Barbara’s opening keynote, Own Your stAge shows how to turn your lived experience into real business leverage. Through the Return on Experience framework, Barbara helps founders stop discounting their age, price from authority, sharpen their positioning, and use everything they have already lived and learned as a competitive advantage.

Back again for year four, our favorite morning news anchor joins our fireside chat as moderator at BizLifeCon.

PANELIST. Better Together: Why the Room You're in Changes Everything.

Elaine is the Director of Community & Strategic Partnerships at CBS Colorado leading women’s initiatives and community programming for the station for many years.

MODERATOR. Better Together: Why the Room You're in Changes Everything.

Brittany has spent nearly 25 years shaping Colorado’s political and economic landscape. As President & CEO of the Colorado Technology Association (CTA), she leads the state's foremost technology organization fostering connections across the tech community and driving growth within Colorado’s innovation ecosystem.  

PANELIST. Better Together: Why the Room You're in Changes Everything.

As CEO of the Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce and Executive Director of the Colorado Women's Chamber Foundation, Simone is dedicated to advancing women in business and making Colorado #1 for women entrepreneurs. Additionally, she founded Simone D. Ross, LLC, a change management consulting firm, and serves as the CEO of SDR Events and Youth United University, an inclusive leadership program for middle school students.

PANELIST. Better Together: Why the Room You're in Changes Everything.

Vice President, Corporate & Community Partnerships, Missy comes to BizLifeCon with building robust relationships, flawless project management, and facilitating mutually beneficial partnerships. Skilled in industry-university partnerships, higher ed advancement, retail leasing, sponsorship sales, nonprofit and event management, volunteer management, and public speaking.

A Life Unrehearsed

We’re having an intimate talk about releasing expectations and listening to the quiet truths that guide us forward. Through personal stories of change, loss, and reinvention, I invite audiences to stop performing their lives and begin inhabiting them fully...imperfect, present, and aligned. It’s a reminder that the most meaningful moments aren’t planned; they’re lived.

Pleasure as Strategy: Avoid Burnout

Pleasure Is the Strategy introduces the QUIVR Method as a nervous-system–based lifestyle framework for high-achieving women over 40. Rather than treating burnout as a productivity problem, QUIVR reframes pleasure as a regulation tool that sustains energy, clarity, and leadership. Through the 7 Principles of QUIVR and a brief embodied exercise, women experience how micro-pleasure restores resilience. Attendees leave with a simple, actionable way to begin using pleasure—today—as a strategy for sustainable success.

Stop Chasing More: Scale with Revenue, Focus, and Founder Control 

After early growth, many founders expand offers and commitments faster than they refine structure. This working session guides attendees through a live Revenue Architecture Audit to identify what is scalable, profitable, and strategically aligned. Participants will map current revenue streams, identify overextension points, and draft a 90-day Founder Control plan to refine growth without increasing workload. By the end of this session, you won’t just know what to change — You’ll have a plan to reclaim control over your business, your time, and your growth trajectory. 

Building A Body That Can Carry the Vision 

Building a Body That Can Carry the Vision reframes midlife health as a leadership strategy. In this session, I will teach women 40+ how to align strength, hormone awareness, energy management, and recovery with long-term success.  

Through practical, lived experience and actionable insight, attendees will learn how to protect their health span, sustain momentum, and design a body capable of supporting their next 20–30 years of impact. 

Own Your Triggers In Business 

Own Your Triggers In Business is a high-impact business presentation for leaders who want emotional mastery to become their competitive edge. Rebeccah Silence teaches how triggers quietly sabotage decision-making, communication, confidence, and revenue. Instead of managing emotions, participants learn to regulate their nervous system, reclaim authority, and lead without reactivity, overexplaining, or burnout, no matter how others show up. The result is clearer empowered leadership, stronger boundaries, elevated performance, and the kind of grounded authenticity that builds trust, influence, and lasting success. n goes here

Dressed for Joy - How fashion becomes a portal back to us 

Fashion raises vibration not because it is beautiful but because it reconnects us to the body. When we dress with intention memory and care clothing becomes a ritual a signal of safety a way the nervous system remembers who we are. Joy in not in the garment. Joy is in the reconnection of the garment.

Brand Before Business: The Story That Builds Everything 

Before marketing plans, social media calendars, or growth strategies, every successful business begins with one thing: a clear brand. In this approachable and energizing keynote, speaker and brand strategist Anne Gillaspie, founder of Fix & Form | A Denver Branding Firm, introduces branding as the essential first step for small business owners ready to grow with intention instead of burnout. 

The Founder’s Paradox: Level-up Without Losing Yourself 

Growth sounds glamorous... until it isn’t. 

