2019 Summit Schedule
Thursday, April 4th 2019
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Arrival & Registration
This will be a smaller, more intimate day for returning attendees, graduates of Masterclass and women who want access to additional workshops. Register, get your badges, find old friends and meet new attendees.
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Welcome from Founder + Ice Breaker
Welcome remarks from Million Dollar Women Summit founder, Julia Pimsleur. Then take part in a fun Ice Breaker so you can get to know some of the amazing women you’ll be spending the next two days with.
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Success Track – BADASS YOUR BRAND
Branding expert Pia Silva, author of Badass Your Brand and Forbes writer, helps you make sure your brand stands out and you are marketing in a way that ensures you’ll attract high paying customers and clients so you can keep scaling.
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Success Track – FINANCIAL FLUENCY
Chris de Mayo of Withum Accounting breaks down the key financial drivers of your business and how to think about accessing the right capital for your next big moves. This was one of our most popular workshops last year.
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Success Track – MILLION DOLLAR MINDSET
What is the GO BIG mindset and how do you get one? “Just do it” is only 10% of success. How can you master the other 90%? Success requires being able to sustain your vision over many months and years, overcoming obstacles and enlisting team members, advisors and partners to come with you. In this interactive workshop, Julia Pimsleur, author of Million Dollar Women and NLP Master Practitioner, teaches essential mindset strengthening tactics you can use right away and teach your team. These moves will allow you to overcome limiting beliefs, avoid self-sabotage, and stay fired up as you climb the entrepreneurial
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM: Debrief + Networking
Take some time to meet, mingle and have conversations with the other women at the Summit.
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: VIP Opening Night Party & MAIA Award
At the VIP Opening Night Party you will meet the leadership behind the summit and find out the winner of the MAIA Award! Presented by Maria Velissaris of SteelSky Ventures and Courtney Spitzer of SocialFly, this award goes to a fast-growing company led by a women in our MDW community. Location: Club75 Social Club on the 32nd floor overlooking Rockefeller Center. Address is on ticket. Must be on list (space is limited).
Friday, April 5th 2019
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM: Arrival & Registration
Arrival and registration for our main day of the Summit. Start meeting some of our amazing attendees over coffee and a light breakfast.
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM: Welcome from Founder
Welcome remarks from Million Dollar Women Founder Julia Pimsleur about this year’s summit and our theme: GO BIG NOW.
9:45 AM – 10:30 AM: Panel – Meet 5 Million Dollar Women
Hear from five women who have built multi-million dollar businesses from scratch: Angie Lalla, CEO and Co-Founder, RIM Sports. Products/fitness accessories — Emily Tryon, CEO, Esthetic Solutions. Wellness/medical spas — Dorie Golkin Smith, Co-Founder and CEO, Of Mercer. Clothing store in Soho/fashion company — Sarah Kugelman, CEO, Skyn Iceland. Beauty/stress reducing cosmetics — Megan O’Connor, CEO and Co-Founder, Hi Clark. Education/online platform for tutors — Moderated by Elaine Pofeldt, author of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business.
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Success Track I – RAISE YOUR EFFICIENCY IQ
Ari Meisel, founder of Less Doing and expert on outsourcing and delegating will help you turn overwhelm into efficiency with tips on effective decision making, planning a year’s worth of content in under an hour, and mastering the tech tools of today so you can stay sane while scaling up.
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Success Track I – SCALE YOUR SERVICES BUSINESS
Verne Harnish, author of the classic book on growing your business, Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and CEO of Scaling Up, will teach the top ways that any business scales up quickly. He’ll share four practical ideas you can implement immediately to get your firm on it’s way to $1 million and beyond.
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Success Track I – MILLION DOLLAR MINDSET
What is the GO BIG mindset and how do you get one? “Just do it” is only 10% of success. How can you master the other 90%? Success requires being able to sustain your vision over many months and years, overcoming obstacles and enlisting team members, advisors and partners to come with you. In this interactive workshop, Julia Pimsleur, author of Million Dollar Women and NLP Master Practitioner, teaches essential mindset strengthening tactics you can use right away and teach your team. These moves will allow you to overcome limiting beliefs, avoid self-sabotage, and stay fired up as you climb the entrepreneurial
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Success Track I – FUNDRAISE LIKE A PRO
Geri Stengel, Activator at SheEO™ Inc pulls back the curtain on how to successfully raise capital from angels and VCs and increase your chances of getting the right investors to help you grow your business.
