspired by nature, adventure, culture, art & all things in intentional spaces.
November 2021, Online
Nurturing your body and skin during fall and winter is a wonderful way to build a strong immune system while supporting radiant skin from the inside out. Holistic Nutritionist Megan Ulrichs will join RevelEleven to talk about how and what to eat during the transitional seasons from warmth to cold, along with ways in which we can support our immune system and skin. Megan will share:
How to eat seasonally and locally to support our bodies
How to set our bodies up for success to ward off viruses and seasonal affective disorder
What our skin is trying to tell us and which diet contributes to radiant skin
Why ditching toxic skincare supports balanced hormones
About Megan: Megan is a passionate educator in health and nutrition with an emphasis on how the skin reveals the condition of our internal health. She has a Masters degree in Holistic Nutrition, is the author of 2 books and has 10 years of experience consulting. Megan is also the creator and owner of glo Luxury Oils: www.gloluxuryoils.com.
Soup Up Your Fall Menu: Tips for Cooking Comforting Soup
November 2021, Online
Fall is the perfect time for warm, cozy soups that look and taste delicious. Take your soups up a notch – join chef Natasha Ho of The Well-Traveled Palate for a deep dive into how to take soups from okay to OUTSTANDING! You'll learn her three key tips for pumping up the appeal of your soups so they bring flavor and variety. During the session she'll demo one soup recipe.
About Natasha: Natasha Ho is a trained chef and avid traveler who has studied culinary traditions around the world. She is the founder of The Well-Traveled Palate, where she helps food lovers and adventurers learn to take risks, get out of their comfort zones, and cook delicious food so they can have more creativity, fun, and joy. Natasha is also the host of the online cooking show Tasty Kitchen, helping home cooks bring variety to their kitchens with globally-inspired recipes and virtual cooking lessons.
The Women Behind the Drinks You Love
November 2021, Online
Meet the trailblazing women who are making waves in the alcohol industry.
The women of Fast Penny Spirits, Frichette Winery, Yonder Cider, Stoup Brewing and Triangle Spirits have helped transform the industry and are helping lift up other women in the business and their communities.
Bring a cider, beer, glass of wine or liquor, and toast to these tastemakers! They'll share their experiences, lessons learned and give us insights to why we should support our favorite women in the alcohol industry. We are partnering with Ellevate Seattle for this fun event.
Lara Zahaba: Co-Owner and Creative Director of Stoup Brewing
Jamie Hunt: Founder and CEO of Fast Penny Spirits
Shae Frichette: Co-owner and Assistant Winemaker of Frichette Winery
Caitlin Braam: Founder of Yonder Cider
Moderator: Amber Davis: Owner of Triangle Spirits
Healthy Plates, Healthy Planet with Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé
November 2021, Online
What would the world look like if everyone had access to healthy food and we all knew where our groceries came from? Frances Moore Lappé can speak to that. She started a revolution about food, climate and health for people and the planet 50 years ago with her best-selling book "Diet for a Small Planet". It was the first major book to note the environmental impact of meat production as a contributor to global food scarcity. Michael Pollan, the author of the hugely influential 2006 book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, calls Lappe’s work “one of the most visionary books of the last 50 years”.
Lappé and her daughter, author of "Diet for a Hot Planet", Anna Lappé, have spent their careers advocating for food justice and sustainability. Join us for an engaging discussion about the intersection of our food systems and climate change with these two amazing changemakers. They will talk about how what is on our plates affects our health and our planet.
About Frances: Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of twenty books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment, beginning with the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet in 1971.
About Anna: Anna Lappé is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations, including the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund, which she launched with her mother.
October 2021, Online
Whatever chapter of life you are in or entering, you may be confronting life’s biggest questions – join us and Dr. Lisa Miller to discover how spirituality and the brain can both protect and heal us from depression, anxiety, craving, loneliness, and trauma. Through 20 years of lab research, clinical stories, exercises, and her own personal journey through depression and infertility, author of “The Awakened Brain”, Dr. Miller, joins us to illuminate the science of spirituality.
Dr. Miller reveals that each of us has the innate ability to change our mindset and navigate a more open, loving world—one in which we are more connected, more altruistic, more innovative, enjoy stronger relationships, and see opportunity in everything. We will learn that:
Depression and spiritual development share a common physiology.
There exist two modes of awareness, and a healthy brain needs both.
Spirituality is something everyone has, not just people who ascribe to a religion.
The awakened brain builds much like a “muscle.”
About Lisa: Lisa Miller, PhD, is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and a professor in the clinical psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
The Parenting Series
Motherhood: A Portal for Celebration, Healing and Transformation
October 2021, Online
Motherhood is full of joy and pain, celebration and grief, holding on tight and being able to let go. How do we move through these transitions in a way that honors our real, often untold experience?
Magdalena Garcia has worked with children and families as an educator and school leader in various settings, from large inner city public schools to a small non-profit elementary school she co-founded. She believes that when we as mothers give ourselves permission to celebrate fiercely and grieve fully, we experience a level of transformational personal development.
In this Parenting Series event, Magdalena will help us with strategies to cross thresholds that present themselves as we grow up with our children.
About Magdalena Garcia: Magdalena is a mother, storyteller, educator, creator and ceremony leader. For the last 25 years, she has led families through a trauma-informed, social justice approach that puts respectful, deep listening of the heart, mind and body at the core.
Radical Resilience: How to Get Back Up When Life Knocks You Down
October 2021, Online
After living through the 1986 Mt. Hood climbing tragedy, Lorca Smetana knows about coming back stronger and richer inside after living through crisis. Throughout her life, she has become an expert in building vibrantly holistic resiliency skills.
On every front, she helps people meet the world the way it is now from a beautifully supported inner place. We will explore here a new lens through which to view trauma and high stress, and get a whole new take on radical self-care in recommitting to vibrant, sustainable and creative lives so we are nourishing all around us.
About Lorca: Lorca teaches about risk, leadership, buoyancy, and designing from joy. She holds an MA in diplomacy and is on the faculty in Human Leadership Development at Montana State University. A TEDx and keynote speaker, a celebrant, a sustainable farmer, and a writer, she's helped individuals, teams and communities better understand what it is to be powerfully resilient ecosystems. Her online programs and teaching provide immersive experiences of what it is to be a resilient leader and human being.
Delivering Happiness with Jenn Lim
October 2021, Online
In an age of constant change, how can we stay resilient and grow as individuals and professionals? The secret is to embed happiness and humanity within all aspects of our lives, which starts with each individual showing up as our most authentic self.
Spreading happiness with this awakening for individuals to teams has been the lifelong mission of Jenn Lim, the fearless, innovative CEO of Delivering Happiness. Jenn will be talking about her new book, Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact, launching on October 12.
Join us and Jenn for this event where you will learn to:
Authentically change the world by prioritizing purpose, positivity and people (Spoiler alert: it starts with YOU).
Get back to the core of who we are and live the purposeful life we want to lead
Adapt to unknowns by applying purpose, values, and behaviors to navigate the future
About Jenn: Jenn Lim is the CEO of Delivering Happiness.
Trust Your Gut: Tips to Strengthen Your Intuition
September 2021, Online
We’ve all had it – that gut feeling, that inner voice – telling us what path we should take or, as the case may be, not take. It is possible to strengthen and follow that intuition in everyday life.
Vicki Murphy is an Intuitive Life Coach and she will show us three simple steps to honor our own intuitive gifts. We will learn to exercise our intuition so that we can tap in and use it to manifest more success, better health, confidence in our wisdom & decisions, and gain ease in guidance toward purpose.
Vicki will dive into these three important tips:
Recognize Your Energy Type.
Notice Daily Signs.
Create Protection.
Join us and Vicki to manifest the life you want by creating stronger intuitive connections!
About Vicki: Vicki Murphy is an internationally recognized Psychic Medium and Integrative Energy Expert dedicated to helping women succeed and profit in business relationships and their personal life.
Fridays for Mother Earth
September 2021, Online
Did you know trees have their own social networks? Trees can communicate – they send resources and information to other trees. When you walk through a forest, you are walking on a complex web that is buried beneath the soil. Trees are dependent on one another, resilient to change and can adapt to unforeseen circumstances just like humans.
Join us to hear from author and Professor of Forest Ecology, Suzanne Simard. Suzanne is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; and has been hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls in James Cameron’s Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide.
About Suzanne: Suzanne is known for her work on how trees interact and communicate using below-ground fungal networks, which has led to the recognition that forests have hub trees, or Mother Trees, which are large, highly connected trees that play an important role in the flow of information and resources in a forest.
The Parenting Series
Motherhood + Business: A Powerful Combination
September 2021, Online
There are 35 million working mothers in the U.S. For these women, taking care of kids and taking care of business is a juggling act. Join us for a fireside chat with Christine Michel Carter, a nationally known advocate for working parents and single mothers. Christine has worked on the maternal initiatives of Vice President Kamala Harris and received a Congressional Citation from the U.S. Senate.
Christine gets real with RevelEleven on her experiences and observations of motherhood and her thoughts on what self-care looks like for the modern mother. Be prepared for great humor and wisdom, as she draws light to important topics like systematic gaps and opportunities for employers, friends, and family to level up support the needs of mothers and families.
About Christine: Christine Michel Carter has been featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is also the bestselling author of children’s book Can Mommy Go To Work? and adult novel MOM AF.
In the Kitchen with Renee Erickson
September 2021, Online
She has been compared to Julia Child and is one of Seattle’s most well-known restauranteurs. James Beard award-winning chef Renee Erickson joins us in the kitchen. Not only will we get some professional tips and tricks, but we will hear how her dishes and restaurants highlight her love for the bounty of the Pacific Northwest. Renee will also share her recipe for zucchini fritters.
