Meet Your Host!
Leah Hadley, AFC, CDFA
Hi, I’m Leah Hadley, Founder of Great Lakes Divorce Financial Solutions and Great Lakes Investment Management. I’ve been where you are. When I got divorced after 10 years of marriage, my confidence was shaken. I was a single mom and I was stressed. Now, I’m remarried, comfortably co-parenting with my kids’ dad, and have successfully grown two businesses that show women how to avoid money mistakes in divorce, increase their financial confidence and build wealth.
Meet Your Speakers!
Michelle Dempsey-Multack
Coach & Certified Divorce Specialist
How to Ditch the Divorced Mom Guilt
Michelle Dempsey-Multack MS, CDS, is a writer, mom, coach, certified divorce specialist (TM) (CDS), speaker, and genuine girl power enthusiast. She graduated from Hofstra University with a degree in journalism and communication and then earned a double masters degree in education from Adelphi University. She hosts the weekly podcast Moms Moving On, and writes regularly for Parents, Scary Mommy, and others. A former New Yorker, she now lives in Miami with her husband, daughter, and stepdaughter.
Natalie Hoffman
Author & Educator
Reclaiming Your Faith After Divorce
Natalie Hoffman is an author, educator, podcaster, and coach for women of faith in destructive relationships. She is the author of Is It Me? and Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage. She is also the founder of the Flying Free Sisterhood, a training and support program for married and separated women of faith - and Flying Higher, a training program for divorced women of faith. Her goal is to empower women to discover and use their God-given voice, gifts, and freedom to make their own adult choices for their spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
Melony Butler
CEO
Dress For Success
Melony J Butler, CEO of Dress for Success Cleveland is a native Clevelander who transitioned from the corporate world to the nonprofit sector to find purpose and passion.
Melony came to Dress for Success Cleveland in 1999 as a client where she found exactly what she needed to motivate and inspire significant change in both her professional and personal lifestyles.
She began her career with Dress for Success Cleveland in July 2000, taking on the role of Office Manager. She would later be promoted to Agency Client Relations Manager and Manager of Workforce Development Programs.
She assumed her current role as Executive Director of Dress for Success Cleveland in December 2010.
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Renée Bauer
Divorce Attorney, Author, Speaker
Happy Even After Divorce
Renée Bauer is an award-winning divorce attorney, published author, and founder of the Bauer Law Group.
Renée’s insights are sought after by local, national and international media outlets, podcasts, and conferences where she speaks on co-parenting, blended family dynamics, relationships, and the art of reinvention As an accomplished litigator, she boldly educates and inspires women to reclaim their right to happiness through her online course, the d-course and podcast, Happy Even After.
Despite being a self-proclaimed introvert, Renée believes doing uncomfortable and hard things is something we all have the capacity to breathe through. Her need to share her message is greater than her fear of speaking in crowds. Stay tuned because being on stage as a TEDx speaker is on her short “to-do” list even if she is going to have to take lots of deep breaths for that one.
Once private and reserved, Renée has stripped away the photo filters to talk candidly about the shame and guilt most women feel in their lives so they can find their own version of Happy Even After.
Rita Abdallah
Wellness Coach
Developing a Gratitude Practice
Rita Abdallah believes that we each deserve to achieve our greatness. A professional who built her career caring for those dealing with the toughest struggles of their lives, Rita has learned how to help others create a joyful, grateful, and resilient life. As Founder of Turning Point Yoga & Wellness, Rita provides wellness coaching, yoga, meditation, and intuitive readings. Her mission is to offer individuals and groups valuable tools to discover peace, love, and joy. Rita is passionate about serving people through conversation, engagement and action.
Rita has written and co-authored several clinical oncology and self-help articles. She received a Master’s degree in social work from the University of Connecticut and an undergraduate degree from John Carroll University. Upon graduation, Rita served as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps for two years. As a paralegal, she advocated for Persons with HIV/AIDS. Rita is a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Supervisor, and a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers. During the course of her career, Rita has been the recipient of local and state awards for her commitment to serving others. She is the inspiration behind the Northeast Ohio Social Workers and Counselors Group. Rita loves yoga, travel, and holistic health. She calls Westlake, Ohio home and shares her life with her daughter, and Mimi the yoga dog.