As founders move beyond the hustle stage, they face a new tension: ambition vs. sustainability, visibility vs. focus, service vs. self-preservation. 

Drawing from leadership psychology and real-world founder experience, Danette introduces a simple paradox framework to help you level-up with clarity. 

Resources for Growth 

Find the hidden resources in your community that you didn't know existed. Many of them are free and designed to help your business grow to the next level.  Come learn from the ecosystem guru himself and gain access to tools and supports that can take you and your business to the next level. 

HIVE: Harness the Power of Community to Intentionally Grow Your Business 

Attendees will learn how to intentionally build their HIVE—the network that shapes 95% of their habits and results.  

We’ll break down Hype People (cheerleaders who lift you), Ideal Clients (those you serve), Vision Partners (mentors and collaborators), and Empower Yourself (practices that stretch and protect you) into actionable steps.  

Participants will walk away with a clear roadmap for their HIVE and make a commitment to reach out to one member within 48 hours, turning networking into immediate, aligned action. 

Postcards from the Future: Creating Clarity for What Comes Next 

What if clarity didn’t come from hustling harder, but from slowing down and getting a little creative? 

In this interactive working session, attendees will design and write a postcard to their end-of-summer future self — reflecting on what they want more of, what they’re ready to let go of, and how they want the season ahead to feel. Guided prompts turn reflection into intention, and each postcard will be mailed at summers’ end as a joyful reminder of the choices they made. 

Built to Be Seen: Humanize Your Brand in an AI-World 

In a world full of AI-generated content, real connection stands out. In this working session, Lisa Craig teaches women 40+ how to humanize their brand with intentional photos, simple storytelling, and confident visibility. Attendees will build a personal shot list, learn easy DIY phone photo setup tips, and use confident angles that photograph well. They’ll leave with a 14-day mini action plan to capture, choose, and share content that feels real and aligned. 

Kimmy Seltzer is a Confidence Therapist, Authentic Dating Strategist, and Image Expert who helps singles transform their lives from the outside in. With a rich background as a licensed therapist, certified style coach, dating coach, and former matchmaker, Kimmy has guided thousands of people to find love, attract success, and build meaningful connections through her signature “confidence makeover” process.

Kimberly Cunningham, Owner of Cunningham Clinic is a Board-Certified Nurse Practitioner, faculty member at two universities and published author of the #1 new release Great Sex Never Gets Old: Health, Hormones and Having It All After Forty. 

Amanda Eldridge is the daughter of a milkman from Devore, California who built a 25-year career in business development without a safety net or inherited network. As founder of Unscripted Strategy, she helps women-led businesses grow revenue with real strategy, not theory. She is completing her MBA at CU Denver and speaks candidly about the financial realities of the entrepreneurial journey, with receipts. 

As the visionary behind Tangled Silver Magazine and The Silverhood Experience, Robin Salls is a Visibility Architect for women entrepreneurs over 45. She specializes in leveraging the "Silver Edge"—the intersection of lived wisdom and market authority. By replacing the "hustle" with radical authenticity and strategic clarity, she helps leaders stop chasing the market and start commanding it. Robin empowers you to turn your evolution into your most powerful business asset. 

Sarah Senst, Licensed Professional Counselor, Life Coach, and founder of Encore! Living Your Best Second Act. With over 12 years and 15,000 client hours, Sarah helps women over 50 navigate divorce, empty nesting, grief, retirement, and reinvention. Having rebuilt her own life at 49, she brings clinical expertise and lived wisdom to empower women to move from surviving to thriving. 

Michelle Fournier is a powerhouse speaker, author of WOW!, and award-winning Master Coach who helps women break free from perfectionism, people pleasing and the “not enough” trap. Michelle draws from her life experiences, including 24 years as an Army Nurse who jumped out of perfectly good airplanes to prove her worth. Blending neuroscience, bold truth, and irreverent humor, Michelle helps women empower themselves to live fully, boldly, and unapologetically - in business and in life. 

Shameka or preferably "Meka" McBoat loves life, adventure, travel and fun! She bridges all these pleasures into her true passion of photography as Owner and Lead Photographer of McBoat Photography, where she photographs with her daughter and team to capture the lasting memories of diverse clientele worldwide.

Meka is an award-winning and published photographer whose personal goal is to educate and mentor female entrepreneurs like You on the importance of showcasing their authentic image and brand.

Cynthia Mardones, known by her stage name, DJ Cyn has been curating music internationally for over 20 years. DJ Cyn began her career in Breckenridge, Colorado DJing for extreme sporting events, such as X-Games, Dew Tour, and Burton Open. Her career has been a culmination of artist showcases, corporate events, weddings, clubs, and has opened for artists like Usher, Doja Cat, Miguel, Busta Rhymes, Dj Jazzy Jeff and more.