Grab your apron, make sure your pantry is stocked and learn from an amazing woman making waves in the industry with her knack for amazing dishes and beautifully designed spaces!
About Renee: Renee Erickson is a James Beard awarding-winning chef, author, and co-owner of multiple properties in Seattle, Washington: The Walrus and the Carpenter, The Whale Wins, Barnacle, Boat Bar, Bateau, Bistro Shirlee, Deep Dive, Willmott's Ghost, Westward and several General Porpoise Doughnuts locations.
Writers Gone Wild: The Secrets of a Friendship Build on Words
August 2021, Online
Two close friends and acclaimed authors of prose turn to poetry to express the wonder and climate urgency of our times. By sheer serendipity, their first poetry books will be published at exactly the same time and by the same press this fall.
Writers, Ana Maria Spagna and Sarah Van Arsdale are poets who share how they celebrate what's small, confront what's difficult, and nurture the creative value of wildness, collaboration, and laughter. Hear them talk about the role of nature and friendship in making art and truth telling.
About Ana Maria: Ana Maria Spagna is an award-winning environmental writer, a four-time finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and a former backcountry trail worker who lives with her wife, Laurie, in the North Cascades.
About Sarah: Sarah Van Arsdale is the author of five books who has lived and worked for years in the Catskills of New York State. They both teach creative writing in Antioch University's low-residency MFA program and at workshops and conferences around the country.
Summer of Self-Love: Using Your Social Media for Social Good
August 2021, Online
Does it feel like your voice gets lost in the cacophony of social media, especially when you want to share about causes you believe in? Join Andrea Learned to intentionally claim your leadership voice, build trusted relationships, and serve up value to others.
Whatever your social impact purposes are, or whether it’s for professional or personal goals, Andrea will explain her “5 L’s of Twitter Leadership” and how they apply across all social platforms. In this fun and engaging talk, Andrea will show us how to build our social media know-how while raising our voices for good. And she’s got some great nuggets of wisdom about how to wrangle the ever changing landscape of your social network.
About Andrea: Andrea Learned is a global climate action influencer with a 25-year career in marketing, communications and thought leadership platform building.
Summer of Self-Love: 5 Ways Writing a Self-Help Book Can Improve Your Life
August 2021, Online
You’ve read self-help books, but have you ever thought of writing one? Author and publishing industry veteran, Melanie Votaw, will guide us on the steps you need to take to start writing and sharing your wisdom and life experiences with others.
Melanie will teach us:
How writing a book is both a declaration of self-love and can enhance self-love, how to get help writing a book so you don’t have to do it alone, and what to consider when preparing to take those first steps.
About Melanie: Melanie Votaw is an award-winning author, ghostwriter, editor, and book coach who has been working in the publishing industry for 20 years and worked with major publishers as Hay House, Penguin, Macmillan, and others. Melanie specializes in spiritual self-help books and memoirs. She teaches the 6-month online Finish Your Book Group Coaching Program for self-help authors and runs the Finish Your Book with Melanie Votaw Facebook Community.
Summer of Self-Love: Expert Tips for Better Sleep
August 2021, Online
One in two women suffers from insomnia every night. We think that’s too many! Sleep is important in optimizing our physical and mental health and overall well-being. From life changes (kids) to hormonal changes (menopause), there are many factors that affect our sleep patterns and our sleep quality.
Dr. Carol Yuan has spent her career treating patients with sleep disorders and founded B. Hai Sleep Health, a telehealth sleep service for women. She will help us understand the unique sleep challenges we face at different stages of life and give us practical tips and strategies to overcome these challenges.
About Dr. Carol Yuan: Dr. Carol is a Board-Certified physician in pulmonary, critical care, internal medicine, and sleep. She is the founder of B. Hai Sleep Health, a telehealth sleep service for women.
Summer of Self-Love: A Road Map for an Audacious Midlife
July 2021, Online
For many, midlife (and the years leading up to it) can be a wild and unexpected ride. Between hormonal shifts, physical changes, aging in a youth obsessed culture, an inner call for more meaning & less BS, it’s no wonder we let ourselves believe we are heading for a crisis.
The good news? Life and Health Coach and author of Midlife No Crisis: An Audacious Guide to Embracing 50 and Beyond, Lisa Levine, says we can look at aging as an opportunity for positive transformation instead. Lisa will cover some of her favorite strategies and tips so you can learn how to move forward in life feeling great and with energy, clarity and delight.
About Lisa: Lisa Levine is a certified Life Coach and Health Coach and the author of Midlife No Crisis: An Audacious Guide to Embracing 50 and Beyond. Through her business, Audacious Health & Wellness.
Understanding Men: A Crash Course With an Expert
July 2021, Online
What do men want? What drives them? After coaching more than 1,000 men, Shana James knows all about the deeper workings of the other sex. And what she learned might surprise you. She will share deep insights and tools you can use to make your relationship – whether at home or at work – better. Shana will share how you can gain a greater understanding about the man in your life and how to get more of what you want from and with them.
About Shana James: Shana is a senior facilitator for the Authentic Man Program and co-creator of the Authentic Woman Experience. She is inspired to live what she teaches and to call out the wild, beautiful feminine heart and the unique voice of true feminine leadership. For 15 years she has coached more than a thousand leaders, CEOs, authors, speakers and people with big visions who step into more powerful leadership, start and grow businesses, create more effective teams, increase their impact, get promoted, find love, rekindle spark, create a legacy, and become more personally inspired and fulfilled.
Summer of Self-Love: Cultivating Confidence
June 2021, Online
Whether the goal is to build it, hone it, or own it, cultivating confidence is a power move that sets people apart and up for success.
Author of My Hype Book, Toni Purry, will give us tools to feel okay with truly seeing ourselves and realizing we can give ourselves permission to pivot and make bold moves. Cultivated Confidence is designed to inform women about a proven process of building a stronger sense of self-worth and undeniable core of confidence. Toni will share three key elements about a transformative process that she was inspired to create when she needed to rebound from a major crisis of confidence. Detailed in her book My Hype Book, Toni shares a process that provides those essential tools for giving ourselves permission to see and show up for ourselves and use that point of view as leverage for forward movement, upward mobility and taking and a seat at the proverbial table.
About Toni: With over 50 business awards to her name, Toni Purry is a public relations veteran whose career spans over two decades.
Summer of Self-Love: Loving All of Yourself
July 2021, Online
Learn to love all parts of yourself. And yes, we do mean all! All of the good, the bad, the messy, the creative, the unattractive, the silly ... all the stuff that makes you, uniquely you.
Why is self-love so hard? We come into this life enchanted to be alive, joyous, and curious. Over time, messages we get from our family of origin, our schooling and society shape us. Madison Avenue has been masterful at exploiting our lack of self-love and offering us solutions to fix it, making us think we will love ourselves more by consuming more, having more, needing more. Join host of the recently released podcast Heart and Soul, Ellen Newhouse, for a special hour of the Summer of Self Love series. Ellen shows us that no matter where we have been, what has happened to us or what we have done, we have the power to create a life we love and it starts with the gift of self-love.
About Ellen: Ellen Newhouse is the best-selling author of the memoir, Nothing Ever Goes On Here, speaker, sound healer, acupuncturist and actress.
Foraging for Wild Edible Mushrooms, Morel Mania + More
June 2021, Online
There is something about foraging that tugs at the very heartstrings of our DNA, awakening a base human drive that has been there all along just hoping for a spark.
Being a forager deepens your awareness of the land, opening your eyes to the beautiful connectedness of all things in the forest. It is much bigger than the 'food' you are collecting. Certified Wild Mushroom Identification Expert and self-proclaimed “modern forager” Kristen Blizzard will give us best practices to get out into nature in our own way and begin foraging. She will also help us understand the types of wild mushrooms and morels we might find. She will leave us inspired to breathe, listen, smell, see, and fill our senses with the fragile beauty of our wild spaces.
About Kristen: Self-proclaimed “modern forager” Kristen Blizzard resides in Glenwood Springs, Colorado with her husband Trent. They have been trekking the forests of Colorado, the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest for years mostly with wild, edible mushrooms in mind. Follow their adventures at modernforager.com.
Summer of Self-Love: Own Your Health + Feel Better Forever
June 2021, Online
What if there was a better way to take control of your health? If you're feeling frustrated trying to figure out how you can feel better, overwhelmed by which health interventions are right for you because there is so much conflicting information online, you are NOT alone! Join Nutrition Coach Christina Tidwell to learn about her journey from being diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder to now helping others find their best path forward to a life of wellness and vitality.
About Christina Tidwell RN, MN, NC-BC: Christina Tidwell is a Registered Nurse and Functional Nutrition Coach and founder of Live Well with Christina, a Holistic Health Coaching practice specialized in helping people with autoimmune disease take control of their health through nutrition, lifestyle shifts and personal empowerment.
Christina was diagnosed with an autoinflammatory condition at age 18 which presented with high spiking fevers, extreme fatigue, rashes and inflammation. She began the journey to understand not just what diagnosis she had, but why this was happening in her body and it’s led her down a beautiful path of healing and deep connection to her body. Learn more about Christina by visiting her website www.christinatidwell.com.
Summer of Self-Love: Rewriting the Stories We Tell Ourselves
June 2021, Online
On the verge of self-imploding after a one-two punch of breast cancer and blindness, Ingrid Ricks, NYT bestselling author and mother of two, realized she had a choice: let fear and self-loathing swallow her whole, or give her inner demons the boot and rewrite the soul-destroying stories she was telling herself. In this action-provoking event, Ricks shares how she transformed her life by flipping the stories she told herself and showering herself with love. She’ll walk you through the validity test she uses to overturn both personal and ingrained societal stories and provide the four simple steps she employs each day to keep the negative voices at bay and magnify her strengths and infinite power.