Kendra Toothill
Holistic Women's Health Therapist
Turning Hardship Into a Superpower
Kendra Toothill is a Holistic Women’s Health Therapist who helps women transform their wellbeing by working their scars through reconnecting with their body and resolving long standing physical, energetic and emotional challenges. Kendra guides women through transformative processes in either a one-to-one or group program.
With nearly a decade of clinical experience and the development of her own system, Kendra’s area of expertise is working with scars. Every scar has a story and by working them, not only are you transforming your physical body but it also gives you a clear access point for stuck emotional energy surrounding that life experience. Her system, Scars Reigniting Your Feminine, has been recognized as a transformational system for mood disorders, chronic pain, digestive issues, reproductive challenges and much more by hundreds of her female clients. Kendra is on a mission to educate women about the importance of scars and the positive momentum that comes from taking control of your wellbeing.
Alexandra Eva-May
Author
Emotional Healing After Divorce
Alexandra is a writer, blogger, motivational speaker, mental health advocate and divorce-tribe member. Passionate about helping others on their healing journey after divorce, you can often find her online, sharing how she healed from her own split. She is in constant pursuit of peace, light and happiness and works to motivate others to seek the same. When she’s not writing, Alexandra spends most of her time reading, bike riding, going to the mountains, being by the water, travelling the world, exploring home renovation blogs and wine tasting. As a new mother, she is currently living on endless cups of coffee. She was born and raised in Alberta, Canada and lives there to this day with her partner and son.
Stephanie McPhail
Expert in helping brilliant women dating up
Abused, Divorced, and Depressed to Marrying the Man of My Dreams
Stephanie McPhail has a Double Masters Degree in Health and Education, a Bachelors in Psychology, Certified Crisis Counselor, Certified Coach, Author, Reiki Practitioner, who specializes in helping Brilliant Women Date Up, giving them tools to thrive after codependency and narcissistic abuse and if they decide to date again, choose healthy partners that inspire them, not drain them!
Julie Danielson
Divorce & Relationship Coach
5 Steps to Building Self-Confidence After Divorce
Julie is a divorce and relationship coach, host of the “Get Over Divorce” podcast. She focuses on helping women let go of the past so they can move on and become healthy, happy, and whole so they can have an amazing next chapter in life.
Julie was divorced once and is a mom of 2 teen boys. She is now RE-Married to her dream man of 10 years.
Julie is a PRODUCT of her product. She has been through the process she teaches and has refined the skill of creating a life you love after divorce and helps hundreds of women do the same with her coaching and her “Thriving Through Divorce” program.
Alina Frank
EFT Tapping Master Trainer
Don’t Make The Same Mistakes: Break Your Hidden Patterns To Relationship Success
Alina Frank has been a mentor and trainer of EFT Tapping since 2005. She is the coproducer of the Science of Tapping film and best selling author of How To Want Sex Again. She launched a relationship coach certification program in 2019 to assist practitioners in mastering the skills necessary to assist clients in healing love and intimacy wounds.
Gabrielle Hartley
Divorce Attorney, Online Mediator & Divorce Strategy Coach
Negotiating to Get Along Better After the Divorce is Over
Gabrielle Hartley, Esq., is a leading online mediator and family law attorney known for keeping 99% of her cases at the settlement table.
Gabrielle recently sold “How to Get Along; using the power of conflict to improve your relationships and your life,” due out in early 2023.
She is the author of Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate, which received a glowing recommendation from Gwyneth Paltrow and People Magazine.
Before launching the Better Apart® Blitz Online mediation and Better Apart® Total Practice Makeover training for professionals, Gabrielle clerked in matrimonial court in NYC, where she resolved hundreds of high conflict divorces. She is a sought-after expert in the positive divorce space in media outlets such as The New York Times, Real Simple, Vice, The New York Post, U.S. News and World Report, has been interviewed on dozens of podcasts and is a regular guest on NBC Mass Appeal. Gabrielle is a co-chair on the American Bar Association Mediation Committee. She is also on the Western MA Mediation and Collaborative Dispute Resolution Steering Committee.
In addition to offering training for professionals, she maintains a private mediation practice and is of counsel to a top litigation firm in Westchester and NYC.