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Getting to $1M and Beyond
What does it take to get to $1M in revenues and how can more of us get to $1M and beyond? This is a general session.
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM 1:1 Coaching Sessions + Networking Lunch
Sign up for 30-minute 1:1 coaching with a successful female founder (first come, first served) or just grab a bite with friends at the Summit.
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM – When Wellness is Working
Meditate. Improve your diet. Get more sleep… or just drink more coffee? Our panel of women running successful companies in the health & wellness space share resources on how we can scale up while staying fit, happy and sane. Participants in the panel: Stacy Berman, CEO/Founder Stacy’s Bootcamp, Bootcamp and Nutrition Deb Valentin, CEO/Founder Sage Wellness, Holistic treatments to heal the whole you Alicia Thomas, CEO/Founder Dibs, Earn rewards for wellness Moderator: Katrina Anderson, CEO/Co-Founder, ClinicianNexus, Collaborative Clinical Education Management
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Keynote – Gina Bartasi, Founder & CEO of Kindbody
We will have the privilege of hearing from Gina Bartasi, Founder & CEO of Kindbody, a full service women’s health and fertility platform, reinventing fertility care for all. Bartasi is a four-time CEO who has been a pioneer in the health tech field for 20 years. She has a proven track record of leading disruptive businesses through startup, M&A and rapid growth stages. She will share with us how she raised capital and built her multi-million dollar business – while raising two boys, adapting to market downturns, learning to trust her team and making constant pivots to innovate.
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Success Tracks II – FUNDRAISE LIKE A PRO
Considering fundraising or looking to understand what kinds of capital you can get access to? Angel, VC, crowd-funding, bank loans… this workshop will cover them all. Journalist and expert on fundraising Geri Stengel, Activator at SheEO™ Inc, teams up with Maria Littlefield, CEO and Founder of Owlsbrew Tea to break it down and give you concrete tips for finding funds. Geri will map out all the options for raising whether you are making $50k or $900k, and Maria will share her story of raising $4M, how she got Anheuser Busch to invest, and did it all with a pregnant co-founder and
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Success Track II – MASTERING DIGITAL MARKETING
Maisha Walker is a digital marketer and leader at NAWBO, our partner organization. She teaches which digital marketing tools we should be using to reach our customers the most cost-effective way. Come with questions, she has answers!
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Success Track II – SCALE YOUR SERVICES BUSINESS
Verne Harnish, author of the classic book on growing your business, Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and CEO of Scaling Up, will teach the top ways that any business scales up quickly. He’ll share four practical ideas you can implement immediately to get your firm on it’s way to $1 million and beyond.
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Success Tracks II – BADASS YOUR BRAND
Pia Silva, author of Badass Your Brand and branding specialist helps you make sure your brand stands out and you are marketing in a way that ensures you’ll attract high paying customers and clients so you can keep on scaling.
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Live Recording of Million Dollar Mind Podcast
Be part of the live recording of Julia Pimsleur’s Million Dollar Mind Podcast where she interviews Maria Littlefield, Co-Founder of Owl’s Brew boozy tea. Podcasting is one of the hottest new mediums for getting the word out in your business. If you listen to podcasts, are currently considering doing a podcast or want to better understand this medium, don’t miss this!
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Powerful & Prepared Pitch Competition
Watch as women who are CEOs of rapidly growing businesses pitch for funding from our esteemed judges (see PITCH tab on this site). Our judges are angels and VCs who can not only invest but open many doors for the companies presenting. Pitch competition is chaired by Million Dollar Women mentor and angel investor, Maria Velissaris of SteelSky Ventures.
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Close & Celebrate
Closing remarks and how to keep scaling and connecting with other members of the Million Dollar Women community!