About Ingrid Ricks: Ingrid Ricks is an NYT-bestselling author, writing coach, inclusion activist and inspirational speaker who is passionate about leveraging personal storytelling to foster healing, awareness, empathy and change.
Over the past decade, she has helped thousands of students of every age find healing and empowerment by writing the deeply personal stories they needed to tell, and has produced eight anthologies in partnership with high schools and non-profits.
The Power of Women: Every Cause Begins With a Story
June 2021, Online
“Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.” - Melinda Gates.
We've said it before and we'll say it again: Women are going to change the world. Does this idea fire you up?
Jyoti Sarda, producer of And She Could Be Next, is on a mission to amplify the voices of women who are seeking to create change. Her award-winning docu-series following the inspiring women of color who ran for office and organized their communities in the 2018 election cycle, including Fair Fight's Stacey Abrams and U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib. Jyoti firmly believes we all possess the ability to have impact in our everyday lives from our neighborhood to our children's school to the workplace.
Join us for a dynamic, engaging and frank conversation about the three core tenets she has learned from the amazing women in her documentary. Whether you are looking to shake up the political landscape, your community or change on a more personal level, you'll find some thought provoking takeaways at this event.
Summer of Self-Love: Craft Your Morning Ritual
June 2021, Online
Want to have an amazing day? Start a morning routine that sets you up for success! Join RevelEleven co-creator, Monica Smith, to learn from the compilation of resources she gathered from dozens of health and wellness experts as she traveled through her personal journey, preparing for, and recovering from brain surgery.
About Monica Smith: Monica is a co-creator of RevelEleven, and has been bringing women together for events and retreats for over four years. Intellectual stimulation, deep connection, adventure, and rejuvenation combine everything that is meaningful in her life.
Monica is a longtime urban dweller and community activist, and was the Chair of the Seattle’s Downtown Resident's Council. She has more than 25 years of experience in international corporate real estate and project management. She was the founder and owner of Bluegreen Consulting, a green building and sustainability consulting firm, as well as the International Real Estate Manager for Microsoft. Monica spends as much time as possible hiking in the wilderness. She's a certified yoga instructor and loves to travel, golf and cook.
Fantastic Fungi: Medicinal, Microdosing + More
May 2021, Online
Mushrooms have been used for health and longevity in East Asian countries for thousands of years, but did you know that clinical trials suggest mushrooms, such as Reishi, are a possible benefit in cancer treatment? Or that microdosing of psilocybin (also known as magic mushrooms) has been shown to reduce anxiety, depression and inflammation? Join us and mycologist Terri Smith on May 21st to explore the wild world of mushrooms and their health benefits!
About Terri: Terri Smith is a talented mycologist and ambitious social entrepreneur. As CEO of Wake Jamaica Ltd, and as founder of the Network of Women for Food Security, she is driven by a passion for fungi; as medicine, as food and as a tool of economic empowerment for marginalized communities. She founded the Network of Women for Food Security in 2010, a network of mushroom farmers across Jamaica. Over the last decade, she has trained rural women to grow artisanal mushrooms and operate sustainable, restorative micro-farms.
The Art of Feng Shui: Creative and Powerful Techniques for Transforming Space
May 2021, Online
So much of our efforts are spent on attracting, manifesting, and calling in opportunities without equal consideration on creating the space to hold onto and nurture them once they arrive. Our conversation introduces you how to approach your creative process from 3 Feng Shui perspectives. Our spaces are always conditioning us – and when we deliberately, intentionally and intelligently curate the space around us, our surroundings reciprocate that kind of energy and positively influence our success and outcomes. This workshop is fabulous for anyone feeling like their creativity could use a shot of adrenaline, +/or for those who feel overwhelmed by their creative / office / WFH spaces.
About Amanda: Amanda Gibby Peters is the voice and founder of Simple Shui – a modern-day, mission-driven, love-based practice of Feng Shui. As a professional consultant and author, Amanda leads Feng Shui retreats and workshops, contributes her expertise to influencers, thought leaders and corporations and consults clients around the world.
The Power of Your Ask: Getting What You Want
May 2021, Online
Have you ever felt uncomfortable asking for something? Or been afraid to ask because you fear rejection? It’s hard not to take “no” personally and find the confidence to ask for what you want.
Cherilynn Castleman, leading sales coach, author and internationally renowned sales expert, will help you understand and improve the power of your ask. She will explore common fears that may be holding you back and give you tips on how to gain confidence, clarity, and formulate an ask that feels good for both you and the person receiving it. Her philosophy is: in order to reach your life goals and dreams, you have to learn to ask for what you want and need. Join us for a fun and interactive session on how to use your own innate superpowers to achieve your goals through the power of your asks.
About Cherilynn: Cherilynn Castleman, managing partner and executive coach at CGI is a sales coach and internationally renowned sales expert. She is the best-selling author of: What’s in the C.A.R.D.S.?: 5 Post-Pandemic Sales Strategies.
May 2021, Online
We all want to show up well in life and be happy - confident, calm, cool, creative, collected, content and in control. This genuine confidence and grounded sense of self influences your impact in all facets of life - business, social, and family interactions. If I could show you a way to harness this confidence and energy - and be happier - would that be of interest to you? You can do this through Positive Intelligence (PI).
What is Positive Intelligence? It is a person’s capacity to respond more effectively to challenges across a range of dimensions – personal, professional and organizational - with a positive rather than negative mindset. Individuals can build their ability to operate from a wiser, more confident & focused perspective, ultimately increasing their happiness & results. It's do-able! It’s within reach!
About Jill: Jill Perrin is the Principal and Lead Executive Coach at Unlocked Leadership.
Find Your Creative Confidence + Harness Your Creative Power
May 2021, Online
What does it take to create a big dream and to do so from a place of health, inner-strength, self-love and compassion? In this workshop, artist and master coach Leah Campbell-Badertscher shares her functional philosophy for creating anything you want and building the life of your dreams, from the inside-out, in the process. Leah will share with us three ideas and three corresponding practices that will help you not only achieve extraordinary results in your life, but will help you transform into the kind of creative powerhouse who knows: if she can imagine it, she can achieve it.
About Leah: Leah Campbell Badertscher, J.D., is an artist, writer, and master creativity coach who works with world-class artists and visionaries. She is the host of The Art School Podcast and founder of The Art School, both which she created to help creatives thrive and achieve seemingly impossible dreams. Leah lives on a farm in beautiful Michigan with her husband and three amazing children.
Creating Beautiful Container Gardens That Last
May 2021, Online
Beautifully styled containers do wonders to enhance the enjoyment of your backyard or deck! Container Designer Barbara Libner from Ravenna Gardens will share her tips and tricks to combine flowers and foliage for long lasting seasonal displays. You will come away with ideas and practical advice to create gorgeous containers for your own space, and inspired to get planting for lush color this spring, summer and beyond.
About Barbara: Barbara Libner is a lifelong gardener and color addict. With Ravenna Gardens for over 20 years, she is the container designer and merchandiser for the company. Located at University Village in Seattle, Ravenna Gardens is one of the best gardening stores in the area. Born from a mutual love of dirt and gardening by Gil Mathews, the store offers all-things gardening including plants, pots, books and so much more.
April 2021, Online
This Earth month, we'll make it easy to learn how to make an impact by aligning choices on how you live, where you work and ways to invest.
Susan Fairchild, Director of Investor Relations & Impact at Green Canopy, will highlight her journey to center her career, financial and home decisions around her passion for regenerating communities and environments. During this conversation, she will help you discover how to make an impact in the world by unlocking your passion and purpose and by integrating this work into your career, your finances, and your home life.
Susan Fairchild is the Director of Investor Relations and Impact at Green Canopy, a for-profit company working to transform the built environment by delivering highly sustainable, healthy, and more affordable housing options in the Pacific Northwest.
How to Keep Going: 10 Strategies for Moving Forward without Burning Out
April 2021, Online
Only 8% of the people who make New Year’s resolutions stick with them for more than a few weeks. We’ve all been there, wondering why it’s so hard to keep going with a new endeavor we believe in. This interactive workshop offers you a solid toolkit of 10 ways to maintain momentum and enthusiasm for any self-directed project you’re working on. In this 90-minute session, we’ll cover a range of strategies that help people to keep going, from accountability partners to making sure that perfectionism doesn’t skuttle your good ideas.
Bring a notebook, and together, we’ll distill the secrets of those who excel at maintaining focus and energy under difficult conditions, including Formula 1 pit crews, surgeons, sled-dog teams, and long-haul Arctic researchers.
About Sarah: Sarah Campbell is a writer and learning designer focused on the art and science of finishing. Her “Finish It” workshops blend self-help, social science, and psychology to help people finish projects they care about.
Shaking Up the Spirits Industry
April 2021, Online
The alcohol industry has long been an industry dominated by men. A 2019 report showed that only 16% of C-level employees in the food and beverage manufacturing industry were women.
Meet five women who are disrupting the male-dominated industry: Aimy Steadman, Co-founder and COO at Future/Proof + Beatbox Beverages, Jamie Hunt, Founder and CEO of Fast Penny Spirits, Holly Robinson, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer of Fast Penny Spirits, Nayana Ferguson, Co-Founder and COO of Anteel Tequila and the first Black woman to own a tequila brand in the world, and Pamela Wiznitzer, award winning beverage consultant and mixologist. They will give us their insight into the alcohol industry, how they broke through barriers and how they are working to empower women entering the alcohol world. Toast to women shaking up the spirits industry with us and bring a cocktail made with a women-owned brand of spirits on April 21st.