Donna Tashjian
Life Mastery Coach
Turning Your Baggage Into Luggage
Donna is the founder of Vibrant Living International, a non-profit organization. She helps bring accelerated transformation to people across the world. Her passion is to help you reach your full potential. She has been speaking and coaching for over 25 years.
Donna has developed powerful programs to help women rise above a painful past so they can live the life of their dreams. Her clients have said, “She will help you walk away from overwhelm, stress and self-doubt into peace and confidence, like a refreshing vacation for your body & soul.”
She also produces a podcast called “You Were Designed for Greatness” and has written four books. Her clients say she has a knack for turning fear into excitement and exposing lies so the truth can shine through.
Laura Miolla
Divorce Coach, Consultant & Strategist
4 Steps To Stop Minimizing Yourself In Your Own Life
Laura Miolla, the Founder and CEO of Smart Divorce Strategy, is a Professional Certified Coach, Mediator and Parentology Coach. She hosted a national radio show called "Divorce Sucks: The Smart Girl's Guide To Doing It Better" and is an accomplished writer with articles published in Huffington Post, Thought Catalog, Medium, Working Mother Magazine and Parents Magazine, among others. She is also a very happily divorced mother of two.
Jill Sherer Murray
Award-Winning Author, Journalist, TEDx Speaker
The Unstoppable Power of Letting Go
Jill Sherer Murray is an award-winning, best-selling author, journalist, marketing, and communications expert, TEDx speaker, and founder of “Let Go For It,” a lifestyle brand aimed at improving people’s situation through the simple mantra of letting go. Her TEDx Talk, “The Unstoppable Power of Letting Go” has millions of views on YouTube and breaks down her own journey of letting go to successfully move forward. She wrote her best-selling book, Big Wild Love: The Unstoppable Power of Letting Go for the many people who reach out from all over the world for advice.
Jill studied improvisation comedy at the famous Second City Training Center in Chicago, wrote a popular blog called “Diary of a Writer in Mid-Life Crisis” for the former Wild River Review magazine, and let go of just about everything to put her weight in Shape Magazine as part of a year-long assignment to document her weight loss journey. She’s been featured on dozens of podcasts and in Reader’s Digest, Bustle, Brit + Co, Travel & Leisure, Women’s World, Thrive Global, Psychology Today, MSN.com, Happify Daily, Kintsugi, Josh Talks, TEDx, Moonshot Conversations, and more.
Diane DiFrancesco
Chief Joy Officer & Transformational Coach
Reconnect to Joy
Diane DiFrancesco is the Chief Joy Officer and Founder of Connect to Your Joy. She is on a mission to bring more wisdom, freedom, and wonder to the world by helping you (re)discover your passions and connect to your joy. As a trained Transformational Life Coach and Certified EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Practitioner, Diane brings a unique combination of creative soul-fueling activities and self-coaching methodologies to the table, resulting in powerful transformational shifts that spark inspiration, whimsy, and of course, more joy!
Syeda Neary
Divorce & Life Coach
Thriving Mindset
Sy is certified life coach and a Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®). She helps men and women who are experiencing divorce (consideration, litigation, or finalization) overcome their struggles and realize that divorce doesn’t have to derail their life; that divorce doesn’t define them and it can actually be the catalyst to create a life even better than their marriage.
Sy lives in New York with her husband, Brian, and her two sons. She was previously married and has a son, Q, from her first marriage. Together, Brian and Sy are raising Q, and their toddler, Aidan.
Lindsay Shack
Holistic Life & Wellness Coach
Learning to Love Yourself Again
Lindsay is a holistic wellness + life coach, helper, avid fitness enthusiast, mental health advocate, and self-love cheerleader dedicated to helping you fall in love with yourself and to guiding you towards what your soul desires.
She fully stands behind thinking out of the box, going after your dreams, taking the road less traveled, not settling, working hard, staying the course, having faith, believing in yourself, loving yourself, working on yourself, improving yourself, and doing your BEST not to compare yourself to others all along the way.
You deserve to own your worth; To take up space in this world as much as the next man or woman – scratch that – NEXT to the other men and women because we are all in this together. It is her whole-hearted belief that when you FEEL good, you BELIEVE you can DO good in this world. Her entire work is dedicated to showing you how you can go from feeling uninspired, frustrated, lost, exhausted, and unsure about the direction of your life to a confident, glowing, radiant, and happy human from the inside out.
