Event Speakers
September 12, 2026
10:30am to 11am - Katelyn Flemming
Katelyn Fleming is an entrepreneur, mother, and advocate whose life has been shaped by resilience, loss, and purpose. As the founder of The Little Legacy Shop, she transformed her family’s journey into a business built on compassion, community, and giving back.
Through her heartfelt and honest storytelling, Katelyn speaks about sobriety, grief, entrepreneurship, motherhood, overcoming adversity, and finding purpose through life’s greatest challenges. Her experiences caring for her medically complex daughter, navigating unimaginable loss and hardship, and building a business with a mission have inspired countless people to believe that healing and hope can exist side by side.
Katelyn’s message is simple yet powerful: your story doesn’t have to end with your hardest chapter. With courage, perseverance, and a willingness to keep moving forward, it can become the beginning of something that changes not only your own life but the lives of others.
11:15am to 11:45am - Jennifer Koussaya-Kent & Tricia Ricottilli
Where Wellness Meets Leadership
Every woman moves through seasons of change, some visible, some quietly carried. Tricia Ricottilli and Jennifer Kousaya-Kent, coaches in wellness and executive leadership, join forces to explore what it takes to navigate transition with clarity, confidence, and a sense of direction.
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Instagram: @solimpactcoaching
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1pm to 1:30pm - Andrea Modrea
Your Body is Talking. Are You Listening?
As women, we’re often taught to push through fatigue, stress, digestive issues, poor sleep and other symptoms—but what if these signals are our body’s way of asking for attention? Andreea Modrea, Holistic Nutrition & Health Coach, shares why learning to listen to your body can be the first step toward understanding what’s really going on and taking back ownership of your health.
1:45pm to 2:15pm - Lyrique Richards
Selfish Confidence Without Apology: You Can't Claim Your Power if Your Hands are Full
Lyrique invites audiences into a conversation about authenticity, self-worth, and the quiet strength of letting go. Drawing from her lived experiences and reflections in the final chapters of her book, Lyrique explores what it means to protect your energy, embrace your identity, and stop performing for acceptance. She introduces transformative practices like Selfish Saturdays and shares the daily affirmations that helped her reclaim her confidence and voice. With warmth and wisdom, Lyrique reminds us: "You can't claim your power if your hands are full."
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2:30pm to 3pm - Naiya Giannos
3:15pm to 3:45pm - Liliana Del Vedova
The Art of Witnessing Grief
Artist and grief care worker Liliana Del Vedova explores witnessing as a radical act of presence, an encounter with grief, death, transformation, and the 'mysteries' we cannot always name.
Drawing from her photographic practice, her business Del Vedova Studio, and her work alongside grief, she considers art as a threshold between the visible and invisible: a way of preserving what matters, giving form to what resists language, and finding meaning within experiences that transform us.
Moving through photography, experimental processes, memory, ritual, and the unknown, Del Vedova asks what becomes possible when we learn to remain present with what we often cannot change. In witnessing death, grief, and impermanence, can we learn to witness life, ourselves, and others more deeply?
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