April 2021, Online
Want to become a more confident and prepared patient? Trying to help a loved one navigate the complexity of a healthcare crisis? Managing your healthcare needs and those of your family can be a daunting task. The ever-changing world of medicine can make it all the more challenging. Join Robin Shapiro, author and co-founder of HealthAdvocateX and Terese Clark RN, BSN for a lively conversation in best practices toward becoming your own best healthcare advocate.
In this program you will learn valuable tips and techniques to ensure that you are getting the best healthcare possible. Take control of your healthcare experience and become a confident informed participant.
About Robin Shapiro: Robin Shapiro is a health communications entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience. She is currently Board Chair and co-founder HealthAdvocateX.
About Terese Clark RN: Terese has spent over 35 years in healthcare, working as a nurse, consultant, and patient advocate.
Long Story Short: How to Become a Better Storyteller
April 2021, Online
Have you ever wanted to become a better storyteller? Join RevelEleven on April 13th at 5pm PT to learn how to better tell your own stories! We are thrilled to host Margot Leitman, the author of best-selling book LongStory Short: the Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need. Whether you want to improve your social storytelling skills, become a better storyteller at work, see your stories told on screens, or simply need help organizing your ideas, join us for a fun-filled conversation with Margot!
About Margot: Margot is also the author of What’s Your Story? & Gawky: Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase. She has written for DreamWorks TV, the Hallmark Channel, and the Pixl Network and worked for "This American Life" as the West Coast story scout. She is the founder of the storytelling program at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre and is a five-time winner of the Moth Storyslam and a winner of the Moth Grandslam, receiving the first ever score of a perfect 10. She travels all over the world teaching people to tell their stories.
Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Marine Biologist
April 2021, Online
Are you an animal lover at heart? So is marine biologist Maddalena Bearzi. Since childhood, marine biologist, author and artist Maddalena has had a gift for exploring the lives of creatures and discovering a deep love and appreciation for wildlife. In celebration of Earth Day, she will share her story and how she has come to find her way in the world alongside dolphins and other creatures.
About Maddalena: Maddalena Bearzi is President and co-founder of Ocean Conservation Society. She has a Ph.D. in Biology and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of California, Los Angeles. Maddalena has been actively involved in studying the ecology of marine mammals with a strong conservation bias since 1990. Her research work on dolphins, whales, and pinnipeds off Southern California has been ongoing for over two decades. She has published many scientific peer-reviewed papers, she is author of "Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Field Biologist" (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Further information on her research, conservation, and outreach public efforts can be found at oceanconservation.org.
Modern Love: Strategies for Greater Connection + Intimacy
April 2021, Online
Making relationships work in the context of modern life isn’t easy. In addition to the stay-at-home reality of COVID-19 and the dizzying pace of life, today’s couples are faced with an unprecedented relationship challenge: how can you strive for equality without destroying connection and intimacy?
In this conversation, Kaley Klemp will share the insights from her new book, The 80/80 Marriage. After interviewing over one hundred people, she learned that our go-to strategy of achieving equality in partnerships by making everything 50/50 fair fails to deliver on its promise. Instead, it results in tension, resentment, and often an even greater sense of inequality.
To address the unique challenge faced by this new generation of couples, they outline a new model of relationships: The 80/80 Marriage. It’s a model based on a shift in mindset, from fairness to radical generosity, and a shift in structure, from asking “What’s best for me?” to asking “What’s best for us?” An 80/80 marriage offers a path to being equals while also being in love.
Loving the Skin You’re In: A Woman’s Guide to Radical Self-Love
March 2021, Online
Longing to feel strong, vibrant, and at ease in your skin, yet you feel so uncomfortable you want to jump out of it instead?
If you’re exhausted because you’re spending 90% of your time searching for the next best thing and just 10% of your time focusing on you -- flip those percentages on their head -- turn inward, tune in and take notice.
Join Dr. Keira Barr to learn about simple and powerful concepts that will help you strip away the layers you’ve hidden away and get clear on what you want for yourself, so you get amazing value and results.
Learn how to double down on the things that work. And release the blocks that are creating your self sabotage and harness the power of radical self-love.
Blending science with soul, Dr. Keira Barr turns conventional methodologies on their heads so midlife women can feel comfortable in their bodies and love the skin they’re in.
Change Makers: Elevating Women-Owned Business
March 2021, Online
Where we spend our money matters. Women influence 85% of all spending decisions so what if your choices empowered other women?
TheWMarketplace is leading the way. A disruptor with an online platform for women to support women, co-founders Kate Isler and Susan Gates want to lift women up and close the gender gap. The Women's Marketplace features all women-owned businesses from retail stores to new business owners and service providers. So you can go to the marketplace to find a candle or a counselor – all in one place.
Two of those sellers include Tina Soedjak of Crafting Hope and Jennifer Cervelli of Jennifer Cervelli Jewelry. Kate, Susan, Tina and Jennifer will share their stories of women supporting women and inspire you to change the way you shop in order to support women-owned businesses.
Ignite Your Intentions: Spring Equinox
March 2021, Online
This powerful moment of the year awaits for you to set your stage for the next 90 days with co-creator of RevelEleven, Joanie Parsons. Start your spring strong with an intention setting workshop on the Spring Equinox! Join co-creator of RevelEleven, Joanie Parsons, on Saturday, March 20 to set some intentions for the next 90 days to the Summer Solstice. What is blossoming inside of you and what is ready to burst open into reality and success? Bring your journal and an open heart. We will start with personal goals, because when you are whole and complete everything else begins to fall into place.
Take on the next 90 days with the power of intentions and a powerful mindset.
Friendship Power Pack: How to Create Thriving Friendships in Adulthood
March 2021, Online
What if the cure to the loneliness epidemic came down to one simple thing: high-quality experiences of friendship? If you think friendship doesn’t matter, consider this: The average American hasn’t made a single new friend in the last five years, and the resultant loneliness causes as much stress and inflammation in the body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In this talk, author and experience designer Kat Vellos shares the most galvanizing and insightful takeaways from her book, We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships and gives participants an action plan to create more belonging and connection in their lives.
About Kat: Kat Vellos is the author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships and Connected from Afar: A Guide for Staying Close When You're Far Away. Kat is a prolific speaker who has graced the stages of TEDx, San Francisco Design Week, Design for America, the Transforming Loneliness Summit, Rosenfeld Media’s DesignOps Summit and many more. You can find her on Twitter @katvellos and Instagram @katvellos_author.
No Notes Needed: Impromptu Speaking with Confidence and Ease
March 2021, Online
Want to become a stronger and more confident impromptu speaker? Public speaking coach Lisa Kleiman will cover proven and easy techniques!
This workshop will show you various methods of approaching and nailing impromptu speaking either in person or remotely such as via Zoom sessions. No more nerves, dry mouth, queasy stomach, light-headedness, and sweaty palms. Learn how to face almost any impromptu situation with confidence and ease so that you will know what to say and do. It includes a step by step guide, templates and examples, and topics for you to try under timed conditions to a small breakout group of 3-4 people maximum that includes feedback from each other and the facilitator. You will also receive a self-assessment handout.
About Lisa Kleiman: Lisa Kleiman is a public speaking coach and principal of "You Got This: Everything You Need to Master Authentic Public Speaking" (2019) River Grove Books. For more information go to: https://www.speaktopia.com/
Reclaim Your Heartbeat Through the Art of Movement
February 2021, Online
Join us for a morning session with Coach Carla Wilcox and Yvette Camacho, creators of HEARTBEAT X, an emergent training program designed to promote heart-centered living. Expand and renew yourself with a holistic practice that is focused on deepening the relationship with your heart and how it can inform you throughout many of life’s transitions.
Learn new ways to honor the energy of grief, loss, defeat and fear of the unknown through a heart-centered approach that elicits your internal body wisdom through the art of boxing. Yup, that’s right, boxing! They will cover boxing principles and techniques as well as other training methods and how they best apply to everyday life. Ultimately connecting us to our authentic spirits through this dynamic physical, intellectual and emotional fitness program.
About HEARTBEATX: Founder and former professional boxer Coach Carla Wilcox and co-founder, Yvette Camacho provide an emergent training program designed to promote heart-centered living. Learn more here!
Eco-Friendly Fashion: How to Make Your Wardrobe More Sustainable
February 2021, Online
What you wear makes a statement – are you interested in making your statement more environmentally-friendly?
Fast fashion is a massive contributor to rising temperatures and climate change. How can we be more careful about what clothing brands we buy from and ensure what we are wearing is ethically and sustainably made? We have asked pros in the sustainable fashion industry to explain why what we wear and how it’s made is important, and how you can make a difference. We will hear from Afshan Abbas, CEO of Fuchsia Shoes, sustainable stylist Rebecca Luke and Director of Social Consciousness at Eileen Fisher Shona Quinn and Candace Cantaloupe from the Seattle Fashion Academy.
Afshan Abbas : Co-Founder & CEO, Fuchsia Shoes
Rebecca Luke: Stylist and Founder of ASAP (As Sustainable as Possible)
Shona Quinn: Director of Social Consciousness at Eileen Fisher
Candace Cantaloupe: Seattle Fashion Academy
Money Talks: Giving with Heart + Soul
February 2021, Online
Our connection to money can be complicated but it doesn’t have to be. Money is something most of us think about every day and exists as a currency in how we work and get paid, spend and give. What we do with money often reflects how we spend our time and where we place our values. In an engaging conversation, we will discuss money – what we do with it, its influence and the social changes that are possible with its use. Join us as Stephanie Ellis-Smith discusses how you can change your mindset about money, your prosperity and your incredible opportunity to make change in the world.