Jennifer Boileau
Mindfulness Expert
Finding Resilience During Difficult Times
Jenn has her B.S. in Education with an emphasis in special education. She has taken that teaching background and shifted her focus to teaching practices of resilience as a trauma-centered yoga and meditation teacher, reiki master, and a sound healing facilitator.
She is deeply committed to helping you find focus, resilience and balance in your life. She helps those dealing with intrusive thoughts, sleep disruption and anxiety find ways to move through discomfort and thrive (in particular, front line workers, vets & first responders). Jenn is married to a retired SWAT S/SGT and understands the challenges & stress that come along with selfless service.
All of the practices Jenn shares are research based, non-pharmaceutical solutions to a deep need for ease in the body. Her teaching style is inclusive, supportive and restorative - no one is "left out" in Jenn's care.
Stacy Brookman
Resilience & Life Storytelling Expert
The Power of Storytelling for Healing
Women leverage Stacy Brookman to unleash their stories and discover their hard-won wisdom, so they can command their personal power and emerge resilient and joyful. Many are trapped in a cycle of crazy, depleted emotionally, and live with the scars of emotional abuse and low self esteem. So she helps them gain clarity from their life lessons, lean on their hard-won wisdom and have power to feel confident in themselves again.
Dr. Sharalyn Payne
Trusted Advisor, Leadership Strategist, Author
Rebound, Rebuild, Reinvent, and Dream Again
Dr. Sharalyn Payne is a trusted dr. advisor and leadership strategist to executives, leaders, and growth-oriented individuals. Her expertise lies in helping them solve complex problems, execute huge visions, and achieve seemingly impossible dreams so they can ascend higher, transform environments, leave legacies, and live fulfilled. Dr. Payne speaks and teaches on the subjects of professional and business relationships, manifestation, mindset, leadership, wealth creation, and career development.
For over 15 years, Dr. Payne has worked with Fortune 500 companies strategizing and coaching top management. Dr. Payne addresses problems that no one else can including transforming the employee experience, increasing engagement, and coaching leaders to unleash the power and potential of their teams. Sharalyn’s genius is taking on challenges that matter to her clients and taking them places they wouldn’t be able to go on their own.
She is also the founder of the PUSH PARTNER movement, author of Unstuck. Unleashed. Unstoppable: Inspiration, Motivation, and Strategies to Move Out of Neutral and Supercharge Your Success, and IGNITE: A 30 Day Catalyst for Unleashing God’s Promises of Love, Power, Wealth, and Freedom as well as the host of the Millionaires and Married Summit.
In her spare time, Dr. Payne loves to spend time laughing and creating memories with family and friends, fine dining, traveling, indulging in self-care, and using her knack and passion for interior design to transform spaces into sanctuaries and places of love, beauty, and tranquility.
Beth Rubin
Art Therapist
Healing through Art Journaling
Beth Rubin is a Board Certified Art Therapist and a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. Beth is the founder of Divorce.Art.Heal on Instagram. As a way to cope with her own divorce, Beth turned to art journaling. Art journaling provided an outlet to process her emotions and document her divorce journey. She began to share her journals and commentary on each piece, with everything being related to her experiences. Beth is an advocate for self-expression through art journaling. She explains how to get started and the benefits of art journaling for someone who is going through their own divorce. Beth works full time as an Art Therapist and is a mom to two children.
Sahar Mansoor
Ayurveda Wellness & Health Coach
Improving Your Physical Health After a Divorce with Ayurveda
Sahar Rizvi Mansoor, a Certified Health Coach and Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, is the founder of Cleveland Masala. When she first came to the U.S., she didn’t know how to cook traditional Indian meals. In fact, she didn’t know how to cook at all! During a time when a quick video call across oceans wasn’t available, Sahar taught herself to cook. Today, Sahar understands that food is the biggest connection to our family, to our people, and to ourselves. Most of all, she realized, in sharing her food values, our relationship with food and our bodies is missing in many of our lives. This led her to Ayurveda, an ancient medicine system that focuses on mind, body, and spirit. While practices like yoga focus on the body and meditation for the mind, not as many resources focus on the impact that food has on all three.
