Our Speaker/Presenter for this session - Diana Patton is the CEO of Diana R. Patton Consulting, LLC, and the Founder of RISE. She is a speaker, social justice advocacy coach and consultant, an attorney, and author of her memoir, Inspiration in My Shoes, and This Yogi's Journey. She consults with schools and organizations, to implement her RISE program, and speaks on leadership, social and emotional learning, diversity, inclusion, equity, empathy, self-care, and trauma-informed care topics. She also works with women leaders to become Rise Advocates™ with her Pivot and RISE mastermind. You can learn more about Diana here: https://www.risewithdiana.com/about Diana will share with us how to Master Your Mindset with a Daily Practice •Understand how your mindset may have been impacted by this pandemic •How trauma affects your mindset, especially if this trauma existed in your childhood •Learn why a consistent daily practice helps mitigate your trauma load, improves your mindset and boosts your immune system. •Learn why mastering your mindset sets you up for success in all areas of your life, and increases your emotional intelligence. •Adopt a specific practice that you can practice for the next 30 days. •Learn why mastering your mindset is essential to becoming a Rise Advocate™

Discussion: How to continue to be vigilant with tenacity for a conversation at responding to our current issues. For years we’ve been connecting over shared experiences, building each other up, and cheering each other on. The nature of our women's circle open conversation is to discuss more how women are involved in all parts of society, but some matters affect and touch women more than others. Now we’re coming together virtually to continue at supporting each other through the pandemic and time of crisis. In other words, we want to create a space that offers our community members an opportunity to experience the heart, emotion, empathy, care, concern – all the content that grabs you and reminds you what being human is all about. We believe, by doing so we can create an open space for our community members to connect, communicate, collaborate, and contribute towards change, be present, always with those we serve.

A conversation session with Erika D White with Fitzone by Erika with empowering topic on the Power of Hidden Leaders. Leaders are made not born! Developing your struggles & hardships into leadership qualities that endure all times. Learn, grow, & develop whatcha got! Our Speaker/Presenter: Erika D White is a highly sought-after health and wellness professional and motivational speaker who engages audiences through her simple platform: motivate, Educate, demonstrate. Erika’s expertise, fun-loving spirit, & dedication to her craft is how she deliver’s life to events where wellness was often forgotten. you can catch up with her every tuesday at noon on WTVG-TV, Channel 13 for her ask the Expert segment. From training to teaching to public speaking to writing to television to radio to live events, Erika’s Fitzone brand brings and delivers the positive message of health and wellness. look for her book, Faithfully Fit, to be released soon. More info: https://erikawhite.net/

We invite you to join our virtual power hour series and continue to find opportunity to be empowered. A conversation session with Sandy Spang, our local Commissioner of Business Services with Department of Economic Development, City of Toledo on pivoting with tenacity while learning about her latest initiative, EMRG grant - Emergency Microenterprise Recovery Grant for local businesses.

For a time such as this, for many, is filled with uncertainty. Our hearts and thoughts go out to each and every one of you. However, with every difficulty comes ease. With every adversity comes opportunity. Hence, let's continue to lean in with our organization for support, connect with other women, build new skills and resources, while creating a network circle to share ideas, offer support or seek advice during this difficulty time. We invite you to join our virtual power hour series and continue to find opportunity to be empowered. Topic VI: Emotional Intelligence with Sara Schlachter Best Never before have these skills been more important than they are now- self awareness, empathy, optimism, stress tolerance to name a few. In this power hour, we can spend a little time defining each of the skills and then let participants determine which skill is most important to their well-being in these very difficult times. Speaker: Sara Best with In2Great Sara Best is a results-driven, people-development professional with 25 years of experience serving global, national and regional organizations of all sizes and scope in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Best’s mission is to help individuals, groups, and organizations to optimize their performance and their capacity to achieve results. She is a master trainer and group facilitator, and a certified Emotional Intelligence Assessment Administrator She holds a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University and a master’s degree in administration from Eastern Michigan University.

We care about our well-being as individuals and community. We are capable of delivering even it filled with many uncertainties. Joint WOT virtual power hour series so you can continue educating, engaging and empowering yourself to continue to thrive and keep moving forward. Presentation: Making Powerful Networking Connections Learn now to introduce people in your network to each other including: How to do it What to say What role to play How to follow up Become the powerful connector in your universe which gains you social capital when it comes time for you to make a request on our own behalf. Speaker: Debby Dickinson Peters with Connext Nation Debby Peters is the co-founder of Third Generation Networking and founder of Connext Nation. She focuses on helping people gain the results they had always hoped to gain from their networking efforts. She is also the author of "Tell Me Exactly What to Say" which helps those who want to perfect their networking skills with 33 networking conversations. She is currently in the process of transitioning her classes to be offered both in person and online. Debby the mother to three grown children, of which one, Greg, is her business partner.

Let's learn how to use the Library Online resources to research your competition, build vendor databases and specific business - to- customer databases. You will be given live demos of building databases that you can use as call lists, mailing lists or understanding a demographic. Linda will also take time to help you understand how this data comes about. Handouts will be available. If you don't already have a Toledo Lucas County Public Library you can get one at: https://www.toledolibrary.org/card Our Speaker: Linda Lucas Fayerweather is a business specialist at Toledo Lucas County Public Library where she works with existing business owners, business professionals and prospective entrepreneurs to help them find the data and research to advance their business goals. She has firsthand experience in the world of small business having owned several businesses including, Changing Lanes in Maumee Ohio; a licensed before and after school day care center in Maryland; counseled over 300 small business owners in Delaware while Director of the Delaware Small Business Development Center; and has spent too many hours doing personal and business taxes. She has a bachelor’s in library science from Eastern Michigan University and an MBA in accounting from Augusta State University where she lettered in cross country, too. She has received the YWCA Milestones award and the Maumee Hometown Hero award. When she is not doing business development and entrepreneurial training, look for her in her Maumee, Ohio garden where she lives with Bill, her husband; one mutt; and one ghost named Aunt Phoebe. Not far from her home are her two children’s families with two grandsons, Desmond and Lucas and one granddaughter, Valerie. Document share during presentation: https://e00e8eae-c154-4be3-b372-bfb4b0855a3c.filesusr.com/ugd/935d94_3d0634a9eba04b46a1f29db703ea5361.pdf