About Stephanie Ellis-Smith: Stephanie Ellis-Smith is the Founder and Principal of Phila, an organization that stewards authentic connections with the public sector to help donors be active participants in creating social impact to benefit those most in need. She has 20 years of experience in the philanthropic sector.
Redefining Self Love + Breaking Free of Family Patterns
February 2021, Online
In a world where we have been conditioned to prioritize everyone else’s needs before our own, we must take a moment and re-calibrate back to understanding our personal needs. This is self-love.
How you love yourself and others is a learned behavior and it is also inherited from your ancestors. Did you know ancestral patterns can keep you stuck in some of your old ways of being? These patterns can impact all areas of our lives, relationships, business, career, family, money, etc.
In this session, Amy Schuber will share how to reconnect to your heart space, allowing you to honor yourself with unconditional love. She will guide you through a collective energy clearing releasing the patterns keeping you from a deeper sense of love for yourself.
About Amy Schuber: Amy Schuber is an Energy Healer, Intuitive Business Strategist and Podcast Host of Inspired Conversations with Amy Schuber. Amy believes you are the one you’ve been waiting for.
Real Moms + Real Life: A Real Conversation on Parenting
February 2021, Online
Join us for an intimate conversation with working mothers navigating parenting during the pandemic. Be prepared to make amends with your parent guilt and laugh along the way, as we debunk the myths of being the perfect parent. Lisa, Naomi, and Meridith will share reflections on resilience, flexibility, and how they have learned to keep it together at work and home during this past year.
Lisa Lilienthal is an Atlanta girl at heart, passionate about design, food and all things sustainable. She is on Instagram as @Lisaclilienthal and Twitter as @LisaLilienthal.
Meridith Dillon works in private philanthropy, with a focus on affordable housing and the intersection of infrastructure and equity. You can connect with her on Twitter @greenhubomaha.
Naomi Hattaway: Naomi Hattaway is passionate about community building, diversity and accessibility. Naomi is running for City Council in Omaha, Nebraska. You can find her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook via@naomihattaway.
Cultivating Safe Relationships + Healing
February 2021, Online
As a licensed psychotherapist, the crux of Tiffany Rogers’ work is creating relational safety. Without it, her efforts to guide clients along their journeys of healing, growth, and change are thwarted. But safety is critical in all of our relationships - with partners, children, friends, and colleagues. Wherever we hope for authentic connection and engagement, safety must come first. In this conversation, Tiffany will be sharing what she has learned as a therapist about creating relational safety, and skills we can all practice to create safety in our relationships.
Tiffany is a former PR professional turned psychotherapist. She specializes in helping professional women heal trauma, build self-compassion, and live authentically. She lives in Chicago where she loves coffee shop hopping. Connect with her on Instagram: @tiffanyrogerstherapy.
Hacking Zero Waste: Creative Strategies for Eliminating Trash from Your Life
February 2021, Online
Are you concerned about the amount of trash we all produce, especially now during the Pandemic? Did you know that only around 7% of all plastic waste gets recycled in the US? Join zero waste blogger and activist Bettina Grab for a session on how to analyze the main sources of trash entering your life and 5 easy steps for eliminating 80% of it – even during COVID.
Bettina Grab left her corporate career of over 15 years’ in B2B marketing to combine her expertise with her passion: saving our planet. She started Impact B2B Agency to help climate tech businesses grow faster and make a bigger impact.
When she’s not advising climate tech companies at ImpactB2B, she’s making an impact as a zero waste speaker, blogger, and activist at bluegreen.blog – check it out!
The Practice of Forest Bathing with Dr. Adriana Copeland
January 2021, Online
Are you feeling isolated? Lonely? Restless?
Have you heard about the practice of Forest Bathing? We welcome your curiosity and invite you to join us and Dr. Adriana Copeland to learn more about this Japanese restorative practice called Shinrin-Yoku, which translates into English as Forest Bathing.
This healing nature practice is about slowing down the constant acts of “doing” in our lives and fully immersing ourselves in nature to indulge in just “being.” By honoring our relationship with the natural world, we come to understand that this interconnectedness not only restores our own health, but also improves the well being of the planet.
Forest Bathing has been scientifically proven to boost our immune system, reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and improve cognitive function among multiple other health benefits.
Dr. Adriana Copeland has a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and is Certified as a Forest Bathing Therapy Guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT).
Finding Friluftsliv Anywhere and Anytime
January 2021, Online
“Friluftsliv” (“open air life”) is a Nordic concept gaining currency during the COVID-19 pandemic. Friluftsliv, which encourages time spent outdoors, is an antidote to the countless hours spent indoors teleworking and socializing on video conferencing platforms. However, due to its myriad benefits, friluftsliv merits consideration for complete integration into our daily lives long after the threat of COVID-19 subsides. What are the origins and basic tenets of this philosophy? How can we adopt this lifestyle in the short and long term?
Leslie Anderson, Director of Collections, Exhibitions, and Programs at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, and Petra Hilleberg, the President and CEO of Hilleberg the Tentmaker, come together for this RevelEleven event to teach us about Friluftsliv.
Breaking the Pattern of Negative Thought
January 2021, Online
Come learn about simple and powerful concepts to tune into your own energetic signals to shift negative thinking.
Do you sometimes swirl in an eddy of negative thinking, and create the exact opposite result of what you want? There is a secret to choosing to work and live with passion and purpose―tune into your own energetic signals and consciously choose thoughts that align all aspects of your life with what energizes you. To be successful, you need a tool and a proven system. Come learn about these simple and yet powerful Clarity concepts that really do work.
When you are deeply enmeshed in the mud of negative thoughts and behaviors, it’s very difficult to know where to shift your thoughts – even if you are conscious of the need to do it. Clarity’s Thought Changing System provides you a simple, easy to use system to SHIFT your thought energy.
Cathy Hawk is a pioneer and innovator in the coaching field. Since 1994, her Get Clarity® Operating System is an energy focused, step-by-step method that makes it easy to stay energized to create a meaningful, joyful life. Jen Roth is a Senior Clarity Coach.
January 2021, Online
Sex in midlife? It can and should happen! Think you've lost that loving feeling? We will hear from our sex-perts about how sex in midlife should be better than ever.
They will give us all the ins and outs about how to spice up your sex life and get your mojo back, baby! Thanks to Gennev for partnering with us on this event.
Our Speakers:
Candice Nicole Hargons, PhD, Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology, Sex Therapy
Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su, MD, MCSE, OB/GYN, Gennev Chief Medical Officer, Director of Menopause at Swedish Women’s Clinic
Ashley Fuller, MD, OB/GYN, Swedish Medical Center
Jill Angelo, CEO and Co-Founder of Gennev
Journaling with Joanie: Vision Your 2021
January 2021, Online
How do you intend to spend 2021? Have you created intentions for the New Year?
Get ready to say good riddance to all of 2020 and set the stage for this new year. Join RevelEleven co-creator, Joanie Parsons, as we set some intentions together. Bring your journal and prepare to look within, take time for yourself and vision your life for the next 90 days.
A Solstice Celebration: A Journey to the Light (bring your journal)
December 2020, Online
Since ancient times, people all over the world have recognized this important astronomical occurrence and celebrated the subsequent “return” of the light. It stands as an important reminder that the light is always within and waiting for you. Take some time for yourself before the holiday crunch and join us for some inner reflection. What is glowing within you? What are you visioning for the New Year? Bring your journal and join RevelEleven co-founder, Joanie Parsons, for 30-minutes of personal illumination.
Soufflé Made Easy with Caprial Pence
December 2020, Online
James Beard award-winner Caprial Pence will teach us the dos and don'ts of soufflé making on December 14th at 5pm. We will discover how easy it is to make this spectacular dessert that will make mouths water this season.
Pull out all the stops for your small gatherings this year! To finish our beautiful soufflé, we will learn how to make a caramel sauce. Caprial will also take your questions about holiday entertaining and give you tips and tricks for an effortless celebration.
Caprial Pence is co-owner and chef of Madison Kitchen.
A Special Holiday Dinner with Osteria la Spiga, Frichette and Fleurish
December 2020, Online
Holiday gatherings may be smaller than usual this year, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare a show-stopping dinner. Owner of Frichette Winery, Shae Frichette, and Head Chef of Osteria la Spiga, Sabrina Tinsley (who was also a contender on Iron Chef) will show us how to impress whoever may be at your dinner table this season. Sabrina will demo how to make and wow your guests with Tagliatelle al Ragu from her kitchen. Shae will show us wines to pair with this meal, and divulge some expert tips on pairing food and wine. Plus, Nisha Klein will go through simple steps with us to create a minimal garland and curate a Nordic inspired table.
Our Speakers:
Shae Frichette, Co-owner and Assistant Winemaker, Frichette Winery
Sabrina Tinsley, Co-owner and Head Chef of Osteria la Spiga
Nisha Klein, Owner of Fleurish
Medicine Wheel Yoga Flow with Ananda
December 2020, Online
Yoga (union with the Divine) and Shamanism (interaction with the spirit world) are both practices, which are designed to lead us to the direct flow of wisdom.
In this class, we call upon the ancient teachings of the Medicine Wheel to provide an anchor for this transformational practice. As we invoke the spirits of the Serpent, Jaguar, Hummingbird and Eagle, we receive valuable guidance helping us to release patterns, reveal our passions, shift perceptions and to dream our world into being.
Our intention is for you to leave the practice feeling spiritually cleansed and emotionally empowered to live the life that wants to live you.
Cj Ananda is Co-Founder of Pura Vidya, Kula Collective, and Present Moment Retrea
Revelations: The Four Fundamentals of Self-Care with Manjeet Russell
December 2020, Online
These are unprecedented times. With Covid cases on the rise nationally and the holiday season quickly approaching, your self care regiment might have fallen through the cracks. If you are feeling the same way and are looking for some self care strategies - join Manjeet as we discuss: What self care strategies are working for you? And more importantly, what self care strategies are NOT working for you during this challenging time. I’ll share my 4 fundamentals for self care as well as some tools and strategies for creating a self-care regimen that will serve you during this challenging time.
Manjeet Russell is a Certified Intuitive Life Coach. Manjeet's mission is to help busy women embrace a life of clarity, balance, and purpose and move out of survival-mode and powerfully into “THRIVAL-mode.”
Winter Wreath Workshop with Juniper Flowers
December 2020, Online
Join us in the virtual studio to learn pro tips for creating a fresh evergreen wreath. Jean Louise will guide us through a tutorial using ornaments, pine cones, ribbon and glitzy, glittery elements. Or if you want to skip the glitz and glam, she will show us how to go with a more natural design consisting of pine cones, pods, cinnamon sticks and other natural NW elements.
You’ll leave the evening knowing how to craft a beautiful "ready to hang" wreath for your front door.
Jean Louise Paquin Allen is the founder of Juniper Flowers.
Sleeping Well with Dr. Catherine Darley
November 2020, Online
Have you been having trouble sleeping? Naturopathic sleep specialist Dr. Catherine Darley will give us advice to improve how we sleep.
Sleep disruptions can have a powerful effect on your energy, performance, and ability to enjoy your life. Join us with Dr. Catherine Darley, naturopathic sleep specialist, to explore the underlying changes as we grow older that affect our sleep, and what to do about it. From a holistic perspective, we’ll talk about a broad range of approaches, from lifestyle and behavioral strategies, to nutrition and supplements.
Dr. Catherine Darley is the founding director of The Institute of Naturopathic Sleep Medicine in Seattle.
The Science of Getting Unstuck
November 2020, Online
We are experiencing a moment in time with restrictions related to how we travel, gather in community, and educate our children. If you are one of the individuals struggling with a never-ending sense of “daily grind”, you are not alone.
What happens when we feel stuck in daily demands? How do we embrace personal freedom and choice? Where do we find the energy to create change when we feel depleted?
Join Dr. Erica Roesch and Monica Huntsberry as they share some brain science, examine myths of a perfect life, and talk about what it means to be stuck. In this session they will explore:
Insights on how the human brain functions
Examples of how this influences are decisions
Simple tools to create change and next steps
Both Monica and Erica have experienced feeling stuck at different points in their lives and have navigated change in unexpected ways.
Revelations: Cultivating Joy with Ellen Newhouse
November 2020, Online
Joy is divine. While feelings such as happiness come from external sources and are fleeting, joy comes from within and is always abiding. It is an innate part of who you are and how you express yourself.
The path to Joy is ultimately a return to wholeness—a rediscovery of who you are. It involves getting to know and moving beyond your fears, insecurities, doubts, and limiting beliefs, paving the way toward more lightheartedness and laughter. Join Ellen Newhouse as we examine how to release the old limiting ways and embrace a daily practice of cultivating joy!
Ellen will be utilizing Sound Healing as an entry point into the opening of our hearts.
Ellen Newhouse is an Acupuncturist, Sound Healer, Intuitive Coach and the author of Nothing Ever Goes on Here.
Playing with Privilege: Entitlement Unleashed
November 2020, Online
What do we consider to be universal entitlements? Should we all have the right to practice our religion and cultural heritage freely? A right to earn a living wage, access to adequate food and shelter, medical care, a sense of well being and safety? How do you react when someones perceived entitlements seem to encroach upon your personal space and individual rights? Who decides who gets to be entitled, and to what degree?
Using The Work of Byron Katie, we will explore how we came to acknowledge our privilege or the lack thereof. Is our sense of privilege derived from a childhood where we were taught we were at the center of the universe? There are no apologies needed, and we are not asking for correctness. We are aiming for increased awareness of our privilege and an opportunity to do our part to engage intentionally in our evolving world.
Danielle Morvan and Edie Thomajan are Certified Facilitators of The Work of Byron Katie.
Feeling Inner Peace + Grounding with Jaime Komer
November 2020, Online
Envision a nourishing, supportive, and judgment-free space. Imagine a place where we reconnect with our sense of flow. Feel the grounding energy flowing within you. This is Jaime's intention for our unique sessions together.
Jaime will guide you through a grounding visualization / meditation, to connect with our heart center and feel fully grounded. We will energize our sense of self-trust and self-compassion; both key components to feeling a sense of acceptance and belonging from within and with the world around us.
Jaime Komer is an Olympic Medalist and 2-time World Champion in Water Polo. Jaime founded Happy Vibes, with 50% of proceeds going directly to grants for women-led, conscious, small businesses.
Revelations: Breathing for Balance with Nancy Medwell
November 2020, Online
In this session, Nancy will lead us through a ritual of conscious breathing and heart-based meditation so we can sustain a deep connection to ourselves. Nancy offers transformative sessions for individuals and groups to live an embodied, integrated and inspired life. After this session, we will have the courage to move forward and “be the change we wish to see in the world,” allowing us to get back to a more primal rhythm, and helping us navigate the intensity of our new world.
Nancy Medwell has spent a lifetime spreading joy and beauty with others whether it is through her emotional portrait photography, or as co-founder of Carlo Scanagatta Designs.
Sunday Morning Yoga
October 2020, Online
Move your body during an hour long yoga class which is accessible for all levels of yoga with Seattle instructor Tina Templeman. Gaining mental and physical strength during these times is important for the mind, body and soul. Tina has 20+ years experience of teaching and training teachers in asana, anatomy, and meditation.
Under Pressure: Women’s New Midlife Crisis
October 2020, Online
RevelEleven is thrilled to host author Ada Calhoun for a conversation about Why We Can’t Sleep, her recent book and Amazon Editors’ #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 So Far. When Ada found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable?
Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to “have it all,” Ada found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. Join us as Ada offers solutions for how to pull ourselves out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in.
Journalist Ada Calhoun is the author of New York Times bestseller Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis.
Eagle Medicine + Hummingbird Yoga Flow with Ananda
October 2020, Online
Eagle Medicine: The Eagle is an animal totem in various Medicine Wheel teachings. Eagle medicine is thought to carry the energies of expansion, clear vision and heightened perspective. In this class, we will draw upon the eagle’s wisdom to appreciate life from a bird’s eye view. As we soar above the limited perceptions of our minds, we will connect to the oneness that inspires an awakened state of being, and allows our sacred visions to take flight!
Hummingbird Medicine: The Hummingbird is an animal totem in various Medicine Wheel teachings. Hummingbird medicine is thought to carry the energies of harmony, joy and present moment awareness. In this class, we will draw upon the hummingbird’s wisdom to connect with the element of air and to appreciate every breath and every moment. As we connect to the beauty and divine balance that exists in everything, we fill ourselves up with joy and begin to taste the sweet nectars of life.
Ananda is Co-Founder of Pura Vidya, Kula Collective, and Present Moment Retreat.
Women + Alcohol: A Complicated Relationship
October 2020, Online
Join us for a conversation with Erica Barnett on how she explored her relationship with alcohol and the stigma around it.
At every age, there is an socially permitted version of a "woman who drinks a little too much" that leaves little room for the reality of addiction in many women's lives. The stigma and shame that are still associated with addiction can make it hard for women to talk about their real concerns about their relationship to alcohol, or to ask for help when they think they might have a drinking problem.
Join our conversation with author and reporter, Erica Barnett, as well as counselor Jenny Finley to explore this timely and important topic.
Erica C. Barnett is an award-winning political reporter.
Jenny Finley is a Masters level Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Substance Use Disorder Professional.
An Introduction to the Enneagram
October 2020, Online
Enhance your understanding of yourself and others with an introduction to the Enneagram personality system!
The Enneagram personality system is a sophisticated model of nine distinct temperaments that explains not just what you do, but why you do it. RevelEleven and Raena Hubbell invite you to take the test and join us to better understand your results. You can take the test here!
In this session you will:
Learn the fundamentals of the system
Understand how it’s different from other personality systems
Explore their own personality type
Learn the essence of each of the 9 personality types
Raena Hubbell is an Enneagram expert, facilitator and coach based in Boulder, Colorado.
Essential Vegetable Fermentation
October 2020, Online
As the pandemic continues to disrupt our daily routines and diets, home fermentation offers a wonderful way to reconnect to the natural world around us, engage our senses, and feed our microbiome with living bacteria. Join Kelly McVicker, author of Essential Vegetable Fermentation, for a conversation about how bringing fermentation rituals into your kitchen can help ground you in the seasons while strengthening your microbial health in the process.
This workshop will teach you how to make & enjoy fermented vegetables at home using easy-to-access ingredients. Kelly will demonstrate how to make a simple cabbage-based ferment, inviting participants to follow along at home if they wish. She'll also talk about how maintaining a healthy microbiome, including eating lots of fermented foods, can help keep our immune systems strong as we weather these uncertain times.
Kelly McVicker is a food educator, writer, and owner of San Francisco-based McVicker Pickles.
October 2020, Online
Do nerves ever take over when you are asked to lead a meeting or give a presentation?
Would you like to learn how to discover a place of trust, so that you are able to speak with confidence and authenticity? Whether you are speaking online or in-person, this session will give you some new tools and tips to enable you show up to any situation, the way that you want.
Jean Hamilton, owner of Speaking Results, has coached leaders on presentation and communication skills for over the past 20 years. Her diverse background in speech, theatre, improvisation and storytelling enable her clients to become credible, engaging and authentic speakers.
Our Being, Our Becoming, Our Belonging with Debra Baker
October 2020, Online
We're taking a moment to share the gifts of storytelling, reflection and conversation. You will listen as Debra shares her story, a powerful and personal expression of her own Black experience in context. You will have a chance to interact with Debra. You will reflect, connect and share within the group to explore themes and concepts presented. You will leave with a more nuanced understanding of racism as we consider our role in bringing about change within ourselves, between one another, and in our organizations.
Debra Baker is a national award winning professional who currently works as an organizational development practitioner in the field of Human Resources.
Women in Politics: Looking Toward November
October 2020, Online
November’s elections are right around the corner and women are taking center stage.
Historic numbers of women are likely to win. Historic numbers of career Senate and House members are expected to lose to younger women and there is a dramatic increase in the number of women of color winning in federal and state offices.
Women are voting for women. And a new majority of young voters are voting for women. Why is this happening? And how do we help it take place? Join us as Seattle women’s political advocate Cathy Allen gets real and discusses the likely advantages women can expect in Washington state.
Cathy Allen serves as National Vice-President for Education and Training for the National Women’s Political Caucus.
Find Your Glow: Clean + Natural Beauty
September 2020, Online
Do you know what your beauty products are made of? Join professional hair & makeup artist Angie Evans and non-toxic living advocate Alice Panikian as we discover why we should care about what brands we support and how to find the right products for our unique beauty.
Angie will be talking with us about Cruelty-Free & Clean Beauty and the importance of putting our money where our values lie. She will discuss why it matters what's in our products and what companies we support. She will also be disclosing her favorite brands, how to choose the right products for you, and the mindset behind Beauty as it relates to us as women.
Alice will be sharing useful information on ingredients to avoid and provide recommendations for alternatives to conventional products that might be doing us more harm than good.
Angie Evans has been in the beauty industry for 14 years and worked as a Professional Hair & Makeup Artist for over 10.
Alice Panikian was Miss Canada 2006 and a former professional model. She is a non-toxic living advocate and runs her blog The Bronde.
Real Conversations about Anxiety, Fear & Courage
September 2020, Online
What are YOU afraid of? Bring courage into your everyday and find your inner warrior. Dr. Kristen Lindgren and Dr. Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan will guide us through a presentation on how to get past initial fears and doubts within ourselves and make our lives our own.
Consider how fear affects your decisions
What does courageous leadership look like?
Tools to manage fear and uncertainty
Live life a little more courageously
Dr. Kristen Lindgren, PhD, is a professor and licensed clinical psychologist in the University of Washington’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & the Co-Director of UW's Trauma Recovery Innovations.
Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan is the CEO of The Infinite Impact Group.
RevelRap Session: Coffee + Conversation
September 2020, Online
We have enjoyed our Summer of Self-Love and hope you have too. Now we want to know how YOU are doing! Pour your coffee, tea or favorite morning beverage and join RevelEleven co-creators, Joanie and Monica, for a catch-up. We'd also love to hear what you've thought of our programming so far and how we can make it the best it can be. Plus it's the chance to chat with other members of our RevelEleven community.
So get comfy and join us on Friday, September 4th, for Coffee and a Catch-up.
Summer of Self-Love: Healthy Gut = Healthy Life
August 2020, Online
New to the world of fermentation?
This session will be a great introduction to fermentation and traditional handcrafted foods:
- What is fermentation?
- The difference between fermenting, pickling, and culturing
- What foods you may already be eating that are fermented
- How to incorporate fermented foods and drinks into your diet and the health benefits of doing so
Dr. Yasmine Mason is a mother, chiropractor and founder of Fermentation Farm in Costa Mesa, CA.
Summer of Self-Love: How to Spend Like It Matters
August 2020, Online
When it comes to the money we spend, it's time to close the gap between our good intentions and actions that make a difference.
Intentionalist makes it easy to support small businesses in our communities and learn about the diverse people behind them, including businesses owned by women, people of color, veterans, LGBTQ community, and people with disabilities.
Laura Clise is the founder and CEO of Intentionalist, an online platform and guide that makes it easy to support small businesses and more connected, inclusive communities through everyday decisions about where we eat, drink and shop.
Summer of Self-Love: The Art of Breathing
August 2020, Online
"Our breath is the healing balm, the most potent natural medicine. A constant companion and tool to create new neural pathways that are heart-centered and responsive so we begin to connect to ourselves and each other more deeply."
Join Nancy Medwell for a conscious connected breathing session and experience a return to a more primal rhythm helping you navigate the intensity of our new world. Breath-work is a powerful tool for personal transformation and liberation. With presence, conscious breath, and awareness, we attend to the quality of our thoughts, releasing limiting beliefs and replacing them with positive energy. Applying the principle of acceptance to ourselves, we discover the capacity to welcome our changing emotions.
Summer of Self-Love: Creating Space in Your Home for a “Stay-cation”
August 2020, Online
Creating a home and garden that feels like a retreat from the stresses of life is the core of designer Kristin Glandon's practice. It’s so important for our mental well-being to come home to a place we love and creating that space doesn’t have to break the bank. There are lots of small ways to help our outdoor spaces feel restful.
Get your creative juices flowing with us and Kristin to create the perfect outdoor space in your home for a "stay-cation". Kristin Glandon is a Seattle area landscape architect with 20 years’ experience who also dabbles in interior design. She is the owner of KG Designs.
Summer of Self-Love: Loving Self + Sound Healing
July 2020, Online
Learn about the art of Sound Healing and how it can bring emotional balance and deep relaxation with Ellen Newhouse!
Sound Healing is an ancient form of transformative and therapeutic healing. It encourages emotional balance, enhances the immune system, aids in cardiovascular health and brings mental clarity and deep relaxation.
Ellen Newhouse will lead us through a powerful session on loving ourselves and reclaiming your unique voice on your healing journey. For the past 30 years, Ellen has been integrating Acupuncture, Sound Healing, Energy Medicine and Intuitive Coaching in her private practice. Ellen loves guiding and empowering women to create work and a life they love!
Summer of Self-Love: Microaggressions in the Workplace
July 2020, Online
While microaggressions are subtle, they create huge challenges for people that feel disparaged in the workplace.
Much like all topics or words centered around challenging our biases, even mentioning the word microaggression causes the accused to become defensive. On the opposite side of things, those that are victims of the behavior, feel devalued and demoralized.
In this session, Tali Lavarry, founder of Yum Yum Morale, a DEI Consultancy that focuses on the retention and advancement of diverse hires, will teach:
Acknowledging and accepting that microaggressions are a very real thing, and that they create very real problems.
Styles & types of microaggression.
How microaggression affects your colleagues & businesses.
Discussions & discovery about combating microaggressions in the workplace.
How to Talk to the Other Side: How to have difficult conversations
July 2020, Online
It's hard to start-up the uncomfortable conversations that are necessary right now, but this session will guide us there with hope.
Discussions and disagreements. They are happening more and more these days. Seattle resident, Natalie Hoffman, has co-authored a book, "How to Talk to The ‘Other Side’: Finding Common Ground in the Time of Coronavirus, Recession and Climate Change,” with the idea that it will bring people together.
With a message of hope and optimism, Natalie will provide tips and strategies that you can implement right away so you can have those difficult conversations with family members, friends and neighbors who you don't see eye to eye with.
Summer of Self-Love: A Garden That Nurtures and Gives
July 2020, Online
Make your herb garden the best it can be! Join RevelEleven for a Summer of Self-Love session on easy growing tips for your favorite herbs.
Aromatic and easy- grow herbs to blend teas, aromatic flavorings, and soothing natural remedies. From a simple potted aloe vera on a windowsill to abundant, herb-filled containers on a patio, discover ways an herb garden gives back to you. Join Sue Goetz for easy growing tips, harvesting, and recipes for some of her favorite herbs and all the ways to use them.
Sue is an award-winning garden designer, writer, and speaker. Through her business, Creative Gardener, she works with clients to personalize outdoor spaces – from garden coaching to full landscape design.
Summer of Self-Love: Tips + Wisdom for These Times
July 2020, Online
Do you want to learn some tips and coping mechanisms for self-care in a pandemic?
In this session, you will learn some coaching tips and coping mechanisms for a changing world with Sonya Stoklosa! Over the years, Executive Coach, Sonya, has helped more than 300 executives and now she will share her best lessons, wisdom, and the tips she has learned over the years and how they apply to our current Covid world.
Sonya is a former Olympic level ski racer and VP with BNY Mellon-Private Wealth Management. She helps professionals overcome their most persistent challenges so they can accomplish what they truly want in their lives.
Summer of Self-Love: Self Worth with Jaime Komer
July 2020, Online
What can happen when you combine a dollop of gumption, a hearty portion of passion, and an extra helping of purpose?
In this Summer of Self-Love session, Olympian Jaime Komer will speak on how to be the light you wish to see in the world. We will discuss the topic of Self-Worth and talk through ways to detach our self-worth from what we do and instead, connecting our self-worth to who we are.
As a Professional Goalkeeper, Olympic Medalist and two-time World Champion in Water Polo, Jaime shares unique insight into the pressures of perfectionism and a liberating journey to living a fulfilling and authentic life on one's own terms.
Summer of Self-Love: The Meaning of Dreams
June 2020, Online
Dreams have multiple layers of meaning. We usually look for the personal meaning of our dreams, when we bother to look at all. But when we share big experiences our personal dreams weave together; each individual adding a different strand to create a larger pattern. Is an image of the future emerging from our collective dreams? What patterns or themes are emerging during this time?
Join us and dream expert Elizabeth Dimarco on Friday, June 26, for a lively 30-minute discussion about this dream phenomenon that is touching people around the world.
Elizabeth Dimarco is a nationally known teacher of active dreaming. Learn more at: www.cymbalicmoments.com.
Baking with Sensational Seasonal Strawberries with Caprial Pence
June 2020, Online
Bake a Brown Butter Coconut Cake with Roasted Strawberry Compote and Sweetened Greek Yogurt with Caprial!
Learn how to make this simple cake and it can become a staple in your baking repertoire, paired with amazing Washington strawberries. You will have a sensational dessert for an occasion!
Caprial graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and in 1986 began working at Fullers Restaurant at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel. Under Caprial's direction, Fullers was a leader in Seattle's nouvelle cuisine, and in 1990 the young chef was honored with the James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Northwest.
Summer of Self-Love: Silent Listening
June 2020, Online
At the core of deep and effective listening is the practice of holding silent space for another to share openly, allowing them to follow their own inner map. In order to hold silent space, we quiet our minds, become present, and resist our habitual communication impulses.
In this session, we will learn techniques for becoming present, practice holding silent space for another, and hopefully discover our often unconscious impulses that inhibit one another sharing fully. We will also experience how powerful it is to be heard by someone who is holding that space for us.
Marcia McReynolds, AKA “The Listening Lady,” has been exploring and teaching the art of listening for the past 25 years. She is a mediator, facilitator, educator and improvisor whose personal mission is to spread the seeds of deep listening “from the inside-out” to as many people as possible.
Summer of Self-Love: Practical Tools to help you stay safe, sane & strong!
June 2020, Online
Our emotions are psychological (bodily) responses to internal (e.g. thoughts) and external (e.g. social media) stimuli. These responses are there for a reason. They give you data to make informed decisions, so you can take action crucial to your survival.
Take it a step further. You can train your brain to interpret the stimuli that are bombarding your senses as cues—vs. threats—and train your mind to make more empowering decisions; so you can go beyond merely surviving, and actually thrive.
This session is led by TΛY & VΛL, co-Founders of M MEDITATION, a mental strength x emotional resilience consultancy, specializing in creating mindfulness-based workshops, training, and experiences that are contextual, useful, and immediately applicable in the modern world.
The Menopause Adventure in partnership with Gennev
June 2020, Online
Whether you’re just getting into perimenopause or are well into the post menopause phase of life, we’re bringing together experts that know a thing or two about sexual wellness, emotional and mental health, heart health, and nutritional treatments for women on the menopause adventure.
There is no one-size-fits-all to menopause, so get ready for honest conversation, answers, laughter and empowerment.
Featured Speakers:
Jill Angelo, CEO and co-founder of Gennev
Improve Your Impact: Presenting Online
June 2020, Online
As if giving presentations were not challenging enough, you now must give them online. Can live presentations be effective, memorable and authentic online? YES!
Dana helps you adapt your existing material and natural style to an online format. This seminar is interactive and teaches you the skills and techniques to give impactful presentations in a way that achieves results.
Dana Sather Robinson helps leaders give pitches and presentations with impact, clarity, and authenticity. With over 20 years of experience in training and marketing, she works with her clients to tailor solutions that best suit them.
Summer of Self-Love: Listening Leads to Healing
June 2020, Online
What is being asked of us as Americans by the protests across our country? For the white America to listen to black America.
This revolution calls for inner evolution. We must become first the change we wish to see. Listening begins within, listening to one’s own reactions, biases, judgments, resistance, anger, agenda and blind spots pertaining to the topic at hand, and doing what we can to put those aside to truly hear what another is saying.
How do we do this? How do we begin? Marci McReynolds will guide us in some first steps.
Marci McReynolds, AKA “The Listening Lady,” has been exploring and teaching the art of listening for the past 25 years.
Happy Vibes with Olympian Jaime Komer
May 2020, Online
So you want to move forward in your life, you're just not sure what the next step is and how to take it. How can you grow during these defining times? How do you want to feel? Where is your heart guiding you?
Olympian and Empowerment Coach Jaime Komer will guide you through an interactive session to gain new insight, confidence, and focus by tapping into your powerful tools of visualization, affirmations, and intuition.
This session will: Feel refreshing, uplifting, and relevant; clarify how you want to feel on a daily basis and take the first steps; hone your intuitive tools of visualization and affirmations; shift your intentions into a tangible practice.
Follow this link to the presentation and use password: shineyourlight.
30-Minute Check Up For Your Career
May 2020, Online
If you are either an essential worker, working from home or have been furloughed, your work has most likely changed. And during times of change, it often causes us to reflect and think about things. Things we like and don’t like about our current jobs. What we need and don’t need in the kind of work we want to do. What we want and don’t want from co-workers, managers and a company. We thought we’d offer a quick chat with someone who spent time helping people through change management in their careers.
Wendy Norman will offer a step-by-step guide on a few things you could be doing while you have a little extra time on your hands to invest in your career and grow your hard and soft skills. She’ll also share her advice about having a “Personal Board of Directors”, and how having one can be the difference between epic success or epic fail.
Wendy Norman spent 25 years at Microsoft in Public Relations, Marketing, and Product Management.
GrapeVine’s 3rd Annual Women in Wine
May 2020, Online
Grab a bottle of wine or two for a virtual wine tasting with four of the best winemakers in Washington. It’s a great way to support locally-owned women wineries, sample delicious wines from the comfort of your own home and learn one sip at a time.
Our winemakers pick a wine from their cellars to discuss, and pair it with a favorite recipe. Pour your beverage of choice and join us for a lively discussion about wine and the food that pairs with it.
Floral Design with Deanna Kitchen
May 2020, Online
Deanna Kitchen is the owner of Twig & Vine Farm, a cut flower farm tucked away near the tiny town of Conway, WA. Deanna has trained with some of the nation's leading floral designers.
In this class, Deanna demonstrates how to transform backyard blooms and foraged bits into a romantic, garden-inspired floral arrangement. Using locally grown flowers and foliage's, she'll guide you through easy tips and techniques to create a gorgeous centerpiece design. She'll also share her favorite ways to give away flowers in your community, fostering kindness and connection- check out Growing Kindness Project!
Reinvention through Resilience: Finding Your Best Self Through Clothing!
April 2020, Online
Fashionista Rebecca Luke has been dressing thousands of bodies for more than 30 years. Rebecca shares her knowledge to help get through this crisis with a brighter perspective – through something we take for granted – with the clothes we wear. She will walk us through key tips to spark joy, creativity and create a sense of accomplishment with your wardrobe while we have this time.
As an expert in the area of style, Rebecca Luke skill-set runs the gamut from production to creative services along with styling, costume design, choreography and visual display.
Cultivating Grace and Resilience Today
April 2020, Online
Come into the community and deepen your capacity to hold steady during these challenging times. Ground the intensity of your immediate experience, learn practices to work with all the feelings that are arising and energize a collective positive intention.
Suzanne Anderson is a psychologist, author, executive coach, speaker and transformational facilitator. She has dedicated the past 20 years of her career in leadership development to researching an accelerated pathway to awaken consciousness and leadership capacity in women.
Find the link to her class here!
Financial Health: Smart Moves for the rest of 2020
April 2020, Online
Let’s have some straight talk about money. The virus. Stocks down. Now what? We will talk tightening, reviewing and saving, all while supporting local businesses, state-level relief and recession proofing your finances. We’ll also discuss estimating changes, planning and managing your credit. There’s a silver lining in all of this so join us to find out more.
Join Erin Papworth, founder and CEO of Nav.it, to learn more about how to stay on top of your financial health through this pandemic.
Body First: Open, Connect & Energize
April 2020, Online
Whitney Mack leads a unique fusion fitness class that introduced guests to the power of using movement to build strength and resilience in life. BODY FIRST is a moving mantra built to redesign the way we approach exercise and life. This energizing class mashes up MOBILITY (to open you up and release stuck energy), FATIGUE-ENDURANCE WORK (to strengthen your powerhouse muscles and help you connect deeper to your center) and CARDIO STRENGTH BURSTS (to energize and help you find your joy - with heart pounding).
In-Person Events
She’s The Boss: Female Founders Have More Fun
February 2020, One Eighty
What does it take to be your own boss? To be a SHE-E-O. How do you take an idea and turn it into a solid business plan and then a thriving business? At She’s The Boss, we heard from some of Seattle’s female founders about their entrepreneurial experiences, their leadership lessons, their how-to’s and their go-to’s!
From finance to fitness, tech to travel, mentorship to chocolate (yum!), we heard from an amazing panel of women who have taken the leap to be in charge.
Let’s Lighten Up: The Power of Humor and Healing for a Healthy Life
January 2020, One Eighty
Want to rock this next year? The new decade? We had an amazing panel of women along with Teatro ZinZanni’s comedian, Christine Deaver. With Christine's humor, and guidance from several other speakers, we enjoyed an evening of laughter and insight for the new year. Christine moderated a panel of women as they provided tips and tools for managing stress, creating a healthier environment for yourself and your family, and setting the tone for the new decade.
Tales of Yum: A Sweet and Savory Soirée
December 2019, One Eighty
Do you have a favorite recipe? One that brings back those memories from your childhood? Or that recipe you absolutely have to have every holiday season? Is there a special story about the recipe? Our guests brought their favorite food story to the December GrapeVine event, toasted with Prosecco and other lovely wines, plus some tasty seasonal treats, both savory and sweet. Jen Doak, proprietress from Brimmer + Heeltap, was the hostess and Cynthia Nims, food writer and culinary consultant was a featured speaker.